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Nathan Hale Institute. Intelligence in the War of Independence. Washington, DC: n.d.

[RevWar/Overviews]

Nathan, James A. "A Fragile Detente: The U-2 Incident Re-examined." Military Affairs 39 (Oct. 1975): 97-104.

[CIA/60s/U-2]

Nathan, James A., ed. The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited. New York: St. Martin's, 1992. 1993. [pb]

Contents: James A. Nathan, "The Heyday of the New Strategy: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Confirmation of Coercive Diplomacy"; Raymond L. Garthoff, "The Cuban Missile Crisis: An Overview"; Barton J. Bernstein, "Reconsidering the Missile Crisis: Dealing with the Problems of the American Jupiters in Turkey"; Laurence Chang, "The View from Washington and the View from Nowhere: Cuban Missile Crisis Historiography and the Epistemology of Decision Making"; Richard Ned Lebow, "The Traditional and Revisionists Interpretations Reevaluated: Why Was Cuba a Crisis?"; Philip Brenner, "Thirteen Months: Cuba's Perspective on the Missile Crisis"; Elizabeth Cohn, "President Kennedy's Decision to Impose a Blockade in the Cuban Missile Crisis: Building Consensus in the ExComm After the Decision"; James G. Hershberg, "Before 'The Missiles of October': Did Kennedy Plan a Strike Against Cuba?"; Philip Brenner, "The Kennedy-Khrushchev Letters: An Overview."

Szulc, WPNWE, 23-29 Nov. 1992, finds that the "elegant and insightful essays ... in the Nathan compendium throw significant new light on Kennedy's decision-making ... and on the reasons he proceeded as he did." Bernstein's essay, "Reconsidering the Missile Crisis," is "brilliant."

[GenPostwar/60s/MissileCrisis]

Nation, R. Craig. Black Earth, Red Star: A History of Soviet Security Policy, 1917-1991. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992.

Pierre, FA 71.5, says this book synthesizes "in a remarkably comprehensive manner the foreign and defense policy of the Soviet Union" from the Revolution to the demise of communism.

[Russia/Overviews]

National

Naughton, Philippe. "MI6 Agent Jailed in Moscow for Betraying Russian Spies." Times (London), 9 Aug. 2006. [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/]

On 9 August 2006, "retired Russian intelligence officer, Col. Sergei Skripal, was sentenced to 13 years in jail ... for passing state secrets to Britain's MI6 and betraying dozens of Russian spies working in Europe in the late 1990s.... Russian officials did not spell out which branch of Russian intelligence Skripal worked for."

[Russia/00s/06; UK/PostCW/00s/06]

Naugle, David K. "FRUPAC Invades Tarawa." Cryptolog 16, no. 1 (Winter 1995): 1-3, 5-9, 14.

This is a nicely written remembrance of a small slice of the Mid Pacific D/F Net. The author went ashore at Tarawa (on the island of Beteo or "Helen" as code-named by the U.S. military) on 25 Nov. 1943 to set up and operate a direction-finding radio station. He finally wound up on Nanikai ("Cathy") on 11 Dec., where on 21 Dec. a station with call letters of WVNE was established. The station was decommissioned in November 1944.

[WWII/FE/Pac/Battles]

Nautical Brass On-Line. "Codebreaking and Secret Weapons in World War II." [http://home.earthlink.net/~nbrass1/enigma.htm]

"These articles are part of a ten-part series on codebreaking (Enigma, 'Purple', 'Magic', and the large part cryptography played in World War II) and the secret weapons of Allies and Axis (V1, V2, A-bomb, radar, etc.). The series of articles originally appeared in Nautical Brass magazine, now no longer in print, but on the Web as Nautical Brass On-Line." Includes "Annotated Bibliography. 120 references, including Enigma simulators, Web sites, movies, video tapes, books and articles. (17K)"

[UK/WWII/Ultra; WWII/Magic/Ref; WWII/RefMats]

Naval History. Editors. "Pueblo Incident." 2, no. 4 (Fall 1988): 53-59.

Some of the U.S. naval officers involved voice criticisms of the actions of Lloyd Bucher, the Pueblo's commander, who responds in: Lloyd M. Bucher, "The Pueblo Incident: Commander Bucher Replies," Naval History 3, no. 1 (Winter 1989), 44-50.

[GenPostwar/60s/Pueblo]

Naval Intelligence Professionals Quarterly. Editors. "Cothron Becomes Sixty-Second DNI." 22, no. 4 (Sep. 2006): 7.

Clark comment: RADM Tony Cothron took over as Director of Naval Intelligence on 8 July 2006. His predecessor, VADM Murrett, is now Director/National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.

The cited article gives career and personal information on Admiral Cothron. Duly noted is his graduation from Middle Tennessee State University in 1977.

[MI/Navy/00s]

Naval Intelligence Professionals Quarterly. Editors. "The Office of Naval Intelligence: Moving Into the 21st Century." 9, no. 3 (April 1993): 1-4.

Reports recreation of ONI "as a single organization under the direct command of the Director of Naval Intelligence. [T]he DNI[] also assumed command as Director of the new Office of Naval Intelligence, a second echelon command under the Chief of Naval Operations." Also, includes brief history of ONI with some attention to name changes along the way.

[MI/Navy][c]

Naval Security Group Command. Naval Cryptology in National Security. Washington, DC: 1985.

[MI/Navy]

Navarro Bonilla, Diego. Cartas entre espias e inteligencias secretas en la siglo de los validos (Juan de Torres-Gaspar Bonifaz, 1632-1638). [Letters between Spies and Secret Intelligence in the Century of the Validos (Juan de Torres-Gaspar Bonifaz, 1632-1638)] Madrid: Ministerio de Defensa, 2007. [Kahn, I&NS 23.2 (Apr. 2008)]

[OtherCountries/Spain/Historical]

Navarro Bonilla, Diego. Derrotado, pero no Sorprendido: Reflexiones sobre la información secreta en tiempo de guerra. [Defeated but Not Surprised: Reflections on Secret Information in Wartime] Madrid: Plaza y Valdez Editores, 2007.

Kahn, I&NS 23.2 (Apr. 2008), notes that one chapter of this work "offers a conditional history of Republican intelligence during the Spanish civil war."

[OtherCountries/Spain]

Navarro, Mireya. "Guatemalan Army Waged 'Genocide,' New Report Finds." New York Times, 26 Feb. 1999. [http://www.nytimes.com]

The report by Guatemala's independent Historical Clarification Commission "concluded that the United States gave money and training to a Guatemalan military that committed 'acts of genocide' against the Mayan people during ... Guatemala's 36-year civil war.... Although the broad outlines of American support to Guatemala's military have been known, the nine-volume report confirms that the CIA aided Guatemalan military forces.

"The commission listed the American training of the officer corps in counterinsurgency techniques as a key factor 'which had a significant bearing on human rights violations during the armed confrontation....' The commission specifically named military intelligence as the organizer of illegal detentions, torture, forced disappearances and executions, and it said that many massacres were a direct result of government policy."

The New York Times, 26 Feb. 1999, also carries excerpts of the statement made by the coordinator of the Historical Clarification Commission, Christian Tomuschat.

[LA/Guatemala]

Navias, Martin. Independence and British Nuclear Targeting, 1955-58. Oxford: Clarendon, 1991.

[UK/Postwar/Nukes]

Navon, Amit. "'Dipped His Head in Blood.'" Ma'ariv (Sofshayu'a Supplement) [in Hebrew], 11 Apr. 2003. [http://www.fas.org/irp/world/israel/shin_bet/specops.html]

[From FBIS Translation] "Of all the Shin Bet units and departments that shy away from public knowledge, ranging from the Jewish division to the prime minister's personal bodyguards, the [special] operations unit has most managed to maintain its anonymity.... The unit carries out an extensive range of operations, from tailing individual terrorists to spying on complex operations." The article includes comments from Danny Bar, a former member of the special operations unit who has recently published a book entitled Shahid (Martyr).

[Israel]

Naylor, Chris. "The Heinz Felfe Case: A Counterintelligence Failure of Dramatic Proportions." Intelligencer 15, no. 3 (Summer/Fall 2007): 61-71.

This is a detailed review of the Felfe case. The author concludes that "as a result of a lack of cooperation between the CIC, GO [Gehlen Organization], and CIA spanning several years, coupled by KGB deception operations, the arrests [of Felfe, Clemens, and Tiebel] came many years later than they should have."

[Germany/West]

Naylor, John F. "British Memoirs and Official Secrecy: From Crossman to Thatcher." In George Egerton, ed. Political Memoir: Essays on the Politics of Memory. Newbury Park, Ilford, Essex: Frank Cass, 1994.

[RefMats/Release/UK]

Naylor, Sean. Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda. New York: Penguin Putnam, 2005.

[MI/Ops/Afghanistan]

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