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Mishler, Clayton. Sampan Sailor: A Navy Man's Adventures in WWII China. Washington, DC: Brassey's, 1994.

Baxter, I&NS 12.3, identifies this work as the personal account of a "storekeeper/ courier in the Sino-American Co-operation Organization (SACO) between October 1943 and January 1946.... Mishler's book does not ... add significantly to our understanding of the role which SACO played in the complex web of Allied organizations that made up the Intelligence community in World War II China."

[WWII/FEPac/CBI]

Miskovsky, M. C. "Impunity of Agents in International Law." Studies in Intelligence 5, no. 2 (Spring 1961): A21-A34.

There is "some authority in international law for the proposition that if a man is a duly commissioned agent of his government, albeit without diplomatic immunity, any illegal acts he performs within the scope of his duties may still be considered not his personal violations but his government's national acts, raising questions public and political between independent nations."

[Overviews/Lehal/Intl]

Mitchell, Ben. "Aspiring to Spy? No Dry Martinis or Sports Car Required." The Age (Melbourne), 19 Aug. 1997. [http://www.theage.com.au]

Mitchell, Bernon F., and William H. Martin. "Prepared Statement." New York Times, 7 Sep. 1960.

Petersen: "Issued after defection."

[SpyCases/U.S./Mit&Mar]

Mitchell, Fredric. "Lots of Smoke - Little Fire." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 1, no. 4 (1986): 111-118.

Idea of an amnesty for spies explored, essentially rejected.

[GenPostwar/80s/Gen][c]

Mitchell, Harvey. The Underground War Against Revolutionary France: The Missions of William Wickham, 1794-1800. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965.

Constantinides calls this an "excellent study of political warfare and subversion that can be read with profit because of the modern parallels to be drawn." This is a scholarly work, with a good bibliography.

[UK/Historical]

Mitchell, Marcia, and Thomas Mitchell. The Spy Who Seduced America: Lies and Betrayal in the Heat of the Cold War: The Judith Coplon Story. Montpelier, VT: Invisible Cities Press, 2002.

Bath, NIPQ 19.1/2, notes that the authors conclude that, based on the Venona transcripts, Judith Coplon was indeed a spy. However, "the government's unceasing efforts to convict on the basis of inept investigation and tainted evidence" also made her a victim.

For Jonkers, Intelligencer 13.2, this story is still relevant because it teaches "how NOT to prosecute an accused spy." (Emphasis in original) The reviewer's bottomline: "Good reading, deep secrets, still relevant -- a triple hit."

Leab, I&NS 20.2 (Jun. 2005), finds that the authors have "used intelligently a wide range of sources.... The book is a good read."

To Peake, Studies 47.2 (2003), the Mitchell's "have done a superb job of researching this famous case.  And although their decision not to include endnotes is impossible to comprehend, [footnote omitted] they did indicate in the text the major sources used." And they "leave no room for doubt as to Coplon’s guilt.... Judy Coplon’s notorious story is a major part of counterintelligence history and the Mitchells have brought it to life in vivid terms.  It is a great read."

[SpyCases/U.S./Other]

Mitelman, Lawrence T. "Preface to a Theory of Intelligence." Studies in Intelligence 18, no. 3 (Fall 1974): 19-22.

"One justification .. for theorizing about intelligence is to encourage clarity of thought about assumptions and explicitness about purposes.... [S]ince the publication of Sherman Kent's Strategic Intelligence for American World Policy there has been almost nothing of comparable intellectual merit or persuasiveness written about intelligence."

[WhatIsIntel?]

Mitrokhin, Vasily, ed. KGB Lexicon: The Soviet Intelligence Officer's Handbook. London: Frank Cass, 2002.

Clark comment: Mitrokhin is the former KGB archivist who defected to the United Kingdom in 1992 with a treasure trove of handwritten notes from many of the documents he had handled. He earlier teamed with British intelligence historian Christopher Andrew on The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB (New York: Basic Books, 1999).

Jonkers, AFIO WIN 9-02, 4 Mar. 2002, notes that the phrases and words in this dictionary are "mostly commonplace. But there are some gems.... The Russian word is provided, with English translation, and then the explanation" is given. This book "is easy to read, useful for researchers, historians, authors, [and] students of intelligence."

Kruh, Cryptologia 26.3, describes this as "an English translation of an official KGB document.... A two-part dictionary, defining the KGB's activities in both offensive and defensive intelligence, this was the handbook used by KGB officers when writing their reports on spying activities both within the Soviet Union and against the West."

[Russia/RefMats]

Mitrovica, Andrew. Covert Entry: Spies, Lies and Crimes Inside Canada's Secret Service. Toronto: Random House, 2002.

Mellon, Journal of Conflict Studies 23.1 (see http://cv.jmellon.com/covert.pdf) finds this book to be "interesting at best, and disappointing in many ways." The author focuses on the activities and disillusionment of John J. Farrell, who worked for the Canadian Secret Intelligence Service (CSIS) while on loan from Canada Post. The view is "one-sided [which] greatly undermines the credibility of the book as the reader perceives Farrell’s story as the personal vendetta of a bitter young man. In addition, Mitrovica focuses on a very limited area of CSIS operations." Nonetheless, the book "gives invaluable access to the details of some CSIS contemporary operations and to the way things get done in the field."

Peake, Studies 47.2 (2003), comments that "[w]hat is certain from reading Covert Entry is that both the author and Farrell do not feel kindly about CSIS or the Canadian Senior Intelligence Review Committee.  But their allegations remain in doubt because there is no documentation ... relevant to the charges Farrell makes."

[Canada/PostCW]

Mitrovica, Andrew. "N. Koreans Spying in Canada: Sources." Globe and Mail (Toronto), 18 Sep. 2000. [http://www.globeandmail.com]

According to intelligence sources, "North Korean spies are operating an elaborate espionage network in Canada and have tried to steal Canadian nuclear technology abroad."

[Canada]

Mitrovica, Andrew. "Spy Agency 'Frantically' Trying to Find Mole." Globe and Mail (Toronto), 22 Nov. 1999. [http://www.globeandmail.com]

"Spymasters at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service [CSIS] are using some of the tricks of the trade to try to ferret out members of the agency who may be feeding reporters information on the stolen briefcase affair.... [I]ntelligence officers [also] ... point out that information about the unprecedented security gaffe may be flowing out of the Solicitor-General's office or the RCMP and not from CSIS members. 'The Mounties are probably having a long, good chuckle about all of this,' one CSIS officer said. Relations between the RCMP and CSIS are strained. Friction between the two agencies is longstanding and there are no signs that it is abating."

[Canada/90s/99]

Mitrovica, Andrew, and Jeff Sallot. "The Spy Secrets in the Phone Booth." Globe and Mail (Toronto), 18 Nov. 1999. [http://www.globeandmail.com]

The Toronto man who found a Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) computer diskette in a telephone booth in August 1996 "says it detailed -- in plain English -- the names of confidential informants and contacts, information about the service's targets and covert operations in Canada and details about espionage training exercises.... [T]he case caused changes in CSIS's internal procedures for transferring sensitive data from one location to another," federal government sources said.

[Canada]

Mitrovich, Gregory. Undermining the Kremlin: America's Strategy to Subvert the Soviet Bloc, 1947-1956. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000.

From Amazon.com: "Drawing on recently declassified U.S. documents, Mitrovich reveals a range of previously unknown covert actions launched during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations. Through the aggressive use of psychological warfare, officials sought to provoke political crisis among key Soviet leaders, to incite nationalist tensions within the USSR, and to foment unrest across Eastern Europe. Mitrovich demonstrates that inspiration for these efforts did not originate within the intelligence community, but with individuals at the highest levels of policymaking in the U.S. government."

For Legvold, FA 79.3, the author's "massive research in the archives of the State Department, CIA, and the National Security Council ... adds considerably to the ... picture of the calculations and arguments inside the Truman and Eisenhower administrations.... One does not have to buy his overdrawn characterization that 'rollback' was the be-all of U.S. policy to appreciate the contribution he has made."

[GenPostwar/Immediate&50s/Gen]

Miyagi, Takemi. "Which Way Did They Go?" Studies in Intelligence 11, no. 1 (Winter 1967): 67-70.

"After the initial period of resettlement and inevitable interrogation," many of the members of the organizations that made up Imperial Japanese Intelligence chose to "find employment ... as mercenaries of the occupying power." With the coming of the Korean War, Japanese industry began to grow, and with it the need for certain kinds of foreign "environmental reportage."

[Japan/Postwar]

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