Lahneman, William J. "Is a Revolution in Intelligence Affairs Occurring?" International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 20, no. 1 (Spring 2007): 1-17.
Lahneman, William J. "Is a Revolution in Intelligence Affairs Occurring?" International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 20, no. 1 (Spring 2007): 1-17.
The author believes it is possible to make "a plausible case that a revolution in Intelligence Affairs is occurring.... One thing appears clear: arguments that little or no intelligence reform is required appear to miss the mark."
[GenPostCW/00s/Gen]
Lahneman, William J. "Knowledge-Sharing in the Intelligence Community after 9/11." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 17, no. 4 (Winter 2004-2005): 614-633.
[GenPostCW/00s/Gen]
Lahneman, William J. "Outsourcing the IC's Stovepipes?" International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 16, no. 4 (Winter 2003-2004): 573-593.
"[T]he vast majority of collection activities should be considered as potential outsourcing candidates.... [P]roduction and dissemination should not be outsourced.... Given the IC's stovepipes, and the general pessimism about the IC's ability to solve this problem internally, implementing large-scale outsourcing efforts now would be premature." However, some limited efforts might provide a useful experience.
[GenPostwar/00s/Gen]
Laipson, Ellen B. "Information-Sharing in Conflict Zones: Can the USG and the NGOs Do More?" Studies in Intelligence 49, no. 4 (2005): 55-64.
"Greater awareness of what NGOs have to offer and ways in which government could share data more effectively at relatively low cost (in terms of time and security risk) would be a modest, but valuable, contribution to post-conflict engagements."
[GenPostwar/Peacekeeping]
Laird, Thomas. Into Tibet: The CIA's First Atomic Spy and His Secret Expedition to Lhasa. New York: Grove, 2002.
According to Rupert, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2002, the author "tells a gripping tale" of CIA officer Douglas MacKiernan's operation in Sinkiang and his death at the hands of Tibetan border guards.
Hayford, Library Journal, 15 May 2002, says that the author "presents his story as a spy novel, complete with reconstructed dialog, bureaucratic infighting, cinematic pacing, and crackling action. Much of the information is reconstructed from interviews and archival research and is hard to authenticate; still, the overall story of this incredible expedition and its political consequences rings true."
For Haas, AFIO WIN 6-03, 11 Feb. 2003, the author's long-term residence in Nepal provides "a significant qualification for his wide-ranging and startling look into the activities of the agent behind the unnamed First Star on the CIA's Wall of Honor." This "[p]rodigiously researched" work provides "a thoroughly fascinating and informative read."
West, IJI&C 16.4, finds that the author's "tenuous evidence" fails "to show that Mackiernan had anything to do with tracking the Soviet bomb." Laird also suggests, "without much evidence, that the CIA had deployed Mackiernan to sabotage the Soviet uranium mines." To Goodman, I&NS 18.4, Laird has reconstructed his story in a "comprehensive and illustrative manner." It is "a very good read."
[CA/Tibet; CIA/50s/Gen; CIA/Biogs]
La Joie, Roland [MAJGEN/USA (Ret.)] "The Last Casualty of the Cold War: Lt. Col. Arthur D. Nicholson and the U.S. Military Liaison Mission." Intelligencer 13, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2002): 60-65.
Thr former commander of the USMLM and Associate Deputy Director for Operations/Military Affairs, CIA, uses Nicholson's death in 1985 while performing his duties with the USMLM to highlight the function of the Mission from 1947 until the Berlin Wall came down.
[GenPostwar/CW]
[Lake, Anthony.]
"Excerpts from the Announcement on the Cabinet." New York Times,
6 Dec, 1996, A14.
"Following are excerpts from the news conference [on 5 December 1996] at which President Clinton introduced new Cabinet appointees, as transcribed by the Federal Document Clearing House....
"Anthony Lake: ... Over the last four years I have launched my mornings and I have finished my evenings with the briefs and the analyses of the intelligence community. And I firmly believe in the post-cold war world the role of the C.I.A. is more important than ever in defending Americans against the threats of terrorism and the proliferation of the weapons of mass destruction, in explaining clearly the activities of governments in an ever more complicated world, and in giving the President the unvarnished facts on which he can base wise decisions in a time of change and promise."
[CIA/90s/97/Lake]
[Lake, Anthony.]
"Excerpts from a Sharply Worded Letter of Withdrawal." New
York Times, 18 Mar. 1997, A12 (N).
Despite the headline for this item, it is the text, as released, of Anthony Lake's letter to President Clinton, withdrawing his nomination to be DCI. Lake's position can be summed up in the following quote: "Washington has gone haywire."
[CIA/90s/97/Lake]
Lakely, James G. "Official Rebuts Story of Iraq Intelligence Shortcomings." Washington Times, 7 Jun. 2003. [http://www.washingtontimes.com]
Emerging from a classified intelligence briefing to the Senate Armed Services Committee on 6 June 2003, DIA Director Adm. Lowell Jacoby "debunked the notion that a classified intelligence report had said the United States had no reliable evidence before hostilities that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.... [He] said earlier press reports suggesting the United States had no reliable evidence of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons program were wrong and based on a 'single sentence' in a DIA report that 'was not intended to ... [ellipses in original] summarize the program.'"
[MI/DIA & Ops/Iraq]
Lakos,
Amos.
1. International Terrorism: A Bibliography. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1986.
Surveillant 2.5 says that Lakos covers "5,622 items published from 1965 to mid-1980s."
2. Terrorism, 1980-1990: A Bibliography. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992.
Surveillant 2.5: This work contains "5,890 entries with some overlap and repetition of those titles in the earlier bibliography which appeared in 1980 to 1985.... This is considered one of the best terrorism bibliographies."
[Terrorism/Refs]
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