Matthew Aid

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Matthew M. Aid (born March 11, 1958 in New York City , New York - † August 20, 2018 in Washington, DC ) was an American military historian and author.

Aid graduated from Beloit College , Beloit , Wisconsin with a bachelor's degree in international relations . In 2001 he was co-editor of Secrets of Signals Intelligence During the Cold War and Beyond . In 2007, Aid was General Manager of Citigate Global Intelligence and Security's Washington office.

Aid lived in Washington, DC and studied signals intelligence and the history of the National Security Agency in particular.

In 2006 it was made public that he had been indicted for breach of confidentiality in 1985 while serving in the Air Force in the UK and had been jailed for over a year; he himself stated that he was a workaholic and had taken work home with him. The late publication of his conviction was an attempt to discredit him and his revelations about the cooperation between the Air Force and the CIA .

Works

  • Roger Z. George, Robert D. Kline, Matthew M. Aid, Christopher M. Andrew: Intelligence and the National Security Strategist: Enduring Issues and Challenges. 2005
  • The Secret Sentry. The Untold History of the National Security Agency. Bloomsbury Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-60819-096-6
  • Intel Wars: The Secret History of the Fight Against Terror. January 2012, ISBN 1-60819-481-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthew M. Aid, independent researcher who wrote a history of the NSA, dies at 60 , accessed August 30, 2018
  2. ↑ Article in the Washington Post (English)
personal data
SURNAME Aid, Matthew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aid, Matthew M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American military historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York
DATE OF DEATH 20th August 2018
Place of death Washington, DC