Download or read book First Charter of the U S National Security Agency NSA written by DIANE Publishing Company and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1994-03 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The National Security Council written by Henry Kissinger and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Secret Sentry written by Matthew M. Aid and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-06-08 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history of the agency, from its inception in 1945, to its role in the Cold War, to its controversial advisory position at the time of the Bush administration's search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, shortly before the invasion of 2003.
Download or read book The U S Intelligence Community written by Jeffrey T Richelson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of intelligence in US government operations has changed dramatically and is now more critical than ever to domestic security and foreign policy. This authoritative and highly researched book written by Jeffrey T. Richelson provides a detailed overview of America's vast intelligence empire, from its organizations and operations to its management structure. Drawing from a multitude of sources, including hundreds of official documents, The US Intelligence Community allows students to understand the full scope of intelligence organizations and activities, and gives valuable support to policymakers and military operations. The seventh edition has been fully revised to include a new chapter on the major issues confronting the intelligence community, including secrecy and leaks, domestic spying, and congressional oversight, as well as revamped chapters on signals intelligence and cyber collection, geospatial intelligence, and open sources. The inclusion of more maps, tables and photos, as well as electronic briefing books on the book's Web site, makes The US Intelligence Community an even more valuable and engaging resource for students.
Download or read book The Quest for Cryptological Centralization and the Establishment of NSA written by Thomas L. Burns and published by www.Militarybookshop.CompanyUK. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The position of the National Security Agency (NSA) as the centralized communications intelligence (COMINT) agency for the U.S. government is so well-established that it is difficult to grasp the scope of the lengthy post-World War II debate over a centralized versus decentralized U.S. COMINT capability. Only after the appointment of a presidential commission by President Truman and its subsequent report (the Brownell Report) was the managerial foundation of what was to become the NSA put in place. "The Quest for Cryptological Centralization and the Establishment of NSA: 1940-1952" documents the origins of NSA. It attempts to explain "what happened regarding the issues and conflicts that led Truman to establish a centralized COMINT agency by tracing the evolution of the various military COMINT organizations from the 1930s to NSA's establishment in 1952. This study highlights the main events, policies, and leaders of the early post-war years, with emphasis on the jurisdictional struggles between military and civilian authorities over the control and direction of American COMINT resources. Moving chronologically from the pre-war and war years through the 1946-1949 period, which marked the passage of the National Security Act of 1947 and the beginning of high-level efforts to centralize U.S. intelligence responsibilities, "The Quest for Cryptological Centralization and the Establishment of NSA" then focuses on the Brownell Committee and its deliberations, and concludes with an overall review of COMINT organizational changes and a suggestion that the struggle may not be over even today. Historians and intelligence professionals alike will find important insights into the politics of COMINT in the post-war world and the implications they hold for intelligence organizations today.
Download or read book The Quest for Cryptologic Centralization and the Establishment of NSA 1940 1952 written by Center for Cryptologic History and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-06-29 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Center for Cryptologic History (CCH) is proud to publish the first title under its own imprint, Thomas L. Burns's The Origins of NSA.* In recent years, the NSA history program has published a number of volumes dealing with exciting and even controversial subjects: a new look at the Pearl Harbor attack, for example. Tom Burns's study of the creation of NSA is a different kind of history from the former. It is a masterfully researched and documented account of the evolution of a national SIGINT effort following World War II, beginning with the fragile trends toward unification of the military services as they sought to cope with a greatly changed environment following the war, and continuing through the unsatisfactory experience under the Armed Forces Security Agency. Mr. Burns also makes an especially important contribution by helping us to understand the role of the civilian agencies in forcing the creation of NSA and the bureaucratic infighting by which they were able to achieve that end. At first glance, one might think that this organizational history would be far from “best seller” material. In fact, the opposite is the case. It is essential reading for the serious SIGINT professional, both civilian and military. Mr. Burns has identified most of the major themes which have contributed to the development of the institutions which characterize our profession: the struggle between centralized and decentralized control of SIGINT, interservice and interagency rivalries, budget problems, tactical versus national strategic requirements, the difficulties of mechanization of processes, and the rise of a strong bureaucracy. These factors, which we recognize as still powerful and in large measure still shaping operational and institutional development, are the same ones that brought about the birth of NSA. The history staff would also like to acknowledge a debt owed to our predecessors, Dr. George F.Howe and his associates, who produced a manuscript entitled“ The Narrative History of AFSA/NSA.” Dr. Howe's study takes a different course from the present publication and is complementary to it, detailing the internal organization and operational activities of AFSA, and serves as an invaluable reference about that period. The Howe manuscript is available to interested researchers in the CCH. It remains for each reader to take what Tom Burns has presented in the way of historical fact and correlate it to his/her experience. This exercise should prove most interesting and illuminating.~
Download or read book The National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment rights written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Puzzle Palace written by James Bamford and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book ever written on the National Security Agency from the New York Times bestselling author of Body of Secrets and The Shadow Factory. In this groundbreaking, award-winning book, James Bamford traces the NSA’s origins, details its inner workings, and explores its far-flung operations. He describes the city of fifty thousand people and nearly twenty buildings that is the Fort Meade headquarters of the NSA—where there are close to a dozen underground acres of computers, where a significant part of the world’s communications are monitored, and where reports from a number of super-sophisticated satellite eavesdropping systems are analyzed. He also gives a detailed account of NSA’s complex network of listening posts—both in the United States and throughout much of the rest of the world. When a Soviet general picks up his car telephone to call headquarters, when a New York businessman wires his branch in London, when a Chinese trade official makes an overseas call, when the British Admiralty urgently wants to know the plans and movements of Argentina’s fleet in the South Atlantic—all of these messages become NSA targets. James Bamford’s illuminating book reveals how NSA’s mission of Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) has made the human espionage agent almost a romantic figure of the past. Winner Best Investigative Book of the Year Award from Investigative Reporters & Editors “The Puzzle Palace has the feel of an artifact, the darkly revealing kind. Though published during the Reagan years, the book is coolly subversive and powerfully prescient.”—The New Yorker “Mr. Bamford has emerged with everything except the combination to the director’s safe.”—The New York Times Book Review
Download or read book The NSA Report written by President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, The and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official report that has shaped the international debate about NSA surveillance "We cannot discount the risk, in light of the lessons of our own history, that at some point in the future, high-level government officials will decide that this massive database of extraordinarily sensitive private information is there for the plucking. Americans must never make the mistake of wholly 'trusting' our public officials."—The NSA Report This is the official report that is helping shape the international debate about the unprecedented surveillance activities of the National Security Agency. Commissioned by President Obama following disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward J. Snowden, and written by a preeminent group of intelligence and legal experts, the report examines the extent of NSA programs and calls for dozens of urgent and practical reforms. The result is a blueprint showing how the government can reaffirm its commitment to privacy and civil liberties—without compromising national security.
Download or read book Military and Civilian Control of Computer Security Issues written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Legislation and National Security Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Security Practices in the National Security Agency written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulk Collection of Signals Intelligence written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bulk Collection of Signals Intelligence: Technical Options study is a result of an activity called for in Presidential Policy Directive 28 (PPD-28), issued by President Obama in January 2014, to evaluate U.S. signals intelligence practices. The directive instructed the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to produce a report within one year "assessing the feasibility of creating software that would allow the intelligence community more easily to conduct targeted information acquisition rather than bulk collection." ODNI asked the National Research Council (NRC)-the operating arm of the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering-to conduct a study, which began in June 2014, to assist in preparing a response to the President. Over the ensuing months, a committee of experts appointed by the Research Council produced the report.
Download or read book America s Security Agencies written by Thomas Streissguth and published by Enslow Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and National Security Agency (NSA) have been protecting Americans for decades. The events following the 9/11 attacks led to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security in 2002. Inside, you will find a thorough examination of each agency and department-its creation, history, structure, inner workings, and importance as they work hard to protect Americans at home and abroad. Book jacket.
Download or read book Structuring National Security and Homeland Security at the White House written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Quest for Cryptologic Centralization and the Establishment of NSA written by Thomas L. Burns and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An account of the evolution of a national SIGINT effort following WWII. A discussion of the fragile trends toward unification of the military services after the war and the unsatisfactory experience under the Armed Forces Security Agency"--Resource description page.
Download or read book Creating the National Security State written by Douglas Stuart and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-24 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the last sixty years, American foreign and defense policymaking has been dominated by a network of institutions created by one piece of legislation--the 1947 National Security Act. This is the definitive study of the intense political and bureaucratic struggles that surrounded the passage and initial implementation of the law. Focusing on the critical years from 1937 to 1960, Douglas Stuart shows how disputes over the lessons of Pearl Harbor and World War II informed the debates that culminated in the legislation, and how the new national security agencies were subsequently transformed by battles over missions, budgets, and influence during the early cold war. Stuart provides an in-depth account of the fight over Truman's plan for unification of the armed services, demonstrating how this dispute colored debates about institutional reform. He traces the rise of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the transformation of the CIA, and the institutionalization of the National Security Council. He also illustrates how the development of this network of national security institutions resulted in the progressive marginalization of the State Department. Stuart concludes with some insights that will be of value to anyone interested in the current debate over institutional reform.
Download or read book NSA Secrets Declassified written by National Security Agency (NSA) and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important compilation of NSA publications and documents provides truly unique insights into the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor which led to American involvement in World War II. As a bonus, we've included our new intelligence title, 2015 U.S. Intelligence Community Worldwide Threat Assessment. Three documents are featured: United States Cryptologic History: Pearl Harbor Revisited: U.S. Navy Communications Intelligence 1924-1941, West Wind Clear: Cryptology and the Winds Message Controversy - A Documentary History, and NSA Pearl Harbor Reviews.United States Cryptologic History: Pearl Harbor Revisited: U.S. Navy Communications Intelligence 1924-1941: Foreword * Introduction * Earliest Efforts * Role of ONI * Early War Plans * Japanese Fleet Capabilities and Intentions * Cryptologic Challenge: Navy-Army Cooperation * Bureaucracy Prevails * Status Quo in the Pacific * A New Attempt at Cooperation * Japanese Cryptography * Recovering the "Blue Book" * Introducing JN-25 * Turning Victory into Defeat * Introducing "Purple" * Disarmament: Paying the Price * Confusing Diplomacy * Struggling for Resources * Planning for War * War Games * Pacific Buildup * National Emergency * Circumstances Favor Diplomatic Targets * Information Gaps * Cooperation with Allies * The Move to Hawaii * Support to the Pacific Fleet * Japanese Intentions Revealed * Support to Asiatic Fleet * Japanese Strategy * Japanese Navy * Diplomatic Messages * Warning Messages * Reaction * COMINT after the Opening Attack * Conclusion * Appendix A: Naval Messages Intercepted between 5 September and 4 December 1941 * Appendix B: Summary of Diplomatic Messages July-November 1941 * Appendix C: Highlights from COM-14 Daily COMINT Summary * Notes * Abbreviations Used * Notes on Sources BibliographyWest Wind Clear: Cryptology and the Winds Message Controversy - A Documentary History: Chapter 1: Background: Interwar U.S. - Japan Relations and Cryptology * United States-Japan Relations, 1919-1940 * (Japanese Diplomatic and Naval Cryptology and American Codebreaking between the Wars) * United States - Japan Relations Worsen, 1940-1941 * Chapter 2: Intercepted Japanese Diplomatic Messages Reveal a Warning System, 19 November-28 November 1941 * The Cryptography of the J-19 System * Japan Fields a New Diplomatic Manual Cryptographic System * The Americans Solve the New Manual System November 19: Japanese Message #2353 - The First Winds Instruction Message * November 19: Japanese Message #2354 - The Second Winds Instruction Message * Chapter 3: The Hunt for the Winds Execute Message, 28 November -- 7 December 1941 * The Search Begins -- 28 November 1941 * Tokyo Sends More Instructions about Destroying Cryptographic Material * The Hidden Word Message -- A Complement to the Winds Messages * Tokyo Sends Even More Instructions, 28 November-6 December * 7 December 1941: The Hidden Word Message Is Sent * 7 December 1941: The Winds Execute Message Is Sent * Chapter 4: The Winds Controversy: Myth and Reality * Captain Laurance Safford -- In the Eye of the Controversy * Safford Searches for the Missing Winds Execute Message * Safford's Detailed Claim about the Winds Execute Message -- February 1946 * Examining Safford's Version(s) of Events * The Intercept of the Winds Execute Message * Actions Taken in the Aftermath of the Winds Execute Message * Who Saw the Winds Execute Intercept or Translation? * The Matter of Missing or Destroyed Records * Some Observations on Captain Laurance Safford * The Case of Captain Alwin Kramer's Changing Testimony * What the Japanese Said about the Winds Execute Message * What the British and Dutch Radio Monitors Heard * The Winds Controversy Resurfaces -- Ralph Briggs' Claim * The Winds Execute: The Final Casting * Afterword: The Winds Message, American Cryptology and History * The Impact and Intelligence Value of the Winds Messages
