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Langan, John, S.J. "Moral Damage and the Justification of Intelligence Collection from Human Sources." Studies in Intelligence 25, no. 2 (Summer 1981): 57-64.

[Overviews/Ethics]

Langbart, David A. "Five Months in Petrograd 1918: Robert W. Imbrie and the US Search for Information in Russia." Studies in Intelligence 52, no. 1 (Mar. 2008) (Web Supplement). [On the Web at: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol-52-no-1/index.html]

The author provides an overview of Vice Consul Imbrie's stint in Petrograd, and includes two documents written by Imbrie after his return to Washington. These materials offer a good look at U.S. efforts to gather information on the threatening German forces and to keep up with events in Revolutionary Russia and their impact on World War I. The story also makes plain the ad hoc nature of U.S. intelligence collection at the time.

[WWI/U.S.]

Langbart, David A. "'Spare No Expense': The Department of State and the Search for Information About Bolshevik Russia, November 1917-September 1918." Intelligence and National Security 4, no. 2 (Apr. 1989): 316-334.

The author describes the use of the Diplomatic and Consular services in "the first major effort of the United States government to learn about and gather information from inside Bolshevik Russia.... [T]he effort grew to include unconventional methods involving temporary officials and offices scattered throughout Russia."

[WWI/U.S.][c]

Langelaan, George. Knights of the Floating Silk. London: Hutchinson, 1959. The Masks of War: From Dunkirk to D-Day -- The Masquerades of a British Intelligence Agent. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1959.

Langer, Walter C. The Mind of Adolf Hitler: The Secret Wartime Report. New York: Basic Books, 1972.

Walter Langer, brother of William Langer, was an OSS psychologist.

[WWII/OSS/R&A]

Langer, William L. In and Out of the Ivory Tower: The Autobiography of William L. Langer. New York: Neale Watson Academic Publications, 1978.

Langer headed OSS Research and Analysis Branch from 1942 through the war. He later set up what became the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research. In 1950, he returned from Harvard on a leave of absence to establish the structure for production of National Intelligence Estimates. O'Toole, Encyclopedia, p. 271.

[WWII/OSS/R&A]

Langhorne, Richard, ed. Diplomacy and Intelligence During the Second World War: Essays in Honor of F.H. Hinsley. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

[UK/WWII/Overviews]

Langley, James Maydon. Fight Another Day. London: Collins, 1974.

Pforzheimer notes that Fight Another Day concerns the work of MI 9, Britain's escape-and-evasion organization, but finds that it "lacks sufficient detail for other than the casual reader."

To Constantinides, this book is little more than a way station on the way to Foot and Langley's "more thorough" MI9. Langley headed a section of MI 9, but actually worked for MI 6 for most of the war.

[UK/WWII/Services/MI9]

Langman, Larry, and David Ebner. Encyclopedia of American Spy Films. New York: Garland, 1991.

Booth, I&NS 7.3, gives this effort good marks. He finds the descriptions of the films "judgmental without being prejudicial" and the topical entries "balanced and informative." This is "a valuable and useful addition to the standard works in the field."

[Reference/Encyclopedias/Related]

Langton, James. "CIA Fights to Hide Its Invisible Ink." Electronic Telegraph, 11 Apr. 1999. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk]

"CIA lawyers say that classified First World War documents must not be made public because its spies still use the ink to send secret messages.... The formula is the oldest classified document still banned from public viewing at the National Archives." The judge who heard the freedom of information request in a Washington court in March "agreed, ordering the six files relating to the invisible ink kept secret until 2020."

[CIA/90s/99; CIA/C&C/Tradecraft]

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