Del

de la Marck, David de Young. "De Gaulle, Colonel Passy and British Intelligence, 1940-42." Intelligence and National Security 18, no. 1 (Spring 2003): 21-40.

André Dewavrin (nom de guerre Colonel Passy) headed Free France's intelligence and subversion services, the Bureau central de renseignements et d'action (BCRA), but "was dependent on" British intelligence services, specifically SIS and SOE. De Gaulle's relationship with Dewavrin and with British intelligence "was defined by an obsessive need for political control, which only served to poison the otherwise good relations of the BCRA with SIS and SOE."

[UK/WWII/Overviews; WWII/EUR/Fr/Gen]

de la Mare, Arthur [Sir]. Perverse and Foolish: A Jersey Farmer's Son in the British Diplomatic Service. Jersey: La Haule Books, 1994 [limited edition].

Kerr, I&NS 13.4, notes that the author "had a very distinguished career in the Foreign Office between 1936 and 1973.... [H]e would have been much more informative had he written with the needs and interests of scholars in mind."

Among de la Mare's wartime experiences was a posting "to Washington to work in a branch of the Political Warfare Executive, in Colorado, which broadcast[] propaganda to the Japanese. However he reveals nothing else about this important aspect of Britain's war effort."

Later, in 1953-1956, de la Mare spent three months as Assistant Head of the Permanent-Undersecretaries Department (PUSD) and headed the Foreign Office Security Department for three years.

[UK/Memoirs/ColdWar; UK/Overviews/Other; UK/WWII/Services/ PWE]

DeLanda, Manuel. War in the Age of Intelligence Machines. Boston: MIT Press, 1991.

Surveillant 2.1: This is a "history of high technology focusing on the role of the military in generating and using that technology." The author also "examines the interaction between machine intelligence and such paramilitary institutions as the CIA and the NSA."

[MI/Oveviews]

Delaney, Sarah, and Craig Whitlock. "Milan Court Indicts 26 Americans in Abduction: CIA Operatives May Be Tried in Absentia." Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2007, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]

On 16 Febrary 2007, a court in Milan "handed down indictments against 25 CIA operatives, a U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel and five Italian spies." They are accused of kidnapping Osama Mustafa Hassan and taking him to Egypt, "where he claims he was tortured in prison for more than three years.... The trial is scheduled to open [8 June 2007].... None of the American defendants is in custody, nor are they expected to appear in court. Prosecutors said they will be tried in absentia."

[CIA/00s/07; OtherCountries/Italy/PostCW]

de Lastours, Sophie. La France gagne la guerre des codes secrets 1914-1918. Paris: Tallandier 1998.

According to Brückner, JIH 2.2, "[t]he author describes the achievements of the most important French cryptographers during the First World War." This is "fascinating reading."

[France/WWI]

Delattre, Lucas. Trans., George A. Holoch. A Spy at the Heart of the Third Reich: The Extraordinary Story of Fritz Kolbe, America’s Most Important Spy in World War II. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005. New York: Grove, 2006. [pb] Betraying Hitler: The Story of Fritz Kolbe. London: Atlantic, 2005.

Clark comment: Fritz Kolbe was Allen Dulles' famous source to whom he gave the codename "George Wood."

From Publishers Weekly, Feb. 2006, (via Amazon.com): "A junior official at Hitler's Foreign Ministry, [Kolbe] had access to thousands of messages.... As a diplomatic courier to the German embassy in Switzerland, he was able to travel freely, and regularly deliver his material to Allen Dulles, head of the OSS office in Switzerland.... Delattre paints a vivid portrait of Kolbe, a romantic and a stubborn fitness buff, who seems to have become an agent simply because he was a decent man confronting indecency.... Kolbe survived the war but did not prosper in the peace, when he was regarded as a traitor in Germany."

Peake, Studies 49.3 (2005), comments that "[d]espite the irritating absence of specific source notes and an index, this is a worthwhile book on an important case." The author "conveys admiration for Kolbe’s contribution and is perplexed that he did not get more credit at the time.... The book concludes with a remembrance of Kolbe by OSS and CIA veteran Peter Sichel, who helped handle Kolbe after the war. His firsthand account adds much to the image of a true German patriot."

West, IJI&C 19.4 (Winter 2006-2007), suggests that the author has failed to place Kolbe's efforts "in their proper context." Kolbe was not the sole high-level source providing intelligence to the Allies through Switzerland. In addition, West considers the possibility that Kolbe's information also represented a serious complication to the British and their COMINT sources. However, although it is "far from the whole story," Delattre's book "is most welcome."

[WWII/Eur/Ger/Res & OSS/GerOps]

de Leeuw, Karl. "Johann Friedrich Euler (1741-1800): Mathmatician and Cryptologist at the Court of the Dutch Stadholder William V." Cryptologia 25, no. 4 (Oct. 2001): 256-274.

[Cryptography; OtherCountries/Netherlands]

Deletant, Dennis.

1. Ceaucescu and the Securitate: Coercion and Dissent in Romania, 1965-1989. London: Hurst, 1995.

Surveillant 4.2: This is a "chilling reconstruction of the notorious secret police state that dominated Romania for over 20 years."

2. "The Securitate and the Police State in Romania: 1948-64." Intelligence and National Security 8, no. 4 (Oct. 1993): 1-25.

This "history of the Securitate in post-war Romania" looks at the "nature of its subservience to its Soviet masters, and ... its relationship to the leadership of the Romanian Communist Party."

3. "The Securitate and the Police State in Romania: 1964-89." Intelligence and National Security 9, no. 1 (Jan. 1994): 22-49.

"Ceaucescu's denunciation of past Securitate abuses and the reforms of 1965-68 created an atmosphere of optimism and an expectation of even broader liberalization.... But such hopes were to be swiftly dashed.... Disillusionment gave way to dissent and the Securitate was quick to act." Ion Mihai Pacepa defected in late July 1978; see his Red Horizons below.

[OtherCountries/Romania]

Delgado, James P. "Back to the Bay of Pigs." U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, Mar. 2001, 80-82, 84.

The author "presents a rare glimpse of how the Cuban government portrays the Bay of Pigs invasion 40 years later: 'Playa Giron -- First Great Defeat of Imperialism in Latin America.'"

[CIA/60s/BoP]

Della-Giustina, John E. [CAPT/USA] "Intelligence in Peace Operations: The MID in Cuba, 1906-1909." Military Intelligence 20, no. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1994): 18-22.

This article concerns Military Intelligence Division support to the Army of Cuban Pacification (ACP) during the Second Intervention in Cuba.

[MI/Army/ThroughWWI; LA/Cuba]

Delmer, Sefton. Black Boomerang. London: Secker & Warburg, 1962.

Delmer headed the British Political Warfare Executive's black propaganda effort against Germany in World War II.

Chambers comments that the book is "a primer of propaganda techniques."

Constantinides points out that the greatest emphasis is on black broadcasts to Germany. This is "one of the few opportunities to learn of black operations from an expert practitioner." The question of the effectiveness of such activities remains open.

[UK/WWII/Services/PWE]

Delmer, Sefton. The Counterfeit Spy. New York: Harper & Row, 1971. London: Hutchinson, 1973.

According to Pforzheimer, this book on the deception program for the Normandy invasion is "not in a class with Masterman's Double-Cross System."

Constantinides recommends reading this book after Montagu's Beyond Top Secret Ultra and Masterman's book.

[WWII/Eur/D-Day]

DeLoach, Cartha D. ("Deke"). Hoover's FBI: The Inside Story by Hoover's Trusted Lieutenant. Washington, DC: Regnery, 1995. 1997. [pb]

Wannall, Periscope 21.2, argues that DeLoach makes "a powerful presentation of factual data and well-documented conclusions"; this is "'Don't put me down' reading." The author presents "an unbiased portrait of J. Edgar Hoover. His faults are clearly defined.... On the other hand, DeLoach ... has forcefully presented facts which explain and vindicate Hoover's decisions and actions which have been interpreted by his detractors in ... derogatory and vilifying terms." In the process, the author "put[s] the lie to the slurs" and "smear allegations of homosexuality and cross-dressing" of Anthony Summers' biography, Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover. This book "makes excellent reading and should dispel many of the wild rumors that thus far have denied Hoover his proper niche in American history."

For Surveillant 4.2, "this precise, highly readable narrative is the most authentic account in some time.... [I]t will disappoint [both] rabid FBI haters and uncritical Hoover worshippers.... Highly recommended."

[FBI/90s]

DeLong, Candice. Special Agent: My Life on the Front Line as a Woman in the FBI. New York: Hyperion, 2001.

[FBI/00s]

DeLuca, John Vito. "Shedding Light on the Rising Sun." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 2, no. 1 (Spring 1988): 1-20.

This article surveys Japanese domestic security organizations, the Japan Defense Agency, and the structure of the Japanese foreign policy and foreign intelligence bureaucracies.

[Japan][c]

Delzell, Charles F. Mussolini's Enemies: The Italian Anti-Fascist Resistance. New York: Howard Fertig, 1974.

Pforzheimer characterizes this as a "scholarly work" that "traces the clandestine political opposition to Mussolini from 1924 to 1943" and "describes the Partisan Resistance in Italy from 1943."

[WWII/Eur/Italy]

Return to D Table of Contents

Return to Alphabetical Table of Contents