According to the article cited, the still classified NSA report is incorrect based on the CIA documents that were declassified which show that Powers ' account of being shot down at altitude was accurate.

This account, however, has come into sharp dispute with an internal NSA historical study which stated on page 17:

* Interviewing with an Intelligence Agency First person account of NSA interview ( including polygraph )

* First person account of NSA interview and background investigation

In the United States, the Federal Government is described as an alphabet soup on account of the multitude of agencies that it has spawned, including the NSA, CIA, FBI, USSS, BATF, DEA, NCIS and INS.

The NSA's historical account states that documents removed from the Marshall Library were " sequestered portions of the Friedman collection ," i. e., the collection that included the copies of the NSA Newsletter that spurred one of Bamford's FOIA requests.

He also took a substantial role in Tony Scott's 1998 political thriller, Enemy of the State, in which Voight played Will Smith's stalwart antagonist from the NSA.

Ramsey is also the man the NSA sends out to retrieve Frank when the Ex-Seal makes unscheduled disappearances from the base.

Friedman and his wife donated their archives to the George C. Marshall Library, which also had been raided by NSA security.

The investigative report cited an NSA memo which advised senior agency officials that it was "' mounting a surge ' aimed at gleaning information not only on how delegations on the Security Council will vote on any second resolution on Iraq, but also ' policies ', ' negotiating positions ', ' alliances ' and ' dependencies ' - the ' whole gamut of information that could give US policymakers an edge in obtaining results favourable to US goals or to head off surprises '.

It was also at this time when Hanssen applied for a cryptographer position in the NSA but was rebuffed due to budget setbacks.

Their concern was well-founded: subsequent history has shown not only that NSA actively intervened with IBM and NBS to shorten the key size, but also that the short key size enabled exactly the kind of massively parallel key crackers that Hellman and Diffie sketched out, which when ultimately built outside the classified world, made it clear that DES was insecure and obsolete.

Their concern was well-founded: subsequent history has shown not only that NSA actively intervened with IBM and NBS to shorten the key size, but also that the short key size enabled exactly the kind of massively parallel key crackers that Hellman and Diffie sketched out.

" He also acknowledged that after " repeated inquiries from the Feith office " he put a disclaimer on NSA intelligence assessments of Iraq / al-Qaeda contacts.

The NSA also claimed at that time that they had solvers, but would not reveal names or dates until 2000, when it was learned that an NSA team led by Ken Miller, along with Dennis McDaniels and two other unnamed individuals, had solved parts 1 – 3 in late 1992.

The second is also about NSA but concentrates more on its history.

The IBM 7950, also known as Harvest, was a one-of-a-kind adjunct to the Stretch computer which was installed at the US National Security Agency ( NSA ).

Marshall has also discovered how hard it is to lie to those he loves, having to keep his job at APO a secret even from his wife ( who appears to no longer be working for the NSA by the fourth season ).

Mýa and Madonna were also, at the time, the only two artists to perform a Bond song and act in their respective Bond projects: Mýa plays NSA Agent Mýa Starling in Everything or Nothing while Madonna plays fencing coach Verity in Die Another Day.

These were also designed by the NSA.

Bamford also interviewed retired NSA senior officials, including former director Marshall Carter, with whom he talked for a day and a half.

The Order of Wen the Eternally Surprised, better known as the History Monks, and also sometimes referred to as THE Fighting Order of Wen, the Men In Saffron ( see Men in Black ) and No Such Monastery ( see NSA ), is a highly secretive religious organisation in the Discworld novels of Terry Pratchett, based in the Monastery of Oi-Dong.

The agreement originated from a ten-page British – U. S. Communication Intelligence Agreement, also known as BRUSA, that connected the signal intercept networks of the U. K. Government Communications Headquarters ( GCHQ ) and the U. S. National Security Agency ( NSA ) at the beginning of the Cold War.

* ANSA, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs ( of the United States ), also sometimes abbreviated NSA

Government-backed testing also exists in the US with standards such as the NSA Infrastructure Evaluation Methodology ( IEM ).

Perfect Dark, made by GoldeneEye developer Rareware, also featured a golden gun which would count for an instant kill, this time a customized Colt Python revolver belonging to NSA boss, Trent Easton.

After realizing that such technology, contained within a wristwatch frame, could also be used against the USA, the NSA orders the project stopped.

Yoo also authored the October 23, 2001 memo asserting that the President had sufficient power to allow the NSA to monitor the communications of US citizens on US soil without a warrant because the fourth amendment does not apply.

The NSA describes Bamford's research process in a partially declassified history of postwar American cryptography.

The NSA itself says the book " brought a new focus to the efforts of journalists and independent writers to break down the Agency's vaunted anonymity ," and describes the book as " the most significant breach in NSA's anonymity since David Kahn's The Codebreakers in 1967.

* The Observer publishes what it claims is a leaked memo dated January 31, 2003 ordering members of the NSA to spy on UN Security Council members, focussing especially on members from Angola, Cameroon, Chile, Mexico, Guinea, and Pakistan to try to determine how they will vote.

On May 17, 2006, NavySEALs. com and MediaChannel. org published an exclusive interview with Miller in which she detailed how the attack on the Cole spurred her reporting on Al Qaeda and led her, in July 2001, to a still-anonymous top-level White House source, who shared top-secret NSA signals intelligence ( SIGINT ) concerning an even bigger impending Al Qaeda attack, perhaps to be visited on the continental United States.

In addition to describing the role of the NSA and explaining how it was organized, the book exposed details of a massive eavesdropping operation called Operation Shamrock.

The history begins by describing how Bamford approached Houghton-Mifflin with a proposal to write a book on the NSA.

* Bamford, James ; The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9 / 11 to the Eavesdropping on America, Doubleday, ISBN 0-385-52132-4 ; 2008

According to James Bamford, the NSA had picked up communications of al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi back in 1999, but had been hampered by internal bureaucratic conflicts between itself and the CIA, and did not do a full analysis of the information it passed on to the agency.

* Bruce Schneier, "' Body of Secrets ' by James Bamford: The author of a pioneering work on the NSA delivers a new book of revelations about the mysterious agency's coverups, eavesdropping and secret missions ," Salon. com, 25 April 2001.

The book was to include information on the NSA, and according to author James Bamford writing in 1982, the agency attempted to stop its publication, and considered various options, including writing a negative review of Kahn's work to be published in the press to discredit him.

The book was to include information on the National Security Agency ( NSA ), and according to the author James Bamford writing in 1982, the agency attempted to stop its publication, and considered various options, including publishing a negative review of Kahn's work in the press to discredit him.

According to James Bamford, NSA / CSS was initially conceived as a separate " fourth service " beside the three U. S. armed services.

" Bamford eventually discovered " the Mother Lode ," a collection of documents deposited at the Virginia Military Institute's George Marshall Library by former NSA chief cryptologist William Friedman.

" The FOIA requests gave Bamford access to an only lightly redacted set of documents, and a former NSA employee later gave Bamford access to an almost complete collection.

Bamford submitted a FOIA request for resulting documents, and received most of their report on the NSA.

None of the discussed subject matter was classified, but, according to the NSA, " it helped Bamford to complete his mosaic.

" In the years between the book's publication and 9 / 11, the relationship between Bamford and the NSA grew less adversarial.

The NSA cooperated with Bamford on a later book titled Body of Secrets, and in April 2001 the NSA hosted a book-signing event for Bamford at their Maryland headquarters.

Bamford was critical of NSA actions in the years following 9 / 11, and the relationship between the two once again cooled.