Burn - Burs

Burn, Michael. The Debatable Land: A Study of the Motives of Spies in Two Ages. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1970. [Wilcox]

[Overviews/Gen]

Burnett, Edmund C. "Ciphers of the Revolutionary Period." American Historical Review 22 (Jan. 1917): 329-334. [Petersen]

[RevWar]

Burnham, David. "The Silent Power of the NSA." New York Times Magazine (27 Mar. 1983): 60, 62-64, 66-67. [Petersen]

[NSA]

Burnham, George P. Memoirs of the United States Secret Service. Boston: Lee & Shephard, 1872. [Petersen]

[CivWar/Un/Gen ; OtherAgencies]

Burnham, James. Web of Subversion: Underground Networks in the U.S. Government. New York: John Day, 1954.

[CI]

Burnham, Philip. "Unlikely Recruits: Indians Scouting for America." MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History 17, no. 3 (Spring 1999): 78-85.

The author does not focus on the intelligence role that the Indian scouts played for the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars. The article is nonetheless worth reading for the light shed on the use of Indians as scouts and soldiers.

[Historical/U.S./ToWWI]

Burns, Arthur L. "The International Consequences of Expecting Surprise." World Politics 10, no 4 (1958): 512-536.

[Analysis/Surprise]

Burns, Jimmy, and John Thornhill. "Russia Insists It Will Expel UK 'Spies.'" Financial Times, 15 May 1996, 2.

[UK/PostCW/90s/96]

Burns, John F. "Al Qaeda Leader in Iraq Killed by U.S. Bombs." New York Times, 9 Jun. 2006. [http://www.nytimes.com]

Al Qaeda leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed on 7 June 2006 in a U.S. air strike on an isolated safe house north of Baghdad.

[MI/Ops/Iraq; Terrorism/00s/06]

Burns, John F. "Family of Pakistani in Killings at CIA Also Seeks a Motive." New York Times, 21 Jun. 1997, 1, 4.

[CIA/PostCW/90s/97]

Burns, John, with Craig Pyes, John Kifner, and Sam Howe Verhovek. "Arrest at U.S. Border Reverberates in France." New York Times, 22 Dec. 1999. [http://www.nytimes.com]

"When United States customs officials arrested Ahmed Ressam near Seattle last week..., American intelligence officials knew little about him. But the arrest set off alarms in France, where antiterrorist officials had been focusing on the 32-year-old Mr. Ressam because of his connections to a loosely organized group of Islamic radicals that French investigators suspect had carried out a series of attacks on supermarkets, armored security vehicles and banks in northern France in 1996."

[France; Terrorism/99]

Burns, Richard D. "Inspection of the Mandates, 1919-1941." Pacific Historical Review 37 (Nov. 1968): 445-462. [Petersen]

[MI/Navy/Interwar; Interwar/U.S.]

Burns, Richard D., and Milton Leitenberg. The Wars in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, 1945-1982: A Bibliographic Guide. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 1984.

[CIA/Laos/Ref; Vietnam/RefMats]

Burns, Richard Dean, ed. Guide to American Foreign Relations since 1700. Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1983.

Petersen: "Index includes intelligence and U.S. CIA entries."

[RefMats]

Burns, Thomas L. The Quest for Cryptologic Centralization and the Establishment of NSA: 1940-1952. Ft. George G. Meade, MD: Center for Cryptologic History, National Security Agency, 2005.

This is an unclassified version of Burns' The Origins of NSA (1990). In a "Foreword" to the 1990 edition, NSA Historian Henry F. Schorreck calls Burns' work "a masterfully researched and documented account of the evolution of a national SIGINT effort following World War II.... [The author] makes an especially important contribution by helping us to understand the role of the civilian agencies in forcing the creation of NSA and the bureaucratic infighting by which they were able to achieve that end."

FAS has a scanned copy of the 129-page document available in a PDF file (6.4 mb) at: http://www.fas.org/irp/nsa/quest.pdf. An 8.8-mg file (155 pages) is available at http://www.thememoryhole.org/nsa/origins_of_nsa.htm.

Kruh, Cryptologia 30.2 (Apr. 2006), says that this "is an excellent detailed history with extensive source notes and more than 40 photographs."

[NSA/Pre]

Burns, Thomas S. The Secret War for the Ocean Depths: Soviet-American Rivalry for the Mastery of the Seas. New York: Rawson Associates, 1978.

Petersen notes that this book includes a chapter on the Glomar Explorer.

[CIA/70s/Glomar]

Burrin, Philippe. Living with Defeat: France under the German Occupation, 1940-1944. London: Arnold, 1996.

[WWII/Eur/Fr/Gen]

Burris, William C. "The Uses of History in Intelligence Analysis." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 6, no. 3 (Fall 1993): 297-301.

See William Hood's negative response in "Reader's Forum," IJI&C 6.4.

[Analysis][c]

Burrows, William E. By Any Means Necessary: America's Secret Air War in the Cold War. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001.

A Publisher's Weekly, 13 Aug. 2001, reviewer congratulates the author for his "superb research and steller writing." Burrows uses "a host of personal interviews, among his many sources." And he "also examines the issue of intelligence gathering from the Soviet viewpoint."

[Recon/Planes]

Burrows, William E. Deep Black: Space Espionage and National Security. New York: Random House, 1987. New York: Berkley Publishing Group, 1988. London: Bantam Press, 1988.

Taplin, IJI&C 2.1, argues that, for the most part, "Deep Black is a solidly crafted work -- both stylish and credible.... But, as he closes, Burrows cannot resist pressing his own judgments on the reader." Nonetheless, this is an "accurate description of current and future U.S. space-based technical collection systems.... Burrows' history of the growth of intelligence collection from the sky is so well done that I doubt anyone soon will present it better." He should, however, "more clearly acknowledge that the data base for his confident presentation has become more tenuous than in his earlier chapters."

According to Peake, AIJ 15.2, Burrows covers fixed-wing strategic systems (U-2 and SR-71) and photographic and SIGINT satellites for both the United States and the Soviet Union. "There is much here of interest." This is probably one of the best summaries of these intelligence systems in the public domain, "although that is not to say he has got all the technical detail right.... Deep Black ... gives a better overall summary of the programs than Richelson and is more reader friendly." For a critical review see Angelo Codevilla, "Ignorance vs. Intelligence," Commentary 83, no. 5 (1987): 76-80.

[Recon/Planes & Sats/Bks]

Burston, Bradley. "Former Chief of Israeli Spy Agency to Be Barak's Top Aide." Philadelphia Inquirer, 31 May 1999. [http://www.phillynews.com]

On 30 May 1999, Israeli Prime Minister-elect Ehud Barak named the former head of Mossad, Danny Yatom, as his chief of staff. Yatom resigned as head of Mossad in 1998 following the failed assassination attempt against Khaled Meshal in Jordan in September 1997 and the arrest in February 1998 in Bern, Switzerland, of a Mossad agent trying to bug the home of a suspected Hezbollah supporter.

[Israel]

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