Fesler, Mayo.
"Secret Political Societies in the North during the Civil War."
Indiana Magazine of History 14 (1918): 183-286.
Fesler, Mayo.
"Secret Political Societies in the North during the Civil War."
Indiana Magazine of History 14 (1918): 183-286.
[CivWar/Conf/CA]
Fessenden, Helen. "The Limits of Intelligence Reform." Foreign Affairs 84, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 2005): 106-120.
"As with any legislation, the success of the intelligence bill depends largely on its implementation. But in this case, the political momentum to build on initial gains is running out of steam just at the critical point... The streamlining of authority under the purview of the DNI was not matched ... in the legislative branch.... Virtually none of the 9/11 Commission's recommendations for Congress itself have been adopted.... [C]oncern is growing that Negroponte's office is simply another layer of bureaucracy over all agencies rather than a force that can push through necessary structural changes to streamline the intelligence community and foster more accountability."
[DNI/05; Reform/00s/05/Gen]
Fessler,
Pamela.
1. "Chairmen Boren, McCurdy Urge Leaner, Revamped Operations." Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, 8 Feb. 1992, 316- 317.
Senate and House intelligence committee heads introduce intelligence reorganization bills.
2. "Plans Aimed at More Efficiency May Cut Quality, Panel Told." Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, 22 Feb. 1992, 416.
James R. Schlesinger and Lt. Gen. William E. Odom testify to Senate intelligence committee on reorganization legislation.
[Reform/Boren&McCurdy][c]
Fessler, Pamela.
1. "Senate Clears Authorization Bill But Doesn't Push Secrecy Issue." Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, 10 Oct. 1992, 3183.
The Senate passed the fiscal 1993 intelligence authorization bill by voice vote on 2 October 1992. "The legislation ... expresses the 'sense of Congress' that the annual intelligence budget total be made public, but it does not force the issue."
2. "Measure Sets 6 Percent Cut in Administration Request." Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, 3 Oct. 1992, 3068.
The conference report passed by the House on 2 October 1992 reduces the administration's fiscal 1993 request "by nearly 6 percent, or more than $1 billion.... The bill also reflects plans to reduce intelligence personnel levels by 18 percent by 1997.... Total intelligence spending, including tactical military intelligence, has widely been reported to be about $30 billion a year."
3. "Leaner Authorization Measure Emerges from the House." Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, 27 Jun. 1992, 1893.
The House cuts are 5 percent below President Bush's fiscal 1993 budget request. Intelligence Committee Chairman McCurdy "said the legislation did not include proposals to restructure the nation's multiagency intelligence apparatus because of the extensive efforts by new CIA Director Robert M. Gates this year to reorganize his agency and other intelligence operations administratively."
[GenPostwar/Budgets/93][c]
Fessler, Pamela.
"Report Traces Byrd's Influence on CIA's Choice of His State."
Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, 29 Feb. 1992: 481.
The CIA's plans for consolidating office space in West Virginia were influenced by the perception that Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Robert C. Byrd (D-WV) could/would help the process along. CQWR, 29 Feb. 1992, p. 894, adds: On 31 March, 1992, DCI Gates "put on indefinite hold" plans to relocate "6,000 agency employees to sites in West Virginia and in Virginia's Prince William County." The reason given was "the current budgetary environment."
[CIA/90s][c]
Fessler, Pamela.
"Woolsey Gets Senate Approval; Budget Cuts, Overhaul Await." Congressional
Quarterly Weekly Report, 6 Feb. 1993, 276-277.
Senate votes 3 February 1993 to confirm R. James Woolsey as DCI.
[CIA/DCIs][c]
Fest, Joachim.
Tr., Bruce Little. Plotting Hitler's Death: The Story of the German Resistance.
New York: Holt, 1996.
Powers, NYRB, 9 Jan. 1997, says that Fest has written "an authoritative new account of the events leading to July 20," 1944. The author displays a "calm and assured command of the large cast of conspirators and of the complex unfolding of events."
[WWII/Eur/Ger]
Feuer, A. B.,
ed. Coast Watching in the Soloman Islands: The Bougainville Reports, December 1941-July 1943. New York: Praeger, 1992.
From advertisement: "The story of the Soloman Island coast watchers, primarily Jack Read and Paul Mason, recounting one of the most successful intelligence operations of World War II, especially at the time of the invasion of Guadalcanal."
[WWII/FE/Pac/AIB]
Feuer, A. B.
Commando! The M/Z Units Secret War against Japan. Westport, CT: Praeger,
1996.
The Australian M/Z Units of World War II consisted of the M Units, the information-collecting coastwatchers, and the Z Units, the offensively oriented commandos. The author highlights the dangerous work of U.S. and British submarines in supporting the Australian commandos.
[WWII/FE/Pac/Australia]
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