The CIA gets all the ink, but the NSA is the country’s largest, most powerful, most expensive, and most secretive intelligence agency.
Almost twenty years ago, investigative journalist James Bamford published an expose called “The Puzzle Palace,” and was threatened with prosecution…now, he’s written a new book with the co-operation of the National Security Agency. Body of Secrets describes spectacular success, dangerous disaster, and outrageous excess. It reveals new information about the U-2 Incident, the North Korean attack on the Pueblo, and the Israeli Attack on the USS Liberty.
The NSA also mounted a long pattern of provocative reconnaissance flights near, and sometimes over both the Soviet Union and China. The most recent was the EP-3 that collided with a Chinese fighter last month.
(Hosted by Neal Conan)
Guests:
James Bamford, author of “Body of Secrets”;
Caspar Bowden, Director of the Foundation for Information Policy Research.