Aid, Matthew M. "All Glory Is Fleeting: Sigint and the Fight against International Terrorism." Intelligence and National Security 18, no. 4 (Winter 2003): 72-120. Aid, Matthew M. "All Glory Is Fleeting: Sigint and the Fight against International Terrorism." Intelligence and National Security 18, no. 4 (Winter 2003): 72-120.
The author points to some lessons learned from reviewing the performance of U.S. intelligence prior to the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks: (1) "an urgent need for more clandestine or unconventional Sigint collection resources"; (2) a need for intelligence services to "break down the barriers that have historically existed between Humint agencies and Sigint services"; (3) "the critical need to improve Sigint's ability to handle the ever-increasing volume of communications traffic being intercepted"; (4) a need for "Sigint processing, reporting and analysis [to] become faster and more efficient"; and (5) a need for "international cooperation among national Sigint agencies," especially in Europe.
[NSA/Sigint; Overviews/Gen/00s/I&NS][c]
Aid, Matthew M. "Eavesdroppers of the Kremlin: KGB SIGINT During the Cold War." In The History of Information Security: A Comprehensive Handbook, eds. Karl de Leeuw and Jan Bergstra, 497-522. New York: Elsevier B.V., 2007.
[Russia/Sigint]
Aid, Matthew M. "International Peacekeeping Operations: The Intelligence Challenge for America in the 21st Century." In Peacekeeping Intelligence: Emerging Concepts for the Future, eds. Ben de Jong, Wies Platje, and Robert David Steele, 139-156. Oakton, VA: OSS International Press, 2003.
[GenPostCW/Peacekeeping]
Aid, Matthew M. "In the Right Place at the Right Time: US Signals Intelligence Relations with Scandinavia, 1945-1960." Journal of Strategic Studies 29, no. 4 (Aug. 2006): 575-605.
From abstract: "This paper demonstrates that US-Scandinavian intelligence relations in general, and Signals Intelligence (Sigint) relations in particular, during the period 1945 through 1960 were more extensive and complicated than had previously been believed.... This paper covers the quantity, quality, and types of intelligence information provided to the US by each of the Scandinavian nations [Norway, Denmark, and Sweden], demonstrating that the nature of US intelligence relations with these countries changed substantially as time went by."
[Liaison; NSA/SIGINT; OtherCountries/Denmark, Norway, & Sweden]
Aid, Matthew
M. "The National Security Agency and the Cold War." Intelligence
and National Security 16, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 27-66.
The focus of this article is NSA's work against its most important target -- the Soviet Union. "NSA['s] accomplishments ... were arguably the most impressive of any American intelligence organization during the Cold War."
[NSA/Overviews][c]
Aid, Matthew M. "'Not So Anonymous': Parting the Veil of Secrecy About the National Security Agency." In A Culture of Secrecy: The Government Versus the People's Right to Know, ed. Athan G. Theoharis, 60-82. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1998.
[NSA/Overviews]
Aid, Matthew M.
1. "Prometheus Embattled: A Post-9/11 Report Card on the National Security Agency." Intelligence and National Security 21, no. 6 (Dec. 2006): 980-998.
The author sees NSA as "by far the the largest and most powerful intelligence agency within the uS intelligence community.... And yet,... it remains deeply troubled by a host of problems, many of its own making."
2. "Prometheus Embattled: A Post-9/11 Report Card on the Naional Security Agency." In Strategic Intelligence, Vol. 2, The Intelligence Cycle: The Flow of Secret Information from Overseas to the Highest Councils of Government, ed. Loch K. Johnson, 41-60. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2007.
[NSA/00s/Gen][c]
Aid, Matthew M. "SIGINT and Peacekeeping: The Untapped Intelligence Resource." In Peacekeeping Intelligence: New Players, Extended Boundaries, eds. David Carment and Martin Rudner, 41-57. London: Routledge, 2006.
[GenPostCW/Peacekeeping]
Aid, Matthew M. "'Stella Polaris' and the Secret Code Battle in Postwar Europe." Intelligence and National Security 17, no. 3 (Autumn 2002): 17-86.
In September 1944, the Finnish intelligence service was evacuated to Sweden in Operation "Stella Polaris." This article discusses the role of the OSS and its successor, the Strategic Services Unit (SSU), in "Stella Polaris" and its aftermath. "The OSS Stockholm Station purchased Soviet and other foreign code and cipher materials" from the Finnish service, "not realizing until later that the Finns had sold the same material to other states." In response, the OSS/SSU recruited "some well-placed agents within the ... 'Stella Polaris' organization, who provided detailed information about the intelligence activities of the Finns in Sweden, and the work of Finnish intelligence officers in France after the end of the war."
[WWII/Eur/Other][c]
Aid, Matthew M. "A Tale of Two Countries. US Intelligence Community Relations with the Dutch and German Intelligence and Security Services, 1945-1950." In Battleground Western Europe: Intelligence Operations in Germany and The Netherlands in the Twentieth Century, eds. Beatrice de Graaf, Ben de Jong, and Wies Platje, 95-122. Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis, 2007.
[Germany/West; OtherCountries/Netherlands]
Aid, Matthew M.
1. "The Time of Troubles: The US National Security Agency in the Twenty-First Century." Intelligence and National Security 15, no. 3 (Autumn 2000): 1-32.
"Some of the reports concerning NSA's purported problems would appear to have missed their mark.... NSA's Sigint collection capabilities have actually improved considerably during the last decade.... NSA's most pressing problem is ... the deterioration of the Agency's Sigint processing, analysis and reporting capabilities."
2. "The Time of Troubles: The U.S. National Security Agency in the Twenty-First Century." In Intelligence and National Security: The Secret World of Spies -- An Anthology, 2d ed., eds. Loch K. Johnson and James J. Wirtz, 88-105. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
3. "The Time of Troubles: The U.S. National Security Agency in the 21st Century." In Intelligence and the National Security Strategist: Enduring Issues and Challenges, eds. Roger Z. George and Robert D. Kline, 181-206. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.
[NSA/00s/Gen][c]
Aid, Matthew M.
1. "US Humint and Comint in the Korean War [Part I]: From the Approach of War to the Chinese Intervention." Intelligence and National Security 14, no. 4 (Winter 1999): 17-63.
U.S. intelligence "performed poorly during the early stages of the Korean War.... The American Humint collection program in the Far East and in North Korea itself was severely fragmented and poorly coordinated.... The Comint collection and processing efforts of the three American services in Asia were not integrated into the Far East Command's intelligence structure, and were not coordinated."
2. "American Comint in the Korean War (Part II): From the Chinese Intervention to the Armistice." Intelligence and National Security 15, no. 1 (2000): 14-49.
[GenPostwar/50s/Korea][c]
Aid, Matthew M., and Cees Wiebes, eds.
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1. "Special Issue on 'Secrets of Signals Intelligence during the Cold War and Beyond.'" Intelligence and National Security 16, no. 1 (Spring 2001): Entire issue.
2. Secrets of Signals Intelligence during the Cold War and Beyond. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2001.
This volume comes out of a conference on "The Importance of Sigint in Western Europe during the Cold War 1945-1999," organized by the Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association (NISA) in Amsterdam in November 1999. ("Preface")
Andrew, "Foreword": This work brings together "a wider and more innovative range of material on the role of Sigint since the Second World War than has ever been published before."
For Jonkers, Intelligencer 13.1, this work is "very useful for understanding the worldwide intelligence world." The editors provide "a series of essays covering the US, British, Canadian, German, French, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Dutch SIGINT services and liaison programs."
Kruh, Cryptologia 26.2, sees "[t]his excellent book" as providing "an abundance of interesting information." It "should be read leisurely for maximum enjoyment."
[GenPostwar/CW; NSA/Sigint; Overviews/Gen/00s][c]
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