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Blair, Alex. "Ex-Head of CIA Says Spying on Europe Justified." The Scotsman, 29 Mar. 2000. [http://www.scotsman.com]

In an interview with Le Figaro on 28 March 2000, former DCI James Woolsey said that "'[s]pying on Europe is justified.' ... He denied, however, that the United States was giving secret information collected from European companies to their US competitors. Mr Woolsey said the United States was spying only on certain companies that violated United Nations sanctions or that participated in bribery in order to gain more business."

[NSA/Echelon]

Blair, Clay, Jr.

1. Beyond Courage. New York: McKay, 1956.

Petersen: "Escape and evasion in the Korean War.

2. The Forgotten War: America in Korea, 1950-1953. New York: Times Books, 1987.

[GenPostwar/50s/Korea]

Blair, Clay, Jr.

1. Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunters, 1939-1942. New York: Random House, 1996.

Kruh, Cryptologia 21.3, notes that for the years covered here, the author "chronicles virtually all major and many minor U-boat attacks and anti-submarine counterattacks and does it vividly and dramatically.... This monumental work is the most thorough study of the U-boat war in the Atlantic and includes 18 appendices that detail virtually any statistic wanted on the activities of the submarines that were involved."

2. Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunted, 1942-1945. New York: Random House, 1998.

Kruh, Cryptologia 24.1, comments that Blair presents "enormous detail and draw[s] on sources never used before." This is "the dramatic and authoritative story of the failures and fortunes of the German U-boat campaign against the United States and Great Britain.... [T]his monumental work is the most thorough study of the U-boat war."

To Green, Booklist, 15 Dec. 1998, it "seems unlikely that another historian will surpass Blair's achievement anytime soon. This two-volume chronicle assembles a whole library of information on the longest and one of the grimmest battles of World War II.... Superlative."

Anderson, Intelligencer 17.1 (Winter-Spring 2009), notes that the author "has researched these years thoroughly and meticulously. In fact, too meticulously." This is "a great book but a reader must be willing to plow through -- or sweep past -- all the details of every submarine versus anti-submarine engagment."

[WWII/Atlantic]

Blair, Clay, Jr. Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan. New York: Lippincott, 1976. New York: Bantam, 1976. [pb]

Clark comment: Intelligence is not the focus of this work; however, Blair discusses the breaking of Japanese codes from the 1920s through the war in the Pacific and the role of intelligence in targeting Japanese shipping. He did well given what was available at the time, but the book is largely outdated on the cryptologic aspects of the war.

[WWII/FEPac][c]

Blair, Dennis C. [Associate DCI for Military Support] "The Future of Intelligence Support to the Armed Forces." Defense Intelligence Journal 4, no. 2 (Fall 1995): 7-15.

Blair looks at intelligence support to "the four general phases" of military operations: preparation and planning, deployment, employment, and post-conflict monitoring. He concludes, regarding the future, that "the question is: 'What is required?' not 'What is desired?'"

[MI/Warfighter][c]

Blair, Dorian, and C.H. Dand. Russian Hazard: Adventures of a British Secret Service Agent in Russia. London: Hale, 1937.

[UK/Interwar/Gen]

Blais, J.J. "The Political Accountability of Intelligence Agencies -- Canada." Intelligence and National Security 4, no. 1 (Jan. 1989): 108-118.

The author, a "senior member" of Canada's Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC), believes that the mechanisms established in 1984 with the Security Intelligence Service Act have worked well.

[Canada][c]

Blake, Bernard. Jane's Radar and Electronic Warfare Sytems 1995-96. Alexandria, VA: Jane's Information Group, 1995. [Seymour]

[MI/ElectronicWarfare]

Blake, George. No Other Choice: An Autobiography. London: Jonathan Cape, 1990. No Other Choice. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.

Blake, John F. [Jack] [CIA Deputy Director for Administration]. Affidavit, Nathan Gardels v. Central Intelligence Agency, Civil Action No. 78-0330. U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 7 Jun. 1978.

[Overviews/Legal/Gen]

Blakey, Arch Frederic. General John H. Winder C.S.A. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 1990.

Winder was Provost Marshal of Richmond. "Established in 1961 under Gen. John Henry Winder, this organization had a checkered career, being responsible at one time or another for military discipline in the Richmond area, counterespionage, the defense of Richmond, the administration of prisoners of war, and the collection of information in support of these various tasks." Tidwell, April '65, p. 31. Blakey's biography "gives some useful detail" on Winder's early life, "but, unfortunately, has very little to say about his wartime responsibilities." Ibid., 227 fn.20.

[CivWar/Conf/Related]

Blakey, G. Robert, and Richard Billings. Fatal Hour: The Assassination of President Kennedy by Organized Crime. New York: Berkeley, 1992.

According to Kaiser, I&NS 12.4, the authors seek to reinforce the case they first made for the House Select Committee on Assassinations (Blakey was the Chief Counsel of the committee and Billings its Public Relations Director) and later in their book The Plot to Kill the President. That case is that "Oswald acted on behalf of organized crime."

[CIA/Accusations/90s]

Blanchard, William H. "National Myth, National Character, and National Policy: A Psychological Study of the U-2 Incident." Journal of Conflict Resolution 6, no. 2 (1962): 143-148. [Petersen]

[CIA/60s/U-2]

Blanche, Ed. "Mossad's Misery." Middle East 352 (Jan. 2005): 18-19.

"According to Israel's Channel 2 television, more than 200 Mossad operatives, including seven heads of department (a rank equivalent to major-general in the military) have left the organisation since General Meir Dagan, a longtime associate of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, took over as director on 30 October 2002.... Channel 2 said the current upheaval stemmed mainly from Dagan's focus on undercover operations against Islamic jihadists and their fellow-travellers. The TV station said in a lengthy investigative programme that senior Mossad figures had been tied up with 'fending off mad ideas for operations' presented by Dagan."

[Israel/00s]

Blancke, Stephan. "North Korean Intelligence Structures." North Korean Review 5, no. 2 (Fall 2009): 6-20.

"Mainly because of the disappearance of the former Eastern Bloc as well as for economic reasons, the DPRK intelligence agencies have to seek cooperation with structures and organizations that can be labeled 'sub-intelligence': these include the gray market of information brokers, commercial intelligence firms, organized crime and its access to information or the right people, private security organizations, and information technology firms, as well as other people who are able and willing to hack into databases and computer networks."

[OtherCountries/NKorea]

Blandford, Edmund L. SS Intelligence: The Nazi Secret Service. Edison, NJ: Castle, 2001.

[WWII/Eur/Ger]

Blank, Stephen.  "Can Information Warfare Be Deterred?"  Defense Analysis 17 (Aug. 2001): 121-138.

[GenPostwar/InfoWar]

Blankenhorn, Heber. Adventures in Propaganda: Letters from an Intelligence Officer in France. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1919. [Petersen]

[WWI/U.S.]

Blanko, Richard L., comp. The War of the American Revolution: A Selected Annotated Bibliography of Published Sources. New York: Garland, 1984.

Petersen: "Section on espionage and propaganda."

[RevWar/Ref]

Blanton, Margaret G. "Moment of Truth." Civil War Times Illustrated 6, no. 6 (1967): 20-23.

Petersen: "Espionage by members of Coleman's scouts."

[CivWar/Davis]

Blanton, Tom. "Seeking Secrecy Where There Was Sunshine." Washington Post, 19 Jul. 2000, A23. [http://washingtonpost.com]

In this Op-Ed piece, the author notes that the Senate has voted to exempt the DIA's "operational files" from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The DIA has claimed that these files are "so highly classified" that they are "'always exempt from release.' But thousands of declassified documents from these same files testify to the contrary."

[MI/DIA]

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