Forewords

The Center for Cryptologic History (CCH) is proud to publish the first title under its own imprint, Thomas L. Burns's The Origins of NSA.[]

[] The Quest for Cryptologic Centralization and the Establishment of NSA: 1940–1952 is an unclassified version of The Origins of NSA, released for public review.

In recent years, the NSA history program has published a number of volumes dealing with exciting and even controversial subjects: a new look at the Pearl Harbor attack, for example. Tom Burns's study of the creation of NSA is a different kind of history from the former. It is a masterfully researched and documented account of the evolution of a national SIGINT effort following World War II, beginning with the fragile trends toward unification ...

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