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Title: Not up to par with The Puzzle Palace
Review: This book just didn't live up to my expectations. Outside of the in-depth material on the USS Liberty, and some interesting discussion about NSA activities in Southeast Asia, there really isn't much energy in this book.To me, the best material here really is in the last few chapters; chapters I fear that many folks won't even get to if they focus their energies reading the "revelations" about the USS Liberty. The chapter on "Crypto City" is quite interesting, as was the last chapter about NSA and development of new electronic and computer technology.I guess that I was really looking for a history of NSA activities in those two areas, building on the strengths of Bamford's earlier book, The Puzzle Palace. To find the discussion of the NSA's real physical anatomy, and their important role in the development of new technologies, relegated to the concluding chapters of this book was a disappointment.
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