Eyes in the Shadows: The Dawn of National Security Surveillance

Even as scandals over the US military’s domestic surveillance of civilians continue to surface today, Eyes in the Shadows reveals how this monitoring of citizens began more than a century ago. In this new origin story of the US surveillance state, Alexandre Rios-Bordes returns to the First World War, when two modest intelligence services—the Military Intelligence Division and the Office of Naval Intelligence—began spying on civilians. The book shows why and how this practice continued in pe...