Labaton, Stephen.
"National Security Adviser Warns of Risk of Terrorism."
New York Times, 20 Dec. 1999. [http://www.nytimes.com]
Labaton, Stephen.
"National Security Adviser Warns of Risk of Terrorism."
New York Times, 20 Dec. 1999. [http://www.nytimes.com]
"With security being tightened after the arrest of an Algerian man who crossed the Canadian border into Washington with powerful bomb-making materials, President Clinton's national security adviser" warned Americans on 19 December 1999 "to be more vigilant over the next few weeks because of a 'heightened risk of terrorist actions.'"
[Terrorism/90s/99/Gen]
Labaton, Stephen.
"New Rules Expand Ability of Police to Monitor
Talk on Cell Phones." New York Times, 28 Aug. 1999. [http://www.nytimes.com]
On 27 August 1999, the federal government "announced new technical standards for cellular phones that will broadly expand the ability of law enforcement agents to monitor conversations and locate criminal suspects."
[FBI/99/S&S]
La Bella, Charles G. "Foreign Security Surveillance -- Balancing Executive Power and the Fourth Amendment." Fordham Law Review 45, no. 5 (Apr. 1977): 1179-1201.
[Overviews/Legal/FISA/Gen]
Labott, Elise. "U.S.: Israel Was Negligent in 1967 Ship Attack." CNN, 13 Jan. 2004. [http://www.cnn.com]
According to a State Department official, the State Department's analysis of the documents is if the attack on the USS Liberty "was a deliberate, planned attack, you would think an air force as good as the Israelis' would have served up their best bombers, with their biggest bombs. They would have sunk this ship in 30 seconds flat, no witnesses, no evidence, no fingerprints. That didn't happen."
See also Associated Press, "Israel, U.S. Blamed In '67 Spy Ship Attack," 13 Jan. 2004, A13. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
[GenPostwar/60s/Liberty]
Labuschagne, Riaan. On South Africa’s Secret Service: An Undercover Agent’s Story. Alberton, South Africa: Galago Books, 2002.
According to Peake, Studies 50.1 (Mar. 2006), this book "tells the story of the organizational successor to BOSS, the National Intelligence Service (NIS), from the point of view of one of its professional counterintelligence officers." NIS engaged in "assassination, counterintelligence operations, and traditional forms of espionage." The author "gives many examples of each, although he was apparently confined to counterintelligence." The book "is not documented and is written with reconstructed conversations whose accuracy can only be judged by the few references to well-known events."
[OtherCountries/SAfrica]
Lacey, Edward J.
1. "Game Theory in Intelligence Analysis." American Intelligence Journal 6, no. 3 (Oct. 1984): 20-25.
2. "Intel Analysis in Academic Research." American Intelligence Journal 5, no. 1 (Feb. 1983): 12-13.
[Analysis/Gen]
Lacey, Marc.
"Clinton Issues Pardons, Clearing Deutch and
McDougal, but Not Milken or Hubbell." New York Times, 21 Jan.
2001. [http://www.nytimes.com]
On 20 January 2001, President "Bill Clinton issued pardons to 140 people, including John Deutch."
[CIA/DCIs/Deutch]
Lacharite, Gretchen (Washington Times).
Lackey, Douglas. "Military Intelligence and the Universities: A Study of an Ambivalent Relationship." Ethics 96 (Oct. 1985): 223-224.
[CIA/Relations/Academia]
Lackman, Matti. "The Finnish Secret Police and Political Intelligence: Their Methods and Collaborators in the 1920s and 30s." Scandinavian Journal of History 12, no. 3 (1987): 199-219. [Calder]
[OtherCountries/Finland]
Lackman, William. "Future Direction for the United States Imagery System." American Intelligence Journal 14, no. 3 (Autum-Winter 1993-1994): 31-34.
At a time of constrained resources and high tension in the management of the U.S. space reconaissance program, a central figure tries to put the best face forward.
[Recon/Sats/Arts]
Lacoste, Pierre,
ed. Le renseignement à la française. [Intelligence French Style] Paris: Economica, 1998.
Kahn, I&NS 23.2 (Apr. 2008), notes that Admiral Lacoste headed the DGSE from 1982 to 1985.
[France/Overviews]
Lacovara, Philip A. "Presidential Power to Gather Intelligence: The Tension Between Article II and Article IV." Law and Contemporary Problems 10, no. 3 (Summer 1976): 106-131. [Calder]
[Overviews/Legal/Gen]
Ladd,
James. SAS Operations. London: Hale, 1986.
[UK/WWII/Services/SAS]
Ladd,
James. SBS -- The Invisible Raiders: The History of the Special Boat
Squadron from World War Two to the Present. London: Arms and Armour, 1983.
[UK/WWII/Services/SBS]
Ladd,
James, and Keith Melton. Clandestine Warfare: Weapons and Equipment of the SOE and OSS. London: Blandford, 1988. [Petersen]
[UK/SOE; WWII/OSS]
LaFeber, Walter. America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-1971. 2d ed. New York: Wiley, 1972.
[GenPostwar/CW]
Laffin, John.
Brassey's Book of Espionage. London: Brassey's, 1996.
To Chambers, there is "little to recommend in this book.... Laffin, a prolific writer on military history,... does not seem to have managed the transition from the structures of military operations to the more abstract and uncertain world of intelligence.... The book is largely dependent on secondary sources and the occasional confidential informant.... The style of writing is didactic and perhaps strident.... [And] Laffin's opinions about intelligence appear to have been formed in the 1970's and have not been altered or amended since then." Click for Chambers full-length review.
Macartney, Intelligencer 9.2, is also unimpressed, noting that the book "will be of little interest to serious scholars." The author "doesn't know much about intelligence, and this volume was obviously dashed off quickly and contains numerous errors."
[Overviews]
Laffin,
John. Codes and Ciphers: Secret Writing Through the Ages. New York: Harper & Row, 1964.
Wilcox: "History of cryptography from early times."
[Cryptography]
LaFraniere,
Sharon. "Russia Says FBI Agent's Arrest Shouldn't Hurt Relations."
Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2001, A6. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
On 21 February 2001, Boris Labusov, a spokesman for the Foreign Intelligence Service, "played down the arrest of Robert Philip Hanssen, saying espionage is a normal part of political life."
[FBI/00s/Hanssen]
Lagemann, John
K. "Wild Bill Donovan." Current History 52 (Apr. 1941):
23-25, 55-56. [Petersen]
[WWII/OSS/Donovan]
Lagrone, James J. "The Hotel in Operations." Studies in Intelligence 9, no. 4 (Fall 1965): 43-56.
This article "describes the systems used by large hotels to check and control their guests and ... examines the staff positions from the viewpoint of the desirability of different employees as agents for operational tasks."
[CIA/Components/DO]
La Guardia, Anton. "MI6 Recruits Spies on Its Own Website." Electronic Telegraph, 13 Oct. 2005. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk]
On 12 October 2005, "MI6 took another step out of the shadows ... when it launched its official website": www.mi6.gov.uk and www.sis.gov.uk.
[UK/PostCW/00s/05]
Lague,
David. "Our Spies Will Soon Have to Emerge from the Shadows."
Sydney Morning Herald, 16 Mar. 2000. [http://www.smh.com.au]
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has coordinated the drafting of legislation that would make the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) "accountable to Parliament while maintaining sufficient secrecy to give it the freedom of action its managers desire.... Australia's spy service has traditionally operated within the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade without any legal basis for its existence."
[Australia/00]
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