O'Dea, Anna, and Samuel A. Pleasants. "The Case of John Honeyman: Mute Evidence." New Jersey Historical Society 84 (Jul. 1966): 174-181. [Petersen] O'Dea, Anna, and Samuel A. Pleasants. "The Case of John Honeyman: Mute Evidence." New Jersey Historical Society 84 (Jul. 1966): 174-181. [Petersen]
[RevWar/Other]
Oder, Frederic C.E., James C. Fitzpatrrick, and Paul E. Worthman. The Corona Story. Washington, DC: NRO, 1987.
[NRO; Recon/Sats/Books]
Odierno, Raymond T. [LTGEN/USA], Nichoel E. Brooks [LTCOL/USA], and Francesco P. Mastracchio [LTCOL/USA]. "ISR Evolution in the Iraqi Theater." Joint Force Quarterly 50 (Third Quarter 2008): 51-55.
The ability of conventional units to engage in special forces-type operations is attributable to "the sudden increase in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), analysis, and exploitation assets delegated down to the brigade combat teams (BCTs). We have seen a significant metamorphosis of intelligence operations in Iraq."
[MI/Ops/Iraq/08]
O'Donnell, Patrick K. The Brenner Assignment: The Untold Story of the Most Daring Spy Mission of World War II. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 2008.
Goulden, Intelligencer 17.1 (Winter-Spring 2009), says that the author "is a military historian of talent, and this work reflects a tremendous amount of work." The subject matter is the OSS operation to slow the German retreat from Italy by clogging the Brenner Pass.
[WWII/OSS/OtherOps]
O'Donnell, Patrick K. Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs: The Unknown Story of the Men and Women of WW II's OSS. New York: Free Press, 2004.
According to Seamon, Proceedings 130.4 (Apr. 2004), the author "lets the men and women" of OSS "tell their stories in their own words. For the most part, these stories are straightforward accounts." Bath, NIPQ 20.4 (Dec. 2004), sees the author giving readers "a comprehensive picture of the OSS from its inception." He has produced "a highly readable story" that "is less a book for the serious student of intelligence than for the non-specialist."
Laurie, Studies 49.1 (2005), notes that the author focuses on the reminiscences of 300 OSS veterans. This "is a useful contribution to the existing literature, and one that many will find fascinating. Unfortunately, these wonderful oral histories are poorly packaged.... [T]he portrait of the OSS presented here is one dimensional, telling only the well-known, often over-romanticized 'cloak and dagger' aspect of the Service's history that perpetuates the popular myth that this is all that intelligence agencies do."
[Women/WWII/U.S.; WWII/OSS/Gen]
O'Donnell, Pierce. In Time of War: Hitler's Terrorist Attack on America. New York: New Press, 2005.
According to DKR, AFIO WIN 25-05 (4 Jul. 2005), this work concerns the landing in 1942 of "eight German-Americans, equipped to carry out sabotage, on the U.S. coast -- whereupon their leader telephoned the FBI to turn in himself and his fellows." President Roosevelt "ordered a secret military trial.... [T]he government announced that six of the defendants had been executed and the remaining two given long prison sentences."
See also, Fisher, Nazi Saboteurs on Trial (2003); and Dobbs, Saboteurs (2004).
[WWII/Eur/Ger/Ops]
O'Donoghue, David. Hitler's Irish Voices: The Story of German Radio's Wartime Irish Service. Belfast: Beyond the Pale Publications, 1998.
From publisher: "From December 1939 to May 1945, German Radio broadcast Nazi propaganda to neutral Ireland." It was "a nightly bi-lingual service in Irish and English." The man behind the broadcasts was Dr. Adolf Mahr, former director of the Irish National Museum, who had "returned to Berlin at the start of war and spent the war years running the Irish desk at the German Foreign Office, as well as creating German Radio's Irish service, known as Irland-Redaktion."
See Gerry Mullins, Dublin Nazi No. 1: The Life of Adolf Mahr (Dublin: Liberties Press, 2007).
[WWII/Eur/Germany; OtherCountries/Ireland/WWII]
O'Donoghue, David. "Neutral Ireland's Secret War." Sunday Business Post, 31 Dec. 2006. [From friend in Ireland]
With the outbreak of war, the 50-strong Nazi group that had existed in pre-war Ireland approached Eamon de Valera "to seek safe passage through Britain to reach home." He "was only too happy to oblige, getting Westminster's permission for their return home." They "sailed aboard the mail boat Cambria … on September 11, 1939, and eventually made it across the channel. But their departure left a serious intelligence gap for the Nazis in neutral Ireland, one they would try to fill by dispatching no fewer than 12 agents here in the 1939-to-1943 period."
[WWII/Eur/Germany; OtherCountries/Ireland/WWII]
O'Donoghue, James. "Dudley Bradstreet: A Tipperary Spy and Adventurer." Tipperary Historical Journal (1992), 174-185.
Period covered: 1711 - 1763.
[OtherCountries/Ireland]
O'Drisceoil, Donal. Censorship in Ireland, 1939-1945: Neutrality, Politics and Society. Cork: Cork University Press, 1996.
Clark comment: The Controller of Censorship was under the Army Chief of Staff (Intelligence) and worked with both Military Intelligence and the Security Section of the National Police Force of Ireland. The files for 1939-1945 are held by the Defence Forces' Military Archives Branch, Dublin.
[OtherCountries/Ireland/WWII]
O'Drisceoil, Donal. "Censorship as Propaganda: The Neutralisation of Irish Public Opinion during the Second World War." In Ireland and the Second World War: Politics, Society and Remembrance, eds. Brian Girvin and Geoffrey Roberts, 151-164. Dublin: Four Courts, 2000.
[OtherCountries/Ireland/WWII]
O'Drisceoil, Donal. "'Moral neutrality': Censorship in Emergency Ireland." History Ireland 4, no. 2 (1996): 46-50.
[OtherCountries/Ireland/WWII]
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