Gebhardt, James
F. Soviet Special Purpose Forces: An Annotated Bibliography. Fort
Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Combined Arms Center, Soviet Army Studies Office,
May 1990. [Gibish]
Gebhardt, James
F. Soviet Special Purpose Forces: An Annotated Bibliography. Fort
Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Combined Arms Center, Soviet Army Studies Office,
May 1990. [Gibish]
[MI/SpecOps/Ref; Russia/RefMats]
Gedye, Robin [Telegraph].
Gehlen, Reinhard. Tr., David Irving. The Service: The Memoirs of Reinhard Gehlen. New York: World Publishing, 1972. New York: Popular Library, 1972. [pb]
Clark comment: After a 20-page stage-setting introduction, the next 80+ pages are concerned with World War II. The middle third of the book covers the 1946-1954 period of the "Gehlen organization," which operated under CIA control from 1949 until it was regularized as the Bundesnackrichtendienst (BND) by transfer to the German Federal Republic. The concluding substantive third covers the period from 1954 to Gehlen's retirement in 1968. A final three chapters at the end of the book deal with the future of the world and can be ignored. It would be a good idea to read Gehlen's Memoirs in conjunction with Höhne and Zolling's The General Was a Spy.
Pforzheimer notes that, despite many of the self-serving attributes of such personal recollections, Gehlen's memoirs contain "much of value to the discriminating reader." Petersen labels the book "[a]n incomplete account." Constantinides mentions the disappointment of most reviewers in the book.
A seemingly knowledgeable reviewer for Studies 16.3 (Fall 1972) finds that this memoir "reads easily... The section on Foreign Armies East is perhaps the best part of the book, although it is of interest primarily to military historians." Gehlen mentions by name only well-known figures, otherwise using an alias or similar device; and he "discloses nothing which should not be disclosed."
[Germany/Gehlen][c]
Gehrke, Robert. "Key Spy Agency Expands to Utah." Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Feb. 2006. [http://www.sltrib.com]
NSA has confirmed that it will be "adding a cadre of translators in Utah.... The move to Utah is part of a trend within the NSA to move many functions out of its headquarters.... [S]ome NSA counterterrorism operations have moved to Georgia; several thousand NSA jobs are being relocated to a multimillion-dollar facility in San Antonio, according to the San Antonio Express-News; The Denver Post reported some unspecified functions would be moving to the Denver area; and the NSA representative indicated some duties in Hawaii have been expanded."
[NSA/00s/06]
Geimer,
Bill. "The Handling of Defectors: Afterthoughts on the Yurchenko Case."
ABA Standing Committee Intelligence Report 7, no. 12 (1985): 3-4.
[Petersen]
[Russia/Defectors/Gen]
Gelb,
Leslie H. "Overseeing of CIA by Congress Has Produced Decade of Support."
New York Times, 7 Jul. 1986, A1.
[Oversight]
Gelb, Leslie
H. "Should We Play Dirty Tricks in the World?" New York Times
Magazine, 21 Dec. 1975, 10-11 ff.
[CA]
Gelb,
Leslie H., with Richard K. Betts. The Irony of Vietnam: The System Worked.
Washington, DC: Brookings, 1979.
Petersen: "Chief compiler of the Pentagon Papers; coverage of CIA role in the policy process."
[Vietnam]
Gelb, Norman.
Enemy in the Shadows: The World of Spies and Spying. New York: Hippocrene,
1976.
Wilcox: "General account of espionage."
[Overviews/Gen]
Gellhorn, Walter, ed. The States and Subversion. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1952.
[FBI/DomSec/Misc]
Gellman, Barton - A - L [Washington Post].
Gellman, Barton - M - Z [Washington Post].
Gellman, Brian. "Lessons Learned from OIF: An SF [Special Forces] Battalion S2's Perspective." Military Intelligence 30 (Apr.-Jun. 2004): 35-42.
The author provides an overview of networking by intelligence officers in Operation Iraqi Freedom and deals with other intelligence-related matters.
[MI/Ops/Iraq/04]
Gendron, Angela. "Just War, Just Intelligence: An Ethical Framework for Foreign Intelligence." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 18, no. 3 (Fall 2005): 398-434.
[Overviews/Ethics]
General Accounting Office. Environment: DOD's New Environmental Security Strategy Faces Barriers. Washington, DC: GAO, 1994.
[GenPostwar/NatSec/Env]
Gentile, Keith.
"U-2s Look Deep and Accurate." Airman 44, no. 6 (Jun. 2000):
44-45.
Periodical Abstracts: "The 99th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron's involvement in Operation Allied Force [against Yugoslavia] included intelligence surveillance work over enemy territory, where the U-2 pilots located missile sites and aircraft."
[MI/Ops/Kosovo; Recon/Planes/00s]
Gentleman,
Amelia, and Richard Norton-Taylor. "Russian Held for Spying for Britain."
The Guardian, 16 Mar. 2000. [http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk]
The arrest of a Russian citizen on charges of spying for Britain "came only days after [British Prime Minister Tony] Blair met [Acting Russian President Vladimir] Putin -- a former KGB agent and more recently the head of the FSB -- for informal talks and a friendly evening at the opera in St Petersburg....
"Another Russian citizen, Platon Obukhov, was arrested in 1996 for allegedly passing secrets of a 'political and strategic defence character' to British agents while working as a diplomat for the Russian foreign ministry."
Click to revisit the 1996 tit-for-tat UK-Russian expulsions.
[Russia/00]
Gentry, Curt. J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets. New York: Norton, 1991. New York: Truman Talley/Plume, 1992. [pb] New York: Norton, 2001. [pb]
Clark comment: There is much here, perhaps too much. It is difficult at times to separate the sourced from the unsourced from the purely speculative. The following is one of many such examples -- this one occurring in the space of less than two pages: "What happened ... during the next few days can only be surmised.... would obviously ... Typically,... would have.... would surely be ... presumably saw ... Perhaps ... is the likely approach ... would have been ... may have ... must have ... would have been...." Parsing this huge (760 pages of text) and sprawling work for what is and is not on the mark might well require as much research as went into the book itself, although the retelling of earlier events (up to 1945) gives the impression of being sounder than some of what follows.
Surveillant 2.1 calls Gentry's work "[a]n impressive, comprehensive account -- hostile but fairer than expected." Nonetheless, the author "presents more of a caricature of Hoover than the man deserves." Similarly, Elson, Time, 14 Oct. 1991, notes that Gentry "generally is better at describing what the director did than at analyzing what made him tick."
For O'Reilly, Policy Studies Journal 21.3, Gentry's is "by far the best Hoover biography ... but we cannot learn much about the director and civil rights from a writer who has either never heard of Selma ... or simply cannot keep the movement's seminal events straight."
Wannall, FILS 11.2, calls the book a "gathering of gossip and undocumented allegations." The "principal source ... was William C. Sullivan," who was a "biased, vengeful person." Yet Wannall, The Real J. Edgar Hoover (2000), p. 185, also refers to Gentry as "one of the less-biased chroniclers of Hoover's life and career."
[FBI/90s]
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