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Laver, Ross, et al. "The Looking-Glass Trade." Maclean's, 24 Jul. 1989, 12-14.

This article looks at the some of the early difficulties and the current situation of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). Established in 1984 to replace the RCMP's Security Service, the CSIS' startup was shaky. Things have improved in recent years, including increased funding. Debate continues over how much power the CSIS should have to monitor the lives of Canadian citizens, and there is concern that the RCMP is moving back into the internal security area.

[Canada]

Laville, Helen. Cold War Women. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2002.

[GenPostwar/CW; Women/Gen]

Laville, Helen. "The Committee of Correspondence: CIA Funding of Women's Groups, 1952-1967." Intelligence and National Security 12, no. 1 (Jan. 1997): 104-121.

This is a well-conceived article on a little-researched topic. The author sees CIA financial assistance to the New York-based women's group, the Committee of Correspondence, as part of the Eisenhower administration's effort "to devolve a large part of the responsibility for overseas propaganda on to the private sector." Her conclusion that "the relationship between the government and the Committee was based on shared goals and an understanding by government that the members of the Committee were the experts in the field" is on the mark. The greatest wrong note sounded by Laville is her refusal in the face of all evidence to the contrary to give up on the idea that the CIA in some way "controlled" the Committee's activities.

[CA; CIA/60s/Subsidies; Women/Misc][c]

Laville, Helen. "The Memorial Day Statement: Women's Organizations in the 'Peace Offensive.'" Intelligence and National Security 18, no. 2 (Summer 2003): 192-210.

The 1951 Memorial Day Statement, signed by the leaders of 10 women's organizations, "re-affirmed American women's gendered commitment to peace but defined this peace in a way which could oppose and thwart the aims of the Soviet peace offensive.... They became less partisans for peace and more advocates of a ... peace ... which demanded such corollaries as freedom and democracy."

[CA/Gen; Women/Misc][c]

Laville, Sandra. "Man Held in Riddle of Missing Enigma." Electronic Telegraph, 18 Nov. 2000. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk]

Police said on 17 November 2000 that a man "was being held in custody" in connection with the theft of the German wartime Enigma cipher machine. The machine itself was recovered in October when it was mailed to Jeremy Paxman, the presenter of BBC2's Newsnight.

[UK/WWII/Ultra/BP]

Law Enforcement Associates. The Science of Electronic Surveillance. Raleigh, NC: Search, 1983. [Petersen]

[GenPostwar/80s/Gen]

Law, Richard F. "Active Countermeasures to Neutralize the Espionage Threat." American Intelligence Journal 11, no. 2 (1990): 42-44.

Vice Commander of USAFOSI.

[MI/CI]

Lawless, Jill. "WWII British Spies Frustrated by FBI." Associated Press, 4 Sep. 2007. [http://www.ap.com]

Newly declassified files released on 4 September 2007 by the British National Archives "chart the rocky early years of the relationship" between the FBI and the British Security Service (MI5) "and show how cooperation improved over the course of the war."

[FBI/WWII; UK/WWII/Services/MI5]

Lawlor, Maryann. "What Role Should Government Play in Business Intelligence?" Signal 54, no. 2 (Oct. 1999): 30.

"While foreign governments share information that their agencies have gathered with firms in their own nations, this is not the case in the United States. In today's global economy, some U.S. business leaders are beginning to question the wisdom of this policy."

[GenPostwar/Econ/Govt]

Lawrence, Ken. "The Korean Spy Plane: Flight 007 Aptly Named." Covert Action Information Bulletin 20 (Winter 1984): 40-42.

This piece of non-research lacks any substantive basis for its near hysterical presentation.

[GenPostwar/80s/KAL-007]

Lawrence, R.E., and Harry W. Woo. "Infrared Imagery in Overhead Reconnaissance." Studies in Intelligence 11, no. 3 (Summer 1967): 17-40. [Richelson, Wizards (2002)]

[GenPostwar/Issues/S&T]

Lawrence, T.E. Ed., Malcolm Brown. Secret Dispatches from Arabia: And Other Writings by T.E. Lawreance. London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1939. [Reprint] London: Bellew, 1991.

Surveillant 4.2: This is a "collection of Lawrence's wartime reports during the Arab Revolt." It is "a good companion to Seven Pillars of Wisdom."

[WWI/UK/Med]

Lawrence, T.E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1935.

Clark comment: A literary masterpiece (at least, to some) and a "spy" story (irregular or guerrilla warfare) at the same time. What more can one ask for?

Constantinides reminds us that the "debate about the accuracy and even the truthfulness of Lawrence's account continues unresolved, and no significant new evidence has been uncovered on these crucial points of disagreement."

[WWI/UK/Med]

Lawson, Don. The French Resistance: The True Story of the Underground War Against the Nazis. New York: Wanderer, 1984.

[WWII/Eur/Fr]

Lawson, Donald. The Secret World War II. New York: Watts, 1978. [Petersen]

[WWII/Gen]

Lawson, John Cuthbert. Tales of Aegean Intrigue. New York: Dutton, 1921.

According to Constantinides, "Lawson was in Crete in 1916-1917 with British naval intelligence.... [His] candid account of how he undertook a series of political, psychological, and military measures without official sanction and guidance ... is ... instructive and sobering."

[WWI/UK/Med]

Lawson, John L. "The 'Remarkable Mystery' of James Rivington, 'Spy.'" Journalism Quarterly 35, no. 3 (Summer 1958): 317.

[RevWar/Other]

Laxalt, Robert. A Private War: An American Code Officer in the Belgian Congo. Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, 1998.

Kruh, Cryptologia 24.1, says that this "lively memoir" recalls the author's service "in a remote outpost where a secret war was being fought for control" of the Congo's uranium mine and its ore. This "is a compelling account of one of the war's least-known but important theaters -- the disease-ridden jungles of Equatorial Adrica."

[UK/WWII/Africa]

Layton, Edwin T. [RADM/USN (Ret.)], with Roger Pineau [CAPT/USNR (Ret.)] and John Costello. "And I Was There": Pearl Harbor & Midway -- Breaking the Secrets. New York: Morrow, 1985. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2006.

Beesly, I&NS 1.3, calls this "a most convincing explanation of why US intelligence failed to prevent Pearl Harbor." It is simultaneously "as entralling as a first-rate thriller" and "a serious, well-documented history."

For Miller, IJI&C 1.2, And I Was There is a "notable contribution to the literature on Pearl Harbor." Layton was a "thoughtful, honorable, and honest man. His unique vantage point makes this book authoritative." The book provides an "extremely interesting history of the development, organization, and successes of radio intelligence (sigint), including cryptanalysis, between the two World Wars and until the end of the second one."

Sexton notes that Layton blames "the failure to properly interpret MAGIC before Pearl Harbor and the near misinterpretation of Sigint prior to Midway" on Washington decision-making and Navy Department bureaucrats.

To Kruh, Cryptologia 30.4 (Oct. 2006), "this is the best World War II naval history he has ever read."

[WWII/PearlHarbor & FE/Pac/Battles]

Lazar, Marc. "The Cold War Culture of the French and Italian Communist Parties." Intelligence and National Security 18, no. 2 (Summer 2003): 213-224.

"[T]he Cold War had a considerable impact in France and Italy, being relayed domestically by two powerful communist parties and amplifying already-existing conflicts in each of these societies. In France, as in Italy, the confrontation was violent, and developed into a kind of 'war culture'.... It permitted polemical and political passions to be unleased against ... 'the enemy'.... Yet, despite its intensity and continual stoking, this confrontation was always mastered and controlled by communists and non-communists alike."

[CA/Eur/Culture; France/Postwar; GenPostwar/CW; OtherCountries/Italy]

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