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Kuhn, Ferdinand. The Story of the Secret Service. New York: Random House, 1957.

[OtherAgencies/Treasury]

Kuhns, Woodrow. "The Beginning of Intelligence Analysis in CIA: The Office of Reports and Estimates: CIA’s First Center for Analysis." Studies in Intelligence 51, no. 2 (2007): 27-45. [https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol51no2/the-beginning-of-intelligence-analysis-in-cia.html]

ORE grew out of the Central Reports Staff, created in the CIG in 1946, and continued until late 1950. It was replaced by the Office of National Estimates, the Office of Research and Reports, and the Office of Current Intelligence.

[CIA/Components/DI]

Kuhns, Woodrow J., ed. Assessing the Soviet Threat: The Early Cold War Years. Washington, DC: Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, 1997.

Clark comment: This volume was released to the public at a conference, "Assessing the Soviet Threat: The Early Cold War Years," held at CIA Headquarters on 24 October 1997. It contains 208 current intelligence documents that went to President Truman from the analytical components of the Central Intelligence Group (CIG) and its successor, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The earliest document, from the Weekly Summary, is dated 14 June 1946; the most recent, from the Daily Summary, is dated 17 November 1950.

The volume's editor has supplied a useful and interesting Preface in which he looks at some of the problems faced by the CIG/CIA analysts in the earliest days of U.S. "centralized" intelligence.

Frazier, I&NS 14.1, believes that "[h]istorians will probably be disappointed in examining the [intelligence] summaries pertinent to their special interests, finding them too fragmentary to offer anything new." But the editor's introductory essay is "a significant contribution to the study of an essential and difficult aspect of intelligence dissemination, that of providing an immediate briefing to the commander."

[Analysis/Sov; CIA/40s][c]

Kullback, Solomon. Statistical Methods in Cryptanalysis. Laguna Hills, CA: Aegean Park Press, 1976.

Kumar, Satish. CIA and the Third World: A Study in Crypto-Diplomacy. London: Zed, 1981.

Wilcox: "Critical account of CIA activities in the Third World."

[CIA/Accusations]

Kunz, Diane B. The Economic Diplomacy of the Suez Crisis. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.

Aldrich, I&NS 9.3: "Although somewhat exaggerating the role of economics in the Suez crisis,... this is a valuable study." But it has nothing on economic intelligence.

[UK/Postwar/Suez]

Kurland, Michael. The Spymaster's Handbook. New York: Facts on File, 1988.

[RefMats/Guides]

Kurtz, Howard. "CNN's Very Secret Agent: CIA Says Man's Story Is Phony." Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2001, C1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]

On 23 April 2001, "CNN ballyhooed an interview with a 'former CIA narcotics officer' -- a guest the network liked so much he was brought back hours later to appear on Greta Van Susteren's talk show." On 25 April 2001, CIA Director of Public Relations Bill Harlow said that Bucchi "never worked for the CIA in any capacity, as an employee or a contractor." Although "CNN anchor Joie Chen read a statement to that effect on the air,... the network did not retract the story or apologize.... CNN isn't the only network to face embarrassment by Bucchi; Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly interviewed him in January."

[CIA/01/Gen]

Kurtz, Howard. "Israel's Least Favored Spy." Washington Post National Weekly Edition, 13-19 May 1991, 32.

Kurtz, Howard. "Pollard: Top Israelis Backed Spy Ring." Washington Post, 28 Feb. 1987, A8.

[SpyCases/U.S./Pollard/Gen][c]

Kurzman, Dan.

1. Blood and Water: Sabotaging Hitler's Bomb. New York: Holt, 1997.

Clark comment: This book recounts the destruction, by an SOE team of Norwegians, of a heavy water plant in Norway in February 1943 and a subsequent Norwegian operation in February 1944 that destroyed a large shipment of heavy water on the way to Germany.

Bernstein, NYT, 12 Feb. 1997, calls the author's scientific and strategic background to the story "frustratingly sketchy." However, the military side of the story is "an engrossing, even exciting" account of the efforts to destroy the Norsk Hydro heavy water plant and its product. Kurzman's narrative "blends operational details with portraits of individuals caught up in the war."

For Torgerson, Air Chronicles [http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil], the author "has done an exceptional job of tying together the disparate elements of what some World War II historians consider the most successful commando raid by the Allies against Nazi Germany."

2. "Sabotaging Hitler's Bomb." MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History 9, no. 2 (Winter 1997): 38-47.

For someone interested in the raid on Norsk Hydro but not to the level of wanting to read an entire book on the subject, Kurzman has done an excellent job of tracing the operation's main lines in this article.

[WWII/Eur/Resistance/Other; UK/WWII/SOE]

Kurzman, Dan. A Special Mission: Hitler's Secret Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius XII. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 2007.

Goulden, Washington Times, 23 Sep. 2007, notes that in 1943 German SS Gen. Karl Wolff "received a direct order from Adolf Hitler to seize the Vatican and kidnap Pope Pius XII.... Wolff managed to stall until the war staggered to an end."

[WWII/Eur/Germany]

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