Dawidoff, Nicholas.
The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg. New York: Pantheon, 1994. New York: Vintage, 1995. [pb]
Dawidoff, Nicholas.
The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg. New York: Pantheon, 1994. New York: Vintage, 1995. [pb]
Yardley, WPNWE, 18-24 Jul. 1994, notes that Berg was a Major League catcher 1923-1939. During World War II, he was a "member of the small OSS task force assigned to track down the activities of Werner Heisenberg." After the war, he "tried a few assignments for the CIA, but was temperamentally unsuited for its bureaucratic style." Dawidoff's work shows "heroic research," and he "avoids the temptation of rehashing it to excess." He "has brought the mystery to life." Surveillant 3.6/4.2 says Berg "remains rather indistinct in this account ... but we are warned, for Dawidoff states at the outset that Berg was oddly secretive and enigmatic."
A briefer version of the main points of this book appears as: Nicholas Dawidoff, "Scholar, Lawyer, Catcher, Spy," Sports Illustrated, 23 Mar. 1992, 76-86. For an earlier biography of Berg, see: Louis Kaufman, Barbara Fitzgerald, and Tom Sewell, Moe Berg: Athlete, Scholar, Spy (Boston: Little, Brown, 1974). On the latter work, Constantinides notes that there is no mention of Berg in the OSS history or any major work on OSS. Berg's sister has also published a book on his life: Berg, My Brother Morris Berg (1976).
[WWII/Eur/Ger/Alsos; WWII/OSS/Individuals]
Day,
Bonner. "The Battle Over U.S. Intelligence." Air Force Magazine
61 (May 1978): 42-47. [Petersen]
[GenPostwar/70s]
Day,
Dwayne A. "CORONA: A View Through the KEYHOLE." Intelligence
Watch Report Quarterly 2, no. 1 (1995): 17-21.
This article concerns the declassification on 24 Feb. 1995 of CORONA, ARGON, and LANYARD satellite programs and release of additional photographs at a 23-24 May 1995 symposium. The author includes five photographs, but the quality of reproduction limits their usefulness in this form.
[Recon/Sats/Arts][c]
Day, Dwayne A. "A Failed Phoenix: The KH-6 LANYARD Reconnaissance Satellite." Spaceflight 39, no. 5 (May 1997): 170-174.
[Recon/Sats/Arts]
Day, Dwayne A. "Ferrets Above: American Signals Intelligence Satellites during the 1960s." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 17, no. 3 (Fall 2004): 449-467.
"Throughout the 1960s, signals intelligence satellites were designed, developed, and operated by the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Air Force, working within the framework of the National Reconnaissance Office."
[NSA/Sigint; Recon/Sats/Arts][c]
Day, Dwayne A. "Listening from Above: The First Signals Intelligence Satellite." Spaceflight 41, no. 8 (Aug. 1999): 339-346.
[NSA/Sigint; Recon/Sats/Arts]
Day,
Dwayne A. "A LOOK AT . . . Spy Satellites & Hollywood." Washington
Post, 2 Jul. 2000, B3. "It's Only a Movie." Washington
Post National Weekly Edition, 10 Jul. 2000, 23.
This is a fun article that I hope many people read and learned what satellites can and cannot do -- most notably, they cannot violate the laws of physics.
[Recon/Sats/Arts]
Day, Dwayne A.,
John M. Logsdon, and Brian Latell, eds. Eye in the Sky: The Story of the Corona Spy Satellites. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press,
1998.
This book gets a "highly recommended" from Allen Thomson, via the NMIA Zgram for 30 April 1998. Richelson, IJI&C 11.4, notes that Albert Wheelon's discussion of "the management conflicts [in the development and operation of the Corona system] that he experienced first-hand ... represents an important addition to the literature on the NRO."
Hardy, posted on 17 Apr. 2000 at http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil, finds that this book "bombards the reader with many details about the early space-intelligence programs, as well as the politics and challenges of the day. Perspectives and recollections of some of the actual pioneers in the space-intelligence field are combined with fascinating descriptions of the satellites and their out-of-this-world cameras.... Anyone interested in space or military history will be fascinated with this book."
[Recon/Sats/Books][c]
Day, Matthew, and Malcolm Moore. "Tearful Archbishop Resigns at First Mass as He Admits Spying for the Secret Police." Daily Telegraph (London), 9 January 2007. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk]
Mgr. Stanislaw Wielgus, newly appointed Archbishop of Warsaw, resigned on 7 January 2007 "minutes before he was due to celebrate his inaugural mass, after admitting that he had been an informant for Poland's communist-era secret police."
[OtherCountries/Poland]
Day, Peter, and Andrew Alderson. "Top German's Spy Blunders Helped Britain to Win War." Electronic Telegraph, 23 Apr. 2000. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk]
Documents at the Public Record Office in London show that "Major Nikolaus Ritter realised as early as 1941,... that his spy network in Britain had been compromised but he never passed on his suspicions to his superiors.... Ritter's failure to report his suspicions paved the way for the success of Operation Double Cross."
See also, Benjamin Fischer, "A.k.a. 'Dr. Rantzau': The Enigma of Major Nikolaus Ritter," Center for the Study of Intelligence Bulletin 11 (Summer 2000): 8-11: "[N]o one represented the Abwehr's ambiguous record of occasional success and repeated failure better than Maj. Nikolaus Ritter, whose operational alias was 'Dr. Rantzau.' Ritter, in fact, was intimately involved in one of the service's greatest successes and its two greatest disasters--the compromise of all Abwehr agents in the United States and Britain."
[WWII/Eur/Ger/Gen]
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