Gilc - Gilz

Gilchrist, Andrew. Bangkok Top Secret: Being the Experiences of a British Officer in the Siam Country Section of Force 136. London: Hutchinson, 1970.

According to Constantinides, Gilchrist "tells the story of the little-known SOE operations into Siam in World War II ... from the perspective of the headquarters desk officer.... Gilchrist was blessed with a sense of humor and prior experience in Siam."

[UK/WWII/FEPac & Services/SOE]

Gil-Har, Yitzhak. "British Intelligence and the Role of Jewish Informers in Palestine." Middle Eastern Studies 39, no. 1 (Jan. 2003): 117-149.

[Israel/Historical]

Gill, David, and Ulrich Schröter. Das Ministerium für Staatsicherheit: Anatomie des Mielke-Imperiums. Berlin: Rowohalt, 1991.

Cited in Adams, IJI&C 13.1/34/fn. 24.

[Germany/East]

Gill, David W.J. "Research Note: Harry Pirie-Gordon: Historical Research, Journalism and Intelligence Gathering in the Eastern Mediterranean (1908-18)." Intelligence and National Security 21, no. 6 (Dec. 2006): 1045-1059.

"Pirie-Gordon was part of the [British] intelligence community in both world wars. He was certainly involved by the end of 1914 when he was working in Cairo." However, the exact timing of his "transition from academic studies and journalism to intelligence work remains unclear."

[WWI/UK]

Gill, E.W.B. War, Wireless and Wangles. Oxford: 1934.

Noting that Gill worked in MI1e in the United Kingdom and the Middle East during World War I, Ferris, I&NS 3.4/46/fn.9, says that Gill's "account of any issue in which he was personally involved is accurate."

[WWI/UK]

Gill, Peter. "Evaluating Intelligence Oversight Committees: The UK Intelligence and Security Committee and the 'War on Terror.'" Intelligence and National Security 22, no. 1 (Feb. 2007): 14-37.

"It is reasonable to conclude that the ISC has probably exceeded the expectations of some ... in terms of its access to information and success in establishing itself as a serious critic of the agencies. Yet it might also be criticized for timidity because it sees itself more as a part of the Whitehall machine for the management of the security intelligence commnunity than as its overseer." [italics in original]

[UK/PostCW/Gen]

Gill, Peter. "The Evolution of the Security Intelligence Debate in Canada Since 1976." In Security and Intelligence in a Changing World: New Perspectives for the 1990s, eds. Stuart Farson, David Stafford, and Wesley K. Wark, 75-94. London, Frank Cass, 1991.

[Canada/Gen]

Gill, Peter. Policing Politics: Security Intelligence and the Liberal Democratic State. London: Frank Cass, 1994. London: Frank Cass, 1994. [pb]

Robertson, I&NS 10.1, identifies as his "main criticism" the situation that "it is actually quite difficult to tell where the author stands.... This means that we are offered a useful outline of security intelligence practice but no clear thrust to the argument." Nevertheless, Gill does provide "a very scholarly review of the sources ... [and] a great deal of valuable information."

Choice, Jan. 1995, notes that the book is "almost exclusively British-oriented, or deals with topics of British interest." There is "comparatively less ... known regarding the operation and control of security intelligence organizations in the UK" than in the United States. "A final chapter looks to the future need -- pro and con -- of security intelligence."

[UK/Overviews/Other]

Gill, Peter. "Reasserting Control: Recent Changes in the Oversight of the UK Intelligence Community." Intelligence and National Security 11, no. 2 (Apr. 1996): 313-331.

Gill argues that recent steps in the UK, which have been presented as increased openness in the intelligence establishment, represent "not a movement along a single dimension from secrecy to openness but, rather,... a variation in 'information control'; specifically a shift from a defensive to an offensive strategy."

[UK/PostCW/Gen][c]

Gill, Peter. "Securing the Globe: Intelligence and the Post-9/11Shift from 'Liddism' to 'Drainism.'" Intelligence and National Security 19, no. 3 (Autumn 2004): 467-489.

This article considers "[c]hanges since 9/11 in law, doctrine, the intelligence process ... and oversight" with regard to the security intelligence agencies, and concludes "that there is a danger of the rebirth of independent security states."

[GenPostCW/Gen]

Gill, Peter. "Symbolic or Real? The Impact of the Canadian Security Intelligence Review Committee, 1984-88." Intelligence and National Security 4, no. 3 (Jul. 1989): 550-575.

The author points to SIRC's public disputes with CSIS and changes in CSIS' organizational structure as indicating that SIRC has had a real impact on the security intelligence scene in Canada.

[Canada][c]

Gill, Peter, and Peter Phythian. Intelligence in an Insecure World: Surveillance, Spies and Snouts. Malden, MA: Polity, 2006.

According to Peake, Studies 51.2 (2007), the authors offer what they see as a theory of intelligence that "involves adopting political and social science concepts not often encountered in the study of intelligence.... But in the end, the reader is left wondering just how their ideas for a 'more self-consciously analytical and theoretical' approach to intelligence will help.... Intelligence in an Insecure World may help clarify the nature of the gap between intelligence professionals and elements of academia, but it does not close it."

[Overviews/Gen/00s]

Gillan, Audrey. "Ex-Editor Dismisses Spy Claims." The Guardian (UK), 20 Sep. 1999.

On 19 September 1999, Dick Clements, former editor of the Tribune, named as "Dan," a KGB agent of influence, in the Mitrokhin papers, "dismissed the claims as 'nonsense' and as part of a 'feeding frenzy.'"

[UK/SpyCases/99/Fever]

Gilley, Bruce. "China's Spy Guide: A Chinese Espionage Manual Details the Means by Which Beijing Gathers Technology and Weapons Secrets from the United States." Far Eastern Economic Review, 23 Dec. 1999, 14. [http://www.feer.com]

A 361-page book, published in China in 1991 and written by "two of China's top military intelligence specialists," is "believed to be the first comprehensive manual on China's overseas military espionage to have been seen outside the country." The book, entitled Sources and Methods of Obtaining National Defence Science and Technology Intelligence, "outlines strategies for gathering both open and secret military technologies from abroad, and provides information on how to gather such intelligence in the United States."

[China/Gen; GenPostCW/90s/China/Sep99]

Gilligan, Tom. CIA Life: 10,000 Days with the Agency. Guilford, CT: Foreign Intelligence Press, 1991. 2d ed. Boston, MA: IEP, 2003.

Surveillant 1.1 says that this is an "account of the life of a loyal Agency employee who sees warts but understands and accepts the realities of the business." An entry on the CIA Website (https://www.cia.gov) notes that "[t]he author covers his 28-year career from his recruitment through his training as a CIA operations officer, culminating with his assignment as chief of applicant recruitment in New England."

From advertisement: "In this Second Edition, Tom Gilligan shows how U.S. Congress's success in destroying CIA Covert Action capabilities has made the President and the country reliant exclusively in the 21st century on overt military response to international threats such as Terrorism."

[CIA/Memoirs]

Gilling, Tom, and John McKnight. The Mordechai Vanunu Story. [UK]: Monarch, 1991. Trial and Error: Mordechai Vanunu and Israel's Nuclear Bomb. North Geelong, Victoria, Australia: Monarch/Christian Marketing, 1991.

Surveillant 1.4 calls this a "[f]actual account," while Surveillant 1.6, adds that "Vanunu, visiting Australia on holiday, claims to have revealed his pro-Arab sentiments to his new acquaintance, clergyman McKnight, who promptly converted him to Christianity and encouraged him to prove his new faith and interest in world peace by exposing Israel's clandestine nuclear activities."

[Israel]

Gillmor, Don. I Swear by Apollo: Dr. Ewen Cameron, the CIA, and the Canadian Mind-Control Experiments. Fountain Valley, CA: Eden Press, 1986. [Wilcox]

[CIA/Accusations]

Gilmore, Allison B. You Can't Fight Tanks with Bayonets: Psychological Warfare against the Japanese Army in the Southwest Pacific. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1998.

Seamon, Proceedings, Sep. 1998, says that the author "does a thorough and convincing job as she explains the basic differences between Japanese and American societies, and how Allied propagandists learned to exploit those differences."

For Fedorowich, I&NS 17.1, the author's "lucid examination of US psychological warfare policy in the Southwest Pacific Area ... makes an important contribution to our understanding of a little known but invaluable wartime activity....The focus of Gilmore's analysis is on combat propaganda that was intended primarily to demoralize Japanese soldiers."

[WWII/Psywar&Propaganda]

Gilmour, Raymond. Dead Ground: Infiltrating the IRA. London: Little & Brown, 1998. New York: Warner Futura, 1999.

The author was an RUC informer in Derry PIRA.

[UK/Postwar/IRA}

Gilstrap, C. Wiley. "The Cold War in Latin America." CIRA Newsletter 26, nos. 2/3 (Summer-Fall 2001): 47-55.

These are the personal recollections of a CIA officer covering the period from 1955 to 1979 and a career from case officer to station chief. This is a good, casual read.

[LA/Gen]

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