Beck, Alfred M. Hitler's Ambivalent Attaché: Lt. Gen. Friedrich von Boetticher in America, 1933-1941. Dulles, VA: Potomac, 2005. Beck, Alfred M. Hitler's Ambivalent Attaché: Lt. Gen. Friedrich von Boetticher in America, 1933-1941. Dulles, VA: Potomac, 2005.
Campbell, IJI&C 20.2 (Summer 2007), sees this work as "a careful presentation of Boetticher's ability and achievements in this very difficult environment." However, although the author "tell[s] exhaustively what General Boetticher did, the volume does not explain why he performed certain primary activities throughout his life."
[Germany/Interwar]
Beck,
Melvin. Secret Contenders: The Myth of Cold-War Counter-Intelligence.
New York: Sheridan Square, 1984.
Petersen: "Attack on U.S. counterintelligence agencies."
[CI]
Becker, Abraham.
"Intelligence Fiasco or Reasoned Accounting: CIA Estimates of Soviet
GNP." Post-Soviet Affairs 10 (1994): 291-329.
[Analysis/Soviet]
Becker, Anja. "The Spy Who Couldn’t Possibly Be French: Espionage (and) Culture in France." Journal of Intelligence History 1, no. 1 (Summer 2001). [http://www.intelligence-history.org/jih/previous.html]
From abstract: "In France, espionage might be considered a negative myth, a reluctance to discuss the topic can be traced back ... to the Ancien Régime.... [A]fter the French Revolution, disdain for the spy-business developed into a predominant theme in society.... The negative French sentiments ... culminated in the Dreyfus affaire (1894-1906) which, in turn, did not result in an open discussion of intelligence.... Charles de Gaulle ... might be regarded an antithesis to the spy-enthusiast Winston Churchill.... Even after the end of the Cold War..., a pronounced reluctance to talk about intelligence persists. Contemporary authors of popular fiction ... keep a certain distance from espionage, their protagonists are either not French or carry names that are not French; a glorious French spy hero has yet to make his appearance."
[France/00s]
Becker,
Elizabeth. "Long History of Intercepting Key Words." New York
Times, 24 Feb. 2000. [http://www.nytimes.com]
"The Echelon system was developed in the 1970's. It links computers in at least seven sites around the world to receive, analyze and sort information captured from satellite communications, newly declassified information shows. The computers watch and listen for key words in telephone, fax and Internet communications and route intercepted messages on a topic requested by a country."
[NSA/Echelon/00]
Becker,
Elizabeth. "They're Unmanned, They Fly Low, and They Get the Picture."
New York Times, 3 Jun. 1999. [http://www.nytimes.com]
"[L]ight unmanned aerial vehicles known as drones are crisscrossing the skies over Kosovo, acting as electronic scouts, finding and filming elusive targets, especially Serbian troops hidden in bunkers or woods, and sending those images immediately to fighter jets overhead.... The United States Army Hunter surveillance plane flies from the Skopje [Macedonia] airfield. The more sophisticated unmanned Air Force Predator is based in Bosnia, at Tuzla, according to NATO and Pentagon officials."
[GenPostCW/90s/Kosovo; Recon/UAVs]
Becker,
Elizabeth. "Pentagon Sets Up New Center for Waging Cyberwarfare."
New York Times, 8 Oct. 1999. [http://www.nytimes.com]
On 7 October 1999, Gen. Henry Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, announced the establishment of "a new center ... to defend the United States from hackers and to plot ways to attack an enemy's computer network.... The cyberwarfare center will take over what is now a scattered series of operations and will have headquarters in Colorado Springs under Gen. Richard Myers of the Air Force."
[GenPostwar/Issues/Infowar]
Becker, Howard.
"The Nature and Consequences of Black Propaganda." American
Sociological Review 14 (Apr. 1949): 221-235. [Petersen]
[CA/PsyRad]
Becker, Joseph. "Comparative Survey of Soviet and US Access to Published Information." Studies in Intelligence 1, no. 4 (Fall 1957): 35-46.
"In general, US open source publications provide the Soviets with certain types of military intelligence and other valuable scientific and technical information, while Soviet publications provide the US with a reliable index to the over-all development of the Soviet system and a multiplicity of facts about its current status."
[OpenSource]
Becker,
Louis, et al. Terrorism: Information as a Tool for Control. RS Report 78-1655 PR. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 1978. [Petersen]
[Terrorism]
Becket, Henry
S.A. The Dictionary of Espionage: Spookspeak into English. New York:
Stein & Day, 1986.
According to Peake, IJI&C 5.4, fn. 1, Henry Becket is the pseudonym for Joseph C. Goulden. Hood, IJI&C 1.2, sees the work as having "a little something for everyone. Old hands will bolster their egos by finding fault with some of the definitions; intelligence groupies will (at their peril) find slang enough to bewilder their unwary listeners; and historians will uncover odd bits of secondhand data, and more than a few serious errors."
[RefMats/Dictionaries/Language]
Beckett, Ian F.W. Encyclopedia of Guerrilla Warfare. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1999. New York: Facts on File, 2001.
A Terrorism Bookshelf Review [http://www.terrorismcentral.com] notes that "[t]he entries in this well written and easy-to-understand guide cover guerrilla warfare from the late 18th century to the present day.... The entries cover the countries, wars, revolts, conflicts, movements, leaders, strategies, and concepts related to this type of military tactic.... The book also provides an extensive bibliography and a comprehensive historical time line of guerrilla warfare."
[MI/SpecOps/RefMats]
Beckett, Ian F.W. Modern Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies: Guerrillas and Their Opponents Since 1750. London: Routledge, 2001.
According to Berger, et al, I&NS 22.6 (Dec. 2007), the author "provides a long-term historical overview of insurgencies and counterinsurgencies." Beckett stresses "the historical and contemporary habit of Great Powers to take a relative lack of interest in counterinsurgency."
[MI/SpecOps/00s]
Beckett, Ian F.W. The Roots of Counter-Insurgency: Armies and Guerrilla Warfare, 1900-1945. London: Blandford, 1988.
[MI/SpecOps]
Beckett, Ian F.W., and John Pumlot. Armed Forces and Modern Counter-Insurgency. New
York: St. Martin's, 1985.
[MI/SpecOps]
Beckhough,
Harry. Secret Communications: The Hidden Source of Information through the Ages .... From the Sumerians to the Cold War. London: Minerva, 1995.
Kruh, Cryptologia 21.2, sees this as an "interesting and informative" work, but one with "several shortcomings." The lack of footnotes is a "major problem," and some of the writing is disjointed. Nevertheless, the author's "experience as a cryptanalyst in North Africa, India and Burma [in World War II] provides insights worth reading, if done with caution."
[Cryptography]
Beckman, Bengt. Tr., Kjell-Ove Widman. Codebreakers: Arne Beurling and the Swedish Crypto Program during World War II. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, 2002.
Kruh, Cryptologia 27.3: "A magnificent accomplishment in the history of cryptography occurred in 1940 when a Swedish mathematician [Arne Beurling] broke the German cipher used for strategic military communications [Geheimschreiber].... This book provides a valuable contribution to the history of cryptology with much new information and added respect for the cryptanalytical achievements of Sweden's signal intelligence agency."
For Beard, I&NS 18.4, this work "is a more personal, and far more Swedish, companion" to Beckman and C.G. McKay's Swedish Signal Intelligence 1900-1945. (2002). One problem with the work is that "there is simply no political context" for the interception and decoding work.
[WWII/Eur/Other/Sweden]
Beckman, Bengt.
Svenska Kryptobedrifter [Swedish Achievements in Cryptology]. Stockholm:
Albert Bonniers förlag, 1996.
McKay, Cryptologia 23.3, notes that the author worked in the Swedish Sigint organization, the Defense Radio Institute (FRA). Beckman's book "is an excellent illustration of the best kind of popularization of a complex, technical subject."
[OtherCountries/Sweden]
Beckwith, Charlie A. [COL/USA (Ret.)], and Donald Knox. Delta Force: The Army's Elite Counterterrorist Unit. New York: Harcourt, 1983. Delta Force. New York: Dell, 1984. [pb] With an Epilogue by C.A. Mobley. Delta Force: The Army's Elite Counterterrorist Unit. New York: Avon, 2000. [pb]
Beckwith was Commander of Delta Force.
[GenPostwar/80s/HostageRescue; MI/SpecOps]
Bedard, Paul. "Washington Whispers: Bingeing on Terrorism Analysts." U.S. News & World Report, 15 May 2006, 16.
DNI John Negroponte "is adding 75 more analysts ... from other agencies" to the ranks of the National Counterterrorism Center. "He eventually wants to hire several hundred more to double the analyst ranks of the secretive operation."
[DNI/NCTC]
Bedard, Paul. "Washington Whispers: This Time We Know Who the Leaker Is." U.S. News & World Report, 14 Nov. 2005, 20.
"The biggest oops! of the week goes to career CIA officer Mary Margaret Graham [emphasis in original], now the deputy director for national intelligence collection.... [A]t a conference in San Antonio, Graham let slip that the [intelligence] budget is a whopping $44 billion."
[GenPostwar/Budgets/00s/Gen]
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