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McAllister, David H. [LT/USN] "Assessing Israeli Intelligence in Action." Naval Intelligence Professionals Quarterly 13, no. 4 (Oct. 1997): 1-5.

This article adds nothing new to the body of knowledge about the performance of Israeli intelligence in the 1967 Six Day War, the 1973 Yom Kippur War, and the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. However, it does draw together in a cogent fashion most of the conventional themes concerning Israeli successes and failures before and in those conflicts. The conclusion that Israeli intelligence failures can be linked directly to a lack of objectivity (versus the measurements of accuracy and timeliness), arising in 1973 from preconceived notions and in 1982 from political influence, is inescapable.

[Israel][c]

McAuliffe, Mary S., ed. CIA Documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962. Washington, DC: Central Intelligence Agency, 1992.

Clark comment: This compilation of documents comes from the declassification process managed by the CIA's Historical Review Group.

According to Surveillant 3.1, the editor/compiler, Dr. Mary S. McAuliffe, "recently completed an internal study of John A. McCone's tenure as DCI [not yet available to the public], and is the author of Crisis on the Left: Cold War Politics and American Liberals, 1947-1954" (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts, 1978).

FILS 11.6 says this collection is "unique and provides ... invaluable information." For Lowenthal, the documents give "a good feel for the role played by intelligence in this crisis and [how] senior policy and intelligence officials interacted."

Additional documents on the 1962 crisis have been published in Laurence Chang and Peter Kornbluh, eds., The Cuban Missile Crisis (1992).

[GenPostwar/60s/MissileCrisis][c]

McAuliffe, Michael. "Joint Task Force Two: Canada's Secret Soldiers." CBC, 22 Apr. 1999. [http://www.tv.cbc.ca]

Joint Task Force II is an elite commando unit of the Canadian armed forces. It was formed in 1993 with a counterterrorism mission. Although "JTF2 may be domestically oriented,... at least a handful of its members are dispatched on every major Canadian peacekeeping operation." This article suggests that JTF2 may be operating in Kosovo, providing targeting information for NATO warplanes.

[Canada/PostCW]

McCadden, Harvey B. "Cover in Unconventional Operations." Studies in Intelligence 5, no. 3 (Summer 1961): 31-35.

Cover is one "consideration to be weighed in connection with any examination or re-examination of the modus of unconventional operations." It "must be treated as an integral part of the plan for the conduct of any clandestine operation.... [T]he conduct of the operation must be shaped to fit its cover legend."

[CIA/Components/Tradecraft]

McCague, James. FBI: Democracy's Guardian. New Canaan, CT: Garrard, 1974. [Petersen]

[FBI]

McCall, Gibb. Flight Most Secret. London: Kimber, 1981.

This book is about Group Captain Charles Pickard and the infiltrating and exfiltrating of agents from German-occupied Europe. See also, Alexander Hamilton, Wings of Night (London: Kimber, 1977).

[UK/WWII/Overviews]

McCann, Frederic. "Learning Quickly on the Job: Gathering Intelligence in Laos in 1968." Studies in Intelligence 49, no. 1 (2005), 27-31.

Personal memories: "In 1968, I was sent from Tokyo to Laos to interview refugees and ralliers from the communist Pathet Lao guerrillas who had fled to the protection of royalist Gen. Vang Pao's army of Meo hill tribe 'irregulars.'"

[CIA/Laos]

McCann, Thomas. An American Company: The Tragedy of United Fruit. New York: Crown, 1976.

[CIA/50s/Guat]

McCarthy, Dennis V. N., with Philip W. Smith. Protecting the President: The Inside Story of a Secret Service Agent. New York: Morrow, 1985.

[OtherAgencies/Treasury]

McCarthy, Gregory C. "GOP Oversight of Intelligence in the Clinton Era." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 15, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 26-51.

"While varying greatly by issue and period, both select committees performed commendably" during the Clinton years. "Although comity would generally characterize the [SSCI's] approach, a notable exception is ... [t]he nomination of Anthony Lake" to be DCI." The "nadir of [HPSCI's] effectiveness" was the Torricelli case, which "was a disaster" for the committee. Overall, however, "the committees allowed Congress to play a major and mostly positive role in oversight."

[CIA/90s/SummingUp; Oversight/90s]

McCarthy, Mary O. "The Mission to Warn: Disaster Looms." Defense Intelligence Journal 7, no. 2 (Fall 1998): 17-31.

A National Security Council staffer and former NIO for Warning, Dr. McCarthy agrees with the Jeremiah and Rumsfeld studies that there is a "dangerous scarcity of specific skills, particularly technical and linguistic," among U.S. analysts. She believes that major changes are needed.

[Analysis/Surprise]

McCarthy, Mary. "The National Warning System: Striving for an Illusive Goal." Defense Intelligence Journal 3, no. 1 (Spring 1994): 5-19.

The author is National Intelligence Officer (NIO) for Warning. Her article deals with current structure and problems. "The National Warning System usually concentrates on threats judged to be about six months away or less."

[Analysis/Surprise][c]

McCarthy, Roger E. Tears of the Lotus: Accounts of Tibetan Resistance to the Chinese Invasion, 1950-1962. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1997.

Tovar, IJI&C 13.2, p. 226, fn. 7, calls this a "very good book on CIA support to the Tibetan resistance.... McCarthy ... was a CIA operations officer who worked on the Tibet project. His book focuses primarily on the operational side as viewed from within the Agency."

[CA/Tibet]

McCarthy, Shaun P. The Function of Intelligence in Crisis Management: Towards an Understanding of the Intelligence Producer-Consumer Dichotomy. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1998.

Dolman, Choice, Feb. 1999, notes that the author focuses on showing that intelligence plays an interactive role in the policy process and that intelligence analysis and crisis decision making undertaken in isolation from each other produce negative consequences. Three case studies from the Reagan Administration's foreign policy initiatives in Lebanon are offered: the terrorist attacks in 1983 on the U.S. Embasy and the Marine barracks, the 1984 attack on the U.S. Embassy and the kidnapping of CIA Station Chief William Buckley, and the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 in 1985.

[GenPostwar/Issues/Policy & 80s/Generally]

McCarthy, Shaun. "South Africa's Intelligence Reformation." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 9, no. 1 (Spring 1996): 63-71.

The author looks at the changing principles, legislation, and organizational structures of intelligence which have accompanied South Africa's political transition.

[OtherCountries/SAfrica][c]

McCarthy, Shawn. "Cuban Envoy Holes Up in Ottawa." Globe and Mail (Canada), 28 Feb. 2000. [http://www.theglobeandmail.com]

On 27 February 2000, Cuban diplomat Jose Imperatori, "expelled from the United States on spy charges[,] was holed up in the Cuban Embassy ..., threatening to remain there on a hunger strike until his name is cleared."

[SpyCases/U.S./Faget]

McCauley, Nathan E. "The Military Intelligence Profession in the U.S. Army." Military Intelligence 13, no. 3 (1978): 14-17, 37.

[MI/Army]

McChristian, Joseph A. [MGEN/USA] The Role of Military Intelligence, 1965- 1967. Washington, DC: GPO, 1974.

According to Pforzheimer, the author, who later headed Army Intelligence, relates his experiences as J-2 MACV. Constantinides finds that the work is "of greatest value on the organization of military intelligence." Because the material is unclassified, many subjects are omitted.

[MI/Army; Vietnam/Gen]

McClintock, Michael. Instruments of Statecraft: U.S. Guerrilla Warfare, Counterinsurgency, and Counter-terrorism, 1940-1990. New York: Pantheon Books, 1992.

Choice, Jul./Aug. 1992, identifies the author as a "human rights monitor" who "contends that the US has waged 'dirty war'... around the world since the end of WW II."

A Namebase reviewer comments that "McClintock's numerous quotes from military manuals and experts begin to drag after a few hundred pages, but his material on Edward Lansdale, and on President Kennedy's love affair with Special Forces, are almost worth the effort it takes to wade through them."

McGehee, from <cloaks-and-daggers@sjuvm.stjohns.edu>, 21 Jun. 1996, calls this an "overlooked book" that "is a finely researched examination of the use of the covert arms of the U.S. Government in subverting or sustaining foreign governments."

[MI/SpecOps]

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