Lerner, Daniel. Sykewar: Psychological Warfare against Nazi Germany, D-Day to VE-Day. New York: Geo. W. Stewart, 1949. Psychological Warfare against Nazi Germany:
The Sykewar Campaign, D-Day to VE-Day. Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press,
1971.
Lerner, Daniel. Sykewar: Psychological Warfare against Nazi Germany, D-Day to VE-Day. New York: Geo. W. Stewart, 1949. Psychological Warfare against Nazi Germany:
The Sykewar Campaign, D-Day to VE-Day. Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press,
1971.
[WWII/PsyWar & Propaganda]
Lerner, K. Lee, and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, eds. Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence and Security. 3 vols. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2003
Appears to be strong on science and technology related topics.
[RefMats/Encyclo/Gen]
Lerner, Mitchell B. "A Failure of Perception: Lyndon Johnson, North Korean Ideology, and the Pueblo Incident." Diplomatic History 25, no. 4 (Fall 2001): 647-675.
A distilled version of the author's more broadly developed book, The Pueblo Incident (2002).
[GenPostwar/60s/Pueblo]
Lerner, Mitchell B. The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2002.
Brennock, NWCR, Autumn 2002, notes that the author's "hard-hitting analysis ... does not exonerate the commanding officer of the Pueblo.... However, of all those who may have been culpable, Commander [Lloyd M.] Bucher emerges a hero and is no longer the scapegoat his superiors made him out to be. Exhaustive research ... leads Lerner to place blame evenly on the shoulders of the Navy chain of command, the intelligence community, and [President Lyndon] Johnson's foreign policy advisors, due to their misunderstanding and underestimation of the North Korean-Soviet Union relationship."
For Mobley, Proceedings, Jul. 2002, the author "provides two major services.... First, his comprehensive account ... instructs on so many levels. Second, there is much new information."
Van Nederveen, Air & Space Power Journal, Summer 2003, believes that "Lerner ... breaks new ground in this book. His conclusions, although harsh, may be true -- certainly, the facts as recounted in the book support them.... The Pueblo Incident, which has become required reading in new Cold War courses at major academic institutions around the country, makes for spellbinding, provocative reading."
To Freedman, FA 82.2, "[t]his lively account, backed by extensive research, demonstrates the multiple flaws in the mission's planning that put the crew in such a parlous position." But the author "also credits Lyndon Johnson with the patient diplomacy that brought about the eventual resolution."
Luoma, I&NS 18.1, views this as "a remarkable work of scholarship" that "is imaginatively conceived" and "easy to read." The author's "failure to provide a scholarly discussion for the US Navy's case against Commander Bucher and the other members of his crew following their release from captivity and return is a curious omission."
Lerner's case that "the basic failure of the whole operation was the U.S. government's inability to realize that all communist countries were not totally under Soviet control and that North Korea had the ability to act ... independently of Moscow" is accepted by Bath, NIPQ 18.4. Nevertheless, the reviewer finds that Lerner has engaged in some "unnecessary and unwarranted Navy-bashing" and is somewhat short in military knowledge.
[GenPostwar/60s/Pueblo]
Leroy, Christophe. "Mexican Intelligence at a Crossroad." SAIS Review 24, no. 1 (Winter-Spring 2004): 107-130.
[LA/Mexico]
Lert, Frederic.
Wings of the CIA. Paris: Histoire et Collections, 1998.
According to Hauver, CIRA Newsletter 23.2, "[c]overage begins with the B-26s of the Bay of Pigs and proceeds through the U-2, the SR-71 and drone aircraft. A unique portrait of Agency air ops from 1948."
Leary, JMH 64.1, finds little of value to this work, calling it "poorly written..., episodic, disjointed, filled with invented conversations, and -- worst of all -- frequently inaccurate." The book has "no footnotes and only a sketchy bibliography"; it "should be treated with great suspicion."
[CA/90s]
Lesberg,
Sandy. The "Q" Factor: The True Story of Charles Fraser-Smith,
The "Q" of the James Bond Novels. Phoenixville, PA: Peebles,
1980.
[UK/Biogs]
Lescaze, Lee. "Sorenson Bows to Opposition, Withdraws as Nominee for CIA." Washington Post, 18 Jan. 1977, A1.
President Carter's initial nominee for DCI withdraws in the face of controversy over his nomination.
[CIA/70s; GenPostwar/70s/Gen]
Lesce, Tony.
Espionage: Down and Dirty. Townsend, WA: Loompanics Unlimited, 1991.
[pb]
Surveillant 1.6 calls this a "breezy, informal book which touches on the famous, unusual, or dangerous aspects of intelligence work and cases.... This may be the title to suggest to those who have read little in the field looking for a quick review of a few fascinating cases and bits of tradecraft."
[Overviews/Gen]
Leshuk, Leonard.
US Intelligence Perceptions of Soviet Power, 1921-1946. London: Frank Cass, 2002.
From advertisement: "This ... groundbreaking work examines ... US intelligence gathering and analysis concerning the Soviet Union in the 25 years prior to the Cold War era.... It is also the most in-depth investigation ever carried out into how US intelligence operations were conducted in the decades before World War II."
Hanyok, I&NS 18.3, notes that the author concentrates on U.S. perceptions of "the development of the Soviet military power" from the end of World War I to the beginning of the Cold War. The story presented "is one of almost constant and large-scale failure."
[Interwar/U.S.; WWII/Gen]
Leslau, Ohad. "Intelligence and Economics: Two Disciplines with a Common Dilemma." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 20, no. 1 (Spring 2007): 106-121.
The dilemma faced by both professional intelligence and economic advisors in their work for the government is: "should they be loyal to their employers -- the highest echelon of decisionmakers -- or to their professional ethics?" The author suggests that "[t]he CIA and other governmental organizations that function as professional advisory bodies should adopt" the practices of the Council of Economic Advisors and appoint "outside professionals who are not from the political arena."
[GenPostCW/00s/Gen]
Leslie, Peter.
The Liberation of the Riviera: Resistance to the Nazis in the South of
France. New York: Wyndham, 1980.
[WWII/Eur/Fr/Resistance]
Lesser, Ian, et al., eds. Countering the New Terrorism. Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 1999.
[Terrorism/90s/Gen]
Lester, Richard
I. Confederate Finance and Purchasing in Great Britain. Charlottesville:
University of Virginia Press, 1975.
Constantinides: The author "describes Confederate uses of cover and go-betweens to purchase or lease ships and the methods that side employed to evade Union surveillance and British laws of neutrality.... Lester [also] shows the Union had created a well-organized and -developed system of espionage and surveillance against the Confederates."
[CivWar/Conf/CA]
Lett, Gordon.
Rossano: An Adventure of the Italian Resistance. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1955.
[WWII/Eur/Italy]
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