Finn, Peter.
"At CIA, a Vocation of Imitation." Washington Post, 8 Sep.
1997, A01. Finn, Peter.
"At CIA, a Vocation of Imitation." Washington Post, 8 Sep.
1997, A01.
"For most of his 36-year career at the Central Intelligence Agency, [Kenny] Lane made fine-scale models of foreign weapons systems, prisons, government buildings and sundry far-flung terrain.... Lane retired late last year. And his departure from the CIA coincided with the agency's decision to shut down its three-dimensional-modeling shop, a victim of government downsizing and the rise of sophisticated computer imaging." The CIA had started the modeling shop in 1964, "using artisans to build replicas from intelligence reports, especially overhead photography taken from satellites and U-2 reconnaissance planes. It was the only operation of its kind in the alphabet soup of intelligence agencies."
[CIA/C&C/DS&T][c]
Finn, Peter.
"Diplomats Ejected Day After Poland Ousts Russians."
Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2000, A16. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
"Russia retaliated against Poland [on 21 January 2000] by ordering nine Polish diplomats to leave Moscow, charging that the West had orchestrated Poland's expulsion [on 20 January 2000] of nine Russian diplomats to 'test' acting President Vladimir Putin.... [Polish] Foreign Ministry spokesman Pawel Dobrowolski said he could not confirm Polish media reports that the government consulted with NATO on the expulsions, but added that because Poland 'is a full NATO member, then it is obvious that such things happen as part of a fully coordinated activity.'"
[OtherCountries/Poland]
Finn, Peter. "Dual U.S.-Russia Citizens Face Spy Charges: Secrets Sought From Energy Firm, FSB Alleges; Tie to British Council Cited." Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2008, A13. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
According to the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), "Ilya Zaslavsky, who worked for a Russian venture of the British oil giant BP, and his brother Alexander were arrested" 12 March 2008. The two brothers, who hold dual U.S.-Russian citizenship, "have been charged with industrial espionage after they allegedly attempted to obtain classified information for foreign energy companies."
[Russia/00s/08]
Finn, Peter. "Russia Alleges Scientist Divulged State Secrets: Researcher Who Worked With S. Korean Firm Says All Contracts Were 'Official.'" Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2005, A10. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
"Oscar A. Kaibyshev, 66, head of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute for Metals Superplasticity Problems in the city of Ufa, was charged with illegally exporting dual-use technology and research and divulging classified material to ASA Co., a subsidiary of a Korean firm, Hankook Tire Manufacturing Co. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison."
[Russia/00s/05]
Finn, Peter. "In Russia, A Secretive Force Widens: Putin Led Regrouping of Security Services." Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2006, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
"Russia's intertwined political and business elites are increasingly populated with ... former intelligence agents who have personally proved themselves" to President Vladimir Putin. "At the same time, Putin has spearheaded the regrouping and strengthening of the country's security services." In particular, the Federal Security Service (FSB), headed by Putin in the 1990s, "has emerged as one of the country's most powerful and secretive forces, with an increasingly international mission."
[Russia/00s/06]
Finn, T. D'Arcy.
"Does Canada Need a Foreign Intelligence Service?" Canadian
Foreign Policy 1, no. 3 (Fall 1993): 149-162.
[Canada]
Finn, T. D'Arcy. "Domestic Security and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service." In National Security: Surveillance and Accountability in a Democratic Society, eds. Peter Hanks and John D. McComus, Appendix C, 261-269. Cowansville, Quebec: Les Editions Yvon Blais, 1989.
[Canada/Gen]
Finn, T. D'Arcy. "Independent Review Agencies and Accountability." Optimum 24, no. 2 (Autumn 1993): 9-22.
[Canada]
Finnegan, John
Patrick. Lineages comp., Romana Danysh. Military Intelligence. Army
Lineage Series. Washington, DC: Center of Military
History, United States Army, 1998. [See http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/Lineage/MI/mi-fm.htm]
From the "Preface": "This book attempts to present an organizational history of Military Intelligence in the United States Army from its beginnings to the present. It makes no pretense at discussing the operational aspects of intelligence in detail.... Furthermore, the book focuses its attention on the Army and necessarily slights the complex interrelationships between Army intelligence and other organizations in the intelligence community."
Kruh, Cryptologia 26.2, calls this a "superb volume" that combines a narrative history of U.S. military intelligence with "lineages and heraldic data for 108 military intelligence units.... It is a unique history that belongs in your personal library."
[MI/Army/Overviews; MI/Overviews]
Finnegan, John
P. Military Intelligence: A Picture History. Arlington, VA: History
Office, U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command, 1985. 2d. ed. Washington,
DC: GPO, 1992.
Petersen says that Finnegan's work "contains valuable narrative description of military intelligence developments."
FILS 12.4 calls the book a "valuable introductory study of the subject."
To Sexton, the work is a "balanced overview." [Pages 26-32 cover OSS operations; pp. 116-127 are devoted to the Korean War.]
[MI/Overviews; GenPostwar/50s/Korea; WWII/OSS]
Finnegan, John
P. "The Union's Blind Eyes: HUMINT in the Civil War." Military
Intelligence 15 (Jul.-Sep. 1989): 38-39.
[CivWar]
Finnegan, John
P. "U.S. Army Counterintelligence in CONUS: The World War I Experience."
Military Intelligence 14, No. 1 (Jan. 1988): 19-21.
[WWI/U.S.]
Finnegan, Terrence J. [COL/USAF (Ret.)] Shooting the Front: Allied Aerial Reconnaissance and Photographic Interpretation on the Western Front -- World War I. Washington, DC: National Defense Intelligence College, 2006.
Boghardt, Studies 51.4 (2007), is enthusiastic about this work: "Shooting the Front is a massive, expertly written and richly illustrated history of British, French and American aerial surveillance on the Western Front. The book's findings are based on meticulous archival research.... Finnegan's prose is precise and clear, and he provides the necessary historical context to make his work accessible to expert and layman alike."
[WWI/Other/Gen]
Finney,
John W. "Copter Recovers Capsule Ejected by U.S. Satellite." New
York Times, 12 Aug. 1960, A1.
[Recon]
Finley, James.
"Nobody Likes To Be Surprised: Intelligence Failures." Military
Intelligence 20, no. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1994): 15-21.
[Analysis/Failure]
Firmin, Stanley.
They Came to Spy. Lodon: Hutchinson, 1950.
Wilcox: "Account of German espionage in England during World War II."
[WWII/Eur/Ger/Ops]
First Principles.
Editors. "House Intelligence Committee Report on Covert Operations
in Nicaragua." 8, no. 6 (1983): 1-10. [Petersen]
[CIA/80s/Nicaragua]
First Principles.
Editors. "The CIA and the U.S. Academic Community: Harvard's Report
and Guidelines." 3 (Jun. 1977): 10-11. [Petersen]
[CIA/Relations/Academe]
Firth, Noel E.,
and James H. Noren. Soviet Defense Spending: A History of CIA Estimates, 1950-1990. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1998.
Periscope 22.2 sees this as an important work that makes "a major contribution to the ongoing debate over the future of CIA.... This book should bring some balance to the debate."
For Bruce C. Clarke, CIRA Newsletter 23.3, Firth and Noren's is "a balanced, comprehensive, and readable account." The work covers "the development and implementation of a complex intelligence analytic process with multiple implications." The authors' discussion of the shortcomings of the process "is done in detail and with the source references required for independent evaluation by other scholars."
[Analysis/Soviet]
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