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Lanir, Zvi, and Daniel Kahneman. "Speaking to Policymakers: An Experiment in Decision Analysis in Israel in 1975." Studies in Intelligence 50, no. 4 (2006): 11-19.

The authors revisit a study done for Israeli Foreign Minister Yigael Alon in 1975.

[Israel/Overviews; Analysis/Gen]

Lankford, Nelson D.

1. The Last American Aristocrat: The Biography of David K.E. Bruce,1898-1977. New York: Little, Brown, 1996.

Clark comment: David Bruce joined Donovan's Coordinator of Information (COI) in 1941 and served in it and its successor, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), until late 1945. As head of OSS activities in the European Theater of Operations, he participated in the Allied deception plans that cloaked the invasion of Normandy and organized and directed the Sussex and Jedburgh teams that parachuted into occupied Europe. His postwar career took him to ambassadorships in Germany, Britain, the Vietnam peace talks, China, and NATO -- all in all, a life of public service with few equals.

Thomas, WPNWE, 19-25 Aug. 1996, calls this biography "readable," and notes the author's respect for his subject and sensitivity "to the tragedies that darkened his life." The author covers Bruce's years in the OSS, and recounts later dealings with U.S. intelligence while at the State Department and as an ambassador.

2. ed. OSS Against the Reich: The World War II Diaries of Colonel David K.E. Bruce. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 1991.

Surveillant 1.5 comments that "Lankford obtained the diaries of Bruce and worked with his wife to present a well-rounded portrait of Bruce's OSS activities as London Branch Chief."

On the other hand, MacPherson, I&NS 7.3, finds the picture presented less than well-rounded, arguing instead that there is "very little here for the student of OSS." He finds the diaries little more than "a name-dropping travel and epicurean guide to various wartime theatres.... There are no entries whatsoever concerning the critical pre-OVERLORD developments in OSS/London."

[WWII/OSS/Individuals][c]

Lanning, Hugh, and Richard Norton-Taylor. A Conflict of Loyalties. Cheltenham, UK: New Clarion Press, 1991.

This book is ostensibly about the events surrounding Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's banning of the union at Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). But, as Peake, AIJ 15.1/91, notes, the book includes "a good deal about GCHQ operations from people who worked there." However, "[o]ne should be cautious in accepting at face value all that is written here since there are no sources cited and the bias of the authors is not hidden."

[UK/Overviews]

Lanning, Michael Lee [LTCOL (Ret.)]. Senseless Secrets: The Failures of U.S. Military Intelligence from George Washington to the Present. Emeryville, CA: Carroll & Graf, 1995. New York: Birch Lane Press, 1996.

Chambers sees this a "bilious, inaccurate and sloppy critique of US intelligence. I think it's the worst thing I've read since Rusbridger's Intelligence Game."

According to Surveillant 4.4/5, Lanning "calls for a reevaluation, reorganization and revitalization of the military intelligence community, including a major re-org of the military services."

[MI/Overviews]

Lansdale, Edward Geary. In the Midst of Wars: An American's Mission to Southeast Asia. New York: Harper & Row, 1972. [Reprint] New York: Fordham University Press, 1991.

According to Surveillant 2.1, Lansdale "recounts his missions with CIA in the Philippines and, later, in Vietnam during the 1950s and 1960s."

For biographies of Lansdale, see Cecil B. Currey, Edward Lansdale: The Unquiet American (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988); and Jonathan Nashel, Edward Lansdale's Cold War (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005).

[CIA/50s & Memoirs; Vietnam]

Lansdale, Edward Geary. "Vietnam: Do We Understand Revolution." Foreign Affairs 43, no. 1 (1964): 75-86.

[Vietnam]

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