My uncle worked for the NSA for 30 years. When I first heard of Echelon, I asked him about it. He was very back-offish. He didn't even want to acknowledge the word.
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My uncle worked for the NSA for 30 years. When I first heard of Echelon, I asked him about it. He was very back-offish. He didn't even want to acknowledge the word.
2 more very good, related books:
The Puzzle Palace
Body of Secrets
both by James Bamford
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bamford
Thanks. You know a great deal about these things. Maybe too much....Quote:
Originally Posted by dMole
From the Amazon page for Puzzle Palace:
Bamford quotes U.S. Senator Frank Church: "If this government ever became a tyranny ... the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back, because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government ... is within the reach of the government to know."