Maho - Mak

Mahoney, Harry Thayer. "The Saga of Xenophon Dmitrivich Kalamatiano." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 8, no. 2 (Summer 1995): 179-201.

[WWI/U.S./Kalamatiano][c]

Mahoney, Harry T., and Marjorie L. Mahoney. American Prisoners of the Bolsheviks, 1917-1922: The Genesis of Modern American Intelligence. Bethesda, MD: Academica, 2001.

[WWI/U.S.]

Mahoney, Harry Thayer, and Marjorie Locke. Espionage in Mexico: The 20th Century. Bethesda, MD: Austin & Winfield, 1997.

Miller, IJI&C 10.3, is quite enthusiastic about the Mahoneys' work. He finds that the authors know their subject and know how to tell a story about an interesting subject. American, German, Japanese, and Russian intelligence efforts are all chronicled.

[LA/Mexico]

Mahoney, Harry Thayer, and Marjorie Locke. Gallantry in Action: A Biographic Dictionary of Espionage in the American Revolutionary War. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1999.

Jonkers, AFIO WIN 7-00, 19 Feb. 2000, says that this "is an interesting compendium of American espionage agents," which will be "instructive and useful to readers young and old."

For Warren, CIRA Newsletter, Fall 2000, Gallantry in Action's "170 brief biographies of the main players on the Revolutionary intelligence battlefield" produce "a useful addition to the library of anyone interested in the history of intelligence," even though the work's "basis [is] in secondary sources."

[RevWar/RefMats]

Mahoney, Harry Thayer, and Marjorie Locke Mahoney. Mexico and the Confederacy, 1860-1867. Bethesda, MD: Austin & Winfield, 1998.

Anderson, Intelligencer 9.1, found this "small [219 pages], well organized book ... most interesting." Although it is not focused on intelligence, the book "has a modest number of intelligence references.... Of particular interest,... is a discussion of the active and effective role of Union agents in New Orleans.... The most intriguing intelligence vignette is about ... Loreta Velasquez."

[Civil War/Conf/Related & Women; LA/Mexico]

Mahoney, M.H. Women in Espionage: A Biographical Dictionary. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, (?1994).

Miller, IJI&C 8.2: "Mahoney has written a wonderful and marvelously interesting volume.... There are 151 biographies in the book..., and no female spies of note are omitted. Mahoney's coverage is remarkable, both in terms of time span and geography.... At least ten entries are from times preceding 1950 and from outside the United States.... There is excellent coverage of American history.... Mahoney's ... summarizations of his subjects' often involved and complicated lives and careers are exemplary.... This is an absolutely outstanding book."

[RefMats; Women]

Maier, Timothy, and Sean Paige. "Does America Need the CIA?" Insight on the News, 17 Aug. 1998, 17-20.

[CIA/90s/98/Gen]

Mains, A. A. [Lt.-Col.] Field Security: Very Ordinary Intelligence. Chippenham, UK: Picton Publishing, 1992.

According to Surveillant 3.1, this book is the story "of the development of Field Security by the author who was in India and Iraq during WWII. The underlying theme is the field burden placed on junior officers and the training they receive. Mains shows how intelligence and security operate in the confusion of war."

Watt, I&NS 9.2, comments that the author's "experience ... was essentially at the level of senior management, rather than that of field experience." His job entailed "a good deal of civilian security work." The book is "rather heavy going." Although it "fills in the political background competently," the "narrative ... never really comes alive."

[UK/WWII/Overviews/Gen]

Maiolo, Joseph A. "Deception and Intelligence Failure: Anglo-German Preparations for U-boat Warfare in the 1930s." Journal of Strategic Studies 22, no. 4 (Dec. 1999): 55-76.

From abstract: "This essay ... argues that the Royal Navy (RN) employed the general perception of ASDIC (sonar) as a 'antidote' to the submarine to mislead potential foes about the state of its anti-submarine defences.... [T]he German Navy failed to discover the realities behind ASDIC's image, and this intelligence failure helped to shape U-boat policy."

[Germany/Interwar; UK/Interwar/30s][c]

Maiolo, Joseph A. "'I believe the Hun is cheating': British Admiralty Technical Intelligence and the German Navy, 1936-39." Intelligence and National Security 11, no. 1 (Jan. 1996): 32-58.

This article reconstructs "Admiralty technical intelligence analysis about German capital ships and U-boats from 1936 to 1939.... Evidence ... demonstrates that technical assessors performed better than has been previously acknowledged."

[Germany/Interwar; UK/Interwar/30s][c]

Maiolo, Joseph A. The Royal Navy and Nazi Germany: A Study in Appeasement and the Origins of the Second World War. Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan, 1998.

Gardner, I&NS 16.3, notes that this work includes "a critical investigation into the role that intelligence played in shaping the British Admiralty's perceptions and policies.... Collection and analysis are both written about at length as is the application of the derived product to policy.... [T]his is a densely written work, rewarding the careful reader but unlikely to be fully appreciated by anyone who has a superficial knowledge or understanding of the period."

[UK/Interwar/Gen][c]

Majeranowski, Pete [LT/USN]. "Knowledge Web Plays Big in Transformation." U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 127, no. 7 (Jul. 2003): 43-48.

"Among members of the Carl Vinson (CVN 70) Battle Group during Operation Enduring Freedom, information had to be transmitted with near-real-time speed. 'The Web is the brief' -- the mantra of Battle Group Commander Rear Admiral Thomas E. Zelibor... -- helped drive the knowledge-web culture through the ranks of the battle group and battle force, connecting people with information as never before."

See also Eileen F. MacKrell [CAPT/USN], "Network-Centric Intelligence Works," U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 127, no. 7 (Jul. 2003): 44-48.

[MI/Navy/00s]

Major, David G. "Operation 'Famish': The Integration of Counterintelligence into the National Strategic Decisionmaking Process." Defense Intelligence Journal 4, no. 1 (Spring 1995): 29-55.

Operation "Famish" was the FBI codename for a series of national security policy decisions implemented March-November 1986. Eighty KGB and GRU officers were ordered to leave the United States. Major's article examines "the interagency structure and process" through which the Operation "Famish" decisions were made.

[CI][c]

Major, John [Prime Minister], and Tom King [CH MP, Chairman, Intelligence and Security Committee]. Intelligence and Security Committee: Annual Report 1995, Intelligence Services Act of 1994, Chapter 13. London: HMSO, 1996.

Surveillant 4.2: These annual reports tend to "say little since they operate within ... the Official Secrets Act of 1989." This report, however, does criticize the United States "for being lax in sharing information from ongoing debriefings of Soviet spy Aldrich Ames."

[UK/PostCW]

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