Fenn, Charles. At the Dragon's Gate: With the OSS in the Far East. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2004.
Fenn, Charles. At the Dragon's Gate: With the OSS in the Far East. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2004.
From advertisement: "A witty, elegantly written account of the author's undercover exploits in the China-Burma-India theater during World War II."
OSS Society Newsletter (Winter 2004-2005), says that the author's "recollections of his wartime experiences are witty and insightful -- a story of real-life espionage.... Fenn's skill as a spy is matched by his talent as a storyteller."
For Yu Shen, I&NS 20.2 (Jun. 2005), the author "tells his personal story as an OSS officer in Asia during World War II with a lot of attitude and insight.... [T]he highlight of his wartime experience and the most fascinating part of the story" is Fenn's duty in Vietnam, where he collaborated with Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh against the Japanese.
Sacquety, Studies 50.2 (2006), says that the book "deliver[s] some valuable insights, but, Fenn strains his credibility when he ... presents himself as a bigger player in China than could possibly have been the case." The author provides "an interesting view" of how the civilian-controlled Gordon-Bernard-Tan (GBT) network "was run and of the personalities involved, but his later claims in the book cast doubt on his real role there.... The bottom line is that Fenn’s book is flawed and frustrating. Fenn might have provided valuable insights into OSS operations in China -- particularly about the nebulous GBT network -- but the apparent falsehoods make detailed research and fact-checking in OSS records a necessity."
[WWII/OSS/CBIOps]
Fenton, Ben. "CIA Tries to Bribe Taliban to
Swap Sides." Electronic Telegraph, 11 Oct. 2001. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk]
"CIA agents were reported [on 10 October 2001] to be trying to bribe and cajole Taliban commanders to turn against the regime in the south and east of Afghanistan."
[CIA/00s/01; MI/Ops/Afgh; Terrorism/01/WTC]
Fenton, Ben. "Documents Reveal Role of 'Winged Spies.'" Elctronic Telegraph, 21 Mar. 2007. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk]
Documents released at the National Archives in Kew indicate that from 1940 British intelligence dropped hundred of pigeons behind German lines. Each pigeon carried "a miniature spying kit: a bakelite tube to put a message in; sheets of ultra-thin paper and a special pencil; detailed instructions in French, Flemish or Dutch on how to fill in a report." The operation, run by MI 14 and called Source Columba, is credited with providing "high-grade intelligence of German plans."
[UK/WWII/Services/MI]
Fenton, Ben.
"Ex-KGB Major Leads US War against Hackers."
Electronic Telegraph, 9 Jun. 1999. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk]
Victor Sheymov, a former KGB major who defected to the United States over 20 years ago, has founded a "cybersecurity" company and "is patenting a new device to thwart hackers."
[GenPostwar/InfoWar; Russia/Soviet/Defectors]
Fenton,
Ben. "Nuclear Spy Worked on Secret Trials of British Submarines."
Electronic Telegraph, 15 May 1999. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk]
Peter Lee, "an American scientist convicted of spying for China[,] worked closely with British military and visited Scotland as part of a secret team working on a method of tracking nuclear missile submarines. The information available to ... Lee as a prominent member of the UK/US Radar Ocean Imaging Programme (ROIP) is almost certain to have compromised the security of Britain's Trident nuclear deterrent."
[SpyCases/U.S./Lee]
Fenton,
Ben. "Stalin's Fifth Man from Cambridge Spy Ring Dies." Electronic
Telegraph, 9 Oct. 1995. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk]
"John Cairncross, the spy exposed as the Fifth Man, who always said he had never passed on information harmful to Britain, died yesterday, aged 82."
[UK/SpyCases/Four]
Fenton, Ben. "Telegram that Brought US into Great War Is Found." Electronic Telegraph, 17 Oct. 2005. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk]
"An original typescript of the deciphered Zimmerman Telegram ... has been discovered. The document is believed to be the actual telegram shown to the American ambassador in London in 1917.... [T]he official historian of GCHQ found it while researching an 'official' history of the organisation."
[WWI/Zimmermann]
Fenton,
Ben. "US Officials Face Sack over China Spy Report." Electronic
Telegraph, 25 May 1999. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk]
"Some of those who have seen advance copies of the [Cox Committee's] report have called for the head of Janet Reno, the Attorney-General, over her failure to follow up FBI reports that China was obtaining 'the crown jewels' of American nuclear secrets. Others have suggested that Sandy Berger, the National Security Adviser, should be fired for failing to bring the matter to the attention of President Clinton soon enough. Mr Clinton is accused of dissembling over what he knew and when."
[CIA/90s/99/China/Cox]
Fenton,
Ben, and David Rennie. "CIA Officer Sacked Over Bombing of Chinese
Embassy." Electronic Telegraph, 10 Apr. 2000. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk]
[GenPostCW/90s/99/ChiEmb]
Ferguson, Harry. Spy, A Handbook. London: Bloomsbury, 2004.
Jensen, I&NS 19.4 (Winter 2004), suggests that this work "is rather better than one might expect of something created as part of the marketing strategy for a [BBC] television series." Although "there is a cetain artificiality to the book,... those seeking insight into what might be contained in a training program for prospective 'spies'" will find it "informative, at times amusing, and rather helpful."
[Overviews/Gen/00s]
Ferguson, Michael
G. [CAPT/USMC] "The Internet: Our Enemy's Best Friend." Marine
Corps Gazette, Jan. 1999, 48-50.
Expresses concern about the scope and nature of material available on the U.S. Marine Corps via the Internet, including extensive technical details accessible on the Marine Corps homepage ("Major advances in technology can be a dual-edged sword.")
[GenPostwar/Issues/InfoWar]
Ferguson, Niels, and Bruce Schneir. Practical Cryptography. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2003.
Kruh, Cryptologia 28.2, identifies the authors as "two of the world's top cryptologic experts.... [They] provide the first hands-on guide" to implementing cryptography and incorporating it into real-world systems.
[Cryptography]
Fergusson, Thomas G. British Military Intelligence, 1870-1914: The Development of a Modern Intelligence Organization. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1984.
Pforzheimer: "This first scholarly history of a modern military intelligence department to be published in the United States is an excellent reference source, well annotated and indexed, with an extensive bibliography."
[UK/Historical; UK/Overviews/Military]
Fernandez, Hugo.
The Nazi Underground in South America. New York: Farrar & Rinehart,
1942.
Wilcox: "Nazi activities in South America before and during WWII."
[WWII/Eur/Ger]
Ferreiro, Larrie D. "Spies versus Prizes: Technology Transfer between Navies in the Age of Trafalgar." Mariner's Mirror 93, no. 1 (2007): 16-27.
[UK/Historical]
Ferrell, Robert
H. "Pearl Harbor and the Revisionists." The Historian 17
(1955): 215-233. [Petersen]
[WWII/PearlHarbor]
Ferrell,
Robert H., ed. Harry S. Truman and the Bomb: A Documentary History.
Worland, WY: High Plains, 1996.
Giangreco, Parameters, Autumn 1999, notes that this collection of documents is a "useful, Internet-friendly compilation ... that, thanks to [the author's] extremely well-crafted headnotes and the brevity of the total package, will be of great value as a classroom tool."
[WWII/FE/Pac/Bomb]
Ferrell, William H., III [MAJ/USMC]. "No Shirt, No Shoes, No Status: Uniforms, Distinction, and Special Operations in International Armed Conflict." Military Law Review 178 (2003): 94-140.
The law of war (LOW) "delineates criteria that combatants must meet to gain prisoner of war (POW) status, and it obligates combatants to distinguish themselves from civilians. Further, the LOW limits the conduct that combatants can engage in while dressed in civilian clothing, violations of which may result in a loss of POW status as well as disciplinary action against the combatants and their superiors." [footnotes omitted]
[MI/SpecOps; Overviews/Legal/Topics/Military]
Ferris, John - O-Z and with Others
Ferster,
Warren. "NRO Spy Satellite Program Busts Budget: Critics Point to Mismanagement,
Technical Problems." Space News, 14-20 Dec. 1998.
"Lockheed Martin Corp. has encountered major problems resulting in big cost overruns on the billion-dollar classified satellite contract it wrested from TRW Inc. after a 1994 award protest decision. Technical snags and ballooning government requirements have delayed the program and increased its costs by hundreds of millions of dollars.... Richard Oborn, a spokesman for the NRO, acknowledged that the program has had problems but said things now are under control."
[NRO]
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