Dih - Dn

Dilks, David, ed. Retreat from Power: Studies in Britain's Foreign Policy of the Twentieth Century. Vol. 1, 1906-1939. London: Macmillan, 1981.

[UK/Overviews/Other]

Dillard, Douglas C. Operation Aviary: Airborne Special Operations -- Korea, 1950-1953. Victoria, Canada: Trafford, 2003.

[GenPostwar/50s/Korea]

Dillin, John. "Congress Quietly Debates Merits of Warrantless 'Spy' Searches." Christian Science Monitor, 31 Aug. 1994, 2.

[Overviews/Legal/Topics]

Dillon, Francis R. "Counterintelligence: One Perspective." American Intelligence Journal 10, no. 2 (1989): 37-42.

[CI/To90s]

Dillon, Sam. Commandos: The CIA and Nicaragua's Contra Rebels. New York: Henry Holt, 1991. 1992. [pb]

According to Surveillant 2.2, Dillon was "part of The Miami Herald's team of reporters who won the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Iran-contra scandal." For Radosh, WPNWE, 13-19 Jan. 1992, this is a "riveting and well-documented book" that exposes the corruption and human rights abuses on both sides in the Contra-Sandinista war. NameBase calls Dillon's book the "best treatment of the CIA in Honduras [?] that we've seen, but it could have been better. Unfortunately, either Dillon or the publisher's lawyers are squeamish about naming some names."

[CIA/80s/Nicaragua]

Dimitrakis, Panagiotis.

Dimitrova, Alexenia. The Iron Fist: Inside the Archives of the Bulgarian Secret Police. London: Artnik, 2005.

According to Peake, Studies 50.2 (2006), this "book tells of uncovering a story of state repression that will surprise no one. What is new here are the details unearthed -- numbers and names -- and Dimitrova's perspective." The author's conclusion "that Bulgaria was not involved" in the attempt on the Pope's life in 1981 "is not surprising." She also "concludes that the first head of the Bulgarian communist government, Georgi Dimitrov, had been poisoned by mercury on the orders of Stalin."

[OtherCountries/Bulgaria]

Dimmer, John P., Jr. "Observations on the Double Agent." Studies in Intelligence 6, no. 1 (Winter 1962): 57-72. In Inside CIA's Private World: Declassified Articles from the Agency's Internal Journal, 1955-1992, ed. H. Bradford Westerfield, 437-449. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995.

Dimmer closes his article with some "Do's and Don'ts" of running double-agent operations.

[CI/To90s][c]

DiNardo, R. L., and Daniel J. Hughes. "Some Cautionary Thoughts on Information Warfare." Airpower Journal 9 (Winter 1995): 69-79.

[GenPostwar/InfoWar]

Dinerstein, Herbert S. The Making of a Missile Crisis. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976.

[GenPostwar/60s/MissileCrisis]

Dinges, John. The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents. New York: New Press, 2003.

From advertisement: "This is the underground history of the international Dirty Wars by U.S. allies in South America. For much of a decade, six allied military governments engaged in secret warfare intended to wipe out their enemies.... At the initiative of Chilean president General Augusto Pinochet,... they set up a multinational terrorist organization, Operation Condor, to pursue those who escaped to other Latin American countries, Europe and the United States."

Maxwell, FA 83 (Jan.-Feb. 2004), believes that this work "includes much new disturbing information and some remarkable revelations, particularly about the relationship of the United States to the Latin American intelligence agencies responsible for Operation Condor assassinations and other systematic human rights violations."

[LA/Gen]

Dinges, John. Our Man in Panama: How General Noreiga Used the U.S. -- and Made Millions in Drugs and Arms. New York: Random House, 1990.

According to Surveillant 1.1, Dinges -- an "award-winning journalist" -- covers "Noriega's rise to power with the help of the U.S. intelligence community."

[LA/Other/Panama]

Dingman, Roger. Deciphering the Rising Sun: Navy and Marine Corps Codebreakers, Translators, and Interpreters in the Pacific War. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2009.

Levine, Proceedings 136.2 (Feb. 2010), notes that the author "describes the development of the 'crash' program for training Navy and Marine Corps Japanese linguists immediately before and during World War II and their impact on postwar U.S.-Japanese relations."

[WWII/U.S./Services/Navy]

Dion, Susan.

1. "FBI Surveillance of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1945-1963." Journal for Peace and Justice Studies 3 (1991): 1-21.

2. "Pacifism Treated as Subversion: The FBI and the War Resisters League." Peace and Change 9 (1983): 43-59.

[FBI/DomSec/Surveillance]

Dippel, John V. H. "Jumping to the Right Conclusion: The State Department Warning on Operation 'Barbarossa.'" International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 6, no. 2 (Summer 1993): 213-227.

[WWII/Eur/Gen][c]

Dippel, John Van Houten. Two Against Hitler: Stealing the Nazis' Best-Kept Secrets. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1992.

McKale, AHR, Apr. 1993, identifies Sam Woods as a commercial attaché at the U.S. embassy in Berlin and, after 1941, consul general in Zurich. Woods "passed to his government, based on information he received from a Berlin contact, the first accurate intelligence about Operation Barbarossa. He also learned from the same contact about German atomic experiments." That contact was Erwin Respondek, "a German professor of economics and financial consultant ... [who] possessed access to considerable valuable information" in Nazi Germany. For Mapother, FILS 11.4, this is a "valuable" and "well-researched" book.

[WWII/Eur/Ger]

Disinformation. Editors. "Shake-up in Top Soviet Active Measures Personnel." 3 (Summer 1986): 1, 6-7. [Petersen]

[Russia/D&D]

Divine, Robert A. Blowing on the Wind: The Nuclear Test Ban Debate, 1954-1960. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Cold War Connection, "Top Books on the Cold War," http://www.cmu.edu/coldwar/annot.htm, comments that the author "ably chronicles the complex dynamics of the 'Fallout Debate' within the United States which involved scientific, medical, political, military, and national security questions. The book shows that such questions ultimately delayed United States's treaty ratification until 1963."

[GenPostwar/50s]

Divine, Robert A. Eisenhower and the Cold War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.

Wilcox: "Includes McCarthy, the FBI, CIA, Alger Hiss, U-2 affair and foreign policy."

[GenPostwar/50s]

Divine, Robert A. The Sputnik Challenge: Eisenhower's Response to the Soviet Satellite. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Smith, I&NS 9.4, notes that President "Eisenhower was able to respond in a calm and systematic manner to Sputnik because he had access to intelligence information which led him to conclude that the Soviet satellite did not pose a threat to U.S. national security."

For Cold War Connection, "Top Books on the Cold War," http://www.cmu.edu/coldwar/annot.htm, "this dynamic ... political history" provides good coverage of "[t]he Eisenhower administration's various responses to 'Sputnik,' including a fear of a growing 'missile gap,' an increased interest in US scientific and engineering capabilities, and a reevaluation of the national education system."

[GenPostwar/50s; Recon/Topics]

Divine, Robert A., ed. The Cuban Missile Crisis. New York: Quadrangle, 1988.

[GenPostwar/60s/MissileCrisis]

Dixon, C. Aubrey, and Otto Heilbrunn. Communist Guerrilla Warfare. New York: Praeger, 1955.

Chambers: "Academic/military study."

[Russia/WWII]

Dizard, Wilson. Strategy of Truth: The Story of the United States Information Service. Washington, DC: Public Affairs, 1961.

[CA/White]

Dizard, Wilson P, Jr. Inventing Public Diplomacy: The Story of the United States Information Service. Boulder, CA: Lynne Rienner, 2004.

Mead, FA 83.6, notes that the author, a career USIA employee, "has written a history of U.S. public diplomacy from World War II to 1999." Although he "is sometimes too close to his subject," Dizard has produced "an extremely useful, clear, and compact introduction to a vitally important aspect of U.S. foreign policy."

For Krugler, Journal of Cold War Studies 9 (2007), it is significant that the author "was present at the creation, and he has drawn on a half-century of experience to produce an important work." This is a "definitive history.... One of the many contributions of this narrative history is Dizard's explanation of the extensive work of the Defense Department in the information and cultural field." He also "describes the USIA's perennial failure to find full acceptance and support within the executive branch and on Capitol Hill."

[CA/White]

Dizard, Wilson P., III. "New Name for MASINT." Government Computer News, 18 Mar. 2008. [http://www.gcn.com]

"The intelligence agencies have renamed their MASINT program and will now refer to the recondite spy discipline as the Advanced Technical Exploitation Program (ATEP). The name change ... came to light in a sources-sought notice issued by the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC)."

[MI/MASINT]

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