Mack, Jefferson. Running a Ring of Spies: Spycraft and Black Operations in the Real World of Espionage. Boulder, CO: Paladin, 1996. [pb]
Mack, Jefferson. Running a Ring of Spies: Spycraft and Black Operations in the Real World of Espionage. Boulder, CO: Paladin, 1996. [pb]
From publisher: "Running a ring of spies is no mission impossible with this tell-all primer. Find out the secrets of the world's best spies and peep into the real world of ... spies." The author worked "in Latin America and Southeast Asia for 20 years with one of the many different intelligence agencies of the United States."
[Overviews/Gen/90s]
Mackay, Donald. The Malayan Emergency 1948-60: The Domino That Stood. London/Washington, DC: Brassey's, 1997.
[UK/Postwar/Malaya]
Mackey, Chris [?pseud.], and Greg Miller. The Interrogators: Inside the Secret War against Al Qaeda. New York: Little, Brown, 2004.
According to Marisa, DIJ 14.1 (2005), Mackey "documents his firsthand experiences as a U.S. Army tactical interrogator," including as "senior Army interrogator in Afghansistan ... at Kandahar and Bagram" until the fall of 2002.... [F]or those ... interested in learning more about operational military HUMINT, particularly about military interrogation, debriefing, and counterintelligence operations[,] ... this book will be of high interest."
[MI/Army/00s; MI/Ops/Afghanistan]
MacKinnon, Colin. "William Friedman's Bletchley Park Diary: A New Source for the History of Anglo-American Intelligence Cooperation." Intelligence and National Security 20, no. 4 (Dec. 2005): 654-669.
In late April 1943, Friedman, Col. Alfred McCormack, and Lt. Col. Telford Taylor traveled to Great Britain to meet with British cryptologists. His diary of that visit, which lasted until 12 May 1943, "is a meticulous account of his activities during the mission." It was in the same period that the 1943 Travis-Strong Agreement was negotiated. and it appears the U.S. delegation was part of that process.
[Cryptography/Friedman; WWII/Magic/Cooperation]
Mackintosh,
Charles. From Cloak to Dagger: A SOE Agent in Italy, 1943-45. London: Kimber, 1982.
[UK/WWII/Services/SOE; WWII/Eur/Italy]
McKittrick, David. "Further Revelations of British Army's 'Dirty War' as Mole in the IRA's Killing Squad is Exposed." The Independent (UK), 12 May 2003. [http://news.independent.co.uk]
"[A]nother intelligence scandal is surfacing in Northern Ireland, revealing a nightmare world without a moral compass in which agents of the state are accused of complicity in murder. Less than a month ago, Sir John Stevens, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, concluded that security forces colluded in at least two murders in Northern Ireland. Now the saga of the agent known as 'Stakeknife' is coming to the fore. Although some of the more lurid reports have yet to be substantiated, it looks as though another can of worms has been opened....
"Society has always accepted that the security forces should attempt to penetrate groups such as the IRA through the use of informers, who are viewed as a distasteful but essential element of the fight against terrorism. Their existence poses the question, however, of how deeply they may become involved in illegality. Some law-breaking is inevitable, since joining the IRA is an offence. In the case of Stakeknife, however, the agent appears to have been much more deeply involved, taking part in a series of murders."
[UK/PostCW/03/IRASpy]
McKittrick, David. "IRA Double Agent 'Stakeknife' Forced to Flee Ireland as Cover Is Blown." The Independent (UK), 12 May 2003. [http://news.independent.co.uk]
"The west Belfast republican named as Stakeknife, who comes from a large family with a strong republican background, was last night understood to have left Northern Ireland. One report said he may have been taken to a British military intelligence base in Dorset."
[UK/PostCW/03/IRASpy]
MacKrell, Eileen F. [CAPT/USN] "Network-Centric Intelligence Works." U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 127, no. 7 (Jul. 2003): 44-48. ""Net-Centric Intelligence Works!" Naval Intelligence Professionals Quarterly 19, no. 3 (Sep. 2003): 5-8.
The author served as the intelligence officer for the USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) Battle Group during Operation Enduring Freedom. She states that "the main benefit to moving to a network-centric info flow was the dramatic increase in shared awareness throughout the battle group.... Information was available all the time,... and to everyone who wanted it."
See also Pete Majeranowski, [LT/USN], "Knowledge Web Plays Big in Transformation," U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 127, no. 7 (Jul. 2003): 43-48.
[MI/Navy/00s]
Macksey, Kenneth John.
The Partisans of Europe in the Second World War. New York: Stein
& Day, 1975. The Partisans of Europe in World War II. London:
Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1975.
Constantinides says that the author's thesis is that "guerrilla warfare in World War II was marginal in its contribution to victory and costly for the results attained.... His conclusions in this book have not gone unchallenged."
[WWII/Eur/Resistance]
Macksey, Kenneth. The Searchers: Radio Intercept in Two World Wars. London: Cassell, 2003. New ed. London: Cassell, 2004.
From advertisement: This "history of radio intercepting answers the question of how enemy messages are detected in the first place. The focus is on the early war-shortening Y and Radio Intercept Services, and their brilliantly clever inventors and technologists who proved to be unsung heroes with headphones clamped to their ears."
[UK/WWII/Ultra; WWI/UK]
Macksey, Kenneth. Without Enigma: The Ultra and Fellgiebel Riddles. Shepperton, Surrey, UK: Ian Allen, 2000.
According to Erskine, I&NS 17.2, this work combines "counter-factual history" (what would have happened without the take from Enigma) with a recounting of "the wartime career of General Erich Fellgiebel ... and his part in the 20 July 1944 assassination plot against Hitler." The author "gets too many aspects of ciphers and cipher machines wrong." Regrettably, this work "does not illuminate Ultra, and its twin themes do not blend well."
Kruh, Cryptologia 26.4, comments that the author "provides a realistic and logical scenario of what might have been, along with insights on Hitler's generals and the failed assassination attempt. It is an excellent, imaginative book."
[UK/WWII/Ultra; WWII/Eur/Ger/Resistance]
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