Colby, Benjamin.
'Twas a Famous Victory: Deception and Propaganda in the War against Germany.
New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1974. [Petersen]
Colby, Benjamin.
'Twas a Famous Victory: Deception and Propaganda in the War against Germany.
New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1974. [Petersen]
[WWII/Eur/Deception]
Colby, C.B. Special
Forces: The U.S. Army's Experts in Unconventional Warfare. New York:
Coward, McCann, 1964.
Wilcox: "Basic account of the special forces."
[MI/SpecOps]
Colby, Elbridge A. "Making Intelligence Smart." Policy Review (Aug.-Sep. 2007). [http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/8817787.html]
The "wave of reformist zeal" that followed 9/11 "has finally crested -- for the time being at least -- leaving an opening for us to take stock of what all the sound and fury has left behind. Some good ideas have been proposed and implemented, and some bad ones as well; none, however, is likely to make our intelligence dramatically better or the U.S. dramatically safer. Examining why this is so, both theoretically and practically, reveals a more nuanced picture of what intelligence can do, how it can be improved, and how it fits into a smoothly running national security system."
[Reform/07]
Colby, Jonathan
E. "The Developing International Law on Gathering and Sharing Security
Intelligence." Yale Studies in World Public Order 1 (1974):
49-92. [Petersen]
[Overviews/Legal/Intl]
Cold War International
History Project. "New Evidence on Soviet Intelligence: The KGB's 1967
Annual Report. With Commentaries by Raymond Garthoff and Amy Knight."
Cold War International History Project Bulletin 10 (Mar. 1998): 211-219.
1. Document, dated 6 May 1968, from Committee of State Security [KGB] of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, translated by Vladislav Zubok, pp. 211-217.
2. Raymond L. Garthoff, "Andropov's Report to Brezhnev on the KGB in 1967," pp. 217-218.
3. Amy Knight, "Annual Report of the KGB to Leonid Brezhnev on Its Operations for 1967," pp. 218-219.
[Russia/To89][c]
Cold War International History Project. "New Kuklinski Documents on Martial Law in Poland Released." Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1 Dec. 2008. [http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=topics.item&news_id=494012]
On 1 December 2008, the CIA "released 82 documents relating to ... the case of Polish Army Col. Ryszard Kuklinski." The documents "include a 1977 document outlining governmental tasks in the event of a threat to national security; 18 reports by Kuklinski on information and impressions gained from his close contacts on the Polish General Staff and from contact with Soviet officers; 42 reports relaying Martial Law planning documents, 16 reports based on Kuklinski information disseminated after the declaration of Martial law on 13 December 1981, as well as one 1983 report prepared by Kuklinski after his (and his family's) extraction to the United States."
The individual documents are available as PDF files on the Wilson Center Website at the address listed above.
[CIA/80s/Kuklinski]
Cole, Benjamin.
"British Technical Intelligence and the Soviet Intermediate Range Ballistic
Missile Threat, 1952-60." Intelligence and National Security
14, no. 2 (Summer 1999): 70-93.
"British technical intelligence of Soviet IRBM capabilities was ... inadequate for the purposes of strategic planning.... Consequently, strategic planning was based upon assumptions of Soviet capabilities rather than hard intelligence."
[UK/Postwar/Nukes]
Cole, David.
"Challenging Covert Action: The Politics of the Political Question
Doctrine." Harvard International Law Journal 26 (Winter 1985):
155-188. [Petersen]
[Overviews/Legal/Gen]
Cole, Deborah. "U.S.-Held Files Seen Uncovering E. German Spies." Reuters, 4 Feb. 1999.
"Files thought to be in the hands of the CIA could blow the cover of former agents in communist East Germany's international espionage network, according to [State Ombudsman for the Documents of the Former East German State Security Service (Stasi) Joachim Gauck].... The remark comes before a German government delegation ... travels to Washington [on 8 February 1999] to ask for the return of Cold War files on East German spying that ended up in the United States after the fall of the Berlin Wall."
[CIA/90s/98/Stasi; Germany/PostCW/Files]
Cole, D. J. Geoffrey
Prime: The Imperfect Spy. London: Robert Hale, 1998.
Northcott, I&NS 14.1, notes that Cole is the Detective Chief Superintendent who led the inquiry into Prime's activities. Consequently, the author's book "contains much useful information and many unique insights from his interviews with Prime." In addition, Cole "writes with an easy-flowing, almost conversational, and highly readable style." Nevertheless, this is a personal memoir "not a scholarly work," and does not have the trappings of the latter.
[UK/SpyCases/Other/Prime]
Cole, Eric. Hiding in Plain Sight: Steganography and the Art of Covert Communication. Indianapolis, IN: Wiley, 2003.
[Cryptography/Gen]
Cole,
J.A. Prince of Spies: Henri Le Caron. London: Faber & Faber,
1984.
Chambers: "A mixture of farce and good legwork. Entertaining."
See Henri Le Caron [pseud., Thomas Miller Beach], Twenty-Five Years in the Secret Service: The Recollections of a Spy (London: Heinemann, 1892; 10th ed. London: EP Publishing, 1974).
Canadian Security Intelligence Service. "History of CSIS." [http://www.csis-scrs.gc.ca/en/about_us/history_artifacts/history/brf_pics_003.asp -- no longer active 8/4/09]
"Henri Le Caron, born Thomas Miller Beach, was a Civil War veteran recruited by the British in 1867 to spy on the Fenian movement in the United States. Le Caron was arguably one of the most successful covert agents to work for the Canadian government."
[Canada/ToWWI; UK/Historical]
Cole, J. Michael. SMOKESCREEN: Canadian Security Intelligence after September 11, 2001. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2008.
Peake, Studies 52.4 (Dec. 2008) and Intelligencer 17.1 (Winter-Spring 2009), admirably restrains himself and avoids directly dismissing this book by a disgruntled former Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) analyst. Nevertheless, nothing is noted to suggest that there is anything of value here. For Lefebvre, IJI&C 22.3 (Fall 2009), what the author writes "is corroborated neither by his sources nor by a proper analytic framework." His criticisms of the United States, Israel, and Canada "are couched in such simplistic and unanalyzed terms that they must be dismissed out-of-hand."
[Canada/Gen]
Cole,
Patrick E. "The Freedom of Information Act and the Central Intelligence
Agency's Paper Chase: A Need for Congressional Action to Maintain Essential
Secrecy for Intelligence Files while Preserving the Public's Right to Know."
Notre Dame Law Review 58 (Dec. 1982): 350-381.
[Overviews/Legal]
Coleman, Herbert J. "Israeli Inquiry Hits Intelligence Unit." Aviation Week & Space Technology, 15 Apr. 1974, 26-27.
On report of Agranat Commission.
[Israel/YomKippur]
Coleman, Joseph. "Papers Tie U.S. to 1950s Japan Coup Plot." Associated Press, 28 Feb. 2007. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
Declassified CIA files released by the National Archives in January 2007 "reveal that Japanese ultranationalists with ties to U.S. military intelligence plotted to overthrow the Japanese government and assassinate the prime minister in 1952.... [T]he documentary evidence ... illustrates the violent potential of the right-wing, anti-communist cabal that had worked under the U.S. occupation authority's 'G-2' intelligence wing in the ... late 1940s and early 50s.... The CIA files ... say the [G-2] operations were riddled with intelligence leaks, hobbled by a lack of competent agents, and deeply compromised by rivalries among the rightists themselves.... The departure of [Maj. Gen. Charles] Willoughby [chief of G-2 in the occupation government] from Japan in 1951 ... deprived the rightists of their leading American patron and paymaster."
[GenPostwar/40s/Gen; MI/Army/To90s]
Coleman, Peter.
The Liberal Conspiracy: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Struggle
for the Mind of Postwar Europe. New York: Free Press, 1989. London:
Collier Macmillan, 1989.
NameBase identifies Peter Coleman as "a former member of the Australian parliament and editor of the Australian journal 'Quadrant,' one of the literary magazines established in the 1950s by the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom."
For Valcourt, IJI&C 4.1, "the CIA's pronounced ideological bent to the Left during its earliest period, a tendency not altogether eliminated even in contemporary times," has almost been forgotten. This is the "first full description and analysis of the Congress for Cultural Freedom's zesty intellectual and organizational battles." The author's "point that the Congress, despite its CIA funding, did not function as a U.S.-front organization is sustained." Coleman's is a "reasonably balanced analysis."
Watt, I&NS 15.4, p. 162, fn16, does not completely agree, noting that the author's "refusal to look in any detail whatever into the origins of the Congress and at the Soviet cultural offensive in Europe to which it was a reply before 1950, the year of its effective creation, makes it seem a little unbalanced."
[CA/Eur]
Coletta,
Paolo E. "French Ensor Chadwick: The First American Naval Attache,
1882-1889." American Neptune 39 (Apr. 1979): 126-141. [Petersen]
[MI/Attaches; MI/Navy]
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