324 | Notes to pages 214-231
212 “it stays secret’: De, “Former NSA Lawyer on ‘Harm’ of Edward Snowden’s Revelations.”
212 North Korea in 1968: John Prados and Jack Cheevers, “USS Pueblo: LBJ Con- sidered Nuclear Weapons,” National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 453, Jan. 23, 2014.
212 Booz Allen Hamilton: Booz Allen Hamilton issued a history of its evolution in 2004. “Helping Clients Envision the Future,” PDF file, 2004, https://www.booz allen.com/content/dam/boozallen/documents/90th-History-Book-Complete pdf.
213 The private company named: Julie Creswell, “The Private Equity Firm That Grew Too Fast,” New York Times, April 24, 2015.
214 USIS had prematurely closed: Tom Hamburger and Debbi Wilgoren, “Justice
Department Says USIS Submitted 665,000 Incomplete Background Checks,”
Washington Post, Jan. 23, 2014.
214 USIS was also open to: Ellen Nakashima, “DHS Contractor Suffers Major Com-
puter Breach, Officials Say,” Washington Post, Aug. 6, 2014.
214 successful 2011 attack: Andy Greenberg, “Anonymous Hackers Breach Booz Allen Hamilton,” Forbes, July 11, 2011.
215 acomputer system called e-QIP: Joe Davidson, “Federal Background Check Sys- tem Shut Down Because of ‘Vulnerability, ” Washington Post, June 29, 2015.
215 this memorandum noted: Former NSA executive who requested anonymity, interview with author.
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217 “The collapse of the Soviet Union”: Nick Allen, “Soviet Break-Up Was Geopo- litical Disaster, Says Putin,” Telegraph, April 26, 2005.
217 Russian units had managed: Entous, Barnes, and Gorman, “U.S. Scurries to Shore Up Spying on Russia.”
218 Russian acronym SORM: Steven Aftergood, “The Red Web: Russia and the Internet,” FAS, Oct. 5, 2015.
219 William Martin and Bernon Mitchell: David P. Mowry, “Betrayers of the Trust,” Cryptologic Almanac 50th Anniversary Series (NSA), Feb. 28, 2003.
220 Victor Norris Hamilton: “American Defector Is Found in Russian Prison,” New York Times, June 4, 1992.
220 He was found dead: Edward Jay Epstein, “The Spy Wars,” New York Times, Sept. 28, 1980.
222 Harold Nicholson: Elizabeth Farnsworth, “Update on the Case of CIA Agent Harold Nicholson,” PBS (transcript), Nov. 19, 1996. See also “Affidavit in Sup- port of Complaint, Arrest Warrant, and Search Warrants: United States v. Har- old J. Nicholson,” http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm /ciaspy/affidavt.htm.
223 When it comes to recruiting moles: Angleton, interviews with author.
224 well experienced with false flags: Epstein, Deception, 22-28.
224 the “Trust” deception: Ibid. Also, Raymond Rocca (the CIA’s former research chief for the counterintelligence staff), interview with author.
227 “a learning experience”: “Out of Control.”
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