Berg, Ethel. My Brother Morris Berg: The Real Moe. Newark, NJ: Author, 1976. [http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usamhi/RefBibs/intell/ww2/oss.htm] Berg, Ethel. My Brother Morris Berg: The Real Moe. Newark, NJ: Author, 1976. [http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usamhi/RefBibs/intell/ww2/oss.htm]
[WWII/OSS/Individuals]
Berger,
Brian. "National Security Needs Cut Into NASA's Plutonium." Space
News, 24 Jul. 2002. [http://www.space.com]
"Earl Wahlquist, associate director of the Department of Energy's Space and Defense Power Systems Office, said July 23 that 7 kilograms of Plutonium 238[,] slightly more than half of the U.S. inventory[,] is being reassigned for use by an undisclosed national security agency....
"[T]he Department of Energy announced in January 2001 that it planned to resume production of the radioactive material this decade. But re-establishing a production capability at U.S. nuclear laboratories will take five to six years, according to Wahlquist. In the meantime, the Department of Energy will continue to buy Plutonium 238 from Russia."
[GenPostwar/NatSec/Policy/00s]
Berger, Carl.
Broadsides and Bayonets; the Propaganda War of the American Revolution.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1961.
[RevWar]
Berger, Mark T., and Douglas A. Borer. "The Long War: Insurgency, Counterinsurgency and Collapsing States." Third World Quarterly 28, no. 2 (2007): 197-215.
[MI/SpecOps/00s]
Berger, Rose Marie, and Jim Rice. "The Burden of Truth." Sojourners Magazine 32, no. 6 (Nov.-Dec. 2003). [http://www.sojo.net]
"Full transcript of interviews with former CIA analysts" Ray McGovern and David MacMichael. In the build up toward the war in Iraq, "[McGovern:] there was very little substance to the main charges with respect to weapons of mass destruction."
[GenPostCW/00s/04/WMD]
Berger,
Sebastien. "Woman, 87, 'Was Key Soviet Spy.'" Electronic Telegraph,
11 Sep. 1999. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk]
Reporting main outlines of the Times (London) story.
[UK/SpyCases/99/Fever]
Berger,
Sebastien, and Polly Newton. "Widdecombe Pushes Straw for Statement."
Electronic Telegraph, 20 Sep. 1999. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk]
"As the number of former spies being exposed continued to mount" on 19 September 1999, shadow Home Secretary Ann Widdecombe "renewed her call for a statement from [Home Secretary] Jack Straw on the disclosures."
[UK/SpyCases/99/Fever]
Berghahn, Volker R. America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe: Shepard Stone Between Philanthropy, Academy, and Diplomacy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Scott-Smith, I&NS 18.3, finds that the author's work reflects the "wider focus for Cold War history that is now coming more into vogue, with its greater concentration on the cultural dimension and the role of non-governmental organisations." At times, the story gets "rather laborious[] simply because of an excessive use of quotes and too much attention given to the minutae contained in Stone's personal papers." In addition, "[i]t no longer makes sense ... to separate the overt and covert histories" of the Congress for Cultural Freedom. Nonetheless, "this is an important work" and "an essential item" in the literature on the cultural Cold War.
[CA/Eur]
Bergier, Jacques.
Secret Armies: The Growth of Corporate and Industiral Espionage. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1975.
[Postwar/Issues/Econ/Corp]
Bergier, Jacques.
Secret Weapons -- Secret Agents. London: Hurst & Blackett, 1956.
Clark comment: The author was a leader of the French resistance Marco Polo/ Promontoine network, who was captured but survived a German concentration camp.
Constantinides sees "little here to recommend this book. It is outdated and vastly surpassed in accuracy and quality by later books."
[WWII/Eur/Fr/Resistance]
Bergin, Anthony,
and Robert Hall, eds. Intelligence and Australian National Security.
Canberra: Australian Defense Studies Centre, 1994.
According to Herman, I&NS 12.4, the central theme in this collection of 19 conference papers is the coming shift in the center of world power to the Asia Pacific region and how intelligence might help Australia safeguard its position in the face of these changes. Overall, the book "is a distinctive contribution to the literature on intelligence's future, with a refreshing Australian directness."
[Australia]
Bergin, Bob. "Claire Chennault and the OSS: A Favor Done and Returned." OSS Society Newsletter (Winter 2004-2005): 2.
OSS and Free Thai liberate and exfiltrate captured American Volunteer Group (AVG) pilot.
[WWII/OSS/CBIOps]
Bergman, Lowell, Eric Lichtblau, Scott Shane, and Don Van Natta, Jr. "Spy Agency Data After Sept. 11 Led F.B.I. to Dead Ends." New York Times, 17 Jan. 2006. [http://www.nytimes.com]
After the 9/11 attacks, NSA "began sending a steady stream of telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and names to the F.B.I. in search of terrorists. The stream soon became a flood, requiring hundreds of agents to check out thousands of tips a month. But virtually all of them, current and former officials say, led to dead ends or innocent Americans. F.B.I. officials repeatedly complained to the spy agency that the unfiltered information was swamping investigators."
[FBI/00s/06; NSA/00s/06]
Bergmeier, Horst
J.P., and Rainer E. Lotz. Hitler's Airwaves. New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 1997.
Mitgang, NYT, 8 Sep., sees Hitler's Airwaves as a "well-documented book about Nazi Germany's propaganda broadcasts. The new study includes twisted song lyrics and radio talks from Berlin and Hamburg by American and British traitors." Also included is a description of "the organization of [Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph] Goebbels' broadcasting division and the role played by its foreign propaganda section." The writing is "clunky," but the authors are "diligent researchers."
Similarly, Peterson, History 26.3, finds this work to be "a detailed and fascinating study" that provides "a wonderful reference source for technical details and for names and dates of radio personalities" who broadcast over Nazi Germany's wartime English-language radio service.
[WWII/Eur/Ger]
Beria,
Lavrenti P. On the History of Bolshevik Organizations of Transcaucasia.
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1939. [Chambers]
[Russia/Beria]
Beria, Sergo. My Father: Inside Stalin's Kremlin. London: Duckworth, 2001.
[Russia/Beria]
Berke. Rory [LCDR/USN] "Training for the Wrong Fight." U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 134, no. 1 (Jan. 2008): 56-60.
This article was the "2007 Naval Intelligence Essay Contest winner." The author suggests that Naval "afloat intelligence teams are better suited to confront Cold War-era navies than to deal with today's stateless, unconventional fighters." He argues for "the most realistic, challenging, and adaptive training possible."
[MI/Navy/00s]
Berkeley,
Roy. A Spy's London. London: Leo Cooper, 1994.
According to Peake, WIR 14.4, the author "has found 136 London espionage sites, organized them into twenty-one walks, and persuaded his wife to provide a map for each walk indicating the buildings of note, all with commentary about the people involved and operations undertaken."
Foot, I&NS 10.4, comments that the author "writes decent English, and has a sense of humour."
[UK/Overviews/Other]
Berkinow,
Louise. Abel. New York: Trident, 1970. New York: Ballantine, 1982.
Rocca and Dziak: The 1982 edition contains "a new perspective by the author." In this book, "the author conveys a neighbor's insight into Abel's enigmatic personality and Soviet clandestine modus operandi."
[Russia/SovSpies/ByName]
Berkowitz, Bruce D. - With Others
Berkowitz, Peter, ed. The Future of American Intelligence. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2005.
Contibutors and topics: Richard H. Shultz Jr., "The Era of Armed Groups"; Gary J. Schmitt, "Truth to Power? Rethinking Intelligence Analysis"; Gordon Nathaniel Lederman, "Restructuring the Intelligence Community"; Reuel Marc Gerecht, "A New Clandestine Service: The Case for Creative Destruction"; Kevin M. O’Connell, "The Role of Science and Technology in Transforming American Intelligence."
DKR, AFIO WIN 40-05 (17 Oct. 2005), calls this "a thoughtful addition to the current debate on how to improve the intelligence picture but one some readers are likely to find controversial."
For Peake, Studies 50.3 (Sep. 2006) and Intelligencer 15.2 (Fall/Winter 2006-2007), the result from these five essays "is mixed." Nevertheless, the book "should prove valuable in introductory courses on intelligence."
[Overviews/U.S./00s]
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