Maclaren,
John, and Nicholas Hiley. "Nearer the Truth: The Search for Alexander
Szek." Intelligence and National Security 4, no. 4 (Oct. 1989):
813-826.
Maclaren,
John, and Nicholas Hiley. "Nearer the Truth: The Search for Alexander
Szek." Intelligence and National Security 4, no. 4 (Oct. 1989):
813-826.
The authors take on the long-running legend of the activities and fate of Alexander Szek, thought to have stolen German codes from Belgium which later helped in breaking the Zimmermann telegram. Their research and analysis essentially shoot down most elements of the previous story. Definitive? Probably not, but in most of its elements better based than its predecessor myths.
[UK/WWI; WWI/Other][c]
Maclaren, Roy. Canadians
Behind Enemy Lines, 1939-1945. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1981.
Concerns Canadians who worked with various Allied organizations and European Resistance forces during World War II.
[Canada; WWII/Eur/Resistance]
Maclean, Fitzroy. Eastern
Approaches. London: Jonathan Cape, 1949. London: Four Square Books, 1965. [pb]
For a biography of Maclean, see Frank McLynn, Fitzroy Maclean (London: John Murray, 1992). However, Surveillant 2.6 says this autobiography "contains little on his intelligence experiences."
[UK/WWII/Services/SOE][c]
Maclean, Fitzroy. Take
Nine Spies. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1978. New York: Atheneum,
1978.
Constantinides: Maclean studies nine spies with regard to personality and motive -- Mata Hari, Azef, Redl, Sorge, Cicero, Lonsdale, Philby, Penkovsky, and "William Martin" (Montagu's pre-Sicily invasion deception). "This is good reading," although no new insights are offered.
[Overviews]
MacLeod,
Alexander. "Renegade Spy Puts Official Secrecy on Trial in Britain."
Christian Science Monitor, 7 Sep. 2000. [http://www.csmonitor.com]
Renegade MI5 officer David Shayler returned from three years' exile in France on 20 August 2000. He was immediately arrested, charged with offenses under the 1989 Official Secrets Act, and released on bail. Shayler is "determined to prove that new human rights legislation due to take effect in five weeks is on his side. He says it gives him a legal right to expose undercover operations by MI5 and MI6."
[UK/PostCW/Shayler]
MacLeod, D. Peter. "Treason at Quebec: British Espionage in Canada During the Winter of 1759-1760." Canadian Military History 2, no. 1 (1993): 49-62.
Calder: "Discusses a spy network ... that supplied the British with intelligence on the French military."
[Canada/ToWWI/Historical]
MacLeod, Ian. "CSIS
Probes Espionage in High-Tech Industry." Ottawa Citizen, 23
Nov. 1997, A1, A4.
CASIS Intelligence Newsletter 31/14: The author "surveys foreign governmental and corporate targeting of Canadian high-tech companies."
[Canada]
Macmahon, Arthur W. Memorandum on the Postwar International Information Program of the United States. New York: Arno, [1945] 1972.
[CA/White]
MacMichael, David, and Ray McGovern. "WMD: Where? Find? Plant?" CounterPunch, 26 Apr. 2003. [http://www.counterpunch.org]
"While the odds of [the United States 'planting' weapons of mass destruction in Iraq] seem less than even, speculation on the possibility drove us down memory lane. Likely or not in present circumstances, there is ample precedent for such covert action operations. VIPS [Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity] member David MacMichael authored this short case-study paper to throw light on this little known subject."
[GenPostCW/00s/04/WMD]
MacMichael, David. "Untruth and Consequences." CounterPunch, 16 Mar. 2004. [http://www.counterpunch.org]
"It is now accepted ... that administration charges of Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction, links with and support for al-Qaeda and the 9/11 attacks, and the imminence of Baghdad's military threat were not true.... [A]dministration ... spokespersons ... who made the case for war ... now say that if they were wrong it was because the intelligence system failed to provide them with accurate information.... [W]e know ... that exile Iraqis and other agenda-driven people told lies to ideologically driven individuals in the Bush administration all too eager to use them to press their case for the invasion and occupation of Iraq."
[GenPostCW/00s/04/WMD]
MacPherson, B. Nelson. "CIA Origins as Reviewed from Within." Intelligence and National Security 10, no. 2 (Apr. 1995): 353-359.
This is a review essay that pivots around three books: Darling, The Central Intelligence Agency: An Instrument of Government, to 1950 (1990); Montague, General Walter Bedell Smith as Director of Central Intelligence, October 1950-February 1953 (1992); and Warner, ed., CIA Cold War Records: The CIA Under Harry Truman (1994).
[CIA/40s/Gen]
MacPherson, B. Nelson. "The Compromise of US Navy Cryptanalysis After the Battle of Midway." Intelligence and National Security 2, no. 2 (Apr. 1987): 320-323.
The author attributes heavy U.S. naval losses at Cape Esperance, Santa Cruz, and Guadalcanal to the changing of the Japanese naval cipher as a result of the Chicago Tribune's publication of Stanley Johnston's dispatch.
[WWII/MAGIC/Tribune][c]
MacPherson, B. Nelson.
"Inspired Improvisation: William Casey and the Penetration of Germany."
Intelligence and National Security 9, no. 4 (Oct. 1994): 695-722.
"The penetration of Germany [by Secret Intelligence Branch/OSS/ London] demonstrated William Casey's singular adeptness at harnessing disparate assets into a more cohesive force." Casey was SI/London chief from 1 December 1944. "The penetration ... provided the military precisely the kind of information it wanted."
[WWII/OSS/German/Ops][c]
MacPherson, B. Nelson. "Reductio Ad Absurdum: The R&A Branch of OSS/London." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 15, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 390- 414.
"R&A/London clearly never fulfilled its potential. It, moreover, certainly never merited the reputation it enjoyed in postwar historical literature."
[WWII/OSS/R&A]
Macrakis, Kristie. "The Case of Agent Gorbachev." Intelligencer 12, no. 1 (Summer 2001): 10-19. Reprinted from American Scientist 88 (Nov.-Dec. 2000).
Stasi "Agent Gorbachev" (probably from Wodka Gorbatschow, a Berlin vodka) was West German physicist Hans Rehder who worked at Telefunken and AEG. The author found this prized Stasi agent's file and is using it here as a "window onto the workings of scientific and technical espionage during the Cold War."
[Germany/East]
Macrakis, Kristie. "Does Effective Espionage Lead to Success in Science and Technology? Lessons from the East German Ministry for State Security." Intelligence and National Security 19, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 52-77.
The East German Ministry of State Security (MfS) "developed effective general espionage methods for collecting and evaluating scientific material during the Cold War. Unfortunately, East Germany could not always sucessfully integrate the material into its economy or science system."
[Germany/East]
Macrakis, Kristie. Seduced by Secrets: Inside the Stasi's Spy-Tech World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
From publisher: this book "draws on secret files from the Stasi archives, including CIA-acquired material, interviews and friendships, court documents, and unusual visits to spy sites..., to demonstrate that the Stasi overestimated the power of secrets to solve problems and created an insular spy culture more intent on securing its power than protecting national security."
[Germany/East]
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