Culture | Spying in America
A damning account of a devastating intelligence breach
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How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft. By Edward Jay Epstein. Knopf; 350 pages; $27.95.
This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition under the headline “The Snowden operation”
From the January 14th 2017 edition
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