Accoce, Pierre, and Pierre Quet. Tr., A.M. Sheridan Smith. The Lucy Ring. London: W.H. Allen, 1966. A Man Called Lucy, 1939-1945. New York: Coward-McCann, 1967. New York: Berkley Medallion Edition, 1968. [pb]
Accoce, Pierre, and Pierre Quet. Tr., A.M. Sheridan Smith. The Lucy Ring. London: W.H. Allen, 1966. A Man Called Lucy, 1939-1945. New York: Coward-McCann, 1967. New York: Berkley Medallion Edition, 1968. [pb]
Clark comment: Lucy was the codename of Rudolf Roessler who, working from Switzerland from 1939 to 1943, supplied the Soviet government a steady stream of intelligence direct from the German High Command. The authors note that, in order to give Lucy's story "the greatest possible unity, we have presented it almost as a narrative, even colloquially..., while always carefully adhering to the facts." (p. 14, Berkley edition) Commentators have not universally agreed with the latter assertion.
For Chambers, the book is "inventive -- the authors admit large parts are made up." Constantinides notes that "experts have concluded that their work is not a reliable source on the subject."
[Russia/WWII/Spies][c]
Acey,
Madeleine. "Report: U.S. Uses Key Escrow To Steal Secrets." New
York Times, 18 May 1999. [http://www.nytimes.com/techweb/]
A report for the Scientific and Technological Options Assessment Panel of the European Parliament says that " the United States has tried to persuade European Union countries to adopt its key escrow or key recovery policies -- allowing backdoor access to encryption programs -- ... [so NSA can] intercept confidential company communications and give them to favored competitors."
The full report, European Parliament, Scientific and Technological Options Assessment (STOA) , "Development of Surveillance Technology and Risk of Abuse of Economic Information," is available at: http://www.iptvreports.mcmail.com/stoa_cover.htm [no longer a valid address -- checked 11/21/06].
For other European Parliament papers on the subject, see: http://cryptome.org.
[NSA/90s/99]
Acheson, Dean.
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department. New York:
Norton, 1969.
Petersen: "Covers issues of national intelligence organization after World War II."
[GenPostwar/Immediate]
Ackerman, E.C. ("Mike") Street Man: The CIA Career of Mike Ackerman. Miami, FL: Ackerman
& Palumbe, 1976.
[CIA/Memoirs]
Ackerman, Gary, Molly James, and Casey T. Getz. "The Application of Social Bookmarking to the National Intelligence Domain." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 20, no. 4 (Winter 2007): 678-698.
This article discusses "the development of a software tool [tag|Connect] ... designed to enhance the creation of collective knowledge spaces within the Intelligence Community (IC)."
[Analysis/Gen]
Ackerman, Kenneth D. Young J. Edgar: Hoover, the Red Scare, and the Assault on Civil Liberties. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2007.
Goulden, Intelligencer 15.3 (Summer/Fall 2007), says that this book about Hoover's role in the so-called Palmer Raids of 1919-1920 is "[a] good read, despite an often annoying political slant."
[FBI/Interwar]
Ackerman,
Robert K. "Air Intelligence Confronts New Geopolitical Realities: Providing
Information on Technology Is Not Enough; Analysts Must Also Factor in Human
Elements." Signal, Oct. 1998. [http://www.afcea.org/signal/]
"The National Air Intelligence Center (NAIC), Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is tasked with providing the Department of Defense with information on foreign aerospace intelligence. This includes providing targeting and mission planning materials, determining adversaries' capabilities and intentions, and evaluating evolving technologies....
"To obtain a broad spectrum of information about nations and their technological threats, NAIC relies on a number of traditional and nontraditional means. Col. [Richard G.] Annas [USAF, NAIC commander] states that the center exploits the Internet to glean as much unclassified information as available. This is especially useful in country assessments. National economic data that are published in open sources also find their way into NAIC reports, where applicable.
"For classified information, NAIC relies extensively on the other U.S. intelligence services. Intelligence input directed to the center is assumed to be accurate and taken at face value. Col. Annas explains that the center can request additional information or detail from the original collector. 'The buzzwords today are collaborative production,' he notes."
[MI/AirForce][c]
Ackerman,
Robert K. "Art of Deception." Signal 43 (Sep. 1988):47-51.
[Seymour]
[MI/Deception]
Ackerman, Robert K. "Balkans Serve as Proving Ground for Operational Imagery Support." Signal, Oct. 1999, 17 ff. [http://www.afcea.org/signal/]
[MI/Imagery & Ops/Bosnia]
Ackerman, Robert K. "Commercial Imagery Aids Afghanistan Operations." Signal, Dec. 2001, 16 ff. [http://www.afcea.org/signal/]
[MI/Imagery & Ops/Afgh]
Ackerman, Robert K. "Communications Links Vital to Managing Defense Intelligence." Signal, Sep. 1995, 25 ff. [http://www.afcea.org/signal/]
[MI/Commo]
Ackerman, Robert K. "Defense Intelligence Assumes More Diverse Missions." Signal, Apr. 2007. [http://www.afcea.org/signal/]
"Lt. Gen. Michael D. Maples, USA, is the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). He also is the director of the Defense Joint Intelligence Operations Center (DJIOC), the defense human intelligence (HUMINT) manager, and the commander of the Joint Functional Component Command for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (JFCCISR) for the U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM). These diverse roles parallel the multifaceted nature of defense intelligence in the post-9/11 era."
[MI/DIA]
Ackerman,
Robert K. "Imagery Agency Passes the Torch to Commercial Service Providers."
Signal, May 1999. [http://www.afcea.org/signal/]
"The National Imagery and Mapping Agency is fielding a team of commercial companies to provide vital geospatial information services to military and civilian government customers. The goal is not only to rapidly obtain various products ranging from basic mapping to detailed geospatial imagery, but also to establish an extensive commercial base of geospatial information services and generate two-way technology transfer."
[MI/NGA]
Ackerman, Robert
K. "Information Age Poses New Challenges to Intelligence." Signal, Oct. 1998, 23-25. [http://www.afcea.org/signal/]
DIRNSA Lt. Gen. Kenneth A. Minihan, USAF, believes that the future of intelligence holds "a completely new technical environment." That future will be characterized by "the shifting of U.S. strategic value from the industrial base to the content of the network-centric information infrastructure. This promises to redefine concepts of security and conflict."
[NSA/Gen]
Ackerman, Robert K. "Intelligence Aim Veers to Amassing Overt Information." Signal, Aug. 1993, 37 ff. [http://www.afcea.org/signal/]
[OpenSource]
Ackerman, Robert K. "Intelligence Assets Boost Coast Guard Performance." Signal, Sep. 1991, 81 ff. [http://www.afcea.org/signal/]
[MI/CG]
Ackerman, Robert K. "Intelligence Center Mines Open Sources." Signal, Mar. 2006. [http://www.afcea.org/signal/]
This is a lengthy look at the DNI's Open Source Center (OSC), headquartered at the CIA. The OSC "has absorbed the old Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)," but "exceeds it in both scope and function." The article includes substantial comments from OSC Director Douglas J. Naquin and Eliot A. Jardines, assistant deputy director of national intelligence for open source.
[DNI/OSC]
Ackerman, Robert K. "Special Operations Forces Become Network-Centric." Signal, Mar. 2003. [http://www.afcea.org/signal/]
According to Brig. Gen. James W. Parker, USA, director of SOCOM's Center for Intelligence and Information Operations, "[n]etwork-centric warfare proved to be a key enabler for U.S. special operations forces to rout the Taliban in Afghanistan.... These forces were empowered by shared situational awareness and robust communications that allowed them to maximize the effects of air and naval support against Taliban positions."
[MI/SpecOps]
Ackerman, Robert K. "Technology Empowers Information Operations in Afghanistan." Signal, Mar. 2002, 17 ff. [http://www.afcea.org/signal/]
[MI/Ops/Afgh]
Ackerman, Wystan M. "Encryption: A 21st Century National Security Dilemma." International Review of Law, Computers & Technology 12, no. 2 (Jul. 1998): 371-394. [Marlatt]
[Cryptography/Encrypt]
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