James Bamford Quotes

Clearly the flag was there, ... because the intercepts show that the helicopter pilots saw it immediately, before they ever even got up to the ship.

It produces, probably produces, 80 percent of the intelligence the United States uses, ... The Puzzle Palace.

Here the transcripts are saying, `Well, you know, there may be people speaking English on this ship,` ... Why would you say that if it`s an Egyptian ship, carrying horses?

Every time a Soviet plane took off, NSA knew about it. It was pretty easy to track. Now they have to track people who use cell phones, pay phones and calling cards ... You have to be a bit optimistic to think it will work.

He was extremely outwardly religious. He was always trying to get me to go with him to one of these sessions of Opus Dei, which is a sort of a semi-secretive, conservative branch of the Catholic Church,

If you kill Trailblazer, you might as well kill NSA. Gen. Alexander has no choice but to find a way to make it work.

He`d have a natural interest in what a Russian spymaster had to say, ... It turned out later that he was the person Hanssen originally sent his letter to apply for his job at the KGB.

He was very anti-Communist in his appearance, ... He would always be talking about how we should be doing more stories about the Communist menace and communist influence and Russian influence.

Overall, most people think (Trailblazer is) a disappointment,

He would have been on the bottom of my list in terms of suspects.