Leadbetter, Wyland
F., Jr. [Col.], and Stephen J. Bury [Cdr.]. "Prelude to Desert Storm:
The Politicization of Intelligence." International Journal of Intelligence
and Counterintelligence 6, no. 1 (Spring 1993): 43-54.
Leadbetter, Wyland
F., Jr. [Col.], and Stephen J. Bury [Cdr.]. "Prelude to Desert Storm:
The Politicization of Intelligence." International Journal of Intelligence
and Counterintelligence 6, no. 1 (Spring 1993): 43-54.
Didn't happen, folks. This is worth reading just for the authors' explanation of the events which fostered charges that "politicization" occurred in the CIA's reporting on the effects of economic sanctions against Iraq.
[CIA/90s; MI/Ops][c]
Leary, Thomas
(Penn). "Cryptography in the 15th and 16th Century." Cryptologia
20, no. 3 (Jul. 1996): 223-242.
[Cryptography; Historical]
Leasor, James.
1. Green Beach. New York: Morrow, 1975. London: Heinemann, 1975.
Constantinides calls Green Beach "a journalist's account of the portion of the Dieppe raid in 1942 concerned with the attempt to dismantle a German radar station.... There are some good anecdotes, but ... there is no specific documentation and too much on personal and human-interest matters." The intelligence side (British and German) of this operation is not as well developed as it might have been.
2. The Unknown Warrior. London: Heinemann, 1980.
Wilcox: World War II British intelligence operation.
[UK/WWII/Overviews/Gen]
Leavitt, David. The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer. New York: Norton, 2006. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006.
Kruh, Cryptologia 30.3 (Jul.-Sep. 2006), finds that the author "portrays Turing in all his humanity, his eccentricities, his brillance, and his fatal candor while elegantly explaining his work and its implications."
For Ferry, The Guardian, 29 Jul. 2006, the author presents Turing "as a lonely maverick, isolated by his fascination with machine intelligence and even more so by his homosexuality. For anyone daunted by Andrew Hodges's magisterial 1983 biography, on which he draws heavily, Leavitt provides a sympathetic novelist's take on a brilliant eccentric. But the supporting characters are curiously two-dimensional."
[UK/WWII/Ultra]
Leber, Annedore.
Tr., Rosemary O'Neill. Conscience in Revolt: Sixty-Four Studies of Resistance in Germany, 1933-1945. London: Mitchell, 1957.
[WWII/Eur/Ger/Resistance]
Lebow, Eileen
F. A Grandstand Seat: The American Balloon Service in World War I. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998.
From advertisement: "The ... American Balloon Service worked in combat to help direct artillery fire more accurately and provide essential intelligence on enemy troop movements.... By the U.S. entry [in]to the war in 1917, the balloon service [had] evolved into an effective, disciplined fighting unit.... Reminiscences from balloon veterans form the basis of this book."
[Recon/Balloons; WWI/U.S.]
Le Caron, Henri [pseud., Thomas Miller Beach]. Twenty-Five Years in the Secret Service: The Recollections of a Spy. London: Heinemann, 1892. 10th ed. London: EP Publishing, 1974.
See J.A. Cole, Prince of Spies: Henri Le Caron (London: Faber & Faber, 1984).
Canadian Security Intelligence Service. "History of CSIS." [http://www.csis-scrs.gc.ca/en/about_us/history_artifacts/history/brf_pics_003.asp]
"Henri Le Caron, born Thomas Miller Beach, was a Civil War veteran recruited by the British in 1867 to spy on the Fenian movement in the United States. Le Caron was arguably one of the most successful covert agents to work for the Canadian government."
[Canada/ToWWI; UK/Historical]
LeChene,
Evelyn. Watch for Me by Moonlight: A British Agent with the French Resistance. London: Methuen, 1973.
Wilcox: "Story of Robert Burdett in World War II."
[WWII/Eur/Fr/Resistance]
Lechuga, Carlos
M., and Mirta Muniz. In the Eye of the Storm: Castro, Khrushchev, Kennedy, and Missile Crisis. Melbourne, Australia: Ocean Press, 1995.
[GenPostwar/60s/MissileCrisis]
Ledbetter, James.
"Report? What Report?" Village Voice, 1 Apr. 1997, 32.
The author chides the New York Times for not reporting on a House intelligence committee report "rejecting key charges made by New Jersey Democrat Robert Torricelli about CIA links to political murders in Guatemala." Ledbetter says a query to Times Washington editor Andrew Rosenthal elicited the response, "This is the first I've heard of it.... I guess I just missed it."
[CIA/90s/Guatemala/95]
Ledeen, Michael A. The War against the Terror Masters. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002.
According to Van Tol, Naval War College Review, Spring 2003, the author "presents a compelling picture of what the [terrorism] threat actually is, how it developed, and how the United States can and must defeat it. He avers that this war is ... is specifically about Islamic ... terrorism -- motivated and underwritten by militant Islamic fundamentalism and abetted by many regional regimes."
[Terrorism/00s/Gen]
Ledeen, Michael,
and William Lewis. Debacle: The American Failure in Iran. New York: Knopf, 1981.
[OtherCountries/Iran]
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