Puzzle Palace

English

Proper noun

the Puzzle Palace

  1. (US, slang) The headquarters of the National Security Agency.
    • 2008, Eddy Shah, Second World, page 110:
      There hadn't been such a sense of united urgency in the Puzzle Palace since Dixon had ordered the bombings in the Middle East.
    • 2020 [2019 September 17], Edward Snowden, Permanent Record (autobiography; paperback), Pan Books, →ISBN:
      In just the seven short years of my career, I’d climbed from maintaining local servers to crafting and implementing globally deployed systems—from graveyard-shift security guard to key master of the puzzle palace.
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