Douglas Caddy
Oct 24 2009, 03:55 PM
The New York Review of Books
November 9, 2009
Who's in Big Brother's Database?
By James Bamford
The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the National Security Agency
by Matthew M. Aid
Bloomsbury, 423 pp., $30.00
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23231#
David Andrews
Oct 26 2009, 06:34 PM
Hope they're good. Over the last three years I've been reading a number of agency and bureau histories, "unauthorized histories," and "secret histories." Most come off as fawning and slight.
One book on the CIA-FBI relationship, "Wedge," by Mark Riebling, has only a half-paragraph on Bush's CIA directorship. The time seems right for upgrades of the offerings of the 1990s and the post-9/11 cash-in books.
I wonder if people would chime in and post their candidates for best books on intelligence and investigative agencies, US and other.