Brei - Brez

Brei, William S. Getting Intelligence Right: The Power of Logical Procedure. Occasional Paper No. 2. Washington, DC: Joint Military Intelligence College, 1996.

[Analysis/Gen]

Breindel, Eric M. "Do Spies Matter?" Commentary 85 (Mar. 1988): 53-58.

Petersen: "Thoughtful analysis of espionage threat."

[CI]

Breindel, Eric M., and Herbert Romerstein. The Venona Secrets: The Soviet Union's World War II Espionage Campaign against the United States and How America Fought Back: A Story of Espionage, Counterespionage, and Betrayal. New York: Basic Books, 1999.

According to Peake, NWCR 53.3, this work adds "corroboration to the work of Haynes and Klehr with new documentation and analysis, putting particular emphasis on the role of the Communist Party in Soviet espionage in America."

[SpyCases/U.S./Venona]

Breihan, Carl W. Quantrill and His Civil War Guerillas. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1959.

[CivWar/R&G]

Breitman, Richard. Official Secrets: What the Nazis Planned, What the British and Americans Knew. New York: Hill and Wang, 1998. London: Penguin, 2000. [pb]

According to Michael Smith, "Bletchley Park and the Holocaust," Intelligence and National Security 19, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 262-274, this work "claims that British codebreakers knew Nazi police operating behind the German troops invading the Soviet Union were murdering thousands of Jews but that they and the British wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who read the messages, did nothing about it." Smith disagrees with Breitman's interpretation and declares that "both the Bletchley Park code breakers and Churchill are innocent of the charges laid against them."

Media stories based on Breitman's book include: James Bone and Michael Binyon, "Britain Accused of Hiding Facts on Holocaust," Times (London), 15 Oct. 1998; Dominic Donald, "Should Churchill Have Acted?" Times (London), 15 Oct. 1998; and Hugo Gordon, "MI6 'Concealed Extermination of Jews for a Year,'" Telegraph (London), 15 Oct. 1998.

[UK/WWII/Ultra; WWII/Eur/Gen]

Breitman, Richard, Norman J.W. Goda, Timothy Naftali, and Robert Wolfe. U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 2004.

According to Peake, Studies 49.2 (2005), this work contains 15 articles written by six historians. The contributors use "an impressive mix of secondary and newly released primary sources," and "expand our knowledge on espionage and the holocaust." They deal "with collaborators, and the use of war criminals like Wilhelm Hottl by the Army’s Counterintelligence Corps (CIC)." Their documentation supports the conclusion that "some use of Nazis for intelligence purposes did occur." However, "their contemporary perspective ignores the circumstances of the time," leaving readers "wondering about the historical context and priorities that led the politicians and intelligence officers directly involved to make the choices they did."

Friedman, I&NS 20.2 (Jun. 2005), notes that this "collection is not intended for beginners, nor to provide an overview of the issues. These chapters are designed to advance the knowledge of specialists already familiar with the historiography."

For Pendas, H-German, H-Net Reviews, Jun. 2006 [http://www.h-net.org], this "volume is characterized even more than most multi-authored books by the lack of a central narrative or argument.... [It] is driven more by its source material than by any overarching theoretical or historiographical concerns." It "is a book that most readers will likely want to consult for specific questions, rather than for any general conclusions. The fact that, unlike many multi-authored volumes, this one contains an extensive and thorough index is particularly useful in this regard."

[GenPostwar/40s/Germans]

Bremner, Charles. "French Accuse Gates of Bugging Software." Times (London), 23 Feb. 2000. [http://www.the-times.co.uk]

"French anger over alleged electronic spying by the United States and Britain intensified [on 22 February 2000] with a Defence Ministry report that Microsoft may have collaborated with American intelligence services to bug its Windows software. The claim [was] denied by Microsoft."

[NSA/Echelon]

Bremner, Charles.

1. "Top French Socialist Named as KGB Spy." Times (London), 16 Sep. 1999. [http://www.the-times.co.uk]

On 15 September 1999, Le Monde identified "Claude Estier, the leader of the governing Socialist party in the French Senate and a confidant of the late President Mitterrand,... as one of two high-placed 'agents of influence' cited in the files of the KGB which were smuggled out of Russia by Vasili Mitrokhin."

2. "Paris Shrugs Off Claims of KGB Hand on Its Shoulder." Times (London), 16 Sep. 1999. [http://www.the-times.co.uk]

On 15 September 1999, "[t]he French establishment tried to shrug off claims that the country's civil service, politics and intellectual life had been riddled with Soviet agents throughout the Cold War years. The staff of Senator Claude Estier, identified by Le Monde as a key Soviet informant cited in the Mitrokhin archive, dismissed the affair as 'a hoary old chestnut.'"

[France/99; UK/SpyCases/99/Fever]

Brender, Mark. "Remote-Sensing Satellites: Our Eyes in the Sky." Communicator, Oct. 1992, 56-57.

[Recon/Sats]

Brennan, John C. "General Bradley T. Johnson's Plan to Abduct President Lincoln." Chronicles of St. Mary's 22 (Nov.-Dec. 1974): 413-424. [Petersen]

[CivWar/Conf/Lincoln]

Brennan, Patricia. "Student, Trouper, Good Friend, Spy: A Filmmaker Plots the 'Traitor Within.'" Washington Post, 29 Nov. 1998, Y6. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]

Report on the background of Robert Benedetti's Showtime film, "Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within," aired on 29 November 1998. Benedetti describes the film thusly: "If there was a choice to be made for historical accuracy and dramatic value, we chose dramatic value. It's sort of novelized history, history for dramatic purposes. As such, it is mostly a character study; the psychology and the drama is more important than the politics and the history."

[SpyCases/U.S./Ames]

Brenner, Philip. "Cuba and the Missile Crisis." Journal of Latin American Studies 22, no. 1 (Feb. 1990): 115-142.

[GenPostwar/60s/MissileCrisis]

Breslau, Karen. "Snooping Around the Valley: The CIA Sets up a High-Tech Investment Fund." Newsweek, 10 Apr. 2000, 45-46.

Discusses the activities of In-Q-Tel and its head, Gilman Louie.

[CIA/90s/99/IQT]

Brethauer, Todd. "Adam Smith Examines the Intelligence Economy: The Intelligence of Nations." Studies in Intelligence 39, no. 5 (1996): 71-73.

This is a neat "little" article, done perhaps with a bit of tongue in cheek; but with an important issue behind it. The author assails the "waste and inefficiency of central planning" as practiced by the intelligence community. He argues for a market-driven allocation of resources, with consumers "paying" for the product they receive.

[Reform/90s][c]

Breuer, William B

Brewer, Robert T. "Albania: New Aspects, Old Documents." East European Quarterly 26, no. 1 (Mar. 1992): 31-54.

[WWII/OSS/Balkans/Albania]

Brewer, Susan A. To Win the Peace: British Propaganda in the United States during World War II. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998.

Watt, I&NS 14.2, finds this a "clear, competent, workmanlike" book that is "based on thorough research used critically." He compares this work very favorably to Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deceptions (1998).

[UK/WWII/BSC; UK/WWII/Overviews]

Brewin, Bob.

Brewton, Pete. The Mafia, CIA and George Bush: The Untold Story of America's Greatest Financial Debacle. New York: S.P.I. Books, 1992.

Clark comment: The focus here, despite the title, is the Savings & Loan crisis. For Surveillant 2.6 this "type of follow-the-dots conspiracy theory would implicate even the Domino Pizza delivery boy who might have rung the bell of an ex-Mafioso or failed S&L operator." Chambers is more succinct, calling it "conspiratorial drivel."

[CIA/Accusations]

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