The Puzzle Palace

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 undergroun