Eyes in the Shadows: The Dawn of National Security Surveillance

Scandals over the U.S. military’s domestic surveillance of civilians continue to resurface today. Eyes in the Shadows offers the first exploration of how the monitoring of citizens began just over a century ago. In this new origin story of the U.S. surveillance state, Alexandre Rios-Bordes returns to the First World War, when two modest military intelligence services—the Military Intelligence Division and the Office of Naval Intelligence—began spying on civilians. The book shows why and how...