Dew, Rosemary, and Pat Pape. No Backup -- My Life as a Female FBI Agent Battling, Kidnappers, Terrorists, and the Destructive Culture that Handcuffs the Bureau. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2004.
Dew, Rosemary, and Pat Pape. No Backup -- My Life as a Female FBI Agent Battling, Kidnappers, Terrorists, and the Destructive Culture that Handcuffs the Bureau. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2004.
AFIO WIN 01-04 (12 Jan. 2004) suggests that this is an "angry, burn-the-bridges, insider look at [Dew's] experiences as female and agent in the pre-1990 Bureau.... She suggests the Bureau is a dysfunctional family which fosters the environment where someone like Robert Hanssen can work and thrive."
According to Peake, Studies 49.1 (2005), this book "describes several constants" in the author's "relatively brief but promising career. The positive ones include rapid promotion, awards, and commendations. The major negative aspect ... was the pervasive and persistent sexual harassment.... In part two of the book, Dew ... reviews the Hoover legacy with its emphasis on law enforcement." She "examines the effect of the Bureau's reluctance to cooperate with other intelligence agencies, the impact of several discomforting recent espionage and terrorist cases ... and the failures associated with 9/11. Since she was not involved, she merely gives views based on her experience." Dew also "makes a series of specific recommendations aimed at long-range FBI improvement."
[FBI/00s/Gen]
Dewar,
Michael. The Art of Deception in Warfare. London: David & Charles,
1989.
Chambers: "Basic text."
[MI/Deception]
Dewavrin, André [Colonel Passy]. Souvenirs. 3 vols. Monte Carlo: R. Solar, 1947-1951.
Clark comment: Using the nom de guerre of Passy, Dewavrin managed Charles de Gaulle's Free French intelligence services and organized the Resistance in France.
Dewavrin died on 20 December 1998 at the age of 87. See his obituary: "Colonel Passy: De Gaulle's Wartime Spy Chief Who Continued to Court Controversy," Electronic Telegraph, 25 Dec. 1998. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk] See also, Jonkers, AFIO Weekly Intelligence Notes 5-99, 3 Feb. 1999.
[WWII/Eur/Fr]
DeWeerd, Harvey
A. "Churchill, Coventry and Ultra." Aerospace Historian
27 (Dec. 1980): 227-229.
According to Sexton, the author "debunks" the myth that Churchill sacrificed Coventry in order to safeguard the Ultra secret.
[UK/WWII/Ultra]
DeWeerd, Harvey
A. "Strategic Surprise in the Korean War." Orbis 6 (Fall
1962): 435-452.
[Analysis/Surprise; GenPostwar/50s/Korea]
De
Witte, Ludo. Trs., Ann Wright and Renée Fenby. The Assassination
of Lumumba. New York: Verso, 2001.
Lippman, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2001, finds this to be a "brief [224 pages] but well-documented" work. The author's argument is that "the Belgian government and major Belgian corporations -- with the support of the Central Intelligence Agency and the United Nations -- conspired with corrupt Congolese to get rid of Lumumba because he threatened their capitalist order." Along the way De Witte engages in some "over-the-top Marxist rhetoric." Nonetheless, "he has assembled a staggering amount of detail to support his allegations of direct [Belgian] government participation in Lumumba's murder."
[CA/Africa]
DeYoung, Karen [Washington Post].
Dhar, Maloy. Fulcrum of Evil: The ISI-CIA-Al Qaeda Nexus. New Delhi: Manas, 2006.
Peake, Studies 50.3 (Sep. 2006), says that the author's "somewhat warped analysis [concerning the CIA] suggests care should be taken in accepting his statements about other players. But the book has real value, despite its lack of documentation.... As a view from inside India and Islam, this is an important book.... It is important if not easy reading."
[CIA/00s/Gen; OtherCountries/Pakistan; Terrorism/00s/Gen]
Dhar, Maloy Krishna. Open Secrets: India’s Intelligence Unveiled. New Delhi: Manas, 2005.
Peake, Studies 50.2 (2006), comments that whether the author "has got it exactly right is difficult to say since he provides no documentation." What he offers "is a professional intelligence officer’s view of India’s intelligence organizations based on his observations during a 29-year career. The central theme of the book is that legislative oversight of the organizations, which are subordinate only to the executive branch, has long been needed.... Dhar retired in 1995 after being passed over ... for the top position in the [Intelligence Bureau], and he is critical of the man who got the job -- D.C. Pathak.... But this doesn’t distract from the unique look Open Secrets provides into India’s intelligence services."
[OtherCountries/India]
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