Diamond, John.
Diamond, Sigmund. The Compromised Campus: The Collaboration of Universities with the Intelligence Community, 1945-1955. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. HV6285D53
Surveillant 2.4 comments that while the "basic facts are revealing," the author's "conclusions seem more based on personal experience and still open wounds than supported by events." Reinforcing that appraisal, Savage, I&NS 9.1, finds that Compromised Campus suffers from a "general disorganization. It is a barrel of information, data and polemic rather than a tightly organized argument." Diamond was one of those faculty members purged by Harvard because he would not inform on his colleagues. The "bulk of the book is ... about the Red scare of the 1940s and 1950s."
Noting that "Diamond focuses mostly on Harvard, which is the subject of six of his ten chapters," Freeland, Journal of Higher Education, Mar. 1994, adds that "[t]hree additional chapters are devoted to Yale, and a final essay discusses the FBI's efforts to identify subversives at a large number of other American campuses.... [He] seems to have done very little interviewing of individuals involved in the incidents he recounts. Basically, he relied heavily on the materials he obtained from the government, particularly the FBI, through his persistent FOIA requests." The book does not present a coherent overview of the subject, but rather a "collage of snapshots and vignettes." Diamond "believes the real issue ... is the existence of a systematic and covert 'institutional relationship' between Harvard and the federal intelligence apparatus.... In support of his thesis Diamond provides some fascinating and troubling information... In the end, however, Diamond's fragments cannot sustain his central claims."
Wirtz, IJI&C 8.2, notes that "Compromised Campus is not a detailed history of intelligence-academic interaction.... Instead, it is an indictment of Harvard and Yale McCarthy-era administrators and luminaries for acting as FBI informants." According to Whitehead, JAH, Jun. 1993, Diamond "demonstrates ... that Harvard as well as Yale and other major universities fully cooperated with the FBI, often at the level of the university president, in providing information about the political activities of faculty and students.... His account achieves a remarkable balance of documentation and passion.... This is an important book that questions the inner culture and values of the nation's leading universities."
NameBase feels that "Diamond has the inside scoop after numerous FOIA requests filed with the FBI, access to private collections and archives, and dozens of interviews. Much of this book deals with the FBI on campus and their use of informants (including Henry Kissinger and William F. Buckley), although it breaks off before the FBI got really nasty in the late 1960s. That still leaves two revealing chapters on Harvard's Russian Research Center.... This book is essential for anyone interested in the CIA-campus connection."
[CIA/Relations/Academe; FBI/DomSec/Surveillance]
Diaz, Antonio. "Spanish Intelligence During the Second Republic and the Civil War: 1931-1939." Journal of Intelligence History 6, no. 1 (Summer 2006). [http://www.intelligence-history.org/jih/journal.html]
[OtherCountries/Spain]
Díaz Fernández, Antonio M.
1. "Halfway Down the Road to Supervision of the Spanish Intelligence Services." Intelligence and National Security 21, no. 3 (Jun. 2006): 440-456.
From abstract: "Supervision ever since the transition to democracy is still unfinished business, as was clearly demonstrated by the difficulties experienced in the work of the commission of inquiry into the terrorist attack of 11 March 2004."
The Higher Defense Intelligence Center (CESID) was created in 1977. The reforms of May 2002 replaced CESID with the Centro Nacional de Inteligencia (CNI). The author argues that, even with recent reform efforts, parliamentary and judicial "supervision of CNI remains a virtual fallacy."
2. Los servicios de inteligencia españoles: Desde la guerra civil hasta el 11-M. Historia de una transición. [The Spanish Intelligence Services: From the Civil War to 11-M: History of a Transition] Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2005.
Aftergood, Secrecy News, 2 Jun. 2005, notes that this "is the first comprehensive treatment" of the intelligence and security services in Spain. The work includes "an introduction to the field of intelligence for general readers and a comprehensive assessment of the services of other countries."
[OtherCountries/Spain]
DiCenso, David J. "IW Cyberlaw: The Legal Issues of Information Warfare." Airpower Journal 13 (Summer 1999): 85-102.
[GenPostwar/InfoWar]
DiCenso, David J. [MAJ/USAFR] "Information Operations: An Act of War." Chronicles Online Journal (31 Jul. 2000). [http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/cc/archives.html -- not active 8/24/09]
[GenPostwar/InfoWar]
Dick,
James C. "The Strategic Arms Race, 1957-1961: Who Opened a Missile
Gap?" Journal of Politics 34, no. 4 (1972): 1062-1110. [Petersen]
[GenPostwar/50s/Gen]
Dickens,
Peter. SAS -- Secret War in South-East Asia: 22 Special Air Service Regiment in the Borneo Campaign, 1963-1966. London: Greenhill via Presidio Press, 1991. New York: Ballantine, 1992. [pb]
Surveillant 3.1 says this book "recreates what the jungle fighting was like." Short, I&NS 8.2, finds the book "compelling reading." It is a "detailed and sympathetic account.... SAS must surely have provided the highest possible return on an investment of military capital." According to Yang, WIR 13.6, "Dickens offers a micro ... view of the Borneo confrontation as seen through the eyes of the participants.... Although the text is somewhat awkward at times, the gems of information on counterinsurgency operations are well worth the trouble."
[UK/Postwar/SAS]
Dickerson, John, and Viveca Novak. "Grand Jury Hears Plame Case." Time, 26 Jan. 2004. [http://www.time.com]
On 21 January 2004, a grand jury in Washington, DC, began hearing testimony "in the investigation into whether the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame was improperly leaked" to columnist Robert Novak and other journalists.
[CIA/00s/04/Gen]
Dickey, Christopher. Securing the City: Inside America's Best Counterterror Force -- the NYPD. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009.
Matthew Brzezinski, Washington Post Book World, 1 Feb. 2009, notes that this work is about "an elite and controversial counter-intelligence unit within the NYPD." The author chronicles the creation of this group following the 9/11 attacks; and "in the process he offers a scathing critique of the federal counter-terrorism system from a comparative, and in many ways competitive, perspective." New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly hired David Cohen, "a senior CIA administrator," who built a "600-person unit." The book "contains a wealth of detail that would have been extremely difficult to obtain from typically less forthcoming federal agencies." However, he "might have dug a little deeper in addressing the persistent but vague allegations in Washington that the NYPD counterterrorism unit cuts legal corners and that some of its methods are unconstitutional."
[Terrorism/00s/Gen]
Dickey, Christopher.
With the Contras: A Reporter in the Wilds of Nicaragua. New York:
Simon & Schuster, 1987.
[CIA/80s/Nicaragua]
Dickey,
Christopher, and Rod Nordland. "A Spy in the Ranks." Newsweek,
16 Nov., 1998. [http://www.newsweek.com]
French Maj. Pierre-Henri Bunel has been charged with spying on NATO for the Serbs. He is accused of having "given Belgrade top-secret information that included the targets for potential airstrikes at the height of the Kosovo crisis" in October 1998.
[France/90s]
Diederich,
Bernard. Trujillo: The Death of the Goat. Boston: Little, Brown, 1978.
Petersen: "Alleged CIA involvement in the assassination of Trujillo."
[LA/DR]
The Digital
Bibliography of the Russell J. Bowen Collection of Works on Intelligence,
Security, and Covert Activities. Washington, DC: National Intelligence
Book Center, [ongoing].
Clark comment: This database is available only in a PC version, although the NIBC has suggested that a Mac version may become available in the future. [The preceding statement is substantially out of date; I have not heard mention of further development of this tool for several years.]
Peake, Reader's Guide, supplies the following information: The database is known as Bowen Digital Bibliography (BDB). It has over 8,000 entries -- 6,500 in English and about 2,000 in other languages (approximately half of which are in Russian). About 500 of the entries are from newspapers and journals. This is "the largest known digital database of books and articles on or related to intelligence ... in the world." The remaining 3,000 items in the Bowen Collection "will eventually be included." The BDB's software program is "extremely fast and easy to use." The database can be searched on the basis of "specific titles, authors, participants, keywords, dates, publishers, or some combination of these options." This is a "read-only" database -- what you buy is what you get; updates require an additional purchase.
Jeffreys-Jones notes that the BDB has "wider indexing than the Library of Congress system." The database comes with "a copyright-protective security key, which means it cannot be networked." See Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, "Manual Indices and Digital Pathways: Developments in United States Intelligence Bibliography," Intelligence and National Security 9, no. 3 (Jul. 1994): 555-559.
See also, Marjorie W. Cline, Carla E. Christianson, and Judith M. Fontaine, eds., Scholar's Guide to Intelligence Literature: Bibliography of the Russell J. Bowen Collection in the Joseph Mark Lauinger Memorial Library, Georgetown University (Washington, DC: National Intelligence Study Center 1983; Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1983). Scholar's Guide has about 5,000 entries organized by subject and indexed by author.
[RefMats/Digital]
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