Various pieces by and with James Bamford
Five Eyes
No Place to Hide
The NSA employs 30,000 people but also engages 60,000 contractors. A full 70% of the US Intelligence budget is spent by the private sector through about 80 corporations.
Venona in Australia and its long-term ramifications
1996 Australia Venona papers released by the NSA
Intelligence Elsewhere
An agenda for the comparative study of intelligence: Yet another missing dimension
Transatlantic Intelligence and Security Cooperation
There is confusion between the distinct subjects of secrecy, privacy and anonymity.
Introduction, Cold War Technology & Conclusion
Chapter 4 in The Rise and Fall of Intelligence
Britain Betwixt and Between: UK SIGINT Alliance Strategy’s Transatlantic and European Connections
Describes intelligence alliances as ‘among the most intimate and enduring international security relationships’
British Intelligence and the Anglo American ‘Special Relationship’, during the Cold War
Threat to cooperation between UK and USA was the UK’s close relationship with dominions, “A number of these states, notably Australia, had developed alarming security problems during the 1940s.”
International Intelligence Cooperation: An insider perspective
Advocates for a new UKUSA agreement, with more partners
Oyster
Oyster was the code name for the Australian Secret Intelligence Service
A short history of Cryptography
The main point made in this video is that encryption – the cryptographers that make code, and the cryptanalysts that break code – not only ended wars, saved lives but also launched the computer age. Crypto is an evolved scientific art, today including mathematics, physics, computer science and electrical engineering.
Bibliography – so far!
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