Kinsman, Gary, Dieter Buse, and Mercedes Streedman, eds. Whose National Security? Canadian State Surveillance and the Creation of Enemies. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2000.
Kinsman, Gary, Dieter Buse, and Mercedes Streedman, eds. Whose National Security? Canadian State Surveillance and the Creation of Enemies. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2000.
Salter, JIH 3.1, notes that this book "tackles the question of state surveillance almost exclusively from within the one-sided agenda of new-leftist civil libertarianism. This agenda ... prejudices the interpretative agenda of discussion to a simplistic opposition between security interventions deemed to be inherently repressive, homogenising and normalising, and the 'resistance' of non-conformist and dissident groups.... The price paid for the generalisation and superimposition of this one-sided civil libertarian agenda is the complete inability to recognise that, during the twentieth century there was even a single example of the national security interests of the Canadian state being really threatened."
[Canada/Gen]
Kinsman, N. Richard. "Openness and the Future of the Clandestine Service." Studies in Intelligence 10 (Winter-Spring 2001): 55-61.
The author argues that "inappropriate applications of the concept" of openness will threaten the viability of the mission of the Clandestine Service and the CIA.
[RefMats/ReleasePolicies]
Kinzer, Stephen. All the Shah's Men: The Hidden Story of the CIA's Coup in Iran. New York: Wiley, 2003
Goedeken, Library Journal, 15 Jun. 2003, says that the author "tells his captivating tale with style and verve." The reviewer for Publishers Weekly, 12 May 2003, refers to Kinzer's "breezy storytelling and diligent research.... At its best this work reads like a spy novel."
Although Brown, FA, Nov.-Dec. 2003, notes that the main story has been known for some time, this retelling presents "a crisp, readable narrative." Robarge, Studies 48.2 (2004), sees All the Shah's Men as a "breezily written, well-researched popular history."
[CIA/50s/Iran]
Kinzer, Stephen.
Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua. New York: Putnam, 1991.
Clark comment: Kinzer was Managua bureau chief of the New York Times from 1983 to 1988.
Leiken, WPNWE, 1-7 Jul. 1991, finds that Kinzer's "reporting sometimes appeared an exercise in constituency balancing: a little criticism, a little praise and a glut of phrases such as 'there was wide difference of opinion of whether....' In the book the balancing act creates incoherence."
[CIA/80s/Nicaragua]
Kinzer, Stephen. Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq. New York: Times Books, 2006. 2007. [pb]
Clark comment: The author is a journalist who has previously writtem on the U.S.-supported coups in Iran (1953) and Guatemala (1954). Here, he begins in the late 19th century, sweeps across the 20th century, and covers the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in the beginning of the 21st century. Kinzer's speculation, following each case he presents, about what might have been without U.S. "intervention" eventually gets quite tiresome.
According to Sweig, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2006, the author argues that "the United States has deployed its power to gain access to natural resources, stifle dissent and control the nationalism of newly independent states or political movements.... Kinzer's narrative abounds with unusual anecdotes, vivid description and fine detail, demonstrating why he ranks among the best in popular foreign policy storytelling, especially for those on the left." However, the book "stumbles when its tone shifts from lively storytelling to World Book Encyclopedia entry. It also sometimes slips into deliciously tempting caricature." Nor does Overthrow "tell us enough about the domestic environments that shaped the perspectives of those leaders whom the United States was busy overthrowing, isolating or provoking."
Lieven, NYT Book Review, 16 Apr. 2006, who clearly supports the argument that U.S. interventions have fueled anti-Americanism around the world, refers to this work as a "fine book," "detailed, passionate and convincing," and "meticulously reported."
On the other hand, Peake, Studies 50.4 (2006) and Intelligencer 15.2 (Fall/Winter 2006-2007), finds that while "[n]o one can argue that the events Kinzer cites did not take place," the book has "a barely latent malevolence" to it. The author clearly "doesn't approve of covert action but despite his best efforts, he has not succeeded in justifying its demise."
Ikenberry, FA 86.2 (Mar.-Apr. 2007), finds the author's account to be "fascinating history ... recounted in lively and colorful detail." Kinzer "offers a useful portrait of the presidents who have influenced the exercise of U.S. power and the interesting judgment that interventions have often succeeded in their immediate goals but failed to advance U.S. interests in the long term."
[CA/00s; Overviews/U.S./00s]
Kippenhahn, Rudolf.
Tr., Ewald Osers. Code Breaking: A History and Explanation. Woodstock, NY: Overlook, 1999.
For Kahn, IJI&C 13.1, this "book, a collection of stories and elementary lessons about cryptology, lacks structure and is riddled with errors." Kruh, Cryptologia 24.1, cuts the author a bit more slack, noting that the book covers "a wide variety of topics with many interesting stories, including a few not widely known."
[Cryptography/Gen]
Kiras, James D. "Inelligence, Peacekeeping and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles." Peacekeeping and International Relations 24, no. 6 (Nov.-Dec. 1995).
[GenPostwar/Peacekeeping; Recon/UAVs]
Kirkland, Michael.
"[U.S. Supreme] Court Looks at CIA Shooter Case."
United Press International,
31 May 1999.
In a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court, "Mir Amal Kasi asks the justices to hear argument next term on whether his dramatic capture by FBI agents in Pakistan and his forced return to the United States constitutes an 'unreasonable seizure' banned by the Fourth Amendment." Virginia authorities have until 9 June 1999 to respond to the petition.
[CIA/90s/97]
Kirkland, Robert O. "Colonel Edward Fox and the 1964 Bolivian Coup." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 18, no. 3 (Fall 2005): 473-482.
The author concludes that "documents and interviews show clearly that neither [U.S. Air Force Attaché Edward] Fox nor the Embassy were involved in the overthrow" of Bolivian President Victor Paz by Gen. René Barrientos in November 1964.
[LA/Bolivia; MI/Attaches/Postwar]
Kirkwood,
Cort. "Our Friendly Neighborhood Colony of Spies." Cryptolog
15, no. 1 (Jan. 1994): 1, 8-9, 18.
"Cryptolog editor's note: I first saw this article in The Phoenician, which is the organization of NSA retired folks. I requested, and ultimately received[,] permission from The Baltimore Magazine to reprint the article."
[NSA]
Kirschbaum,
Erik. "Spy Chief Guilty on Cold War Charges." Washington Times,
28 May 1997, A9.
[Germany/East/Wolf]
Kirschner, Don
S. Cold War Exile: The Unclosed Case of Maurice Halperin. Columbia,
MO: University of Missouri Press, 1995.
Clark comment: Accused by Elizabeth Bentley of passing OSS secrets to the Soviets during World War II, Maurice Halperin fled to Mexico, Moscow, Cuba, and eventually Vancouver. Was he a spy for the Soviet Union or a scapegoat during the peak of the McCarthy era?
Surveillant 4.4/5 calls this book "a sympathetic historical analysis of a dyed-in-the-wool leftist."
Hayden B. Peake, "OSS and the Venona Decrypts," Intelligence and National Security 12, no. 3 (Jul. 1997), 25-26, links Halperin to two cypytonyms in the Venona traffic -- "Hare" and, later, "Stowaway" -- but acknowledges that "there is no way to positively identify him as 'Hare' working solely from the messages released."
[SpyCases/U.S./Other]
Kitson, Frank.
Low-Intensity Operations: Subversion Insurgency and Peacekeeping. London: Faber & Faber, 1971.
[UK/Postwar/Counterinsurgency]
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