Bauer, Friedrich
L. Kryptologie: Methoden und Maximen. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 1993. Decrypted Secrets: Methods and Maxims of Cryptology. 4th rev. and extended ed. Berlin: Spinger, 2007. Bauer, Friedrich
L. Kryptologie: Methoden und Maximen. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 1993. Decrypted Secrets: Methods and Maxims of Cryptology. 4th rev. and extended ed. Berlin: Spinger, 2007.
While noting that the author's reduction of cryptography and cryptanalysis to their mathematical bases makes it "hard for the non-mathematical reader," Kahn, Cryptologia 18.2, calls the original German edition of this work "the best single book now available on the cryptology of today."
Reviewing the fourth English-language edition, Christensen, Cryptologia 31.3 (Jul. 2007), notes that "Bauer's book has become a classic." This new edition "is excellent." However, it "falls short of what one might expect of a cryptology book published in 2007.... A comparable book that includes details of the last twenty years of cryptology should be written."
Krieger, JIH 6.2 (Winter 2006/7), says that "Bauer’s work is partly a great pleasure to read, partly a veritable treasure trove of techniques and of people often completely unknown to the amateur cryptologist." However, "this work was originally written for engineers, not for the mathematically challenged folks in the humanities. So, dear historians, just skip a page here or a table there, but do read on. It is well worth your time!"
[Cryptography/Gen]
Bauer, Karl J.
The Mexican War, 1846-1848. New York, Macmillan, 1974.
Petersen: "Good treatment of intelligence aspects."
[Historical]
Baugher, Thomas
R. "Swans Swimming in the Sewer: Legal Use of 'Dirty Assets' by CIA."
International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 9, no. 4 (Winter 1996-1997): 435-471.
The author uses the March 1995 uproar surrounding the CIA's relationship with Guatemalan Colonel Julio Roberto Alpinez, accused of involvement in human rights violations, to survey the law and other possible controls over the CIA's use of foreign assets with less than a savory background. He compares some of these issues to those associated with the FBI's use of confidential informants. Baugher concludes that the CIA "must be free to deal with anyone possessing valuable information." However, "Congress must be informed when the asset threatens American lives or interests"; it is, then, up to Congress to "try to pressure the president to forbid a clandestine relationship or terminate an existing one."
[CIA/90s/96/Guat; Overviews/Legal/Topics][c]
Baughman,
E.U., and Leonard W. Robinson. Secret Service Chief. New York: Harper & Row, 1961.
Wilcox: "Sympathetic account of the United States Secret Service."
[OtherAgencies/Treasury]
Baumard, Phillippe.
"From Noticing to Making Sense: Using Intelligence to Develop Strategy."
International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 7,
no. 1 (Spring 1994): 29-73.
Corporate intelligence: individual, organization, and environment.
[GenPostwar/Issues/Econ/Corp][c]
Baxter, Christopher. "Forgeries and Spies: The Foreign Office and the 'Cicero' Case." Intelligence and National Security 23, no. 6 (Dec. 2008): 807-826.
"Cicero was able to bring off a major espionage coup through bad security in the British embassy in Ankara and this was largely [due] to [Ambassador Hughe Knatchbull-]Hugessen's own carelessness.... Although the damage done was probably not very important, the potential danger was enormous."
[UK/WWII/Cicero]
Baxter, Colin F. The War in North Africa, 1940-1943: A Selected Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996.
Tate, Air & Space Power Journal (2008) [http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil], enthuses that this is a "magnificent treasure of information for the would-be historian.... A well-written, thought-provoking historical synopsis of the desert war precedes the selected bibliography.... The presentation of this book is ideal. Its information is accessible and easy to extract. The author's methodology is clear and concise."
[UK/WWII/NAf; WWII/Refmats]
Baxter,
James P., III. Scientists Against Time. Boston: Little, Brown, 1946. [Petersen]
[WWII/FE/Pac/Bomb]
Baylor, George.
Bull Run to Bull Run. 1900. Washington, DC: Zenger, 1983.
Tidwell, April '65, pp. 174, 175, 184, associates Baylor's mission at Arundels' on 10 April 1865 with an effort to insert Harney into Washington, DC, for a covert action involving explosives.
[CivWar]
Bayly, C.A. Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780-1870. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
MacMillan, AHR 103.4, finds that Bayly's work goes well beyond a discussion of British intelligence and surveillance of their Indian subjects. Rather, this is "a wide-ranging and subtle exploration of systems of knowledge and how these affect, and are affected by, the relations between rulers and ruled." For Durrans, English Historical Review, Nov. 1998, this is an "absorbing and persuasive study" that "offers valuable insights."
[UK/Historical]
Bazan, Elizabeth B.
1. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: An Overview of the Statutory Framework and Recent Judicial Decisions. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 22 Sep. 2004.
2. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: An Overview of the Statutory Framework and U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review Decisions. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, Updated 15 Feb. 2007. [Available at: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/intel/RL30465.pdf]
Update of the above 22 September 2004 report
"This report will examine the detailed statutory structure provided by FISA and related provisions of E.O. 12333, and will discuss the decisions of the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court [17 May 2002] and the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review [18 November 2002]."
[Overviews/Legal/FISA/Gen & Review]
Bazan, Elizabeth B. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: Selected Legislation from the 108th Congress. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, Updated 11 Jan. 2005.
[Overviews/Legal/FISA/Gen]
Bazan, Elizabeth B. Intelligence Identities Protection Act. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 3 Oct. 2003.
From "Summary": "There do not appear to be any published cases involving prosecutions under this Act."
[Overviews/Legal/IIPA]
Bazan, Elizabeth B. The U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review: An Overview. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 24 Jan. 2007.
From "Summary": "This report examines the creation, membership, structure, and jurisdiction" of the FISC and the FISCR.
[Overviews/Legal/FISA/Court & Review]
Bazan, Elizabeth B., and Jennifer K. Elsea. "Memorandum: Presidential Authority to Conduct Warrantless Electronic Surveillance to Gather Foreign Intelligence Information." Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 5 Jan. 2006. [Available at: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/intel/index.html]
After a detailed analysis of "the constitutional and statutory issues raised by the NSA electronic surveillance activity," the memorandum concludes that "the Administration's legal justification, as presented in the summary analysis from the Office of Legislative Affairs, does not seem to be as well-grounded as the tenor of that letter suggests."
[FBI/DomSec/00s; NSA/00s/06; Overviews/Legal/FISA/Gen; Terrorism/00s/06]
Bazan, Elizabeth B., Gina Marie Stevens, and Brian T. Yeh. Government Access to Phone Calling Activity and Related Records: Legal Authorities. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 25 Jan. 2007. [Available at: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/intel/RL33424.pdf]
"This report summarizes statutory authorities regarding access by the government, for either foreign intelligence or law enforcement purposes, to information related to telephone calling patterns or practices. Where pertinent, it also discusses statutory prohibitions against accessing or disclosing such information, along with relevant exceptions to those prohibitions."
[FBI/DomSec/00s; NSA/00s/07; Overviews/Legal/FISA; Terrorism/00s/07]
Bazan, Elizabeth B., and Brian T. Yeh. Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004: "Lone Wolf" Amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 19 Dec. 2006. [Accessible at: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/intel/RS22011.pdf]
[Overviews/Legal/FISA]
Bazna, Elyesa,
with Hans Nogly. I Was Cicero. New York: Harper & Row, 1962. New York: Dell, 1964. [pb]
Pforzheimer says that Bazna presents an "interesting account," but I Was Cicero should "be read ... with Moyzisch's Operation Cicero."
[UK/WWII/Med/Cicero]
BDM Corporation. A Historical Survey of Counter-C3. McLean, VA: 27 Apr. 1979.
Whaley, Bibliography of Counterdeception (2006), notes that Counter-C3 (command, control, communications) means deception. The study's data comes from 13 case studies ranging across several centuries. BDM was a beltway defense contractor, and its study "was sponsored by the Defense Nuclear Agency."
[GenPostwar/Deception/Gen]
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