Barr, David [LT/USN]. "Where's Waldo? Intelligence Support to Personnel Recovery." Naval intelligence Professional Quarterly 24, no. 1 (Jan. 2008): 32-35. Barr, David [LT/USN]. "Where's Waldo? Intelligence Support to Personnel Recovery." Naval intelligence Professional Quarterly 24, no. 1 (Jan. 2008): 32-35.
This is the second-place winner of the Naval Intelligence Foundation/Naval Institute essay contest for 2006. It seeks "to capture some of the analytic methodology while describing the political and personal nature of intelligence support to personnel recovery (PR) operations."
[MI/Navy/00s]
Barr, James. Setting the Desert On Fire: T. E. Lawrence and Britain’s Secret War in Arabia, 1916–1918. London: Bloomsbury, 2006.
Peake, Studies 51.4 (2007), notes that the author "has taken a narrow approach, concentrating on Lawrence’s role in the Arab Revolt. He describes Lawrence’s development, application and impact of guerrilla warfare tactics, which had not been part of British military doctrine. He also emphasizes Lawrence’s role in the political consequences of victory sorted out in London and Paris.... [U]nlike other accounts, Barr puts Lawrence’s contribution in perspective by including the very significant role of other players, often overshadowed by the legend of Lawrence of Arabia."
[WWI/UK/ME]
Barr, Stephen (Washington Post).
Barreiros, José António. O Homem das Cartas de Londres: Rogério Peixota de Menezes. 1943. Lisbon: Gótica, 2003.
According to Luce, I&NS 19.1, Rogério de Menezes was "a typist and Axis spy at the Portuguese Embassy in London from July 1942 to February 1943." MI5 knew in advance of his arrival and finally arrested him in February 1943. Deported to Portugal in 1949, he was interviwed by the author for this work, called by the reviewer "a captivating tale that is skilfully told and highly instructive."
[WWII/Eur/Other]
Barrett, Barrington M., Jr. "Information Warfare: China's Response to U.S. Technological Advantages." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 18, no. 4 (Winter 2005-2006): 682-706.
"Chinese military strategists are working to develop Information Warfare concepts with a distinct national flavor."
[China/Gen/00s]
Barrett, David M. The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2005.
DKR, AFIO WIN 33-05 (29 Aug. 2005), says that the author finds that "Congress was a firm, if not always wise, taskmaster in the agency’s early decades. The CIA was repeatedly criticized for Intel failures, harassed by budget cutters and witch hunts, and pressed by legislators to slant analysis on politically charged issues.... Barrett has written a trenchant study of Congressional oversight that is in sharp contrast to a widespread, popular image of the CIA."
For Scheuer, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2005, this work is "is a triumph of research." Faced with "widely dispersed research materials," the author has "displayed sound analytic sense and balance in their use." Along the way, he provides "superb portraits and assessments of the key players."
Snider, Studies 50.1 (Mar. 2006), finds that the author paints "a far richer picture" of the Congress-CIA relationship "than we had before. Intriguing tidbits are scattered throughout," and "almost every chapter reveals something that we did not quite appreciate before.... [T]he DCI and other senior CIA officials appeared far more often before congressional committees ... than was previously understood. In 1958, for example, DCI Dulles appeared a surprising 27 times before 16 different committees.... Still, as Barrett’s account documents, a great deal of what passed for oversight during this period was informal and less than rigorous."
To Platt, I&NS 22.4 (Aug. 2007), the author provides "a detailed, comprehensive, and highly persuasive examination of congressional oversight" of the CIA "during the early Cold War.... Barrett's lengthy, somewhat densely written tome convincingly demolishes the myth of congressional deference to and salutary neglect towards the CIA from its founding in 1947 to the Bay of Pigs debacle in 1961."
Nolen, IJI&C 21.1 (Spring 2008), lauds the author as "a master at culling the important details of secret history hidden in the dusty attic archives of America.... Barrett tells new tales of congressional oversight, reinterprets the old, and whets the appetite for more to come."
[CIA/40s/Gen, 50s/Gen, 60s/Gen; Oversight/00s]
Barrett, David M. "Congress, the CIA, and Guatemala, 1954." Studies in Intelligence 10 (Winter-Spring 2001): 23-31.
The author shows that, despite conventional wisdom to the contrary, Congress did play a "role in bringing about CIA's involvement in ridding Guatemala of the Arbenz government." Congressional oversight of CIA through the 1960s "was limited and informal in comparison to the current oversight system.... But limited oversight was not 'no oversight.'"
[CIA/50s/Guatemala]
Barrett,
David M. Dixie Mission: The United States Army Observer Group in Yenan.
Berkeley, CA: Center for Chinese Studies, 1970. [Petersen]
[WWII/FE/Pac/CBI]
Barrett, David M. "An Early 'Year of Intelligence': CIA and Congress, 1958." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 17, no. 3 (Fall 2004): 468-501.
"If 1975 ... was a year of firestorms [for the CIA], 1958 might be characterized as a year of serious grassfires which led to persistent questioning in Congress of the CIA's competence." Events impacting on the CIA's relationship with Congress in 1958 included the fallout from the launching of Sputnik by the Soviet Union, Vice President's Nixon's trip to Venezuela, and the Iraqi coup.
[CIA/50s/Gen; Oversight]
Barrett, David
M. "Glimpses of a Hidden History: Sen. Richard Russell, Congress, and
Oversight of the CIA." International Journal of Intelligence and
Counterintelligence 11, no. 3 (Fall 1998): 271-298.
The focus here is Russell's and Congress' relationship with the CIA during the Eisenhower presidency. The author concludes that "[t]here can be no doubt that Russell was powerful in relation to the CIA; the question that remains largely unanswered is the extent to which he exercised that power." In the absence of the release of relevant records by the government, "[t]he well-known contention that no effective congressional oversight of the CIA existed in this and other parts of the 'era of trust' is not yet proven."
[CIA/50s/Gen; Oversight]
Barrett, David M. "A New Intelligence Director's Diary: President Truman, a Young JFK, Ho Chi Minh's 'Beheading,' and Other Challenges." Intelligence and National Security 22, no. 3 (Jun. 2007): 380-383.
Notes from a work diary (with entries made by an aide) of Adm. Roscoe Hillenkoetter, who headed the CIG and then was DCI.
[CIA/DCIs/
Barrett, David M., and Raymond Wasko. "Sampling CIA's New Document Retrieval System: McCone's Telephone Conversations during the Six Crises Tempest." Intelligence and National Security 20, no. 2 (Jun. 2005): 332-340.
The CIA Records Search Tool (CREST) at the National Archives II in College Park, Maryland, "uses computer terminals in the Archives' library at which researchers enter keywords. This brings up a list of document titles from which a reader chooses. After examining the ... document on the screen, he or she may then print it, at no cost, on an adjacent printer." The benefits of the system include "its sheer ease" -- it "is notably simple to operate.... [I]t works well in delivering the documents in the collection released by CIA" since 2001.
[RefMats/Guides]
Barrett, Edward. The Tenney Committee: Legislative Investigation of Subversive Activities in California. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1951.
[FBI/DomSec/Misc]
Barrett, Edward
W. Truth Is Our Weapon. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1953. [Winkler]
[WWII/PsyOps & Propaganda]
Barrett,
Michael J.
1. "Honorable Espionage." Journal of Defense and Diplomacy 2, no. 2 (1984): 13-21, 25, 63; 2, no. 3 (1984): 12-17, 62; and 2, no. 4 (1984): 17-21.
2. "Patterns in Terror." Journal of Defense and Diplomacy 4, no. 3 (1986): 40-44.
Petersen: CIA Assistant General Counsel.
[Terrorism]
Barrett, Neil. The Binary Revolution: The History and Development of the Computer. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006.
Ferry, The Guardian, 29 Jul. 2006, calls this an "ill-researched book" that "is only the latest to make the entirely erroneous claim that Colossus was a machine used to crack Enigma codes and to imply that Turing was its progenitor. Fortunately, with the more or less simultaneous appearance of Jack Copeland's and Paul Gannon's comprehensive treatments, there is no longer any excuse for such casual disregard for the facts."
[UK/WWII/Ultra]
Barrett, Raymond J. "The Role of the Military Attaché." Military Review 51 (May 1971): 50-55.
[MI/Attaches]
Barringer, Felicity. "Libya Admits Culpability in Crash of Pan Am Plane." New York Times, 16 Aug. 2003. [http://www.nytimes.com]
On 15 August 2003, Libya "formally accepted responsibility for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in general language that lacked any expression of remorse for the 270 lives lost when the plane exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland. A letter containing Libya's admission and its pledge to compensate the survivors and renounce terrorism was presented to the [UN] Security Council president as part of a carefully choreographed diplomatic pas de trois between Tripoli, London, and Washington, all to pave the way to the final lifting of United Nations sanctions against Libya early next week."
[Terrorism/03]
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