McLachlan,
Donald. "Naval Intelligence in the Second World War." Journal
of the Royal United Services Institute 112 (Aug, 1967): 221-228.
McLachlan,
Donald. "Naval Intelligence in the Second World War." Journal
of the Royal United Services Institute 112 (Aug, 1967): 221-228.
This is a pre-1975 view of British naval signals intelligence; therefore, it tells its story without mentioning Ultra.
[UK/WWII/Services/Navy]
McLachlan,
Donald. Room 39: A Study in Naval Intelligence. New York: Atheneum, 1968. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968.
Pforzheimer notes that the author served on the staff of the Director of British Naval Intelligence, 1940-1945. "Chapter 15, on lessons learned, is of particular value." The timing of the book's release means that it does not discuss the role of communications intelligence, but it is still "considered ... to be a fine contribution to the literature."
For Constantinides, "Room 39 ranks as one of the best books on intelligence and perhaps the best book on naval intelligence ever written."
[UK/WWII/Services/Navy]
[McLaughlin, John E.] "The Changing Nature of CIA Analysis in the Post-Soviet World." 2 Apr. 2001. [Special to washingtonpost.com]
This is a speech given by the DDCI at a March 2001 conference at Princeton University on CIA analysis of the Soviet Union from 1947 to 1991. A report on McLaughlin's remarks was carried as Vernon Loeb, "CIA's Analysis Becomes Transnational," Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2001.
[CIA/00s/01/Gen]
McLaughlin, John. "McLaughlin: NIE Is Not as Decisive as It May Seem." CNN, 10 Dec. 2007. [http://www.cnn.com]
"National estimates are a widely misunderstood art form. When they become public,... they are always heralded as the 'most authoritative' documents the intelligence agencies produce.... [E]stimates are treated by critics and proponents alike as though what they say is chiseled in stone -- 'facts' that can be established like evidence in a courtroom trial.... [E]veryone seems to forget that these are not facts but judgments. In the best of cases, they are judgments based on a sizeable body of fact ... but the facts are never so complete as to remove all uncertainty from the judgment."
[Analysis/Est]
McLaughlin, John E. [CIA Deputy Director for Intelligence] "New Challenges and Priorities for Analysis." Defense Intelligence
Journal 6, no 2 (Fall 1997): 11-21.
Changes in the world around us and in the expectations of consumers "add up to a fundamental shift in the analytical priorities for CIA and others in the [Intelligence] Community.... Tapping into analytic expertise across the Community and coordinating on collection activity will be essential to overcome budget and personnel constraints."
[Analysis/Gen]
McLaughlin, John. "The New Intelligence Challenge." Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2007, B7. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
In this Op-Ed piece, the former DDCI (2000-2004) argues that the top priority for the next DNI "must be achieving a more integrated and collaborative effort among 16 agencies with diverse foreign and domestic missions. These agencies have worked together more smoothly in recent years than is commonly perceived, but deeper collaboration has been hindered by a shortage of critical 'enablers,' such as common information systems, common hiring and personnel evaluation policies, uniformly understood standards for collecting and analyzing information, and shared security policies.... Success in these endeavors could transform American intelligence. To succeed, any DNI will have to keep the priority on long-range strategic objectives and avoid getting caught up in the day-to-day minutiae of analysis and clandestine operations."
[DNI/07]
McLean, Donald B. The
Plumber's Kitchen: The Secret Story of American Spy Weapons. Cornville,
AZ: Desert Publications, 1975. [Petersen]
[RefMats/Weapons]
McLean, Donald B. The
Spy's Workshop: America's Clandestine Weapons. Boulder, CO: Paladin
Press, 1989.
Surveillant 1.1: "[S]py hardware ... began in WWII with the men of Division 19 of the National Defense Research Committee." McLean supplies an "inside look at the scientists who worked there and the special arsenal they created for the OSS."
[WWII/OSS/Topics]
McLean, Douglas. "Confronting
Technological and Tactical Change: Allied Antisubmarine Warfare in the Last
Year of the Battle of the Atlantic." Naval War College Review
47 (Winter 1994): 87-104.
[WWII/Atlantic]
McLennan,
A.D. "National Intelligence Assessment: Australia's Experience."
Intelligence and National Security 10, no. 4 (Oct. 1995): 72- 91.
The focus here is on the Office of National Assessment (ONA), which the author views as a hybrid. Functionally, it is similar to the American central intelligence arrangement, but constitutionally it operates within a system more like the British which embeds the executive in Parliament. In essence, ONA reflects the environment in which it developed.
[Australia][c]
McLoughlin, Barry. Left to the Wolves: Irish Victims of Stalinist Terror. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2006.
From publisher: At least three of the victims of Stalin's Great Terror of 1937-1938 were foreign-born Communists of Irish nationality. "This book describes their social background, how and why they entered the semi-clandestine world of Communism and the reasons for their residence in the USSR."
[OtherCountries/Ireland/ToWWII; Russia/Interwar]
McLoughlin,
Michael. Last Stop, Paris: The Assassination of Mario Bachand and the
Death of the FLQ. Toronto: Viking, 1998.
According to the author, this work "details the assassination in Paris 29 March 1971 of Mario Bachand,... a member of the Front de Liberation du Quebec when it first appeared in 1963. After sojurns in Cuba and Algeria, he resided in Paris until he was shot to death by two RCMP Security Service operatives in Operation Whitelaw, ordered by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. There are several aspects of Whitelaw which should interest readers of intelligence literature: several special services, including SDECE, CIA, MI5 and SIS were involved in the planning and implementation. Last Stop, Paris ... [also] details the elaborate disinformation surrounding the operation, involving extensive use of media."
[Canada]
McLuskey, J. Fraser. Parachute Padre: Behind German Lines with the SAS France, 1944. London: SPA Books, 1989. New ed. Stevenage, UK: Strong Oak Press, 1997.
[UK/WWII/Services/SAS]
McLynn, Frank. Fitzroy
Maclean. London: John Murray, 1992
According to Surveillant 2.6, this biography "contains little on [Maclean's] intelligence experiences." Clive, I&NS 9.1, refers to the book as an "authoritative biography." Maclean's "service in Yugoslavia with SOE ... is the centrepiece of the book." Maclean's "accomplishments will surely long outlive his critics."
[UK/Biogs; WWII/OSS/Balkans/Yugo]
McMahon, John J. "Good-bye to the Farm." INSCOM Journal, Jul.-Aug. 1997, 18ff.
The author traces the organizational history of Vint Hill Farms from 12 June 1942 to its closing on 12 June 1997. INSCOM activities associated with Vint Hill Farms have been consolidated elsewhere.
[MI/Army/90s/VintHill]
McMahon, Paul. "Covert Operations and Official Collaboration: British Intelligence's Dual Approach to Ireland during World War II." Intelligence and National Security 18, no. 1 (Spring 2003): 41-64.
"In the early stages of the war, preoccupied by the threats posed by its neutral neighbour, and possessing little faith in the willingness or ability of the Irish authorities to protect its security, Britain had initially responded by engaging in a series of clandestine intelligence missions in Ireland. Simultaneously, British security organizations began to develop an unprecedented level of cooperation with their Irish counterparts. These two very different approaches were conducted in parallel for most of the conflict, with a surprising absence of friction, but it was eventually realized that all Britain's security needs could be satisfied by collaboration with the Irish authorities."
[UK/WWII/Services/MI5]
McMeekin, Sean. The Red Millionaire: A Political Biography of Willi Münzenberg, Moscow's Secret Propaganda Tsar in the West. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004.
From publisher: "Willy Münzenberg -- an Old Bolshevik who was also a self-promoting tycoon -- became one of the most influential Communist operatives in Europe between the World Wars. He created a variety of front groups that recruited well-known political and cultural figures to work on behalf of the Soviet Union and its causes, and he ran an international media empire that churned out enormous amounts of propaganda and raised money for Communist concerns."
[Russia/Disinfo]
McMillan, Priscilla J. The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Modern Arms Race. New York: Viking, 2005.
Powers, NYRB 52.14 (22 Sep. 2005), says that this "short, lucid, and intense book" places the "final episode in Oppenheimer's life on a dissecting table in order to separate and identify, as if it were the nervous system of a rat, the filaments of ambition, rancor, and collusion of the three brooding men who cut Oppenheimer down." The author "writes for the most part with quiet lucidity, letting each act or utterance speak for itself, but from time to time there shoots up from her prose something like a tongue of flame."
According to Freedman, FA 84.5 (Sep./Oct. 2005), the author focuses "on the policy issues at the heart of the [Oppenheimer] drama and illuminates well the surrounding cast of characters, with lots of fascinating detail about the interaction between scientific politics and Washington politics."
Schecter, I&NS 21.4, notes that McMillan "hedg[es] and shy[s] away from" the question of whether Oppenheimer was ever a member of the Communist Party. The author "appears" to have "chosen to ignore" Soviet documents that identify Oppenheimer as "an unlisted member of the CPSU." This "is a powerful book," but at times McMillan's "anger [at the way Oppenheimer was treated] is so hot it distorts the record."
[SpyCases/U.S./Bomb/Gen]
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