Hann - Hanz

Hannah, Theodore M. "Frank B. Rowlett: A Personal Profile." Cryptologic Spectrum (Spring 1981): 4-22. [Petersen]

In 1930, Rowlett was the first junior cryptanalyst hired by William F. Friedman into the newly established Signal Intelligence Service of the U.S. Army Signal Corps. He had a long and distinguished career in the Army, with the Central Intelligence Agency, and with the National Security Agency. Rowlett retired from NSA in 1965 after a brief stint as head of the National Cryptologic School. O'Toole, Encyclopedia, p. 398.

[MI/Army; NSA]

Hannant, Larry.

1. "Access to the Inside: An Assessment of 'Canada's Secret Service: A History.'" Intelligence and National Security 8, no. 3 (Jul. 1993): 149-159.

This article is a review/assessment of a 1978 study by two RCMP historians, Carl Betke and Stan Horrall, "Canada's Secret Service: A History, 1964-1966," released under Canada's Access Act. The study is "mostly presented in a straightforward manner, with few efforts made to set out the significance of events.... The fact that this is an internal history makes it particularly valuable... [It] is now dated, and ... was intended only to be an historical outline.... None the less,... it is an admirable start and ... immensely informative."

2. Infernal Machine: Investigating the Loyalty of Canada's Citizens. Toronto & Buffalo, NY: University of Toronto Press, 1995.

Clark comment: This book began life as Hannant's Ph.D. dissertation at the University of British Columbia.

Surveillant 4.4/5 finds "[m]uch weeping here, about nothing. Government employment carries with it numerous risks so governments exercise caution in hiring."

According to Hoffman, WIR 15.6, Hannant shows that "systematic screening of government employees" began in Canada as early as 1931 under the auspices of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The reviewer finds the work to be "finely balanced" and evenhanded."

[Canada/Gen]

Hannant, Larry. "Inter-War Security Screening in Britain, the United States and Canada." Intelligence and National Security 6, no. 4 (Oct. 1991): 711-735.

The internal security forces of Canada (RCMP), Britain (MI5), and the United States (FBI) all declined in numbers of personnel from the early 1920s into the 1930s. Nevertheless, these services worked "to broaden the range of their security operations." One of the "important new enterprises they launched in this time" was "systematic security screening of civil servants and even industrial workers."

[Canada/Gen; Interwar/U.S.; UK/Interwar/Gen][c]

Hanne, William G. "Ethics in Intelligence." Military Intelligence 8, no. 1 (1982): 6-8. [Petersen]

[Overviews/Ethics]

Hanrahan, James. "Intelligence for the Policy Chiefs." Studies in Intelligence 11, no. 1 (Winter 1967): 1-12.

[GenPostwar/60s/Gen]

Hanrahan, James. "Interview with Former CIA Executive Director Lawrence K. 'Red' White." Studies in Intelligence (Winter 1999-2000): 29-41.

Clark comment: Col. Red White is one of the good guys. What is published here are excerpts from an interview at his home in Vero Beach, Florida, on 7 January 1998. White's reminiscences, which include an Agency career reaching from 1947 to 1972, are a great read. His comments on the players of his time are brief, to the point, and priceless.

[CIA/Memoirs]

Hanseman, Robert G.  "Realities and Legalities of Information Warfare."  Air Force Law Review 42 (1997): 173-200.

[GenPostwar/InfoWar]

Hansen, Allen C. USIA: Public Diplomacy in the Computer Age. New York: Praeger, 1984.

[CA/PsyOps]

Hansen, James H. Japanese Intelligence: The Competitive Edge. Washington, DC: NIBC, 1996.

Henderson, IJI&C 10.2, is less than completely enamoured of this work. He finds that Hansen's study "is short on analysis, is dated in its details and has only weak organizational diagrams.... His cited sources are limited to pre-1993 English language publications, with an over-reliance on the writings of Richard Deacon and Jeffrey Richelson." Hansen does provide a more interesting discussion "of the intelligence activities of the major Japanese trading corporations" and "their 'intelligence collection and analysis' modus operandi." Overall, this is "a convenient if somewhat basic primer on Japanese intelligence up to the early 1990s."

For Oros, I&NS 14.3, the "primary contribution" of Hansen's work is to point out how little we really know about Japanese intelligence. This is because the book "offers little more than a compilation of a few existing, English-language sources... -- many of which are quite dated."

[Japan/PostWWII]

Hansen, James H. "The Kremlin Follies of '53...The Demise of Lavrenti Beria." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 4, no. 1 (Spring 1990): 101-114.

[Russia/Beria][c]

Hansen, James H. "RX: Intelligence Communications -- Use Acronyms, Allegories, and Metaphors Only as Directed." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 2, no. 1 (Spring 1988): 21-26.

[CIA/Components/Tradecraft][c]

Hansen, James H. "Soviet Deception in the Cuban Missile Crisis." Studies in Intelligence 46, no. 1 (2002): 49-58.

"From its inception, the Soviet missile operation entailed elaborate denial and deception (D&D) efforts," for which the author provides both details and context.

[GenPostwar/60s/MissileCrisis]

Hansen, James H. "U.S. Intelligence Confronts the Future." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 17, no. 4 (Winter 2004-2005): 673-709.

"Washington must invest wisely in the next generation of intelligence officers, give them the best training possible, set them loose to pursue the most difficult and dangerous foreign targets, and give them the total support that they deserve from the American people."

[GenPostCW/00s/Gen]

Hansen, Peer Henrik. "'Upstairs and Downstairs' -- The Forgotten CIA Operations in Copenhagen." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 19, no. 4 (Winter 2006-2007): 685-701.

Outlines the activities of "The Firm," an anticommunist group formed by former Resistance fighters in Denmark in the aftermath of World War II. From 1952 to 1959, the group maintained an "eavesdropping operation" in the apartment of the depauty chairman of the Danish Communist Party. The take was shared with the CIA.

[CIA/50s/Gen; OtherCountries/Denmark]

Hansen, Ronald. "Kasi Faces a Tough Panel." Washington Times, 9 Nov. 1997, A1, A10.

[CIA/90s/97/Kansi]

Hanson, Steven M. "Results of an Experiment Comparing the Spatial Ability of Imagery Analysts and Non-Imagery Analysts." Defense Intelligence Journal 8, no. 1 (Summer 1999): 120-134.

The experiment used "the Minnesota Spatial Relations Test (MSRT) to compare the visuospatial ability of imagery analysts to a control group.... The MSRT demonstrates that imagery analyst spatial accuracy is much higher than that of non-imagery analysts.... [T]his study does not address the reasons for this enhanced performance."

[Analysis]

Hanyok, Robert J. Eavesdropping on Hell: Historical Guide to Western Communications Intelligence and the Holocaust, 1939-1945. Ft. George Meade, MD: National Security Agency, Center for Cryptologic History, 2005.

Aftergood, Secrecy News (from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy) 2005, no. 54 (8 Jun. 2005), refers to this work as a "major historical study of communications intelligence (COMINT) regarding the destruction of European Jewry and other targeted populations during World War II."

For Alvarez, I&NS 20.4 (Dec. 2005), "[t]his is a superb monograph" that "provides an informed overview of how American and British communication intelligence (Comint) agencies reported the Holocaust.... Those seeking a short [167 pages] but authoritative account of codebreaking and the Holocaust need look no further."

[UK/WWII/Ultra; WWII/Gen & Magic/Gen]

Hanyok, Robert J. Spartans in Darkness: American SIGINT and the Indochina War, 1945-1975. Ft. George Meade, MD: National Security Agency, Center for Cryptologic History, 2002. [http://www.fas.org/irp/nsa/spartans/]

Aftergood, http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/, 7 Jan 2008, notes that this work is "an exhaustive history of American signals intelligence (SIGINT) in the Vietnam War.... Hanyok[] writes in a lively, occasionally florid style that is accessible even to those who are not well-versed in the history of SIGINT or Vietnam."

See also, Peter Grier, "Declassified Study Puts Vietnam Events in New Light," Christian Science Monitor, 9 Jan. 2008. [http://www.csmonitor.com]

[NSA/Sigint; Vietnam/Gen]

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