McK

McKay, C.G.

McKay, Niall. "Lawmakers Raise Questions About International Spy Network." New York Times, 27 May 1999. [http://www.nytimes.com]

The House intelligence committee has "requested that the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency provide a detailed report to Congress explaining what legal standards they use to monitor the conversations, transmissions and activities of American citizens." Concerns are focused on whether the NSA-British surveillance network, known as Echelon, "could be used to monitor American citizens."

[NSA/99]

McKay, Randle, and R.J. Gerrard. The "Intelligence" Game of Secret Service Cases and Problems. New York: McBride, 1935. [Petersen]

[OtherAgencies/Treasury]

McKee, Alexander. El Alamein: ULTRA and the Three Battles. London: Souvenir Press, 1991.

According to Kruh, Cryptologia 18.1, "this exciting account ... highlights the importance of Ultra, which provided advance information about ... Rommel's supply ships and troop movements."

[UK/WWII/ME]

McKee, W. J. "The Reports Officer: Issues of Quality." Studies in Intelligence 27, no. 1 (Spring 1983): 11-18. In Inside CIA's Private World: Declassified Articles from the Agency's Internal Journal, 1955-1992, ed. H. Bradford Westerfield, 108-117. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995.

"Within CIA's Directorate of Operations, the reports officers constitute the substantive corps which follows intelligence developments in Headquarters and in the field and provides collection guidance, targeting advice, and specific requirements for activities of the Directorate designed to collect information. Reports officers evaluate and disseminate information the Directorate acquires, provide substantive support to Directorate components, and serve as principal intermediaries between collectors and consumers. Their central purpose is to maintain standards of value and objectivity in the Directorate's information product." (p. 108) Within this context, the author explores the issues of "quality promotion and quality control." These involve matters of judgment and, therefore, are controversial.

[CIA/C&C/DO][c]

McKenna, Maryn. Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service. New York: Free Press, 2004.

DKR, AFIO WIN 24-04, dated 12 Jul. 2004, notes that the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS), the rapid-response force of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was founded in 1951. "Highly trained[] and fiercely committed EIS professionals, including doctors, dentists, nurses and veterinarians, respond rapidly and travel to any area of the world to examine possible threats to public health. After 9/11, EIS investigated the anthrax attacks that were spread through the mails."

[OtherAgencies/CDC]

McKenna, Pat [TechSGT]. "Eyes of the Warrior: Prying Predator Prowls Unfriendly Skies, Peeking at the Enemy." Airman, Jul. 1998, 28-31.

The RQ-1A Predator UAV, now combat-tested over Bosnia, feeds "live video pictures ... into satellites, which are relayed in real-time" to major U.S. and allied headquarters. For the future, "the Air Force is exploring how Predator might broadcast real-time intelligence ... to weapons systems officers in the backseats of F-15Es and F-18s while they orbit the battlefield."

[Recon/UAVs]

McKittrick, David. "Further Revelations of British Army's 'Dirty War' as Mole in the IRA's Killing Squad is Exposed." The Independent (UK), 12 May 2003. [http://news.independent.co.uk]

"Society has always accepted that the security forces should attempt to penetrate groups such as the IRA through the use of informers, who are viewed as a distasteful but essential element of the fight against terrorism. Their existence poses the question, however, of how deeply they may become involved in illegality. Some law-breaking is inevitable, since joining the IRA is an offence. In the case of Stakeknife, however, the agent appears to have been much more deeply involved, taking part in a series of murders."

[UK/PostCW/03/IRASpy]

McKittrick, David. "IRA Double Agent 'Stakeknife' Forced to Flee Ireland as Cover Is Blown." The Independent (UK), 12 May 2003. [http://news.independent.co.uk]

"The west Belfast republican named as Stakeknife, who comes from a large family with a strong republican background, was last night understood to have left Northern Ireland. One report said he may have been taken to a British military intelligence base in Dorset."

[UK/PostCW/03/IRASpy]

McKnight, David. Australia's Spies and Their Secrets. London: UCL Press, 1994. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1994. St. Leonards, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1995. [pb]

Unsinger, IJI&C 9.4, opines that McKnight's study of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) "hurts the chances for a good study of ASIO to appear." The reviewer has trouble with the author's extensive use of "unnamed sources," with other aspects of his sourcing, and with the book's polemical approach.

On the other hand, Gill, I&NS 11.4, calls the book an "excellent survey" of ASIO's history. However, "it is frustrating that the author has not provided a fuller analysis of the Hope reports and their impact on ASIO."

[Australia]

McKnight, David. Espionage and the Roots of the Cold War: The Conspiratorial Heritage. London: Frank Cass, 2002.

Peake, Studies 47.1 (2003), finds this to be "a valuable, provocative, and well-documented study of Soviet COMINTERN espionage in its many forms from the Bolshevik days until 1950." The reviewer is, however, less enamored of the theoretical base within which the author tries to work.

To Schecter, I&NS 18.3, this is "a sometimes fascinating but too often uneven study." The work's main "contribution is in tracing the links between Tsarist police repression and the growth of conspiratorial methods to avoid arrest." There is also "new material on the role of the Comintern and espionage, especially among the Asian communist parties."

[GenPostwar/CW; Russia/Overviews]

McKnight, David. "The Moscow-Canberra Cables: How Soviet Intelligence Obtained British Secrets through the Back Door." Intelligence and National Security 13, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 159-170.

The Venona releases include over 200 decoded cables between Canberra and Moscow. The author draws three major conclusions from his analysis of the materials: (1) that communists in the Australian public service did give classified documents to the KGB; (2) that the testimony of the Petrovs "was largely accurate"; and (3) that the work of the 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage was not a politically motivated frameup of the Labor opposition.

[Australia][c]

McKnight, David. "Western Intelligence and SEATO's War on Subversion, 1956-63." Intelligence and National Security 20, no. 2 (Jun. 2005): 288-303.

While the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization's Committee of Security Experts (CSE) "provided a venue for liaison between security agencies in Southeast Asia and training for regional security bodies, its participating intelligence agencies proved unable to overcome [the] broader differences at the strategic and diplomatic level of their parent nations." [Clark comment: An egregious error occurs at p. 301, fn. 5, when "Charles" Colby is cited as the author of Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA (1978).]

[Liaison/Gen]

McKone, Frank E. General Sullivan: New Hampshire Patriot. New York: Vantage, 1977.

[RevWar/Overviews]

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