Fishbein, Warren, and Gregory Treverton.
Fishbein, Warren, and Gregory Treverton.
1. "Making Sense of Transnational Threats." Occasional Papers 3, no. 1. Washington, DC: Central Intelligence Agency, The Sherman Kent Center for Intelligence Analysis, Oct. 2004.
"Intelligence Community analytic organizations need to institutionalize processes to consider whether and how they might 'have gotten it wrong' to enhance their abilities to anticipate potential threats in highly complex, fast-moving transnational issues, such as terrorism and weapons proliferation. Such processes would involve sustained, collaborative efforts by analysts to question their judgments and underlying assumptions.... For such processes to be effective, significant changes in the cultures and business processes of analytic organizations will be required."
2. "Rethinking 'Alternative Analysis' to Address Transnational Threats." Occasional Papers 3, no. 2. Washington, DC: Central Intelligence Agency, The Sherman Kent Center for Intelligence Analysis, Oct. 2004.
Abridged version of above.
"Understanding complex transnational issues, such as terrorism and weapons proliferation, requires an alternative analysis approach that is more an ongoing organizational process aimed at promoting 'mindfulness' -- continuous wariness of analytic failure -- than a set of tools that analysts are encouraged to employ when needed."
[Analysis/Critiques]
Fishel, Reverdy
S. "The Attack on the Liberty: An 'Accident?'" International
Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 8, no. 3 (Fall 1995):
345-352.
This article ostensibly deals with Davis Rodman's review in IJI&C 7.4 of Loftus and Aarons' The Secret War Against the Jews. Beyond that, however, Fishel uses the article to restate the case for a planned and deliberate attack by the Israelis on the USS Liberty. Fishel takes strong exception to Rodman's statement that the "most credible" explanation of the attack is that it was an "accident": "In fact, Israel's assault on the Liberty was as accidental as Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor." Fishel calls Loftus and Aarons' book, "a collection of preposterous and demonstrably false theories and allegations. With regard to the Liberty attack, the only significant detail they get right is that it was deliberate."
David Rodman, "Against Fishel: Another Look at the Liberty Incident," International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 9, no. 1 (Spring 1996): 73-80. The author expresses and explains his continuing skepticism with regard to "the claim that the Israelis knowingly attacked an American ship."
[GenPostwar/60s/Liberty][c]
Fisher, Dan. "Israeli Space Program Sets Lofty Goals; Security, Industrial Development Are Prime Concerns." Los Angeles Times, 10 Jun. 1985, sec. 4, 1.
[Israel/Space]
Fisher, David.
The War Magician. New York: Coward-McCann, 1983.
Wilcox: "Account of Jasper Maskelyne, professional magician, who devised camouflage and special effects for allies."
[WWII/Gen]
Fisher,
John. Burgess and Maclean: A New Look at the Foreign Office Spies.
London: Hale, 1977.
Clark comment: This is not the book to read on this case. Even with its imperfections, Boyle's The Climate of Treason (1979) is a much better starting point.
Constantinides says that Fisher "massages old facts and theories and devotes much attention to details that are not central to the case and its significance."
[UK/SpyCases]
Fisher, Louis. Nazi Saboteurs on Trial: A Military Tribunal and American Law. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2003.
Peake, Studies 48.4 (2004), notes that the author "emphasizes the legal aspects ... and characterizes the tribunal approach as ill-conceived."
For Doerries, JIH 6.2 (Winter 2006/7), Fisher "presents a thoughtful collection of pros and cons on the question of trying persons before a military tribunal. The danger of an erosion of the constitutional rights of persons charged in the U.S. is evident, and categorization into citizens, non-citizens, legal aliens, illegal aliens, etc. does not really allay that concern.... The author’s conclusion that 'the Nazi saboteur case represented an unwise and ill-conceived concentration of power in the executive branch' (p. 172) is one of several legal -- and political -- opinions in the ongoing debate."
See also, Michael Dobbs, Saboteurs: The Nazi Raid on America (New York: Knopf, 2004); and Pierce O'Donnell, In Time of War: Hitler's Terrorist Attack on America (New York: New Press, 2005).
[Overviews/Legal/Gen; WWII/Eur/Ger/Ops]
Fisher, Louis.
"Review Essay: How to Avoid Iran-Contras." California Law Review
76 (1993): 919-929.
[GenPostwar/80s/Iran-Contra]
Fishman, Jack.
And the Walls Came Tumbling Down. London: Souvenir Press, 1982.
Wilcox: "Story of Operation Jericho, WWII mass escape of French Resistance prisoners."
[WWII/Eur/Fr/Resistance]
Fisk, Charles
E. "The Sino-Soviet Border Dispute: A Comparison of the Conventional
and Bayesian Methods for Intelligence Warning." Studies in Intelligence
16, no. 2 (Spring 1972): 53-62. In Inside CIA's Private World: Declassified
Articles from the Agency's Internal Journal, 1955-1992, ed. H. Bradford
Westerfield, 264-273. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995.
"Although it cannot be said categorically that the Bayesian method excels as a forecasting device, the Sino-Soviet experiment [detailed in the article] indicates that it might provide a means for such an accounting."
See companion article: Zlotnick, "Bayes' Theorum for Intelligence Analysis."
[Analysis/T&M & Warning][c]
Fisk, Robert.
In Time of War: Ireland, Ulster, and the Price of Neutrality. Brandon,
Ireland: A. Deutsch, 1983.
[WWII/Overviews]
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