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Krieger, Wolfgang. "German Intelligence History: A Field in Search of Scholars." Intelligence and National Security 19, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 185-198.

"While Anglo-Saxon scholars are producing books on intelligence history at an ever-increasing rate, the interest in this particular branch of historical studies has been scant in Germany.... To be sure,... there are ... small circles of German intelligence historians.... But the overall picture is undoubtedly one of neglect.... Arguably there are three factors at work: The first is access to sources, the second has to do with the peculiarities of post-1945 intellectual life in Germany, and the third concerns German bureacratic culture."

[Germany/PostCW]

Krikorian, Greg. "Handler of Alleged Spy Cuts Plea Deal." Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2004. [http://www.latimes.com]

[SpyCases/U.S./Smith-Leung]

Krikorian, Greg. "What Did FBI Know When in Spying Case." Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2003. [http://www.latimes.com]

[SpyCases/U.S./Smith-Leung]

Krikorian, Greg, David Rosenzweig, and K. Connie Kang. "Ex-FBI Agent Is Arrested in China Espionage Case." Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2003.. [http://www.latimes.com]

[SpyCases/U.S./Smith-Leung]

Kristof, Nicholas D. "Seoul Said to Foil Spy Ring for North that Included a Top Scholar." New York Times, 21 Nov. 1997, A7.

[OtherCountries/SKorea]

Kristol, Irving. Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Reflections of a Neoconservative. New York: Basic, 1983.

These are memoirs of the editor of Encounter.

[CA/Eur]

Krivitsky, Walter G. In Stalin's Secret Service: An Expose of Russia's Secret Policies by the Former Chief of the Soviet Intelligence in Western Europe. New York: Harper & Bros., 1939. Frederick, MD: UPA, 1985. Frederick, MD: UPA, 1995. I Was Stalin's Agent. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1939. Krivitsky, Walter G. Ed., Mark Almond. I Was Stalin's Agent. New York: Faulkner Books, 1992. Krivitsky, Walter G. In Stalin's Secret Service: Memoirs of the First Soviet Master Spy to Defect. New York: Enigma, 2000.

Clark comment: Krivitsky was a Soviet GRU "illegal" (his cover was as an art dealer in The Hague) operating in Western Europe; he defected in 1937. Krivitsky was either killed or committed suicide in February 1941. UPA's 1985 edition has a Preface by William Hood, which places the work in historical perspective.

For a new biography of Krivitsky, see Gary Kern, A Death in Washington: Betrayed by the Philby Spy Ring -- Walter G. Krivitsky and the Stalin Terror (New York: Enigma, 2003).

Earl M. Hyde, Jr., "Still Perplexed about Krivitsky," International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 16, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 428-441, offers a readable (although somewhat speculative) review of Krivitsky's role and life between his defection and his death.

Pforzheimer notes that this is considered an "important 'core' book in the intelligence literature written by Soviet defectors. However, it is of mixed quality and occasionally subject to challenge in the light of later factual data." Nevertheless, "there is excellent material in this book" and it is "an important work."

According to Constantinides, "[r]esearchers should keep in mind that the main thrust of the book is correct even though details may not be."

With regard to the 1992 edition, Surveillant 3.1 says that Krivitsky's story is "not completely told here.... [He] wrote the book to get survival money soon after arrival in the U.S.... Before he could write another ... he was found dead in a Washington, D.C. hotel room.... [H]e was never debriefed by the FBI."

Commenting on the 2000 edition, Unsinger, IJI&C 15.2, reminds us that the focus of Krivitsky's work was not his espionage activities but, rather, the effort of a true believer to understand what Stalin was doing to the cause for which Krivitsky had labored.

Goulden, Washington Times, 10 Aug. 2003, reviewing Gary Kern's A Death in Washington (2003), notes that In Stalin's Secret Service was "written by Isaac Don Levine" and adds that the work "for the most part has proved credible."

[Russia/Sov/Defectors]

Krizan, Liza. Intelligence Essentials for Everyone. Occasional Paper No. 6. Washington, DC: Joint Military Intelligence College, 1999. [Available at: http://www.scip.org/2_getinteless.php]

Macartney identifies the author as a Department of Defense analyst who wrote this monograph "as part of her thesis while earning a masters degree in Strategic Intelligence at the College in 1996." This is "an excellent primer on intelligence -- but don't expect to find secrets, derring-do or skullduggery. It's mostly theoretical and practical, about knowledge and analysis -- an epistemology of intelligence if you will."

[Analysis/T&M; WhatIsIntel?]

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