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Language
  
English

ISBN
  
0-385-52132-4

Preceded by
  
A Pretext for War

Author
  
James Bamford

Publisher
  
Doubleday

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Publication date
  
2008

OCLC
  
229309155

Originally published
  
1 January 2008

Genre
  
Non-fiction

Country
  
United States of America

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Subjects
  
National Security Agency, September 11 attacks, War on Terror, Iraq War

Similar
  
Works by James Bamford, National Security Agency books, Espionage books

James bamford the shadow factory the ultra secret nsa from 911 to the eavesdropping on america 2008


The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America is a book on the National Security Agency by author James Bamford.

Contents

Fort Gordon, Georgia

Bamford's book contains a description of a processing center at NSA's Fort Gordon, Georgia facility, and Operation Highlander, with which it was associated. The staff there analyzed satellite telephone signals (like Inmarsat) from all over the Middle East. They performed various operations such as matching up phone numbers with names of organizations or individuals, recording messages, finding the locations of cellphones, call chaining analysis, language identification and translation, and assigning 'importance' numbers to the "cuts" (recordings).

Bamford's book contains the statements of people who worked there, including Adrienne J. Kinne and John Berry. Berry says that the operation never violated Americans' rights and contributed a good deal to the war effort. Kinne says that they were listening to the phone calls of Americans in the Middle East making calls back to the States, including NGOs, aid workers, and journalists at the Palestine Hotel. Kinne contrasts her years of work before 9/11 in SIGINT and the careful attention paid to USSID 18 with her work after 9/11 and the way USSID 18 was essentially ignored. Kinne later became part of Iraq Veterans Against the War.

The NSA Inspector General and the US Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) investigated her allegations. They claimed they 'found insufficient evidence to support Kinne's allegations of improper intelligence activities'. Kinne says the NSA IG never even interviewed her. The Congress also questioned NSA and the Army about the matter.

References

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