McDaniel, Michael L.
"High-Altitude UAVs Should Be Naval Players." U.S. Naval Institute
Proceedings 125, no. 2 (Feb. 1999): 70-72.
McDaniel, Michael L.
"High-Altitude UAVs Should Be Naval Players." U.S. Naval Institute
Proceedings 125, no. 2 (Feb. 1999): 70-72.
The focus here is on RQ-3 Darkstar and RQ-4 Global Hawk UAVs. "The DARPA program ... is scheduled to transition to an Air Force-led joint program office in 1999, with operational vehicles under Air Force control -- and battle group commanders have learned from bitter experience to depend as little as possible on resources not directly under their command. The answer is obvious -- either expand the Navy/Marine Corps role in both the Joint Program Office and operational units; or buy some Global Hawks and paint 'Navy' or 'Marines' on the fuselage."
[MI/Navy/90s; Recon/UAVs]
McDermott, Rose. "The Use and Abuse of Medical Intelligence." Intelligence and National Security 22, no. 4 (Aug. 2007): 491-520.
The author argues that "timely and reliable medical information on foreign leaders ... can serve ... to provide proper warning in cases of incipient leadeship failure, transition or succession." She outlines four instances -- the Shah of Iran, Ferdinand Marcos, Tancredo Neves, and Boris Yeltsin -- "when the medical condition of a particular foreign leader exerted a decisive influence on policy outcomes of great importance" to the U.S. government.
[GenPostwar/Medical]
McDevitt, Bette. "Teenage Resistance Heroine Tiny Mulder." World War II (Nov. 2003). [http://www.historynet.com/wwii/bltinymulder/]
"Young Tiny Mulder used her language skills, wits and a large dose of courage to keep Allied airmen shot down over Holland out of German hands."
[Women/WWII/Other; WWII/Eur/Res/Netherlands]
McDonald, Dick [CAPT/USN
(Ret.)]. "A Footnote to the Gulf of Tonkin Affair: Why the Second Attack
Could Not Have Happened, [Part I]." Naval Intelligence Professional
Quarterly 14, no. 2 (Apr. 1998): 1-5. [Part II] Naval Intelligence
Professionals Quarterly 14, no. 3 (Jul. 1998): 1-4.
Ostensibly a review of Edwin E. Moise, Tonkin Gulf and the Escalation of the Vietnam War, this two-part article is well worth reading on its own, even though the author arrives at the same conclusion as Moise. Part II centers on the author's involvement in the aftermath of the operation, and on how he has arrived at his conclusion.
[Vietnam/Topics]
McDonald, Dick [CAPT/USN (Ret.)], and Jim Fanell [CDR/USN]. "The Origins of OPINTEL and Its Successes in the Pacific in World War II." Naval Intelligence Professionals Quarterly.
Each section includes narrative and photos from the Pacific Naval Intelligence panels at CINCPACFLT Headquarters.
Part I: 17, no. 4 (Oct. 2001): 3-5.
Part II [completes the display section titled "1930 to December 1941 -- The Road to War"]: 18, no. 1 (Jan. 2002): 24-25.
Part III [covers the period from 7 December 1941 through the Battle of Coral Sea, 7-8 May 1942]: 18, no. 2/3 (Aug. 2002): 28-30.
Part IV [focuses on the 30-day period culminating in the Battle of Midway]: 18, no. 4 (Oct. 2002): 24-25.
Part V ["sketches the establishment and growth of the JICPOA"]: 19, no. 3 (Sep. 2003): 29-31.
Part VI ["highlights the contributions of two special groups of people who served in the JICPOA"]: 20, no. 1 (Feb. 2004): 22-24.
Part VII ["The Heroes of Radio Intelligence," "Radio Intelligence Units," "Yamamoto Shootdown"]: 20, no. 3 (Sep. 2004): 8-10.
Part VIII ["features the enormous intelligence production effort of the JICPOA"]: 20, no. 4 (Dec. 2004): 21-23.
Part IX [concluding article]: 21, no. 2 (Jun. 2005): 10-12.
[MI/Navy/Interwar; WWII/U.S./Services/Navy]
McDonald, Gilman [CDR/USNR (Ret.)]. "About ULTRA: Fact and Fiction," Intelligencer 14, no. 2 (Winter/Spring 2005): 113-117 (with editorial additions, 117-120).
The author argues that the term ULTRA was simply a security classification or label applied to the U.S. Top Secret or, for the British, the step above Most Secret.
[UK/WWII/Ultra]
McDonald, Henry. "IRA Spy Row Deepens." The Observer, 10 Feb. 2008. [http://www.guardian.co.uk]
Northern Ireland's Truth Commissioners have been "'have been stunned by how many agents the RUC and MI5 had inside the Provos,' one source said" on 9 February 2008. "The revelations regarding spies inside republican organisations comes as the IRA and Sinn Féin absorbs the shock over the Roy McShane affair. The 58-year-old west Belfast republican was revealed on Friday as a long-term MI5 agent inside the IRA. McShane had been a bodyguard and driver for senior Sinn Féin figures, including Gerry Adams."
[UK/GenPostwar/IRA]
McDonald, Lawrence
H. "The OSS: America's First National Intelligence Agency." Prologue,
Spring 1992, 7-22. Also, Special Warfare 6, no. 1 (Feb. 1993): 24-32.
[WWII/OSS/Gen]
McDonald, Walter. "African Numbers Game." Studies in Intelligence 8, no. 4 (Fall 1964): 11-20.
"Many, if not most," of the statistics contained in U.S. government publications about the newly independent tropical African states "are patently absurd." National accounting for population "in most African countries is by almost any standard ludicrous."
[Analysis/Gen]
McDonald, Ward. Ed., Mary M. Willis and David Pettus, contributors. Johnny Reb: Confederate
Spy -- Memories of Thrilling Events of the Civil War. New York: Larksdale
via American History Book Publishing Co., 1992.
Surveillant 2.6: "Memoirs of Ward McDonald [1839-1904], Captain, C.S.A., 4th Alabama Cavalry, written for the Moulton Advertiser, Moulton, Alabama."
[CivWar/Conf/Intel]
McDougall, Walter A. The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age. New York: Basic Books, 1985.
For Cold War Connection, "Top Books on the Cold War," http://www.cmu.edu/coldwar/annot.htm, this "richly detailed ... work provides the best overview to date on the complex intersections of the space program and politics (both international and domestic), as well as the larger issue of the relationship between the state and technological development."
[Recon/Topics/Science]
McDowell, Don. Strategic Intelligence: A Handbook for Practicioners, Managers and Users. Cooma, NSW, Australia: Istana Enterprises, 1998.
Swenson, IJI&C 16.1/130/fn55, calls this "the definitive source for ideas about how to bring 'police intelligence' to the level of strategic intelligence."
[Overviews/90s]
McEldowney, J. F. "Legal Aspects of the Irish Secret Service Fund, 1793-1833." Irish Historical Studies 25, no. 98 (1986): 129-137.
[OtherCountries/Ireland; UK/Historical]
McElroy, Damien. "China Aims Spy Network at Trade Secrets in Europe." Telegraph.co.uk, 3 Jul. 2005. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk]
"A network of Chinese industrial spies has been established across Europe as the Communist government's intelligence agencies shift their resources and attention" toward espionage "aimed at achieving global commercial dominance. The extent of the spying was laid bare after a leading Chinese agent 'defected' in Belgium. The agent, who has worked in European universities and companies for more than 10 years, has given the Sûreté de l'Etat..., detailed information on hundreds of Chinese spies working at various levels of European industry."
[China/Gen]
McElvoy,
Anne. "The Day that the Stasi Attempted to Recruit Me." The
Independent (UK), 20 Sep. 1999. [http:// www.independent.co.uk]
The author [see Markus Wolf, with Anne McElvoy, Man Without a Face: The Autobiography of Communism's Greatest Spymaster (New York: Times Books, 1997)] relates an incident in 1986. She also expresses unhappiness over the manner in which the Mitrokhin materials were released: The services "have allowed a precedent to emerge in which copyright of intelligence material is given away solely at the discretion of the secret services, to the profit of individuals."
[UK/SpyCases/99/Fever]
McElvoy,
Anne. "The Wolf Holds His Foes at Bay Again." Electronic Telegraph,
12 Jan. 1997. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk]
McElvoy worked with Wolf on his memoirs, Man Without a Face (1997). Here, she gives her impressions of him: "Wolf has phenomenal powers of concentration and recall. He can still remember elaborate spiders' webs of the intelligence connections which he spun across the West. He radiates an air of self-confidence, verging on self-love."
[Germany/East/Wolf]
McFate, Montgomery. "Cultural Intelligence: 'Far More Difficult than Counting Tanks and Planes.'" American Intelligence Journal 24 (2006): 16-25.
This article "argues that the inability to recognize the significance of data and to understand what information means within its original context, is the product of three forces operating within our intelligence establishment: ethnocentrism, the 'rational actor' model of human behavior, and the preference for technical intelligence."
[Analysis/Critiques]
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