Bur - Burm

Buranelli, Vincent, and Nan Buranelli. Spy/Counterspy: An Encyclopedia of Espionage. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982.

Clark comment: The coverage here is of individuals, organizations, and events relating broadly to espionage. Entries are approximately a page in length, and include brief "Further Reading" notations. However, no overall bibliography is offered.

[RefMats/Encyclopedias][c]

Burchett, Wilfred G. The Furtive War: The United States in Vietnam and Laos. New York: International Publishers, 1963.

Clark comment: The author was a pro-communist Australian journalist. As expected, the book portrays the war in Laos from a strongly anti-U.S., anti-CIA slant, a view not per se damning; but Burchett has the nasty habit of bending even well-established facts to fit his particular world view.

[CIA/Laos; Vietnam]

Burd, Michael L. [LTCDR/USN] Global Warming and the Combatant Commander: Engaging the Arctic Region. Newport, RI: Naval War College, Oct. 2006. Available as a PDF at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA463334.

Simpson: "The Arctic region is reemerging as a potential theater of operations because of changes" brought about by "global warming. A characteristic that ... distinguishes the Arctic from other U.S. geographic combatant commander (GCC) areas of responsibility is that its landscape is literally changing in physical composition. This reality brings with it many significant and far-reaching security implications."

[GenPostwar/NatSec/Env]

Bures, Oldrich. "EU Counterterrorism Policy: A Paper Tiger?" Terrorism and Political Violence 18, no. 1 (2006): 57-78..

[OtherCountries/EU]

Burg, Steven L., and Paul S. Shoup. The War in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Ethnic Conflict and International Intervention. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1999.

[MI/Ops/90s/Bosnia]

Burger, H.H.

1. "Episode on the Western Front: The Amazing Story of a Psychological Unit Which Talked a Group of Nazis into Our Lines." New York Times Magazine, 26 Nov. 1944, 5, 52.

2. "Operation Annie: Now It Can Be Told." New York Times Magazine, 17 Feb. 1946, 12-13, 48, 50. [Winkler]

See also, Brewster Morgan, "Operation Annie," Saturday Evening Post, 9 Mar. 1946, 18-19, 37-41; and Time, "Operation Annie," 25 Feb. 1946, 78-80.

[WWII/Psywar]

Burger, Nash. Confederate Spy: Rose O'Neal Greenhow. New York: Franklin Watts, 1953. [Petersen]

[CivWar/Conf/Women]

Burger, Timothy J. [Time].

Burgess, John, and John Mintz. "CIA, FBI Chiefs Warn Panel Over Economic Espionage: U.S. Advanced Technology Is a Target." Washington Post, 30 Apr. 1992, B11, B13.

[Postwar/Issues/Econ/CI]

Burgess, John, and David B. Ottaway. "Iraqi Opposition Unable to Mount Viable Challenge." Washington Post, 12 Feb. 1998. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]

[CA/Iraq]

Burgess, Lauren Cook, ed. An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, alias Pvt. Lyons Wakeman. 153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers, 1862-1864. Pasadena, MD: The Minerva Center, 1994. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Surveillant 4.4/5 notes that these are the letters of a young woman who enlisted in the Union army under an assumed name and male identity. "Several letters from Wakeman discuss women who served as rebel spies. This is an important look at women agents in the Civil War."

[CivWar/Un/Women]

Burgess, William H., III, ed. Inside Spetsnaz: Soviet Special Operations: A Critical Analysis. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1990.

[Russia/Overviews/MI]

Burke, Colin B. "Automating American Cryptanalysis 1930-45: Marvelous Machines, a Bit Too Late." Intelligence and National Security 14, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 18-39.

"America's versions of the devices used to attack ... encryption machines were technological compromises rushed to completion." And they tended to arrive too late to meet the needs of the moment, because America brought its technological skills and resources to bear on the problem too late.

[WWII/Magic]

Burke, Colin. "From the Archives: The Last Bombe Run, 1955." Cryptologia 32, no. 3 (Jul. 2008): 277-279.

A recently declassified NSA document shows that the WWII Bombes were used as late as 1955 against East German police messages. The use ceased after discovery of the Berlin Tunnel.

[CIA/50s/Tunnel; Cryptography/Gen]

Burke, Colin B. Information and Secrecy: Vannevar Bush, Ultra, and the Other Memex. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1994.

According to Surveillant 3.6, Burke "explores the code-breaking machines developed by the U.S. Navy and independent scientists during the 1930s and 1940s." He "seeks to show that cryptanalysis is entwined with the beginnings of computers, and WWII military research."

[WWII/Ultra]

Burke, Colin. "Kim Philby, the American Intelligence Community, and OP-20-G; the Fox Built the Hen-House and Took the Keys." Cryptologia 25, no. 2 (Apr. 2001): 88-90.

Burke presents a memorandum dated 17 July 1945 from an ONI representative about a meeting involving Philby, then the head of MI6 Section IX, and Liaison Officers from ONI, G-2, Special Branch, and OSS X-2. It was agreed that on Soviet matters the three services would approach Section IX directly through either Philby or his deputy.

[UK/SpyCases/Philby]

Burke, David. The Spy Who Came In From the Co-op: Melita Norwood and the Ending of Cold War Espionage. London: Boydell and Brewster, 2008.

According to Chris Hastings, "British Spy Melita Norwood Helped Speed Up USSR's Atomic Bomb Programme," Telegraph (London), 3 Sep. 2008, the author was a friend who interviewed Melita Norwood "extensively in the years leading up to her death in 2005." Burke claims that "Norwood, a committed Communist who began spying for Moscow in the 1930s, handed over technical information which provided Russian scientists with a crucial breakthrough. Her contribution allowed them to overcome problems, which blocked the development of their nuclear reactors and led directly to the USSR exploding its bomb in 1949 -- years earlier than would otherwise have been the case."

[UK/SpyCases/Norwood]

Burke, James F. "The Role of Capital Markets Intelligence in Corporate Management." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 7, no. 4 (Winter 1994): 429-433.

Capital Markets Intelligence = The provision of timely information on the behavior of institutional investors, on key personnel in investment institutions, and on actual investments. "A select group of financial consulting firms have ... [made] a qualitative leap forward in the collection, analysis, and dissemination of information on portfolio managers and capital flows. These qualitative advances have come in the form of computer-based databases."

[GenPostwar/Issues/Econ][c]

Burke, James F. "Romanian and Soviet Intelligence in the December Revolution." Intelligence and National Security 8, no. 4 (Oct. 1993): 26-58.

"While Moscow clearly supported the coup, there is only patchy and inconclusive evidence that Moscow was involved in preparing or launching the coup using intelligence assets in Romania."

[OtherCountries/Romania]

Burke, Michael. Outrageous Good Fortune. Boston: Little, Brown, 1984.

Burke served in OSS in World War II and later was part of the CIA's covert operation against Albania in the early 1950s. His OSS adventures were made into a movie, "Cloak and Dagger," with Gary Cooper playing Burke. In later life, Burke was president and chairman of the board of the New York Yankees. O'Toole, Encyclopedia, pp. 84- 85.

[CA/Europe; WWII/OSS/Balkans/Albania]

Burkhalter, E.A., Jr. "Soviet Industrial Espionage." Signal 37, no. 7 (1983): 15-20. [Petersen]

[Russia/To89]

Burkhalter, Edward A., Jr. "The Role of the Intelligence Community (IC) Staff." Signal 39 (Sep. 1984): 33-35. [Petersen]

[CIA/C&C/ODCI]

Burks, A. Roy. "Three Decades with the NRO." In Beyond Expectations -- Building an American National Reconnaissance Capability: Recollections of the Pioneers and Founders of National Reconnaissance, ed. Robert A. McDonald, 173-183. Bethesda, MD: American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2002.

[NRO/Overviews]

Burleson, Clyde W. The Jennifer Project. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1977. London: Sphere, 1979. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1997.

Clark comment: The 1997 reissue of The Jennifer Project includes a new foreword and postscript. Commenting on the first edition, Constantinides says that there are things in this book "that make one hesitate to accept its reliability," and recommends Verner and Collier's book, A Matter of Risk, as a better source.

[CIA/70s/Glomar]

Burman, Rohit, Kelly Kirschner, and Elissa McCarter. "Infectious Disease as a Global Security Threat." Environmental Change and Security Report 3 (Spring 1997): 66-81.

[GenPostwar/NatSec/Environment]

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