Lal - Lam

Lallemand, Alain. "London Helps Washington Spy on Europe." Le Soir (Brussels), 27 Jan. 2000. [http://www.lesoir.com/B456E.html]

In February 2000, the Commission of public freedoms of the European Parliament will receive an "extremely technical" report that makes "clear that 'Echelon' is no longer a fantasy."

[NSA/Echelon]

Lamanna, Lawrence J. "Documenting the Differences Between American and British Intelligence Reports." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 20, no. 4 (Winter 2007): 602-628. Also, in Strategic Intelligence, 5 vols, ed. Loch K. Johnson. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006.

A comparison of released British and American documents relating to the prewar intelligence on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction "reveals significant differences between British and American approaches to intelligence concepts, structures, methods, purposes, and philosophies."

[Analysis/Gen; UK/PostCW/Gen]

Lamb, Yvonne Shinhoster. "Spy Ryszard Kuklinski Dies; Pole Aided CIA in Cold War." Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2004, B6. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]

"Col. Ryszard Kuklinski, a Polish Cold War spy who has been hailed as a hero and denounced as a traitor for leaking confidential plans relating to the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact alliance to the CIA, died Feb. 10 in Tampa after a stroke. He was 73.... Kuklinski fled to the United States with his family in 1981." DCI George J. Tenet said that "the information that Col. Kuklinski provided assisted the CIA in making critical national security decisions and helped keep the Cold War from escalating."

[CIA/80s/Kuklinski]

Lamberson, Eric L. "ARISCs: Regional RC [Reserve Component] Intelligence Training Centers." Military Intelligence 25, no. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1999): 7-10.

[MI/Reserves][c]

Lamberson, Eric L. "The Tactical Analysis Team." Military Intelligence 21, no. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1995): 12-17.

This article looks at the use by U.S. Southern Command of Tactical Analysis Teams (TATs) for intelligence support to counterdrug operations. The focus is on analytical support to operational teams.

[Analysis; MI][c]

Lambert, John W., and Norman Polmar. Defenseless: Command Failure at Pearl Harbor. St. Paul, MN: Motorbooks, 2003.

Seamon, Proceedings, Apr. 2004, notes briefly that this work "argues that the various investigations into the Japanese attack on Hawaii were correct in concluding both men [Kimmel and Short] were guilty of dereliction of duty."

[WWII/PearHarbor]

Lambert, Mike [CAPT/USN]. "The Navy's Cryptologic Community -- A Transformational Phoenix?" U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 132, no. 10 (Oct. 2005): 74-75. Naval Intelligence Professionals Quarterly 22, no. 1 (Jan. 2006): 32-33.

"Rising from the ashes of decline, the Naval Security Group (the Navy's cryptologic community) is seeing the benefits of its transformation from a legacy signals intelligence (SIGINT) collection, analysis, and reporting organization to a truly multi-faceted 'information operations' organization."

Jacoby, "From the Chairman," Naval Intelligence Professionals Quarterly 22, no. 3 (Jun. 2006): 3, takes issue with some of Lambert's commentary. Jacoby argues that "[t]he need [for change] can be stated in more positive terms.... The case might be better made by talking about relevance and integration of Navy's SIGINT and Information Warfare capabilities into the broader mosaic that is absolutely essential to dealing with the very difficult intelligence challenges of today's war."

[Cryptography/Gen; MI/Navy/00s]

[Lamberth, Royce.] "FISA Court Judge Royce Lamberth Discusses Work of Court." National Security Law Report 19, no. 2 (May 1997): 1-2, 4-5.

Excerpts of remarks made 4 April 1997 to ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security breakfast in Washington, DC. This was the first time a sitting FISA judge had spoken in public about the court. Judge Lamberth noted that all surveillance requests must "have the personal approval of the Attorney General." Even given that no application has been formally denied in recent years, the process has led to some applications being revised and others withdrawn prior to resubmission with additional information. Lamberth affirmed his belief that "the process is, in fact, working." The judge also commented on the Classified Information Procedures Act and his earlier association with the Clair George and Mohammed Ali Rezak cases.

[Overviews/Legal][c]

Lambeth, Benjamin S. Air Power against Terror: America’s Conduct of Operation Enduring Freedom. Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 2005. [http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG166]

Dunlap, Air & Space Power Journal 20.4 (Winter 2006), sees this as "one of the few accounts that properly approaches [Enduring Freedom] as fundamentally an air operation, not a special-forces action supported by air.... [T]he reader is treated to a detailed account of how newly fielded technologies, including unmanned Global Hawk reconnaissance aircraft and unmanned (but armed) Predators, made their battlespace appearances to give the Air Force’s intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) assets unprecedented persistence and, in the case of the Predator, lethality." The book has "tremendous overall value."

[MI/Ops/Afghanistan/Books]

Lambeth, Benjamin S. NATO's Air War for Kosovo. Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 2001.

This work is discussed in Biddle, FA 81.3.

[MI/Ops/90s/Kosovo]

Lambridge, Wayne. "A Note on KGB Style." Studies in Intelligence 15, no. 1 (Winter 1971): 115-121.

A look at how the KGB does business.

[CIA/Components/DO]

Lammers, Pat, and Amy Boyce. "Alias Franklin Thompson: A Female in the Ranks." Civil War Times Illustrated 22, no. 9 (1984): 24-31.

[CivWar/Un/Women]

Lamont-Brown, R. Kempeitai: Japan's Dreaded Military Police. Stroud, UK: Sutton, 1998.

Nish, I&NS 14.1, notes that the Kempeitai "had both police and judicial powers," and those powers "grew and ... extended into the political domain" during the 1930s. First in the China war and later in the Asia-Pacific war, the Kempeitai "gathered military intelligence, intercepted enemy communications, monitored anti-Japanese activities and established espionage networks." While the author "has been most assiduous in collecting information,... [a] more academic study would require greater footnoting."

[OtherCountries/Japan/Pre-WWII]

Lampe, David. The Last Ditch. New York: Putnam, 1968.

Wilcox: "Counterintelligence activities in Great Britain."

[UK/Postwar/Gen]

Lampe, David. The Savage Canary: The Story of Resistance in Denmark. London: Cassell, 1957. The Danish Resistance. New York: Ballantine, 1960. [pb]

http://www.cloakanddagger.com/dagger: "Story of one of the finest national resistance movements in WWII."

[WWII/Eur/Resistance]

Lamphere, Robert J., and Tom Shachtman. The FBI-KGB War: A Special Agent's Story. New York: Random House, 1986. New York: Berkley, 1986. [pb] New Ed., with Post-Cold War Afterword. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1995. [pb]

Petersen calls The FBI-KGB War "a particularly revealing first-hand account of counterintelligence operations in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s." Miller, IJI&C 1.3, agrees, finding it a "masterful presentation of the reality of counterespionage activities." The reviewer "strongly recommends" it.

To Powers, NYRB 40.9, the book is the "best account of th[e] still fragmentary story [of the Venona material].... Lamphere's book adds much important information to the stories of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg,... Klaus Fuchs,... and of the Soviet spy ring which included Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, and Kim Philby."

Cram says Lamphere tells the "story about breaking the KGB ciphers during World War II and the resulting consequences of that achievement in the struggle against Soviet espionage and subversion." This "otherwise excellent history" is marred by the "egregious error" of accepting Pincher's tagging of Hollis as a Soviet agent. The author discusses Hoover's "vengeful actions" against the early CIA and liaison with it. "Although this book has a few errors and the story has perhaps been gilded a bit by Lamphere, it nevertheless remains one of the best histories of US counterintelligence."

According to Surveillant 4.4/5, the 1995 edition includes a 27-page Afterword where Lamphere "reviews the KGB-FBI wars using the latest releases from KGB and U.S. archives."

Commenting in an article published in 2003, Robarge, Studies 47.3/fn.4, says that this "remains the best book on the FBI and counterintelligence."

For a report on some of the difficulties Lamphere experienced in publishing his book, see George Lardner, Jr., "Ex-Agent's Spy Book Tests Secrecy," Washington Post, 27 Oct. 1977, A1.

[FBI/To90s; SpyCases/U.S./Gen & Venona][c]

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