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Jan. 26, 1996 - Bill Cooper
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National Security Agency #3
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Once upon a time, there was a little boy.
The End
I'm William Cooper, and you're listening once again to the Hour of the Time.
Ladies and gentlemen, tonight I will continue just backing up maybe one or two sentences from where we left off on Wednesday night.
In our report at the end of our investigation and intelligence collection activities into the truth of the National Security Agency, And Those of you who have already listened to the first two hours of it, you already know more about the National Security Agency than most of the people who actually work for that organization.
And you absolutely know more than almost everybody else in the entire world.
Bar none.
So, make sure you have pen and paper, and that you are comfortable and relaxed.
And get ready to continue.
There is a war between the rich and poor A war between the man and the woman There is a war between the one Who say there is a war and the one Who say there is a war
What story shall I tell you?
Back to the wall.
The situation makes me kind of blue.
Yes, I rise up from my arms.
She says, I guess we call this love.
I call it room service.
What do we come up with if you go away to the woods?
What do we come up with if you go away to the woods?
You can't understand what I've become.
you can't stand what else is called you must get perfect yet from my work at home oh it's so easy to defeat oh it's so easy to defeat Oh, it's so easy to control.
Not to even know that what they know.
When do you come on?
To the wall.
When do you come on?
To the wall.
The 694th Intelligence Group, formerly the 694th Intelligence Wing, United formerly the 694th Intelligence Wing, United States Air Force, headquartered at Fort Meade, Maryland, steers Air Force Intelligence Agency's mission operations on the East Coast.
It is a vital part of the Air Intelligence Agency's continuing support to national missions and support of United States intelligence activities.
The Air Force's 694th Intelligence Group, formerly 694th Wing, is the largest military unit on Fort Meade.
It is subordinate to the Air Intelligence Agency, Kelly Air Force Base, Texas, which we will cover in its entirety On another night.
With a widely varied mission, the 694th Intelligence Wing has more than 2,000 officers and airmen within its subordinate units at Fort Meade.
In addition, the 694th provides operational, technical, administrative and resource management to include representational support to the commander of the Air Intelligence Agency and other government elements in the Washington, D.C.
area.
Responsible for an integral part of the United States' worldwide communications network, the unit provides rapid radio relay, secure communications and command, control, and communications countermeasures support to United States and Allied forces.
Unit members develop and apply techniques and materials designed to ensure that friendly command and control communications are secure and protected from enemy countermeasures.
The 694th Intelligence Group also advises United States and Allied commanders on procedures and techniques which could be used to counter enemy command-and-control communications.
Additional functions include research into electronic phenomena.
Unlike other intelligence organizations, such as the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, The National Security Agency is particularly reticent concerning its internal organizational structure.
The following description is based on the best available current information.
The best comprehensive treatments of the National Security Agency's organization are found in Jeffrey Richelson's The U.S.
Intelligence Community, published by Ballinger, Cambridge in 1989, and James Bamford's The Puzzle Palace, Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, New York in 1982, it was reported by Bill Gertz in the Electronic Spying Reoriented at NASA, The Washington Times, on January 27, 1992, that the A Group had been expanded to include all of Europe.
In addition to Eastern Europe and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which existed at that time, And that the B Group, focused on Communist Asia, had been combined with the G Group, collecting against the rest of the world.
The most detailed insight into the National Security Agency's organization is found in the National Security Agency Employees Security Manual, which we have obtained and have in our possession.
This manual provided building locations for the security offices of each of the groups, among other interesting tidbits.
Additional information, primarily related to information security developments, is reported in the computer trade press, such as More Changes at NASA, Federal Computer Week, August 22, 1994, page 4.
The National Security Agency is organized into five directorates, each of which consists of several groups or elements.
The Operations Directorate is responsible for SIGINT collection and processing.
The Technology and Systems Directorate develops new technologies for SIGINT collection and processing.
The Information Systems Security Directorate is responsible for the National Security Agency's communications and information security missions.
The Plans, Policy, and Programs Directorate provides staff support and general direction for the agency.
Well, the Support Services Directorate provides logistical and administrative support activities.
And what you're going to hear now is more than much more.
What you've already heard is much more, but this is very special.
The A group covered the former Soviet bloc.
This group performs worldwide SIGINT operations at fixed sites and with assigned and attached mobile assets to collect against targets in the former Soviet bloc.
It maintains liaison with service CSS components on SIGINT operations of direct interest to this area of responsibility.
Under the SIGINT opcon of the DERNSA, or the Chief Central Security Service, these operations are conducted.
B Group Asia.
This group performs worldwide SIGINT operations at fixed sites and with assigned and attached mobile assets to collect against targets including China, North Korea, and Vietnam.
It maintains liaison with service CSS components on SIGINT operations of direct interest to this area of responsibility under the SIGINT OPCON of the DERNSA or the Chief Central Security Service.
C Group is policy and resources.
This group establishes immediate, short, and long-range policy and resource requirements for information security activities to satisfy current and future requirements.
It identifies needs, criteria development, and program development of projects for operation and maintenance of current assets and acquisition or construction of new facilities.
The D Group is the Director.
The Director of the National Security Agency directs and controls the National Security Agency, NASA, or, excuse me, NSA, in the accomplishment of assigned missions, programs, plans, and projects.
This group serves as the NSA focus for DERNSA, which, as you will remember, is the Director of the National Security Agency, Central Security Service, or CSS activities, and for the United States Signals Intelligence Directive System,
The group also represents NSA on other SIGINT community coordinating committees, such as the DCI Signals Intelligence SIGINT Committee, SIGINT Requirements Validation and Evaluation Subcommittee, or CERVES, and SORIS.
The E Group is Contract Support.
This group provides acquisition and management services and support To other National Security Agency program offices in the development of technical and non-technical support facility requirements and concepts.
It develops facility acquisition strategy, plans, master schedules, cost estimates and management plans.
It provides engineering management services, plans for maintenance and operation of facilities, and coordinates with host nations or commands.
The group acts as principal staff advisor and assistant to the director, National Security Agency, in the development and application of NSA contracting policy, plans, programs, and systems as related to contracting of supplies and services, production management, industrial preparedness planning, DAR, FAR,
and contracting reporting, the Department of Defense Coordinated Acquisition Program, Market Research and Analysis, DOD Procurement Management Review, or PMR, program, the National Security Agency Field Contracting Activities, ADP, T-Contracting, the National Security Agency Field Contracting Activities, ADP, T-Contracting, Pricing and Competition, and Management Improvement Initiatives, and Exercise of Staff Program Direction over Assigned Programs.
F-Group.
We could locate no group known as F-Group, or any function designated as an F-function. - Good.
G group operations.
This group performs worldwide SIGINT operations at fixed sites and with assigned and attached mobile assets to collect against target areas not covered by A and B groups.
It maintains liaison with service CSS Components on SIGINT operations of direct interest to this area of responsibility.
Under the SIGINT OPCON of the Director MSA or the Chief Central Security Service.
H Group.
We could locate no group known as H Group and no function within the National Security Agency designated as an H function.
I Group is Information Security Programs.
This group develops, establishes, and administers comprehensive programs for information security, classification management, security education and motivation, and industrial and personnel security.
It represents the National Security Agency on the Security Career Program Policy Council.
J Group is Legislative Affairs.
In other words, they have their own lobbyists.
J Group acts as the principal staff advisor and assistant to the Director of National Security Agency and other staff elements on all national security matters with respect to legislative affairs.
Fancy name for lobbyist.
K Group, Operations Research.
This group directs the National Security Agency cryptologic research activities to provide theoretical and other support for all United States communications security, known as COMSEC.
and SIGINT activities.
L Group is Logistics.
L Group serves as the principal focus for on matters relating to the implementation of the National Security Agency logistics support activities, including support by the Defense Courier Service.
M Group is Administration.
M Group acts as the principal staff advisor and assistant to the Director, National Security Agency,
and other staff elements on all National Security Agency matters, exclusive of equipment, ADP and non-ADP, and software with respect to printing and publications, library, postal and mail, travel, audiovisual facilities, productions and exhibits, records, forms and correspondence, committee management, authentication of publications, directives, and of course
For those of you who do not understand what ADP stands for, that's Automatic Data Processing.
The N Group is Programs.
The N Group determines, in conjunction with the entire National Security Agency staff, immediate, short, and long-range planning requirements for facility development to satisfy current and future mission requirements.
It identifies facility need, facility criteria development, and programs Development of projects for operation and maintenance of current assets and acquisitions, or construction of new facilities.
O-group.
We could locate no group within the National Security Agency designated as O-group, and we could locate no function designated as an O-function.
P-group.
Production.
The P-group is NASA's I keep reading NSA and saying NASA, is the NSA's principal element for the production of finished SIGINT, EMINT, and COMINT products in support of other consumers in the intelligence community.
The group provides signals intelligence research, retrieval, and dissemination services for the National Security Agency's programs, associated contractors, and other government agencies and contractors.
It maintains manual and automated classified databases to facilitate the acquisition, storage, and dissemination of signals intelligence information.
The group identifies and establishes the National Security Agency's requirements for SIGYPT production based on consumers' present and future needs.
It serves as the focal point for intelligence documentation support and processing and dissemination requests through national automated intelligence databases.
Q Group.
Plans and Policy.
But Q Group acts as the principal staff advisor and assistant to the Director, National Security Agency, and other staff elements on the initiation, development, integration, coordination, and monitoring of the National Security Agency policy plans, programs, and projects, and is responsible for oversight of designated National Security Agency CSS programs, mission, and organization control,
Command Control and Contingency Planning, National Security Agency Studies and Projects, Operations Research and Economic Analysis, the National Security Agency Strategic Planning and Personnel Authorizations and Position Management.
The R group is Research and Engineering.
This group transforms SIGINT collection requirements into system performance parameters, requirements, and system configurations.
It establishes and maintains system performance specifications and supports the configuration controls.
The group develops and monitors internal and external interface requirements, defines test and target requirements, and provides cost, schedule, producibility, manufacturing, basing, logistics, and other support necessary for SIGINT collection system development and other support necessary for SIGINT collection system development and deployment.
The group serves as a center for research and development on signals intelligence technologies and provides for evaluation of algorithms, databases, and display concepts in signal processing.
The group maintains facilities for research and development on audio and speech signal processing.
The supports test and evaluation of speech processing technology to intelligence relating problems.
S Group Standards and Evaluation This group develops, establishes, and evaluates implementation of comprehensive standards for information security, classification management, security education and motivation, and industrial and personnel security.
The group provides staff supervision and guidance for industrial security program, performs industrial security functions of review and approval, serves on contract requirements and technical review boards, and performs industrial security inspections of classified contractor activities. and performs industrial security inspections of classified contractor activities.
It is the primary ComSec community focus for development and certification of ComSec equipment and procedures.
The key group is telecommunications.
This group manages all government and contractor activities associated with the design, development, production, and operation of special intelligence communications, or spent com networks and systems for the transmission of SIGINT data and products.
Yes.
U Group is the general counsel.
The U Group provides legal advice and services to the Director and the heads of the National Security Agency staff elements on matters involving or affecting the National Security Agency, exercises supervisory and professional control over personnel providing legal services in the National Security Agency, provides liaison with other agencies on legal issues relating to NSA, and manages assigned programs.
The V, as in Victor Group, is Network Security.
This group develops, establishes, and administers comprehensive programs for communications network security and related industrial security.
W Group - Space This group implements operational control of space-based sensors.
It documents, maintains, and implements operational requirements, monitors capabilities, and coordinates activities for sensors, provides resource management for collection, transmission, and processing of SIGINT derived from space-based sensors.
The group monitors and performs analysis On sensor operations, system capabilities and performance.
It manages Technical Service Support, or TSS, contracts to ensure operational support for ground stations.
It interfaces with the National Reconnaissance Office on System Acquisition.
The National Reconnaissance Office is also known as NRO and is directly responsible for the
Manufacturer, the launch, and the activities of all of the United States government's satellites, which are placed in orbit, and specifically those satellites concerned with the collection of intelligence.
This group also coordinates and monitors system testing for space-based sensors, and interfaces with the Air Force Satellite Control Facility, or SCF, for operational tasking.
It also coordinates and provides input on future sensor requirements.
The X group is designated Special Access Systems.
We were unable to locate the function and designation of this group According to its title of special access systems and could locate no such systems or definitions of such systems.
Y group.
We could locate no function known as Y group, although we did locate a designation known as Y group.
The function of this group is unknown to us at this time.
Z group.
No group with a Z designation has been located, and no site of the existence of this group has been located, and no function has been located with the designation of a Z group function.
While the Central Intelligence Agency budget is regularly the subject of public reports, which are generally rather consistent, The National Security Agency budget is less frequently subject to press speculation and published reports very widely, with some estimates running as high as $10 billion.
One principal source of confusion is the distinction between the National Security Agency proper and the associated military elements of the Central Security Service.
These service elements have historically been quite expensive, encompassing many thousands of personnel.
at overseas ground stations.
In fact, the National Security Agency turns out to be not much larger than that of the Central Intelligence Agency, and surprisingly much more readily discernible from official public sources.
And why no one else has ever understood this or located the information is beyond me.
The annual R1 and P1 military budget documents provide total figures For R, D, T, and E, and procurement for all defense agencies, as well as funding for each individual agency, except for the National Security Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Simple arithmetic, ladies and gentlemen, reveals the total for these two agencies.
There's no mystery about it.
And since the National Security Agency is much larger than the Defense Intelligence Agency, the bulk of this remainder must be the National Security Agency.
Contracts with NSA are routinely announced by the Defense Department, which shyly refers to the National Security Agency as the, quote, Maryland Procurement Office, end quote.
And anything you see under that designation refers to the National Security Agency.
Unfortunately, there was, until recently, no O1 for the operations and maintenance account.
But each year, testimony is given to Congress, which displays the operations and maintenance budget for defense agencies.
As with the R1 and P1, this display provides a total figure for all defense agencies, as well as funding for each individual agency, and just as before, we are able to determine approximately the accurate budget or the accurate amount funded for specific projects and specific agencies, with a few exceptions.
One of the amusing examples of the foolish inconsistency with which the, quote, This top secret, end quote, budget is publicly discussed is the presentation of the operations and maintenance budget, which coyly provides an aggregate figure for intelligence and communications of about 2.8 billion dollars.
This includes the National Security Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency, as well as the Defense Information Systems Agency, known as DISA, Which is included in the aggregate to avoid revealing the intelligence portion of this account, a reticence which does not extend to the RD, T&E, and procurement accounts, but after this broadcast, probably will.
However, DISA has no reticence in revealing its annual operations and maintenance budget, which is nearly $400 million in its annual report, and thus defeats the prior attempt To relieve us of this knowledge.
Again, simple arithmetic reveals the total for the Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency and the bulk of this remainder.
About two billion dollars must be the National Security Agency because no one else is funded under that particular heading.
The operations and maintenance account consists of spending for contractor services and civilian employees.
Uniformed service members are funded through the military personnel account.
The National Security Agency reportedly has about 20,000 employees in the state of Maryland alone, with a $831.7 million payroll in the year 1990.
1990.
And that's taken from Ted Shelsby, NSA employment cuts will hurt Maryland economy, but exactly how much?
From the Baltimore Sun of December 6, 1991, page 9C.
Based on the precedent of other defense agencies, which most are over 90% of these are civilians, the reported 20,000 civilian employees is consistent with this $2 billion, as seen by dividing, ladies and gentlemen, the typical cost of a civilian government employee, as seen by dividing, ladies and gentlemen, the typical cost of a civilian government employee, which is about $100,000, which is about equally divided between direct pay and purchases
And some of you, if you're listening to me carefully, you're beginning to get an idea of about how intelligence gathering, collation of the information, analysis, and then the projection of the results of the analysis and then the projection of the results of the analysis into a report are actually done.
And there's no big mystery about any of it.
It does require some brains and willingness to work, which is difficult to get anyone to Most of the time.
These estimates, ladies and gentlemen, are also consistent with the approximately 5 million square feet of National Security Agency office space at Fort Meade.
Somewhat less than the Pentagon, which houses somewhat more than 20,000 personnel.
Other published estimates that the National Security Agency has between 38,000 and 52,000 employees clearly also include the personnel of the Central Security Service military components As well as contractor personnel.
And that's from spy agency staff, lacks diversity.
Director says in the Washington Times of November the 1st, 1963, page A6.
As many as 12,000 of these personnel, ladies and gentlemen, are housed at the Friendship Annex at Airport Squares near the Baltimore-Washington International Airport.
And that's from super-secret security agency of inestimable aid to county For the Washington Times, January 2nd, 1993 paper.
Educated intelligence operatives from the Intelligence Service of the Second Continental Army of the Republic, you have now more information in your possession about the National Security Agency than probably 99% of all of the people who work for that organization.
And I'm not joking.
You see, they tend to compartmentalize information within agencies and the average employee knows little or nothing beyond what his or her immediate function actually is.
And I could go on and on and on, and I will.
Of course, you all knew that.
Be back after this pause.
Be back after this pause.
Be back after this pause.
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We're going to cover the original charter of the National Security Agency, which is signed by Harry Truman.
We're going to cover the entire National Security Agency Employee Security Manual.
The Army, the Air Intelligence Agency, which serves as the Air Force's arm of the National Security Agency.
We'll cover the Army Intelligence Organizations.
The ITRADS, which is the Intelligence and Security Command Training Doctrine and Support Detachment, located at Fort Huachuca, Arizona.
We will discuss Camp Perry in full.
The Advanced Technology Demonstration Network, or ETDNET.
Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System, which is a biggie.
The British Security Service.
And we'll get into Executive Order 12356, which is the National Security
Information and classification levels which will prove to you forever that all of this bullshit baloney out there about 56 levels above top secret and ultra-ultra cosmic space goo-poop be-doop-toop classification and all the other things that you've been hearing about are, as I've always told you, absolute and total woo-woo land nonsense.
We'll get into Army Regulation 380-5, which is the Department of the Army Information Security Program.
We'll be, let me see, and I think, oh, what else?
I think that's enough for right now, don't you?
And we're not going to do that all straight in a row, but we're going to do it.
And much, much, much more.
Office of Naval Intelligence.
Central Intelligence Agency.
We have had teams studying, accumulating information, compiling it, coordinating it, collating it, analyzing it, and compiling reports for quite some time.
So you're in for some treats.
Right now, I'm going to give you some books to read if you really are interested in intelligence work, intelligence gathering.
You really care about this stuff.
If you're a member of the Intelligence Service, it's required reading for all officers.
And all of these will eventually be disseminated to the station chiefs and then to the personnel under the command of the various station chiefs around the world.
This reading list is for those who are participating in analysis studies or who participate in the analysis of collected and collated data for preparation into final reports.
It is required reading for all officers of the Intelligence Service of the Second Continental Army of the Republic.
This particular reading list provides essential general background to basic approaches to intelligence analysis, logic, bias, cause and effect, process, and dissemination.
And the first one is called Strategic Intelligence for American World Policy by Sherman Kent, published by Princeton University Press in 1936.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is an excellent book on analysis and the theory and practice of intelligence, real practice of intelligence, not the imagined practice, not the crap you see on television or in the movies.
It was written in 1949 by an Office of Strategic Services veteran and a Yale professor.
Who helped establish the Central Intelligence Agency's new Board of National Estimates in 1950, and he led that office for many years.
The next one, A World of Secrets, The Uses and Limits of Intelligence, by Walter Lacour.
L-A-Q-U-E-U-R.
If you don't get this, don't call me and ask me to give it to you on the phone.
Published by Basic Books, New York, 1985.
This work specifically concentrates on how intelligence is used to understand events that may affect the United States.
And, of course, once you know how that's done, you can apply it to any source and to any affected body.
The next one is by John Prados, P-R-A-D-O-S.
It is titled, The Soviet Estimate, U.S.
Intelligence Analysis and Russian Military Strength, published by Dial Press, New York, 1982.
This author is not an intelligence professional, but he writes a provocative and insightful book for anybody who wants to know about intelligence analysis and estimation.
Now, don't call me and say, well, I'm not interested in the Soviet estimate or the analysis of Russian military strength.
That's not why you read these books, ladies and gentlemen.
You read them to learn the techniques, the procedures, and the actual work that goes in to get it.
For instance, if you were involved in trying to find out how many actual members belonged to the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, This book will help you do that.
You understand what I'm talking about?
The next one, War of Numbers.
It's an intelligence memoir written by Sam Adams, published by South Royalton, excuse me, by Steerforth Press in South Royalton, Vermont, 1994.
Some of these you have to look for.
You may have to do a book search.
This is the story of the well-documented controversy between Sam Adams And it's well worth finding and reading.
The next list is a reading list specifically concerned with the history.
It is required reading for all officers of the Intelligence Service of the Second Continental Army of the Republic.
It provides a general survey of the evolving role of intelligence in American history, particularly since the establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency.
The first one is written by William E. Colby, entitled Honorable Men, My Life in the Central Intelligence Agency, or CIA, published by Simon & Schuster in 1978, New York.
Colby, as most of you know, was the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and it explains the internal organization and management of the agency based on his experiences With particular emphasis on clandestine operations, and bear in mind that he didn't write anything in there that they didn't want you to know.
But it does give you a good personal account of day-to-day life dealing with leading an intelligence organization and some of the things that he experienced.
The next one is the CIA, reality versus myth, the evolution of the agency from Roosevelt to Reagan.
Revised edition of the CIA under Reagan, Bush and Casey, Acropolis Books, 1982, Washington, D.C., written by Ray Klein.
And the craft?
Well, the CIA reality versus myth, the evolution of the agency from Roosevelt to Reagan, is written by Ray Klein, who's a former top official of the CIA.
And he talks about in that book what clandestine work in an open society is like, why it is needed, and how it can be carried out effectively.
And bear in mind, in many of these books that I'm recommending, you will learn an awful lot about the collection of intelligence from a human, or an agent level, where they go out and actually recruit people in foreign countries to collect and turn over intelligence.
You may learn about cutouts and all the different terminology and some of the meaning of that terminology.
But one thing you have to understand, in this day and age, most intelligence gathering is done through electronic means.
I can spend two hours on the internet today, ladies and gentlemen, and gather more intelligence than one human agent could do in six months thirty years ago.
And that's a fact.
So you have to bear in mind that as technology changes, intelligence methods of gathering intelligence, of finding intelligence, of dealing with the information war that is occurring, sifting through and learning what is disinformation from what is misinformation, from what is fact, from what is intentionally there to Cause you to behave or act or submit reports in a certain way.
So, there's an awful lot to it.
It's one of the most extremely interesting professions that you could ever engage in, whether or not you were doing it for the United States government, for yourself, or for an organization, for a corporation, for the intelligence service of the Second Continental Army of the Republic, or to write a book.
The next one, The Craft of Intelligence, written by Alan Dulles, New York, Harper and Row, 1963.
If there's anybody in the history of the intelligence service who has done as much or more to shape the final product of what that agency is, does, and represents, other than Wild Bill Donovan, it is Alan Dulles.
And Alan Dulles is responsible for some of the things that are the best about What is happening in the Central Intelligence Agency and also some of the very worst.
So I highly recommend this work because Dulles really represents the history of intelligence which he presents in his book and he describes the techniques of espionage and counter espionage and discusses the role of intelligence in international events all the way from World War II all the way up through 1961.
The next one, For the President's Eyes Only, by Andrew Christopher.
Secret Intelligence in the American Presidency from Washington to Bush, New York.
HarperCollins Publishers.
And this is a new book, ladies and gentlemen.
I just acquired this not too long ago myself.
Published in 1995.
The next one was written by Admiral Stansfield Turner.
It's called Secrecy and Democracy.
The CIA in Transition, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1985 in Boston.
Admiral Turner reused his tenure as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency under President Carter, and he discusses the problems, as he perceives them, involved in operating a secret intelligence organization in a democratic, a so-called democratic society.
The next one is The Central Intelligence Agency, written by Arthur Darling.
An instrument of government to 1950.
Published by State University Press in 1990 in State College, Pennsylvania.
The next one, The Old Boys, The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA, by Burton Hirsch.
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992, New York.
Hirsch is a journalist, and he gets right down into the lives and personalities of many of the men who created and directed the Central Intelligence Agency in its early years.
One of the most interesting characters you can ever read about is James Jesus Angleton and, of course, Alan Welsh Dulles.
But the granddaddy of them all was Wild Bill Donovan.
His portraits of these people are usually unflattering, and most of these people were not what you would call, really, the kind of people that you would want to come to dinner on Sunday.
But the book has a good deal of information that is not otherwise available anywhere else.
America's secret power, the CIA and the Democratic Society, Oxford University Press, 1989, New Written by Locke, spelled L-O-C-H-K Johnson.
Johnson, ladies and gentlemen, is a university professor at the University of Georgia who worked for the Church Committee.
Remember the Church Committee?
Investigated the Central Intelligence Agency and the intelligence community as a whole.
He discusses the history of the agency and the theory of intelligence and he tries to wrestle as best he can with the issues of secret intelligence In what's called a free society, there seems to be in the minds of a lot of these people a dichotomy there, and there really isn't at all.
It's in their minds.
They are by nature paranoid.
The next one is the Central Intelligence Agency History and Documents by William M. Leary, editor.
He edited this collection of history and documents.
Published by the University of Alabama Press, 1984, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
The book reprints Ann Karaleska's history of the Central Intelligence Agency, originally published in Book 4 of the Church Committee's report.
And that's another good thing to get hold of, is the Church Committee's report, the Rockefeller report, and all of the reports, the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
Leary added an introduction and an appendix of historical documents which are Extremely worthwhile.
The next one is Cold Warrior.
James Jesus Angleton, the CIA's master spy hunter by Tom Mangold, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1991.
What a character this guy is.
What a life he led.
What a warped, warped, twisted mind he had.
Tom Mangold is a British Broadcasting Corporation producer.
Who's biography of the CIA's famous, and I mean famous, head of counterintelligence, James Jesus Engleton, will probably be the best until the agency actually releases its own files on such topics as the investigation of Soviet defectors' claims and other things.
And you can expect, You can expect to be amazed and angry and illuminated and all kinds of things when you read about James Jesus Angleton.
The next one is Honorable Treachery.
Honorable Treachery, if there is such a thing, if you can imagine such a thing.
A History of U.S.
Intelligence Espionage and Covert Action All the Way from the American Revolution to the Central Intelligence Agency.
Published by the Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991 in New York.
This one, ladies and gentlemen, It's a vast, wide-ranging study by G. J. A. O'Toole, who's a former CIA agency employee, and it places intelligence in general, and the CIA in particular, in its historical context, if you will.
And we'll continue the rest of this reading list at the beginning of the broadcast tomorrow night.
And then I will read to you the actual charter signed by Harry Truman that formed the National Security Agency back in October 24, 1952.
Good night, ladies and gentlemen, and as always, God bless each and every one of you, and God bless this republic.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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