Niblack, A. P. The History and Aims of the Office of Naval Intelligence. Washington, DC: GPO, 1920. [Petersen]
Niblack, A. P. The History and Aims of the Office of Naval Intelligence. Washington, DC: GPO, 1920. [Petersen]
[MI/Navy/To19]
Nicander, Lars. "Information Terrorism: When and by Whom?" Defense Intelligence Journal 16, no. 2 (2007): 139-153.
"[I]t is not inevitable that information terrorism ... will occur; however, it does seem like the natural progression for qualified non-state actors."
[GenPostwar/InfoWar; Terrorism/00s]
Nicholas, Elizabeth. Death Be Not Proud. London: Cresset, 1958.
Wilcox: "Account of British clandestine operations and espionage during World War II."
[UK/WWII/Overviews]
Nicholas, Jack D. "The Element of Surprise in Modern Warfare."
Air University Quarterly 8 (Summer 1956): 3-20.
[Analysis/Surprise; GenPostwar/50s/Korea]
Nicholl, Charles. The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1992. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1992.
According to Kruh, Cryptologia 18.4, the author ties Marlowe and the three men who dined with him on the night of his murder to covert intelligence work. He has written "a highly literate and fascinating tour of Elizabethan England with its familiar historical figures playing a role in this extraordinary spy story."
[UK/Historical]
Nichols, Thomas M. Winning the World: Lessons for America’s Future from the Cold War. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002.
Goldgeier, NWCR 57.3/4 (Summer/Autumn 2004), notes that Nichols believes that the Cold War contest offers lessons for U.S. strategists as they faces the new enemy responsible for 9/11. The author "stresses that the key feature of the U.S.-Soviet struggle was the difference in ideology and that in a new war with new ideological foes, the United States can learn from the recent past." However, "he spends so much time expressing his rage at those who did not understand Soviet evil that he misses how much the new materials enable us to explore ... in even greater detail" the very issues he raises.
[GenPostCW/00s/Gen; GenPostwar/CW]
Nicolai, Walther. The German Secret Service. London: Stanley Paul, 1924.
[Germany/Historical]
Nicolson, David D. Aristide: Warlord of the Resistance. London:
Leo Cooper, 1994.
Aristide was the codename for Roger Landes, called by Surveillant 3.2/3 "one of SOE's most famous agents and one of the few who lived" to tell his story. According to an advertisement, the book "traces Resistance actions, the struggle against betrayal of members, and the new war after the Normandy invasion. Includes stories of the subsequent lives of survivors as well as documents from British SOE archives."
[UK/WWII/SOE; WWII/Eur/Fr/Resistance]
Nicholson, Thom [COL/USA (Ret.)] 15 Months in SOG: A Warrior's Tour. New York: Presidio, 1999. [pb]
From Inside Flap: As commander of Company B, Command and Control North's Raider Company (Da Nang), the author "commanded four platoons,... in some of the war's most deadly missions, including ready-reaction missions for patrols in contact with the enemy, patrol extractions under fire, and top-secret expeditions 'over the fence' into Laos, Cambodia, and North Vietnam." Nicholson "provides a rare glimpse into the workings of one of the military's most carefully concealed reconnaissance campaigns."
[Vietnam/Gen]
Nickels, Hamilton. Codemaster: Secrets of Making and Breaking
Codes. Boulder, CO: Paladin, 1990.
According to Sexton, the author of this autobiographical account "incorrectly asserts that the Japanese PURPLE cipher machine was copied from the German ENIGMA machine."
[WWII/Magic]
Nickles, David Paul. Under the Wire: How the Telegraph Changed Diplomacy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.
Kruh, Cryptologia 28.2, notes that this "interesting study by a knowledgeable author ... includes an excellent discussion of the Zimmermann Telegram incident."
To Steury, Studies 48.3 (2004), the author's "arguments are thought-provoking and he never fails to interest.... Nickles draws the appropriate security lessons from the Zimmerman[n] episode and highlights [head of Royal Navy signals intelligence Rear Admiral Sir Reginald 'Blinker'] Hall's success in deceiving both the US and Imperial German governments about how he obtained the telegram."
[WWI/Zimmermann]
Nickerson, Colin. "Spy Blunder Draws Criticism in Canada." Boston
Globe, 18 Nov. 1999, A4.
In Canada, "[s]ecret agents may find themselves sifting landfills for ... lost secrets amid one of the worst spy scandals in the country's history.... The Canadian Intelligence Security Service is now confirming that a top-secret document ... was stolen from the back of a spy official's minivan last month. The culprits are believed to be smash-and-grab thieves, not secret agents from enemy powers.... The incident has triggered a huge political controversy and damaged the reputation of the Intelligence Security Service, Canada's CIA."
[Canada]
Niedrauer, Bruce A. "Joint STARS Support to Special Operations Command."
Military Intelligence 22, no. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1996): 15-17.
In Operation Joint Endeavor, a Ground Station Module (GSM) was deployed to the Special Operations Command Implementation Force (SOCIFOR) to provide "near-real-time access via satellite communications (SATCOMs) to Joint STARS imagery."
[MI/Ops/Other; MI/SpecOps][c]
Nielsen, Harald. "The German Analysis and Assessment System."
Intelligence and National Security 10, no. 4 (Oct. 1995): 54-71.
What was probably the author's original title precedes the article's text; it is a good description of the nature of the article: "The German Intelligence Services, Their History, Their Legal Basis, Their Tasks and Their Means and Methods of Operation."
[Germany/West][c]
Nielsen, Thomas. Inside Fortress Norway, Bjørn West -- Norwegian Guerrilla Base, 1944-1945. Manhattan, KS: Sunflower University Press, 2000.
McKay, I&NS 17.3, comments that the author "has written a lively historical account of the Norwegian Resistance Base, Bjørn West, which was set up in the mountains between Bergen and Sognefjord in the closing phase of the war."
[WWII/Eur/Resistance/Other]
Nielson, Don. "Task Force 157: Born Twenty Years Too Soon." American
Intelligence Journal 14, no 1 (Autumn/Winter 1993): 23-27.
Task Force 157 was a "highly regarded [clandestine collection] intelligence organization that fell victim to the pressures generated during the Church Committee Hearings" in 1976. "In the beginning, it was called the Navy Field Operations Support Group (NFOSG)." The decision to change to the Task Force designation was made in 1968. The arrogance of one commander and other mistakes antagonized intelligence officers at Navy commands. "That mistake came home to roost when one of the slighted officers, then RADM Bobby Inman, returned as the DNI..., and he proceeded to disestablish it as soon as he had developed a viable justification. The history of Task Force 157 also is clouded unnecessarily by its association with the notorious Ed Wilson,"who was a contract employee and was terminated. Wilson was not involved in any TF 157 collection activities. The author proposes the Task Force as a model for future operations.
See also, Jeffrey T. Richelson, "Task Force 157: The US Navy's Secret Intelligence Service, 1966-77," Intelligence and National Security 11, no. 1 (Jan. 1996): 106-145.
[MI/Navy/To90s][c]
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