McGartland, Martin. Dead Man Running: A True Story of a Secret Agent's Escape from the IRA and MI5. Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1999.
McGartland, Martin. Dead Man Running: A True Story of a Secret Agent's Escape from the IRA and MI5. Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1999.
From publisher: "For more than four years Martin McGartland worked undercover as a British agent inside the Provisional IRA..... [This book] traces his ... quest for the truth behind his betrayal by British officialdom. Shortly after this book was first published, McGartland was shot by an execution squad ... and somehow survived."
[UK/Postwar/IRA]
McGartland, Martin.
Fifty Dead Men Walking: The True Story of a British Secret Agent Inside
the IRA. London: Blake, 1997. Norwalk, CT: Hastings House, 1997.
According to West, History 26.1, the author worked as the Royal Ulster Constabulary's "star penetration agent" of the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Belfast from 1989 to 1991.
Barbash, WPNWE, 4 May 1998, finds McGartland's book "unusually illuminating." Although his work as a spy for the British police "is only modestly interesting," the author's description of growing up in a Catholic ghetto of Belfast is "[f]ar more revealing."
[UK/Postwar/IRA]
McGarvey, Patrick J.
CIA: The Myth and the Madness. New York: Saturday Review Press, 1972. New York: Penguin, 1973. [pb]
According to Pforzheimer, McGarvey's "biased and unbalanced criticisms, frequent errors of fact, and lack of realistic solutions [to the problems illustrated] detract from the book's value."
Constantinides points out that the author was only in the CIA for three years, and those were with the Directorate of Intelligence. There are errors here that "show a careless and unreliable work."
[CIA/70s/Gen & Memoirs]
McGarvey, Patrick.
"DIA: Intelligence to Please." In Readings in American Foreign
Policy: A Bureaucratic Perspective, eds. Morton H. Halperin and Arnold
Kanter, 318-328. Boston: Little, Brown, 1972.
[MI/DIA]
McGarvey, Robert, and
Elise Caitlin. The Complete Spy: An Insider's Guide to the Latest in
High Tech Espionage and Equipment. New York: Perigee, 1983. [Petersen]
[RefMats/Weapons]
McGee,
Jim. "Is the FBI Too Charged Up? The Agency's Growing Power Is Causing
Concerns about Civil Liberties." Washington Post National Weekly
Edition, 11 Aug. 1997, 6-9.
This is a nonalarmist-yet-cautionary look at changes, especially those associated with Director Louis Freeh but preceding him as well, in the authorities for and scope of FBI activities. Civil libertarians are concerned that rules adopted in the 1970s in response to revelations of FBI investigative abuses under the rationale of national security are being weakened in the name of combating terrorism.
The "changes at the FBI do not only involve amending old rules and widening jurisdiction. The agency is also interweaving itself with the rest of the national security establishment." Now being created at the FBI is "a unified system of intelligence gathering that blends top-of-the-line federal law enforcement, military, civilian intelligence and local resources." In addition to the domestic security implications of these changes, the FBI's overseas presence has been expanded by acquiring jurisdiction over transnational crimes and establishing 23 new FBI offices around the world. In essence, "the legal wall that separated the FBI's domestic law enforcement work from the military and the intelligence community" has been eroded.
[FBI][c]
McGee,
Jim, and Roberto Suro. "Losing Confidence in the G-Men: The FBI Faces
Congressional Criticism after Management Misfires and Computer Cost Overruns."
Washington Post National Weekly Edition, 24 Mar. 1997, 29.
[FBI][c]
McGee, George A., Jr.
The History of the 2d Battalion, Merrill's Marauders: Northern Burma
Campaign of 1944. Braunfels, TX: George A. McGee, Jr., 1987.
[WWII/FE/Pac/CBI]
McGehee, Ralph. Deadly
Deceits: My Twenty-Five Years in the CIA. New York: Sheridan Square,
1983. Washington, DC: Dignity, 1990.
According to Surveillant 1.4, McGehee entered the CIA as a super-patriot in the 1950s and "left disillusioned and shattered by what he had seen and learned in Vietnam." He argues that the CIA was "not an intelligence gathering agency ... but rather a covert action arm of the American Presidency during that time period."
Clark comment: McGehee is probably best known today for CIABASE, his massive database tracking CIA and intelligence activities. He remains active in anti-CIA causes, and continues to argue that the CIA should be disbanded because its intelligence is marred by the association with operations. McGehee was inordinately pleased when Hanoi announced the release of a Vietnamese edition of his book.
[CIA/Memoirs]
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