| Explores the history of the National Security Agency. The NSA is an American intelligence and counter-intelligence organization responsible for the global monitoring, collection and processing of signals intelligence (SIGINT). President Harry Truman set up the NSA in 1952. Today it is probably the largest intelligence organization in the world. However, until recently, very little was known about the organization. Indeed, until the mid 1970s very few people knew of its existence. This course will focus on how and why our understanding of the agency has evolved over the last thirty years. |
