Mure, David.
Mure, David.
Mure served in Dudley Clarke's A Force in the Middle East during World War II.
1. Master of Deception: Tangled Webs in London and the Middle East. London: Kimber, 1980.
Clark comment: This is chronologically the second of Mure's two books listed here on the deception work of Dudley Clarke's A Force in the Middle East during World War II. The first book, Practise to Deceive, is the better of the two books to read.
Constantinides notes that this account is more pointed to "polemics against the Londoners and civilians in deception work." Additionally, there are "questionable facts and opinions" in this account.
2. Practise to Deceive. London: Kimber, 1977.
Constantinides comments that Mure has sought to balance the scales by giving Clarke and his deception work in the Mediterranean and the Middle East a level of recognition usually accorded only to London-run activities.
[UK/WWII/ME; WWII/Deception]
Murphy,
Brendan M. Turncoat: The Strange Case of British Traitor Sgt. Harold Cole. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1987.
Seaman, I&NS 4.1, finds this story of the life of a British petty criminal who managed to spend World War II working variously for British, German, French, and American intelligence "ultimately disappointing." The biography "is generally well researched ... [but] becomes badly unstuck" when it tries to contend that that SIS Assistant Chief Claude Dansey was Cole's ultimate controller.
[UK/SpyCases/Gen]
Murphy, Brian. "Members of Terror Group In Greece Found Guilty." Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2003, A17. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
[OtherCountries/Greece]
Murphy, Caryle, and
Charles R. Babcock. "Army's Covert Role Scrutinized." Washington
Post, 29 Nov. 1985, A1, A8-A9.
[MI/SpecOps/ISA]
Murphy, Christopher J. "The Origins of SOE in France." Historical Journal 46, no. 4 (2003): 935-952.
[UK/WWII/Services/SOE]
Murphy, Christopher J. "SOE's Foreign Currency Transactions." Intelligence and National Security 20, no. 1 (Mar. 2005): 191-208.
The author suggests that examination of SOE only through a geographical, country perspective is likely to miss such contributions by SOE to the war effort as the currency dealings of the Finance Directorate (D/Fin).
[UK/WWII/Services/SOE]
Murphy, C.J.V. "Making
of a Master Spy: J.J. Angleton, Chief of Counterintelligence." Time,
24 Feb. 1975, 18-19. [Petersen]
[CIA/Angleton]
Murphy, Dean E., and Calvin Sims. "After Espionage Arrests, F.B.I. Looks Back and Wonders, 'How?'" New York Times, 11 Apr. 2003. [http://www.nytimes.com]
On 9 April 2003, Katrina Leung, a Los Angeles businesswoman, was arrested "on charges of obtaining a classified national security document for the Chinese government." The FBI said that Leung "had a 20-year affair with James J. Smith, a former F.B.I. agent who had recruited her as an informer, and that she had passed on information culled from Mr. Smith. Officials said she sometimes surreptitously photocopied classified documents he had left unattended at her house. Mr. Smith, 59, who worked for the F.B.I. for 30 years before retiring in 2000, was also arrested and charged with negligence."
[SpyCases/U.S./Smith-Leung]
Murphy, Edward R.,
Jr., with Curt Gentry. Second in Command: The Uncensored Account of the
Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston,
1971. [Wilcox]
[GenPostwar/60s/Pueblo]
Murphy, George F. "Putting the Congressional Intelligence Genie Back in the Classified Bottle." Intelligencer 15, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2006-2007): 21-22.
Argues for a Joint Committee on Intelligence, modeled after Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, as recommended by the 9/11 Commission.
[Oversight/00s]
Murphy, James [LTCOL], and K. Wayne Smith.. "Making Intelligence Analysis Responsive to Policy Concerns." Studies in Intelligence 17, no. 2 (Summer 1973): 1-6.
The authors discuss "intelligence support for the preparation of National Security Memoranda" (NSSM). They conclude that "the greatest improvement needed in the intelligence community is for it to begin anticipating the needs of the policy makers, and to take the initiative in providing information structured to those needs."
[Analysis/Critiques]
Murphy,
Joe. "MI5 Faces Calls to Explain Why It Kept Truth from Ministers."
Electronic Telegraph, 12 Sep. 1999. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk]
"The Security Service was under pressure [on 11 September 1999] to explain why ministers were kept in the dark for seven years about Melita Norwood's treachery."
[UK/SpyCases/99/Fever]
Murphy, John F. "The
Alaskan Mystery Flights." International Journal of Intelligence
and Counterintelligence 9, no. 1 (Spring 1996): 97-111.
Were the events described in this article a major reconnaissance activity directed against the Soviet Union? The July-August 1934 "Arctic mystery flights of 'Hap' Arnold, the Navy planes of Lieutenant Commander Shoemaker, and the abruptly canceled trip of Major Riddick must together remain one of the great mysteries of aviation."
In IJI&C 9.3, G.J.A. O'Toole (pp. 329-330) and David Kahn (p. 330) separately take issue with Murphy's premise. A response by Murphy to the criticisms is also carried (pp. 331-336).
[Interwar/U.S.][c]
Murphy, John F., Jr. "Michael Collins and the Craft of Intelligence." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 17, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 333-357.
The author offers a quick overview of the Irish revolutionary tradition, and fits Collins' "invisible army" into the drive for independence. November 1920's "Bloody Sunday" showed that "Collins had succeeded in penetrating the most sensitive British intelligence operation and destroying it."
[OtherCountries/Ireland]
Murphy, John F., Jr. "Secret Weapons of the Secret War." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 14, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 262-278.
This is a broad walk-through of some of the weapons used in covert activities during and after World War II.
See Nigel West, "Dispelling Myths," International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 15, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 158-159, for comments suggesting that Murphy's "entertaining article ... inadvertently perpetrates one or two wartime and postwar myths."
[RefMats/Weapons]
Murphy,
John F. State Support of International Terrorism: Legal, Political, and Economic Dimensions. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1989.
Choice, Sep. 1990: The "remedies include greater intelligence support."
[Terrorism]
Murphy, John R. "Memories
of Somalia." Marine Corps Gazette, Apr. 1998, 20-25.
The author, a Marine Corps intelligence analyst, shares some thoughts about serving with UNOSOM in Somalia.
[MI/Ops]
Murphy, Mark. "The Exploits of Agent 110: Allen Dulles in Wartime." Studies in Intelligence 37, no. 5 (1994): 63-70.
In 1917, with the U.S. declaration of war on Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the young Allen Dulles moves from the U.S. Embassy in Vienna to the U.S. legation in Bern. He was assigned to "take charge of intelligence." And the story goes on from there, with Dulles returning to Bern with the OSS in 1942. Dulles' handling of two important sources, Fritz Kolbe and Hans Bernd Gisevius, is discussed.
[CIA/DCIs/Dulles]
Murphy, Philip. "Creating a Commonwealth Intelligence Culture: The View from Central Africa, 1945-65." Intelligence and National Security 17, no. 3 (Autumn 2002): 131-162.
The author discusses efforts "by the British intelligence community to improve the security arrangements" of Commonwealth members following World War II. The process was "a means of countering Communist subversion[,]... protecting Britain's key relationship with the United States,... [and] entrenching British influence, particularly in countries nearing independence.... The result of this process was a complex network of intelligence contacts reaching across the Commonwealth."
[OtherCountries/Zimbabwe; UK/Postwar/Gen]
Murphy, Philip. "Intelligence and Decolonialization: The Life and Death of the Federal Intelligence and Security Bureau, 1954-63." Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 29, no. 2 (May 2001): 101-130.
The author seeks to reconstruct the history of the Federal Intelligence and Security Bureau (FISB) of the Central African Federation of Northern and Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. He finds that the FISB's founder and director, Basil Maurice ("Bob") de Quehan, was also a serving officer in MI5.
[OtherCountries/Zimbabwe]
Murphy, Robert. Diplomat among Warriors. New York: Doubleday, 1964. Westport, CT: Greenwood Reprint, 1976.
Murphy served as President Roosevelt's plenipotentiary in French North Africa during World War II.
[WWII/Gen]
Murphy,
Star. "VENONA Conference." CIRA Newsletter 21, no. 4 (Winter
1996/97): 34-35.
Report on conference held at the National War College, Ft. McNair, Washington, DC., 3-4 October 1996.
[SpyCases/U.S./Venona][c]
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