First time Quote by Garrett M. Graff

“Day Fifty-One North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado”

— Bobby Akart

“. Unable to find a master list of what military assets they could use, NORAD personnel opened phone lists and began to call Air Force…

— Garrett M. Graff

“(The operation didn’t take place entirely smoothly. Soviet soldiers disguised as technicians placed the explosives successfully, but were forced to return because they’d forgotten…

— Gregory Feifer

“Founded by President Truman at 12:01 A.M. on November 4, 1952, the NSA had been the most clandestine intelligence agency in the world for…

— dan brown

“During his first week on the job, McNamara sat down with the Pentagon’s Weapons Systems Evaluation Group (WSEG), which had just completed an intensive…

— Garrett M. Graff

Remember when Obama was campaigning? Didn't he say he was going to close Guantanamo Bay? Didn't he say that? Apparently, he just meant for…

— Jay Leno

“What billows are ideas! How quickly they cover all that it is their mission to destroy and to bury, and how promptly they create…

— Victor Hugo

“Stellar Wind resurrected Cold War tactics with twenty-first-century technology. It let the FBI work with the NSA outside of the limits of the law.”

— Tim Weiner

“We are hearing the early rumblings of what may become an avalanche in strength.”

— Charles Sutherland Elton

“age COG—except for one minor problem. There was no clear communication system that would ensure the nation’s leaders didn’t end up living through a…

— Garrett M. Graff

“The implications of this speech were not long in coming. On 22 September, emulating the brilliant Israeli gambit of the Six Day War in…

— Efraim Karsh

There is also the fact that NORAD-Northeast was conducting war game exercises that morning, a fact that has been very little talked about and…

— Jim Marrs