Bak - Balk

Bakeless, John. "Spies in the Revolution." American History Illustrated 6 (Jun. 1971): 36-45. [Petersen]

Bakeless, John. Spies of the Confederacy. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1970. New York: Dover 1997. [pb]

Pforzheimer comments that "some spy memoirs on which [Bakeless] draws are often exaggerated, and ... many of the original records were destroyed in 1865."

Constantinides notes that the "purist will object to the inclusion of combat intelligence personnel in a book with 'Spies' in the title. The space given to their efforts might better have been devoted to other intelligence activities, such as those of Confederate agents abroad, which are not addressed."

[CivWar/Conf/Intel][c]

Bakeless, John. Turncoats, Traitors and Heroes. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1959. New York: Da Capo, 1998. New York: Da Capo, 2005. [pb]

Pforzheimer notes that this is "considered to be the best general work" available on intelligence aspects of the Revolutionary War. While "somewhat fragmented and choppy," it is "loaded with information."

For Constantinides the book is "a history of espionage in the main theater of war.... [F]or the area of operations covered, it is one of the best works available.... [I]t gives a vivid picture of General Washington's interest in intelligence and deception and the value he placed on effective intelligence."

Commenting on the 1998 reprint, Kruh, Cryptologia 24.3, finds the work "still relevant today.... Based on almost 20 years of research, the author provides a thorough study of the espionage, counterespionage, and other military intelligence services in the Continental and British armies."

Bakeless, John E. "General Washington's Spy System." Manuscripts 12, no. 2 (1960): 28-37. [Petersen]

Bakeless, Katherine (Little), and John Bakeless. Confederate Spy Stories. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1973.

[CivWar/Conf/Intel]

Balachandran, V. "Intelligible Intelligence: An Alchemy of Collation & Coordination." The Times of India, 21 Sep. 2000. [http://www.timesofindia.com]

The author is a former Special Secretary in the Indian Cabinet Secretariat. Here, he argues for stronger central coordination of Indian intelligence, for clear charters for the Indian intelligence agencies, for the Indian government to seek to learn from the Brown Commission Report of 1996 in the United States, and for upgrading of India's technical collection capability.

[OtherCountries/India]

Balachandran, V. "Spy Who Went Cold." Asian Age, 10 Jul. 2002.

The author of this Op-ed piece in an Indian daily suggests that the U.S. Intelligence Community is suffering from a bad case of being over scrutinized. He notes that "[s]ome of the Aspin-Brown Commission's recommendations on the creation of posts resulted in a needless gridlock between the Congress and the Executive. The Scowcroft panel still wants to create a separate post of Director CIA who, with other directors of NIMA, NRO, NSA will work under the DCI. Many of these 'reorganisations' were meaningless knee-jerk exercises.... The American IC is now worried that they may be subjected to another dose of 'reorganisation' as a result of the present Congressional hearing."

[GenPostCW/00s/02/Congress]

Balano, Randy Carol. "Operation Iraqi Freedom: The Role of the Office of Naval Intelligence." Naval Intelligence Professionals Quarterly 19, no. 3 (Sep. 2003): 9-10.

"ONI's initial contributions included intelligence preparation of the battle space and the establishment of a 24 by 7 analysis and production operation.... In addition, teams of specially-trained ONI reservists provided critical support to HUMINT collection efforts and the exploitation of captured enemy material."

[MI/Navy/00s; MI/Ops/Iraq]

Balano, Randy [CDR/USNR]. "T.B.M. Mason and the Office of Naval Intelligence." Naval Intelligence Professionals Quarterly 21, no. 3 (Sep. 2005): 30-33. Originally published in full as "U.S. Navy Owes T.B.M. Mason," Naval History (Jun. 2005).

Mason was the first commanding officer in 1882 of the newly established Office of Naval Intelligence.

[MI/Navy/To19]

Baldwin, Al [COL/USMC]. "1st Marine Expeditionary Force (I MEF) Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) in Operation Iraqi Freedom." Naval Intelligence Professionals Quarterly 19, no. 3 (Sep. 2003): 11-12.

The regimental combat teams (RCTs) were provided "with the ability to directly receive most of the signals from the theater and tactical sensors. By cutting out the middlemen ... the intelligence got to the using unit much faster and in time to have a chance to shape the local action."

[MI/Marines; MI/Ops/Iraq]

Baldwin, Gordon. "Congressional Power to Demand Disclosure of Foreign Intelligence Agreements." Brooklyn Journal of International Law 3 (Fall 1976): 1-30. [Petersen]

[Oversight]

Baldwin, Hanson W.

1. "Army Intelligence." New York Times, 13 Apr. 1952, 12; and 14 Apr. 1952, 4.

2. "Battlefield Intelligence." Combat Forces 3 (Feb. 1953): 30-41. [Petersen]

[MI/Army/To90s]

Baldwin, Hanson W. "The Future of Intelligence." Strategic Review 4 (Summer 1976): 6-24. [Petersen]

[GenPostwar/Policy/To90s]

Baldwin, Hanson W. "The Growing Risks of Bureaucratic Intelligence." Reporter 39 (15 Aug. 1963): 48-50, 53. [Petersen]

[GenPostwar/Policy/To90s]

Baldwin, Hanson W.

Series of five articles in the New York Times on U.S. intelligence, 20-25 Jul. 1948. Petersen notes that this series received "considerable" attention at the time.

[GenPostwar/40s]

Baldwin, Mark. "Wartime Codebreaking." Book & Magazine Collector, Jul. 1997, 28-39.

According to Kruh, Cryptologia 22.2, the author "provides a lively review of British books on World War II ... codebreaking, especially the work on Enigma ciphers at Bletchley Park."

[UK/WWII/Ultra; WWII/RefMats]

Baldwin, Paul, Philip Johnston, and John Steele. "MI5 Secret Laptop Stolen at Tube Station." Electronic Telegraph, 24 Mar. 2000. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk]

[UK/PostCW]

Balfour, Michael A.G.

1. States and Minds, Reflections on Their Interaction in History. London: Cresset, 1953.

2. Propaganda in War: Organisations, Policies and Publics in Britain and Germany. London: Routledge, 1979.

[WWII/PsyWar]

 

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