Kealey, Gregory S. Kean, Thomas H., and Lee H. Hamilton. "Are We Safer Today?" Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2007, B1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
The former chairman and vice chairman of the 9/11 commission state: "Two years ago, we and our colleagues issued a report card assessing the U.S. government's progress on the bipartisan recommendations in the 9/11 commission report. We concluded that the nation was not safe enough. Our judgment remains the same today: We still lack a sense of urgency in the face of grave danger.... [W]e are safer in a narrow sense: We have not been attacked, and our defenses are better. But we have become distracted and complacent.... The terrible losses our country suffered on 9/11 should have catalyzed efforts to create an America that is safer, stronger and wiser. We still have a long way to go."
[Reform/00s/07; Terrorism/00s/07]
Kean, Thomas H., and Lee H. Hamilton. Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission. New York: Knopf, 2006.
The Publishers Weekly (via Amazon.com) reviewer finds the tone of this work by the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the 9/11 to be "evenhanded and diplomatic.... The authors cogently defend the compromises they made and swat conspiracy theories about coverups.... [T]his lucid, absorbing account" of the commission's work is "very timely."
Peake, Studies 51.1 (Mar. 2007), finds that this book "gives us an unusual glimpse of a government commission at work. The report card on intelligence work in the final chapter is not one any college student would want, but it makes clear what the authors think has been and still needs to be done."
[GenPostCW/00s/Commission/04-06]
Keats, John. They Fought Alone. Philadelphia: Lippencott, 1963.
Petersen: "Anti-Japanese guerrilla in the Philippines."
[WWII/FE/Pac/Philippines]
Keatts, Dorothy. "Footnote to Cicero." Studies in Intelligence 1, no. 4 (Fall 1957): 47-53.
The author's "footnote" deals with how her American contact got German military attache Moyzisch's secretary, the neurotic but anti-Nazi Nele Kapp, out of Turkey.
[UK/WWII/Cicero]
Kedward, Harry Roderick.
1. Occupied France: Collaboration and Resistance. Oxford: Blackwell, 1985.
2. Resistance in Vichy France: A Study of Ideas and Motivation in the Southern Zone, 1940-42. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.
3. In Search of the Maquis: Rural Resistance in Southern France, 1942-1944. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. New ed. 1995.
Foot, I&NS 11.1, calls this "an outstanding book, of great interest to those who study politics, society, police forces, or the history of war.... Readable scholarship is always a delight; here is a fine example."
[WWII/Eur/Fr/Resistance]
Keefe, Patrick Radden. Chatter: Dispatches From the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping. New York: Random House, 2005.
Bamford, Washington Post, 20 Feb, 2005, finds that the author "does a wonderful job of exploring ... the role of ... signals intelligence..., in the post-Cold War world.... Keefe's style alternates from breezy to academic."
For Grimes, NYT, 2 Mar. 2005, Chatter is "a beginner's guide to the world of electronic espionage and the work of the National Security Agency." The author "writes, crisply and entertainingly, as an interested private citizen rather than an expert." The work is "filled with anecdotes, colorful quotes and arresting statistics."
Powers, NYRB 52.8 (12 May 2005), says that this work "contains a lot of information" about the "names of bases and organizations, descriptions of technologies used for collecting information, [and] a sketchy outline history of the Anglophone alliance beginning in 1946 with the original British and American agreement." Although Chatter "is written with fluid grace and disciplined structure, in truth it does not add much hard new information."
To Kruh, Cryptologia 29.3 (Jul. 2005), this is "a bold and distinctive book, part detective story, part travelogue, part essay on paranoia and secrecy in the digital age." The author is "an excellent writer," and has produced "a book that is important and also enjoyable."
[NSA/Sigint]
Keene, Jennifer
D. "Uneasy Alliances: French Military Intelligence and the American
Army during the First World War." Intelligence and National Security
13, no. 1 (Spring 1998): 18-36.
Abstract: "During the First World War, French liaison officers ... provided valuable intelligence about the American army to French military authorities.... Non-adversarial spying on the Americans improved the French military's ability to understand and work with their ally."
[France/WWI; WWI/U.S.][c]
Kees, Terry.
"Advanced Information Processing and Analysis." American Intelligence
Journal 13, no. 3 (Summer 1992): 53-58.
The author is Deputy Director, Office of Research and Development, CIA.
[Analysis][c]
Kehm, Harold D. "Notes on Some Aspects of Intelligence Estimates." Studies in Intelligence 1, no. 2 (Winter 1956): 19-37.
Both the intelligence officer and the military commander or policymaker "are in the estimating business."
[Analysis/Estimates]
Kehoe, Mark T. "Senate Armed Services Offers Own Agency Revamp Plan." Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, Jun. 1996, 1609.
[Reform]
Kehoe, Mark T. "Brown Commission Shies Away from Radical Suggestions." Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, 2 Mar. 1996, 567.
Summary of recommendations of the Aspin/Brown commission.
[Reform/96/Commission]
Kehoe, Robert
R. "1944: An Allied Team with the French Resistance." Studies
in Intelligence (Winter 1998-1999): 15-50.
This is the author's memoir of service as a radioman with "Jed Team Frederick." He covers the training received both in the United States and England, preparations for the drop into France, and activities after the team's insertion into Brittany on 9 June 1944.
[WWII/OSS/France][c]
Keiger, J.F.V.
"'Perfidious Albion?' French Perceptions of Britain as an Ally after
the First World War." Intelligence and National Security 13,
no. 1 (Spring 1998): 37-52.
Abstract: "[A]ttempts in 1919 and 1921 to convert Franco-British friendship into a formal alliance laid bare the thought processes and mentalities of French decision-makers and their seeming inability to assess Britain accurately as a potential ally."
[France/Interwar]
Keim, C. Adamitis ["Addi"]. "The Missing Link: Adda Bozeman on U.S. Strategic Intelligence," Intelligencer 13, no. 2 (Winter-Spring 2003): 37-44.
This essay explicates in a brief and readable fashion Dr. Bozeman's critique of the failure of Western intelligence to "understand 'others' in the world environment on their own terms."
[Analysis/Critiques]
Keiswetter, Allen L. "The Middle East: Teaching Intelligence Concepts and Issues." Defense Intelligence Journal 16, no. 2 (2007): 105-119.
[RefMats/Teaching]
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