Bowf - Boyd

Bowie, Robert. "Analysis of Our Policy Machine." New York Times Magazine, 9 Mar. 1958, 16, 68-71. [Petersen]

[Analysis]

Bowie, Robert, and Richard Immerman. Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Aldrich, I&NS 17.1/149/fn.4, says that this work "is interesting on Eisenhower's ambiguous message to his administration on the subject of roll-back."

[GenPostwar/CW]

Bowman, Martin W. The Bedford Triangle: U.S. Undercover Operations from England in World War 2. Chatham, Kent, UK: Patrick Stevens, 1988.

To Knouse, http://home.att.net, this book "has a number of glaring faults. For one thing, the chapters on Glenn Miller are entirely superfluous and speculative, not good history at all but more a bit of rumor-mongering than anything else."

[UK/WWII/Services/SOE; WWII/OSS/Gen]

Bowman, M.E.

Bowman, Steve, and James Crowhurst. Homeland Security: Evolving Roles and Missions for United States Northern Command. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 16 Nov. 2006. Available at: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/RS21322.pdf.

Among the issues raised: "As mobilizations continue and homeland security missions increase, more reserve component forces are serving in full time status. This creates near- and long-term resource issues as Congress considers future defense appropriations. Additionally, the heritage of 'citizensoldiers' could be lost as reserve components are used more as an operational reserve."

[DHS/06; MI/00s/06]

Boxhall, Peter. "Aerial Photography and Photographic Interpreters: 1915 to the Gulf War." Army Quarterly and Defense Journal, Apr. 1992, 204-209.

[Recon/Imagery]

Boyd, Andrew. The Informers: A Chilling Account of the Supergrasses in Northern Ireland. Dublin: Mercier Press, 1984.

[UK/GenPostwar/IRA]

Boyd, Arthur L. [LTCOL/USA (Ret.)] Operation Broken Reed: Truman's North Korean Spy Mission that Averted World War III. Philadelphia, PA: Da Capo Press, 2007

Peake, AFIO WIN 30-08 (4 Aug. 2008), declares that there are some "disturbing factors that increase common sense skepticism" about the story from 1952 related in this book. Lacking any evidence to support the story, this "is a prime example of a trust me memoir."

[GenPostwar/50s/Korea]

Boyd, Belle. Ed., Curtis Carroll Davis. Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison, Written by Herself. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1968. [pb] Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison. Intro., Sharon Kennedy-Nolle; Foreword, Drew Gilpin Faust. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1996.

Boyd's memoirs were originally published in 1865. Louis A. Sigaud, a biographer of Boyd, considers her "memoirs -- the principal source regarding her intelligence work -- as essentially sound, if somewhat embellished in detail." O'Toole, Encyclopedia, p. 75.

[CivWar/Conf/Women]

Boyd, Carl. American Command of the Sea through Carriers, Codes, and the Silent Service: World War II and Beyond. Newport News, VA: The Mariner's Museum, 1995.

McGinnis, Cryptolog, Summer 1996, says this "is a small and short [80 pp] book intended primarily as a showpiece for The Mariner's Museum bookstore." Nevertheless, it gives a "short background of Comint, and then gives numerous illustrations about how Comint was used during WWII." According to Kruh, Cryptologia 20.2, this work "focuses on the role that signal intelligence played in increasing the effectiveness of submarines and aircraft carriers during the war.... This worthwhile book contains more than 75 illustrations."

[WWII/Services/Navy]

Boyd, Carl. "American Naval Intelligence of Japanese Submarine Operations Early in the Pacific War." MHQ: The Journal of Military History 53, no. 2 (Apr. 1989): 169-189.

[WWII/FEPac]

Boyd, Carl. "Anguish Under Siege: High-Grade Japanese Signal Intelligence and the Fall of Berlin." Cryptologia 13, no. 3 (Jul. 1989): 193-209.

Sexton: "Intercepts of Ambassador Oshima's messages gave Allied officials detailed knowledge of conditions in Berlin during the closing days of the Third Reich."

[WWII/Eur/Ger/Oshima]

Boyd, Carl. The Extraordinary Envoy: General Hiroshi Oshima and Diplomacy in the Third Reich, 1934-1939. Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1980.

Petersen: "Based on Japanese diplomatic messages deciphered by U.S. codebreakers."

[WWII/Eur/Ger/Oshima]

Boyd, Carl. Hitler's Japanese Confidant: General Hiroshi Öshima and Magic Intelligence, 1941-1945. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1993.

According to McGinnis, Cryptolog 15.2, the Japanese Ambassador in Berlin, Gen. Oshima Hiroshi, "in effect, became one of the greatest assets of the American government because all of his messages to Tokyo, and the replies from the Japanese Foreign Office, were read using the American PURPLE machine.... Some of the things Oshima reported were: the forthcoming attack on the Soviet Union...; German indecision about where the Allied landings in western France would occur; an excellent insight into the types of fortifications the Germans had in place on the French west coast; and toward the end of the war, information concerning the Japanese government's thoughts about capitulation.... This is a well organized book recommended to ... readers."

Unsinger, IJI&C 7.3, notes that reading Oshima's traffic kept Allied leaders "fully apprised of what the Germans were thinking and Japan's reactions to them." The book has been "written ... with an eye to showing the significance of the radio traffic." This is "a fine book, sufficiently well documented to be useful to scholars." It is "easy to read." To Bigelow, MI 20.4, Hitler's Japanese Confidant is readable, superbly researched, informative, and illuminating. Although the author "occasionally overstates the importance of Oshima's reports while discounting other intelligence sources," this is an "excellent study of SIGINT and the information it can provide."

For Watt, I&NS 10.1, it is possible to "prophesy that Professor Boyd's book will become an essential part of the library of any student of the Second World War who hopes to rise above the level of the superficial.... It is not too much to say that the detailed reports of General Oshima were among the most valuable sources of Allied intelligence." Rich, WIR 13.4, says that the book documents "one of the most interesting relationships of World War II, that between Oshima and Hitler, and the way Magic was able to use that relationship."

Rose, http://www.cdsar.af.mil [no longer available], finds that the author "carefully explains General Oshima's observations and speculations in terms of political and defense concerns." Scholars of World War II "will want to review this work thoroughly for the new light it sheds on information about German intentions and actions that Allied commanders had at their disposal." Barnhart, I&NS 9.3, counters with a comment that it is "surprising how little these accounts add to our overall knowledge of German strategic thought.... Oshima himself does not clearly emerge as a character in these pages."

[WWII/Eur/Ger/Oshima]

Boyd, Carl. "Significance of MAGIC and the Japanese Ambassador to Berlin." Intelligence and National Security. 5 parts.

1. "(I) The Formative Months before Pearl Harbor." 2, no. 1 (Jan. 1987): 150-169.

2. "(II) The Crucial Months after Pearl Harbor." 2, no. 2 (Apr. 1987): 302-319.

3. "(III) The Months of Growing Certainty." 3, no. 4 (Oct. 1988): 83-102.

4. "(IV) Confirming the Turn of the Tide on the German-Soviet Front." 4, no. 1 (Jan. 1989): 86-107.

5. "(V) News of Hitler's Defense Preparations for Allied Invasion of Western Europe." 4, no. 3 (Jul. 1989): 461-481.

[WWII/Eur/Ger/Oshima][c]

Boyd, Gerald M. "Webster of F.B.I. Named by Reagan as C.I.A. Director; Tower Refuses Job." New York Times, 4 Mar. 1987. [http://www.nytimes.com]

President Reagan announced on 3 March 1987 that he would nominate William H. Webster as DCI.

[CIA/DCIs/Webster]

Boyd, H. Allen [COL/USA]. "Joint Intelligence in Support of Peace Operations." Military Intelligence (Jan.-Mar. 1999).

[GenPostwar/Peacekeeping]

Boyd, Julian P. Number 7, Alexander Hamilton's Secret Attempts to Control American Foreign Policy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1964.

[RevWar]

Boyd, Susan, and Dale Helmer. "MASINT Spectral Data and Processing." Communique, Jun.-Jul. 1997, 13-14.

[MI/MASINT]

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