Nordell, John R., Jr. The Undetected Enemy: French and American Miscalculations at Dien Bien Phu. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1995.
Nordell, John R., Jr. The Undetected Enemy: French and American Miscalculations at Dien Bien Phu. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1995.
According to Currey, Journal of Third World Studies, Fall 1999, Nordell "tells of French strategic, logistic, tactical and intelligence decisions that culminated in Navarre's determination to fight" at Dien Bien Phu. The author also "clearly shows the extent to which the U.S. government aided and abetted French planning."
[France/Postwar; GenPostwar/50s/Gen]
Noren, James. "CIA's Analysis of the Soviet Economy." In Watching the Bear: Essays on CIA's Analysis of the Soviet Union, eds. Gerald K. Haines and Robert E. Leggett. Washington, DC: Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, 2003.
From "Introduction": The author "provides a first-hand account of the work the DI produced" during the Cold War. Noren's "paper chronicles an array of intelligence assessments of the Soviet economy and a record of significant achievements by CIA and the US Intelligence Community.... The accuracy of CIA's analysis of the Soviet economy ... has become the subject of substantial debate.... Noren's analysis buttresses the assessments of a number of other analysts who maintain that the Agency did as well as could be expected in anticipating the collapse of the Soviet economy in the early 1990s."
[Analysis/Sov]
Norman, Bruce. Secret Warfare: The Battle of Codes and Ciphers. Newton Abbot, UK: David & Charles, 1973. Washington, DC: Acropolis Books, 1974. New York: Sterling, 1989.
According to Constantinides, this book recounts a number of "fairly well-known cases and events.... Norman's enthusiasm for the subject ... was not matched by an equal depth of treatment. There are also errors ... or missing facts on cases dealt with."
[Cryptography/Gen]
Norquist, Warren E. "How the United States Won the Cold War." Intelligencer 13, no. 2 (Winter-Spring 2003): 47-56.
Reagan did it. "A longer version of this paper appeared first in Global Competitiveness Volume 9 (1), 2001 pp. 1-27 and a later version in Advances in Competitiveness Research volume 10, No. 1, 2002."
[GenPostwar/CW/End/Gen]
Norris, Robert S. Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan Project's Indispensable Man. South Royalton, VT: Steerforth
Press, 2002.
From advertisement: "The book treats Groves's central role in the planning, timing and targeting of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions revealing new insights into the complex and controversial questions surrounding the 'decision' to drop the bomb on Japan."
Christman, Proceedings, Sep. 2002, believes that Norris has succeeded in telling both the story of the birth of the atomic bomb and the life story of "an ambitious mission-driven general."
For Cohen, FA 81.5, "this well-executed biography evinces an honest respect for Groves" while not disguising the sides of "the man whom eyewitnesses and students of the atom bomb's creation love to despise."
Sartori, I&NS 18.1, says this is a "meticulously researched and lively biography.... Norris's book provides a wealth of detail and is a valuable addition to the literature of the bomb project, but it does not significantly alter Grove's place in history."
According to Richelson, IJI&C 16.4, Norris has individual chapters on security for the Manhattan Project and its intelligence gathering responsibility, specifically the Alsos teams.
Taylor, Booklist, 15 Mar. 2002, notes that the author's "exacting and complete research ... does not overwhelm the narrative.... Norris finds that as a personality, Groves was uncomplicated, patriotic, and traditional; as an officer, brusque, determined, and decisive. The latter traits made him too many enemies.... A critical contribution to the subject."
[WWII/Eur/Ger/Alsos; WWII/FE/Pac/Bomb]
North, David M. "U-2S Pilot Report: Venerable U-2 Forges on
to Y2K and Beyond." Aviation Week & Space
Technology, 12 Apr. 1999, 60-66.
Includes sidebar story, "Pilot Selection Process Arduous," p. 65.
The 45-year-old U-2 has benefited from some recent modifications "that should keep the Dragon Lady an effective high-altitude reconnaissance platform with the U.S. Air Force into 2020." There are currently 37 Lockheed-Martin U-2s in service -- 35 U-2Ss with the Air Force and Lockheed Martin and 2 ER-2s with NASA. The author flew one of the 9th Reconnaissance Wing's U-2ST trainers out of Beale AFB.
[Recon/90s]
North, Mark. Act of Treason: The Role of J. Edgar Hoover in the Assassination of President Kennedy. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1990.
Athan G. Theoharis is probably the most widely published, best known, and persistent critic of the FBI and Hoover. In his review of this book, Theoharis, WPNWE, 23-29 Dec. 1991, concludes: "Because of the author's research deficiencies, we are presented with a book based on tortuous reasoning and unsupported speculation. To offer this as evidence of Hoover's 'role' in the Kennedy assassination requires a leap of faith that only the most cynical will make."
[FBI/90s]
North, Oliver L.
1. Taking the Stand: The Testimony of Lt. Col. Oliver L. North. New York: Pocket Books, 1987.
2. with William Novak. Under Fire: An American Story. New York: HarperCollins, 1990.
Cannon, WPNWE, 16-22 Dec. 1991, notes "North's effort [in this book] to hold himself harmless." And in what is a particular good line, the reviewer comments that DCI William Casey "had many enemies but he apparently needed none of them with a friend like Ollie North."
[GenPostwar/80s/Iran-Contra]
North Carolina Central Law Journal. "New Tension Between the Right to Travel Abroad and National Security Interests: the Passport Case, Haig v. Agee (101 S. Ct. 2766)." 13 (Spring 1982): 267-285.
[Overviews/Legal/Travel]
Northcott, Chris. "The Role, Organization, and Methods of MI5." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 20, n0. 3 (Fall 2007): 453-479.
This is a broad, nuts-and-bolts description of MI5 from its inception to the present. It is a useful outline of the development of the organization.
[UK/Overviews/00s]
Northridge, A. R. "B-29s Against Coke Ovens." Studies in Intelligence 9, no. 3 (Summer 1965): 25-31.
The author was intelligence officer in Gen. Clare Chennault's 14th USAAF in Western China in World War II. When XXth Bomber Command was established for the B-29, its initial targets were to be the Japanese coke ovens -- a concept that created puzzlement and argument.
[WWII/FEPac/CBI]
Northridge, A. R. "Pearl Harbor: Estimating Then and Now." Studies in Intelligence 9, no. 4 (Fall 1965): 65-74.
"[I]t seems clear ... that we failed to foresee the Japanese assault [on Pearl Harbor] largely because we were influenced by a faulty sterotype of what was an adversary nation." (footnote omitted)
[WWII/PearlHarbor]
Northridge, A. R. "The Selectively Reluctant Informant." Studies in Intelligence 11, no. 3 (Summer 1967): 107-110.
"In debriefing an informant,... one must always take care lest he prove unreliable on some one point, possibly of little significance, for some obscure reason." The author develops an example from his experience with the 14th USAAF in World War II.
[CIA/Components/Tradecraft]
Norton, Augustus R., and Martin H. Greenberg. International Terrorism: An Annotated Bibliography and Research Guide. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1980.
[Terrorism/RefMats]
Norton-Taylor, Richard [The Guardian].
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