Maffeo, Steven E. Most Secret and Confidential: Intelligence in the Age of Nelson. Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute Press, 2000.
Maffeo, Steven E. Most Secret and Confidential: Intelligence in the Age of Nelson. Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute Press, 2000.
From advertisement: "[T]his book describes the ingenious methods used to collect and disseminate secret intelligence in the days of fighting sail.... The author's anecdotes give marvelous insight into the thoughts of the era's most important figures, Bonaparte, Pitt, Spencer, and Cocrane."
Bath, NIPQ, Summer 2001, recommends Maffeo's work. The author "illustrates the role of the commander as an intelligence officer through examples drawn mainly from the life of Lord Nelson and focusing on his use of intelligence against the Danish fleet in the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801 and against Napoleon's French Mediterranean forces in the Battle of the Nile in 1798."
For Meilinger, posted 1 Dec. 2000 at http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/bookrev/08.html, "one of the more enlightening discussions" was the author's "description of how sparse and small the typical commander's staff was and, therefore, how personality-dependent ... intelligence operations were at the close of the eighteenth century." He concludes that Most Secret and Confidential "is a fascinating and rewarding account that would be useful to military officers of all ranks and services."
Brooks, Studies 11 (Fall-Winter 2001) and NIPQ 18.2/3, calls this an "exquisitely researched and documented book.... Although scholarly, [it] is engagingly written, and the subject will fascinate anyone who has an abiding interest in the role of intelligence in support of command and, indeed, the role of intelligence in shaping history."
[UK/Historical]
Maffet, Meri W. "Open Secrets: Protecting the Identity of the CIA's Intelligence Gatherers in a First Amendment Society." Hastings Law Journal 32, no. 6 (Jul. 1981): 1723-1775.
[Overviews/Legal/IIPA]
Magagnini, Stephen. "An Inside Look at a CIA Secret War." Capitol Hill Blue, 31 Aug. 2000. [http://capitolhillblue.com]
Tony Poe talks (minimally) about the war in Laos.
See Dick Gay, "Tony This and Tony That," CIRA Newsletter 28, no. 2 (Summer 2003): 30-35.
[CIA/Laos]
Maggs, John. "Secrets
Shanghaied: Warhead Design, Missile and Satellite Technology, Machine Tools
-- You Name It, the Cox Committee Says China Stole It." National
Journal, 29 May 1999, 1454-1461.
The Cox Committee report "builds a largely circumstantial but overwhelming case for the claim that China has gained crucial design information for all of the U.S. nuclear arsenal ... -- yet, the report sticks close to its mandate in avoiding sweeping judgments on the significance of these losses."
[SpyCases/U.S./China/Cox]
Magnan, Stephen W.
"Are We Our Own Worst Enemy? Safeguarding Information Operations."
Studies in Intelligence 9 (Summer 2000): 97-103.
[GenPostwar/InfoWar]
Magner, Denise K. "At
Rochester Institute, a Spectrum of Opinions on Links with the CIA."
Chronicle of Higher Education, 10 Jul. 1991, A1, 11, 14.
Controversy erupts on campus over ties between the Rochester Institute of Technology and the CIA. RIT President Richard Rose's April-June sabbatical at the CIA seems to have been the spark. The discussion centers around the CIA's role in RIT's program in imaging science.
[CIA/Relations/Academe][c]
Maguire,
Keith. "The Intelligence War in Northern Ireland." International
Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 4, no. 2 (Summer 1990):
145-165.
[UK/Postwar/IRA][c]
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