James Bamford, having gathered extensive information on the NSA, wrote the “The Puzzle Palace”, a nickname for the agency, and it was published on September 19, 1982. Before the book’s publication, the Reagan administration claimed that unclassified source documents were released to Bamford in error, and threatened him with prosecution if he did not return 250 pages of documents he had obtained through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. The documents in question related to a 1975-76 DOJ investigation, and described the NSA’s widespread illegal monitoring of domestic communication, warrantless surveillance …
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