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”

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