Review: Working on the Dark Side of the Moon

Working on the Dark Side of the Moon by Thomas Reed Willemain
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

"Shrouded in secrecy, the United States Department of Defense’s National Security Agency (NSA) is where the most clandestine of U.S. operations are carried out in the name of national security. The author, a software entrepreneur and statistics professor, spent a few years alternating working “outside” and working “inside” at the NSA and the Central Security Service (CSS). This affiliated, shadowy think tank has a cryptologic charter.

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Indeed, Willemain appeared to have a much more difficult time with the thought of protocol peccadilloes: “I was visited by nightly nightmares about Security blunders during my first weeks…” Pulling back a tad the curtain on the inner workings of the NSA at the cubicle and cookie cart level is an engaging read for anyone drawn to the mundane details supporting national intelligence in a post-Snowden world, but expect nothing like an exposé in this officially cleared work."

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