| Body of Secrets | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | James Bamford |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject(s) | National Security Agency |
| Genre(s) | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Anchor Books |
| ISBN | 978-0385499071 |
| OCLC Number | 44713235 |
| Dewey Decimal | 327.1273 21 |
| LC Classification | UB256.U6 B36 2001 |
| Preceded by | The Puzzle Palace |
| Followed by | A Pretext for War |
Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency is a book by James Bamford about the NSA and its operations. It also covers the history of espionage in the United States from uses of the Fulton surface-to-air recovery system to retrieve personnel on Arctic Ocean drift stations to Operation Northwoods, a declassified US military plan that Bamford describes as a "secret and bloody war of terrorism against their own country in order to trick the American public into supporting an ill-conceived war they intended to launch against Cuba."[1]
For the book, NSA director Michael Hayden gave him unprecedented access. In contrast, his previous book, The Puzzle Palace, was almost blocked from publication by the agency.