McGill, G.M. (Mert) "OSCINT and the Private Information Sector." International
Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 7, no. 4 (Winter 1994):
435-443.
McGill, G.M. (Mert) "OSCINT and the Private Information Sector." International
Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 7, no. 4 (Winter 1994):
435-443.
"The amount of information available electronically through open sources, information with countless intelligence applications, is staggering.... The intelligence community must take advantage of every possible resource at its disposal, including the wide array of open source information that is readily available and relatively inexpensive." The author's primary suggestion is for the government to release information in "raw" form through a network like the Internet; private-sector information providers would, then, package or add value to this data.
[OpenSource][c]
McGinnis,
G.P. "Commercial Intelligence." Cryptolog 15 [probably
14], no. 4 (Summer 1993): 1, 17.
[GenPostwar/Econ/Corp][c]
McGinnis,
George P. The Collective Works of Captain George P. McGinnis. Pensacola, FL: Naval Cryptologic Veterans Association, 2007.
Christensen, Cryptologia 32.1 (Jan. 2008), notes that much of what is here originally appeared in CRYPTOLOG. It "consists of 105 articles and 102 book reviews." These are mostly stories about people, not about operational matters.
[Cryptography; MI/Navy/To90s]
McGinnis,
George P. Intelligence in Alaska Through the Eyes of Those Who Served. [Corvallis, OR]: Naval Cryptologic Veterans Association, 1991.
Surveillant 2.1: "31 Articles on cryptologic assignments by the individuals who served in the military communications group in WWII."
[WWII/Services/Navy]
McGinnis,
George P. U.S. Naval Cryptologic Veterans Association (NCVA) History Book. Paducah, KY: Turner Publishing, 1996.
Kruh, Cryptologia 21.3, is impressed by both the physical appearance and content of this book. Among other things, it provides "a comprehensive history of naval cryptology from World War I to modern times." The book includes some articles that have not previously been published.
[MI/Navy]
McGirk, Tim. "Has
Pakistan Tamed Its Spies?" Time, 6 May 2002, 32-35.
It appears that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is cooperating in the U.S. war against terrorism. This "is quite a switch. Until Sept. 11, the organization was suspected of propping up the Taliban and by extension its al-Qaeda guests in Afghanistan."
[OtherCountries/Pakistan; Terrorism/02/WTC]
McGranahan, Carole. "Tibet's Cold War: The CIA and the Chushi Gangdrug Resistance, 1956–1974." Journal of Cold War Studies 8, no. 3 (Summer 2006): 102-130. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jcws.2006.8.3.102]
From abstract: "Th[is] article recounts the origins of the Tibetan resistance forces, their relationship with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, their eventual laying down of arms in 1974, and their legacy in the present-day exile community.... The war, pitting a voluntary Tibetan guerrilla movement against the Chinese Communist army, had implications well beyond Tibet and China."
Grunfeld, H-Diplo, 27 Jul. 2007 [http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/reviews/PDF/Grunfeld-McGranahan.pdf], comments that the author's important contribution is her focus "'on the resistance movement itself and the individuals who constituted it.' [footnote omitted] This she has done -- skillfully -- through extensive interviews and recently published Tibetan language materials." As an anthropologist, McGranahan provides "an important supplement and new dimension to this story."
[CA/Tibet]
Mcgrory,
Daniel. "Bomb Plan to Disrupt Prince's Investiture." Times
(London), 13 Sep. 1999. [http://www.the-times.co.uk]
"The dirty tricks planned against Britain by the KGB's Department V included disrupting the preparations for the investiture of the Prince of Wales in the summer of 1969. KGB officials decided that security for the ceremony at Caernarfon Castle on July 1 would be too tight for any spectacular coup."
[UK/SpyCases/99/Fever]
Mcgrory,
Daniel. "CIA Stung by Its Stingers." Electronic Telegraph,
3 Nov. 1996. [http:// www.telegraph.co.uk]
"A race between terrorists and the Western powers for control of a huge cache" of shoulder-launched Stinger anti-aircraft missiles "is underway in the arms bazaars of Afghanistan.... The weapons were sent into Afghanistan by the CIA during the Soviet occupation and were a key factor in tipping the balance of firepower against the Red Army. Now the West fears that, if they fall into the wrong hands, the Stingers could turn the tables in future conflicts or prove devastating if used by terror groups against civilian aviation."
[CA/Afghanistan]
Mcgrory,
Daniel. "KGB-Trained in Seduction." Times (London), 13
Sep. 1999. [http:// www.the-times.co.uk]
"The Lothario touch has not entirely deserted John Symonds, according to the female occupants of Holly Court, the sheltered home where he lives in North London."
[UK/SpyCases/99/Fever]
Mcgrory,
Daniel, and Stewart Tendler. "Widdecombe Leads Calls for Traitor's
Arrest." Times (London), 13 Sep. 1999. [http://www.the-times.co.uk]
"The Conservative Party [on 12 September 1999] led demands for the Lothario traitor, John Symonds, a KGB agent for seven years, to be arrested and ordered to stand trial."
[UK/SpyCases/99/Fever]
McGrory, Daniel, Stewart Tendler, and Michael Evans. "Police Hunt For Lethal Chemical Suicide Vest." Times (London), 3 Jun. 2006. [http://www.timesonline.co.uk]
On 2 June 2006, police wearing oxygen masks and protective chemical gear raided a house in Forest Gate, East London. They were acting on the basis of "a tip-off from MI5" that "a British suicide bomber was ready to deploy" wearing a home-made chemical device. A 23-year-old postal worker was wounded in the raid and is at a hospital under police guard. His 20-year-old brother "was being questioned at Paddington Green high security police station."
[UK/PostCW/00s/06]
McGuire, Andre. "CIA:
Myth and Reality." Military Intelligence 20, no. 4 (Oct.-Dec.
1994): 9-12.
"DIA analysts contended that Iraq was conducting training exercises. The CIA alerted policymakers and the military as early as mid-July that Iraq appeared to be planning an attack." (fn. 3)
[CIA/90s/93-94][c]
McGuire, Eamon. Enemy of the Empire: Life as an International Undercover IRA Activist. Dublin: O’Brien Press, 2006.
This is one of those books the advertising of which raises credability questions. When the publisher headlines that the author was "the CIA's most-wanted IRA man," as though the CIA was some sort of international law enforcement agency, it is easy to wonder about how much is fact and how much fiction.
[OtherCountries/Ireland/Postwar]
McGuire,
Frank G. Security Intelligence Sourcebook: Including Who's Who in Terrorism. Silver Spring, MD: Interests Ltd., 1990.
[Terrorism/RefMats]
McHale, John. "Army Unveils New SIGINT Electronics." Military & Aerospace Electronics, Jul. 2002, 1-3.
The signals intelligence system discussed is Prophet Block 1. The system can intercept and locate signals while operating on the move, and the intercept receiver can operate as a manpack system for airborne operations.
[MI/Army/00s]
McIninch, Thomas P. "The OXCART Story: Record of a Pioneering Achievement." Studies in Intelligence 15, no. 1 (Winter 1971): 1-34.
This article gives an "account of the inception, development, operation, and untimely demise of this remarkable airplane. The OXCART no longer flies, but it left a legacy of technological achievement which points the way to new projects. And it became the progenitor of a similar but somewhat less sophisticated reconnaissance vehicle called the SR-71."
[Recon/Planes]
McIntosh, Kirk E. "GUARDRAIL/Common Sensor System." Military Intelligence 18, no. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1992): 31-33.
[MI/Army][c]
McIntyre, Anthony. "How Stakeknife Paved Way to Defeat for IRA." Times (London), 12 May 2003. [http://www.timesonline.co.uk]
[UK/PostCW/03/IRASpy]
McIvor, Anthony D., ed. Rethinking the Principles of War. Annapolis, MD: Nval Institute Press, 2005.
Jones, DIJ 15.1 (2006), finds that this anthology brings together "an impressive array of national security and military thinkers." There are five major parts to the book, with the final part concentrating on intelligence. The essays in the intelligence section "tend to focus more exclusively on offering solutions and recommendations than raising questions or examining notions."
[GenPostwar/NatSec/00s]
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