# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-bamford
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:11:33.956Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-bamford"
name: "James Bamford"
slug: "james-bamford"
description: "James Bamford is an American author, journalist and documentary producer noted for his writing about United States intelligence agencies, especially the National Security Agency (NSA). The New York Times has called him \"the nation's premier journalist on the subject of the National Security Agency\" and The New Yorker named him \"the NSA's chief chronicler.\""
tagline: "Author and journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Bamford_16A.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946-09-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.521335807050093
  historical:           9.244712
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/WashAuthor"
    handle:    "WashAuthor"
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2525617/"
    handle:    "nm2525617"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "جیمز بامفورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Bamford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Bamford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bamford"
    title: "James Bamford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bamford"
    title: "James Bamford"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump