The Black-and-White Security Question

How washington can use surveillance to save lives—not target them.

JAMES BAMFORD

Within the rarified world of technical intelligence, few have matched the extraordinary instincts of Arthur Lundahl, who, in 1961, founded and headed the CIA’s National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC)—and who, a year later, alerted President John F. Kennedy to his agency’s images of Soviet nuclear warheads in Cuba, leading to the missile crisis. In late November 1984, I had lunch with Lundahl at O’Donnell’s, a bustling seafood restaurant near his home in Bethesda, Maryland; afterward, he asked me back to his place, where we could talk more privately. On a wall of his small wooden house on Chestnut Street were a number of his awards, including the National Security Medal, the highest honor in the U.S. intelligence community; the CIA’s Distinguished Intelligence Medal; and even the Order of the British…

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Foreign Policy (Digital) - 1 Issue, January - February 2015

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