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Kemp, Anthony. The SAS at War: The Special Air Service Regiment, 1941-1945. London: Murray, 1991. London: Signet, 1993.

Foot, I&NS 7.4, sees this as "a lively, highly readable account" that focuses more on tactical than strategic aspects of SAS' work in World War II. However, he notes that the book "has not been well received regimentally, because there are so many errors of fact."

[UK/WWII/Services/SAS]

Kemp, Percy. "The Fall and Rise of France's Spymasters." Intelligence and National Security 9, no. 1 (Jan. 1994): 12-21.

"From 1989,... the French authorities initiated a series of reforms to address those structural problems which had beset the intelligence services since the end of the Second World War.... The French have ... been striving to develop their spatial collection abilities."

[France/Overviews][c]

Kemp, Peter. The Thorns of Memory: One of the Twentieth Century's Great Adventurers. London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1990.

Surveillant 1.3 describes this as the "[a]utobiography of an adventurer who fought for Franco in the Spanish Civil War and worked for SOE in WWII."

Seaman, I&NS 8.4, says that Kemp's "latest work is, in large measure, simply a condensation of his earlier [three books]," with the individual volumes offering "fuller accounts." Nevertheless, Thorns of Memory "constitutes a fascinating book in its own right."

The three earlier books mentioned above are:

Kemp, Peter. Alms for Oblivion. London: Cassell, 1961.

Kemp, Peter. Mine Were Trouble. London: Cassell, 1957.

Kemp, Peter. No Colours or Crest. London: Cassell, 1958.

[UK/WWII/Services/SOE]

Kemp, Vernon A.M. Without Fear, Favour or Affection: Thirty-five Years with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Toronto: Longmans, Green, 1958.

[Canada/Gen]

Kempe, Frederick. "Now a Free Agent, Master Soviet Spy Tells Rich Tales." Wall Street Journal, 25 May 1995, A1.

Profile of East German spymaster Markus Wolf. On 23 May 1995, the German high court ruled that East German spies cannot be prosecuted for conducting Cold War espionage against the West.

[Germany/East/Wolf]

Kempster, Norman. "Academia Mounts Fight to Save a CIA Program." Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 1997.

"At issue is a plan by some of the CIA's budget writers to cut by 25% or more the funding for the Foreign Broadcast Information Service.... Since rumors of the cuts surfaced last summer, a growing list of professors and other academics has protested what is called a false economy. Lyman Miller, director of the China studies program at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, said the cuts will 'cripple our curriculum.'"

[CIA/C&C/FBIS]

Kempster, Norman. "Albright Demands Shake-up in Security Procedures." Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2000. [http://www.latimes.com]

[OtherAgencies/State]

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