Lundberg, Kirsten.
The SS-9 Controversy: Intelligence as Political Football. Cambridge, MA: John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1989.
Lundberg, Kirsten.
The SS-9 Controversy: Intelligence as Political Football. Cambridge, MA: John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1989.
[Analysis/Sov]
Lundberg, Kirsten,
ed. The CIA and the Fall of the Soviet Empire: The Politics of "Getting
it Right." Case Study C16-94-1251.0. Cambridge, MA: John F. Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University, 1994.
Includes a number of CIA documents covering this period.
[Analysis/Sov]
Lundestad,
Svein, ed. U-2 Flights and the Cold War in the High North. Bodo, Norway: Bodo College, 1996.
[Recon/Planes]
Lundstrom, John
B. The First South Pacific Campaign: Pacific Fleet Strategy, December
1941-June 1942. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1976.
Sexton finds this work to be "well-documented," a "significant contribution," and "[e]ssential reading" on the subject of the influence of Sigint on U.S. naval operations in the early part of the war.
[WWII/FEPac]
Lundstrom, John
B. "An Episode in the Battle of the Coral Sea." Cryptologia
7, no. 2 (Apr. 1983): 97-117.
Sexton sees this as "[a]n informative study focused on the value and limitations of Radio Intelligence in the Battle of the Coral Sea."
[WWII/FE/Pac/Battles]
Lunev, Stanislav.
"China's Intelligence Machine." Insight on the News, 17
Nov. 1997, 17-19.
ProQuest: The author "provides background information on Beijing's goals and methods" in its intelligence operations in the United States.
[China]
Lunev,
Stanislav, and Ira Winkler. Through the Eyes of the Enemy: Russia's Highest
Ranking Military Defector Reveals Why Russia Is More Dangerous Than Ever.
New York: Regnery, 1998.
Clark comment: Lunev was a GRU colonel prior to his defection in 1988 and, according to the dust jacket notes is "currently in the Witness Protection Program."
In a review carried by http://www.amazon.com, J. Michael Waller comments that "Lunev provides a riveting and disturbing -- and very credible -- look at the GRU and how it has resisted the reforms that have swept its country.... Lunev describes the situation [in today's Russia] lucidly. One cannot understand the situation in Russia today without reading this book."
Jonkers, AFIO WIN 12-99, 24 Mar. 1999, finds that the author tells his story in "simple, straightforward words, starting with his childhood and ending with his new life in America. It is a nice book for the general public, providing the human touch -- spies are people, after all."
Less enthralled, Paseman, Intelligencer 10.2, finds so many problems -- beginning with a "blatant attempt to create interest via sensationalism" -- with this work that he suggests it would be better to "[s]ave your money" than spend it here.
[Russia/SovietDefectors]
Lunt,
Lawrence K. Leave Me My Spirit. Encampment, WY: Affiliated Writers of America, 1990.
Petersen: "Purported first-hand account of a U.S.-spy in Cuba captured by Castro."
[CIA/Memoirs; LA/Cuba/Gen]
Luria, Carlos D. Skating on the Edge: A Memoir and Journey through a Metamorphosis of the CIA. Salem, NC: BooksurgePublishing, 2006.
Peake, Studies 51.4 (2007), comments that "[i]n this short but well written memoir, retired CIA officer Carlos Luria acquaints the reader with his early life in prewar Germany, his wartime experiences at school in England, his emigration to the United States, and his 'sailing years after retirement [in 1980]. In between, we learn of his career in the CIA.... Sprinkled among his stories are comments on TSD’s [Technical Services Division, predecessor of the Office of Technical Service] technical and tradecraft advancements."
[CIA/Memoirs]
Lusher,
Adam, Matt Born, Sebastien Berger, and Paul Stokes. "Hull Lecturer
is Unmasked as Stasi Agent." Electronic Telegraph, 18 Sep. 1999.
[http://www.telegraph.co.uk]
According to the BBC, Hull University senior lecturer Robin Pearson was "recruited [by the Stasi] while studying for a year at Karl Marx University in Leipzig ... [and] began supplying information on his fellow students and looking for clues about their politics" after he returned to Edinburgh.
"The BBC said that MI5 had known about his role as a Stasi agent for the past five years but had done nothing. However, it produced no evidence that he had committed any offence under the Official Secrets Act and Dr Pearson appeared to have been only a very low-level agent."
[UK/SpyCases/99/Fever]
Lustgarten, Laurence. "Security Services, Constitutional Structure, and the Varieties of Accountability in Canada and Australia." In Accountability for Criminal Justice, ed. Philip Stenning, 162-184. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995.
[Australia; Canada]
Lustgarten,
Laurence, and Ian Leigh. In From the Cold: National Security and Parliamentary Democracy. Oxford: Clarendon, 1994. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Gill, I&NS 10.1, calls In From the Cold "a major legal analysis of the relevance of 'recurring themes of constitutionalism to the realm of security and intelligence.' The study is comparative; [however,] Britain is the main focus.... The centrality of human rights in the authors' legal perspective is clear.... [T]he comprehensiveness and skill of the analysis here make this book quite indispensable in understanding the legal issues surrounding developments in the control of security intelligence agencies."
To Rogers, Political Studies 44.4, this "massively detailed study,... principally from a legal perspective," provides a "scholarly yet critical assessment of current issues of accountability and control."
[UK/Overviews/Other]
Luttrell, Marcus, with Patrick Robinson. Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10. New York: Little, Brown, 2007.
According to Longino, Proceedings 134, no. 5 (May 2008), this is the harrowing story of a special operation "mission that went awry." The author was the sole survivor of a four-man SEAL Team deployed into northeastern Afghanistan in June 2005.
[MI/Ops/00s/Afgh/Books; SpecOps/00s]
Luvaas, Jay.
"Lee at Gettysburg: A General Without Intelligence." Intelligence
and National Security 5, no. 2 (Apr. 1990): 116-135.
"Lee .. was crippled for want of good intelligence.... Clearly the absence of intelligence narrowed his options.... [I]t was at the operational level that the lack of timely intelligence had its most serious effects.... Stuart's failure to provide timely information of enemy activities deprived Lee of any opportunity to isolate and defeat Meade in detail."
[CivWar/Battles][c]
Luvaas, Jay.
"Napoleon's Use of Intelligence: The Jena Campaign of 1805." Intelligence
and National Security 3, no. 3 (Jul. 1998): 40-54.
[France/Historical][c]
Luvaas, Jay.
"The Role of Intelligence in the Chancellorsville Campaign, April-May
1963." Intelligence and National Security 5, no. 2 (Apr. 1990):
99-115.
"[I]n searching for the reasons why Lee had been able to outmaneuver superior numbers in this week's fighting in the wilderness of Virginia, high on the list would be his superior use of intelligence, both at the operational and the tactical level."
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