Bash, Dana, and Kate Snow. "Messages Intercepted by U.S. on September 10 Revealed." CNN.com, 19 Jun. 2002. [http://www.cnn.com] Bash, Dana, and Kate Snow. "Messages Intercepted by U.S. on September 10 Revealed." CNN.com, 19 Jun. 2002. [http://www.cnn.com]
[GenPostCW/00s/02/Cong]
Basile, James F. "Congressional Assertiveness, Executive Authority and the Intelligence Oversight Act: A New Threat to the Separation of Powers." Notre Dame Law Review 64, no. 4 (1989): 571-605. [Marlatt]
[Overviews/Legal/Gen]
Baskir,
Lawrence M. "Reflections on the Senate Investigations of Army Surveillance."
Indiana Law Journal 49 (Summer 1974): 618-653.
Although the CIA has come to be most associated with the Senate investigations of the mid-1970s, the hearings were much more inclusive, touching multiple agencies and, for this article, the Army's substantial domestic surveillance activities.
[CIA/70s/Investigations; FBI/DomSec/Surv; MI/Army]
Bass, Carla D. "Building Castles on Sand: Understanding the Tide of Information Operations." Airpower Journal 13 (Summer 1999): 27-45.
[GenPostwar/InfoWar]
Bass, Streeter. "Beaumarchais and the American Revolution." Studies in Intelligence 14, no. 1 (Spring 1970): 1-18. [https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol14no1/html/v14i1a01p_0001.htm]
The author recounts the support from Pierre August Caron de Beaumarchais, confidential agent of France in London, for bringing France in on the side of the Americans during the Revolutionary War. His efforts included establishment -- with loans from the French and Spanish monarchies -- of a cover firm to sell arms and supplies and furnish volunteers to the Americans. That he was not paid for what he sent to the Americans is part of the story.
[RevWar/Foreign]
Bass, Streeter. "Nathan Hale's Mission." Studies in Intelligence 17, no. 4 (Winter 1973): 67-74.
It is ironic that the fact that we know Hale's story "at all is due solely to the presence at his execution of one British officer who was sufficiently sensitive to his demeanor and impressed by the character of his motivation to have ... heard what he said on the gallows, and to have passed it on to his friends." The author suggests that Cory Ford's A Peculiar Service (1965) is probably the best reconstruction of Hale's largely unknown movements on his mission.
[RevWar/Hale]
Bassett, Richard. Hitler’s Spy Chief: The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2005.
Hughes-Wilson, RUSI Journal, Jun. 2005, finds that this book combines elements of both very good and very bad. It "is deeply equivocal, mixing factual research, conclusion and comment in a manner which is sometimes deeply thought-provoking and sometimes just downright incredible." The author's "well-written ... book ... is a good read and an interesting contribution to any intelligence bookshelf. It will undoubtedly provoke much controversy."
[WWII/Eur/Germany/Canaris]
Bassiouni, M.
Cherif.
1. International Terrorism: Multilateral Conventions (1937-2001). Ardsley, NY: Transnational, 2001.
Advertisement: This volume "includes all relevant conventions adopted since the League of Nations Convention of 1937," including conventions of regional organizations and "relevant provisions from other international conventions."
2. International Terrorism: A Compilation of U.N. Documents (1972-2001). 2 vols. Ardsley, NY: Transnational, 2001.
Advertisement: These volumes are "the only published source of all United Nations documentation since 1972 on the subject of 'terrorism.'"
[Terrorism]
Bateman, Gary
M. "The Enigma Cipher Machine." Military Intelligence 8,
no. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1982): 24-28.
This is a brief survey of the development of the German Enigma cipher machine and of its initial breaking by Polish cryptologists.
[OtherCountries/Poland/Enigma; UK/WWII/Ultra]
Bates,
Asa. "National Technical Means of Verification." Royal United
Services Institute Journal 123 (Jun. 1978): 64-73. [Petersen]
[Recon/Topics]
Bates, David
Homer. Lincoln in the Telegraph Office: Recollections of the U.S. Military
Telegraph Corps During the Civil War. New York: Century, 1907. New York:
Appleton- Century, 1939. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, (?1996).
Constantinides notes that "[t]he author ... was manager of the U.S. War Department Telegraph Office and a cipher-operator during the years 1861-1866.... Unfortunately only some four chapters are devoted to codes, ciphers, and cryptologic matters and to Union counterintelligence -- using deciphered messages against Confederate agents.... A historical gem is his description of President Lincoln's interest in the breaking of enciphered Confederate messages." According to Kruh, Cryptologia 20.4, this book "has become a minor classic and an important resource for Lincoln biographers and Civil War historians."
[CivWar/Un/Gen]
Bates,
David Homer. "A Rebel Cipher Despatch."
Harper's 97 (Jun. 1898): 105-109. [Petersen]
[CivWar/Conf/Intel]
Bates, Dick.
"The Intelligence Profession and Its Professional and Fraternal Organizations."
In In the Name of Intelligence: Essays in Honor of Walter Pforzheimer,
eds. Hayden B. Peake and Samuel Halpern, 111-131. Washington, DC: NIBC Press,
1994.
[Overviews/Gen][c]
Bates, Stephen. "HMSO Reveals Britain Employs 10,766 Spies at Home and Abroad." The Guardian, 25 Mar. 1994, 11.
[UK/PostCW/Gen]
Batey, Mavis. "Dilly Knox -- A Reminiscence of This Pioneer Enigma Cryptanalyst." Cryptologia 32, no. 2 (Apr. 2008): 104-130.
The author (then Mavis Lever) worked with Knox from 1940. Here, she reviews his career from Room 40 in World War I until his death in 1943.
[UK/WWII/Ultra]
Bath, Alan Harris. Tracking the Axis Enemy: The Triumph of Anglo-American Naval Intelligence. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1998.
Seamon, Proceedings 125.3 (Mar. 1999), views this work as a "remarkably detailed history of Anglo-American cooperation in the arcane art of intelligence gathering and analysis." In telling the story, there is a "consistent undercurrent of conflict," in that "[n]either nation fully trusted the other's methods ... [nor] credited the other's conclusions." Yet, "they did learn to work together." To Maiolo, I&NS 16.3, the author's "prose style is very clear and his research thorough.... While the general tale of Anglo-American naval intelligence ... will be familiar to many, the value of this study is in the details."
For Bates, NIPQ 15.2, the author "does a good job explaining why intelligence cooperation in the Pacific was so poor in comparison with that developed in the Atlantic and Mediterranean." The reviewer concludes that "[t]his is a book you should read and it would make an excellent classroom text." Kruh, Cryptologia 23.2, applauds the author's effort "to put in perspective the total contribution of Allied Naval intelligence to victory in WW II." This is "an essential guide to the Anglo-American intelligence labyrinth ... and the role of codebreaking" in World War II.
[UK/WWII/Services/Navy; WWII/Magic/Cooperation; WWII/U.S./Services/ Navy]
Bathurst, Robert
B. Intelligence and the Mirror: On Creating an Enemy. London & Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1993.
According to Wirtz, IJI&C 6.4, Bathurst is "apparently the first to apply semionics to the study of intelligence." The results achieved are "mixed." One problem is that "mirror imaging is generally considered to be a cognitive phenomenon, not a linguistic one." Nonetheless, his ideas are "provocative."
MI 20.4 comments that "[i]nstead of a tightly woven study of two intelligence giants and their perceptions of each other, Bathurst looses us on a twisting, bewildering journey through a maze of psycho-jargon that sheds little light on this important and under-researched area of the Cold War." Surveillant 3.6 sees a "checklist of anthropological, cultural and behavioral factors that filter military and political predictions. Bathurst tests his theory about the role of cultures in controlling perception and lays the foundation for a method of analysis of value in intelligence prediction."
Curts, NIPQ 11.2, opines that, in making his point, Bathurst "places too much blame on uninformed analysts for the results which transpired. 'Command influence' -- leadership demanding and getting what it wants to hear -- has a tremendous effect on intelligence estimates.... This book is not an easy read. The ideas presented are complex, and their presentation is somewhat difficult to follow.... Above all, the author fights the good fight for the necessity for better informed and better experienced intelligence analysis."
[Analysis/Critiques]
Battaglia, Roberto.
The Story of the Italian Resistance. London: Odhams, 1957.
[WWII/Eur/Italy]
Batvinis, Raymond J. The Origins of FBI Counterintelligence. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2007.
From publisher: The author is a former FBI special agent . He covers "the crucial period before Pearl Harbor when the Bureau’s powers secretly expanded to face the developing international emergency." Batvinis "examines the FBI’s emerging new roles during the two decades leading up to America's entry into World War II to show how it cooperated and competed with other federal agencies." Peake, Studies 51.3 (2007), concludes that "[f]or those interested in how the FBI crafted its niche in the American national security program," this book "is the place to start."
[CI/00s; FBI/Interwar]
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