P - Pai

 

Pacepa, Ion Mihai. "The Arafat I Know." Wall Street Journal, 10 Jan. 2002.

The former head of the Romanian foreign intelligence service, who defected to the West in 1978, claims to have aided the Soviet KGB in the indoctrination and training of PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat.

[OtherCountries/Arab&Romania]

Pacepa, Ion Mihai. Programmed to Kill: Lee Harvey Oswald, the Soviet KGB, and the Kennedy Assassination. Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee, 2007.

Clark comment: The author is the former head of the Romanian foreign intelligence service; he defected to the West in 1978.

The reviewer for Publishers Weekly, 14 Sep. 2007, (via Amazon.com) finds that "[e]ven those inclined to suspect a conspiracy was behind JFK's murder will likely remain unpersuaded by Pacepa's circumstantial, speculative case that the Soviet Union ordered Lee Harvey Oswald to assassinate Kennedy.... While there is reason to doubt that the former Soviet Union was fully forthcoming about Oswald's time there, this book offers no convincing Soviet motive for the assassination."

Goulden, Intelligencer 15.3 (Summer/Fall 2007), sees this as an "account that rests rather flimsily on circumstantial evidence and supposition." The one saving grace is the book's revelation concerning Moscow's "directive to all satellite spy services" to blame the CIA for President Kennedy's assassination.

For Peake, Studies 52.2 (Jun. 2008) and Intelligencer 16.1 (Spring 2008), the author "presents a conceivable explanation of Kennedy's assassination, but it is also implausible. Pacepa doesn't connect the dots, he adds new ones."

[CIA/Accusations/00s; Russia/Overviews/00s]

Pacepa, Ion Mihai. Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief. Washington, DC: Regnery, 1987. London: Heinemann, 1988.

Pacific Magazine. "French Overseas Territories Intelligence Unit Scrapped." 8 Jan. 2008. [http://www.pacificmagazine.net]

"The French government has moved to scrap an army intelligence unit that until now, was designed to specifically monitor politicians and journalists in the French overseas territories, including the three French Pacific dependencies of New Caledonia, French Polynesia and Wallis and Futuna."

[France/00s/08]

Packard, Wyman H.

Paddock, Alfred H., Jr. U.S. Army Special Operations, Its Origins: Psychological and Unconventional Warfare, 1941-1952. Washington, DC: National Defense University, 1982.

[MI/SpecOps]

Padover, Saul K. Experiment in Germany: The Story of an American Intelligence Officer. New York: Duell, 1946.

Working with a small OSS unit as the Allies advanced across Europe after the Normandy landings, Padover "interrogated German civilians, obtaining information upon which the American Military Government in Germany subsequently based its denazification policies." O'Toole, Encyclopedia, p. 356.

[WWII/OSS/Ops/Ger]

Pae, Peter, and Lena H. Sun. "Charges of Passing Secrets Puzzle Friends of Suspect." Washington Post, 27 Sep. 1996, A18.

[SpyCases/U.S./Other/Kim]

Page, Bruce, David Leitch, and Phillip Knightley. Philby: The Spy Who Betrayed a Generation. London: André Deutsch, 1968. The Philby Conspiracy. New York: Doubleday, 1968. [pb] New York: Ballantine, 1981.

Page, Don. "Tommy Stone and Psychological Warfare in World War Two: Transforming a POW Liability into an Asset." Journal of Canadian Studies 16, no. 3&4 (Fall-Winter 1981): 110-120.

[Canada/WWII]

Page, Jeremy. "Analysis: A Shot across Western Bows." Times (London), 23 Jan. 2006. [http://www.timesonline.co.uk]

"The timing of the release of the story [of a fake rock packed with surveillance equipment] on state television is very telling. The Russian Parliament has recently passed legislation requiring all of Russia's non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to register with a new regulatory body.... The crucial allegation in the [television] documentary ... was that one of the British diplomats involved in this spying ring was personally signing off grants for NGOs. It was a tenuous link, but the intended message was very clear: he's obviously a spy and he's passing NGOs Western money so that they can undermine the Russian state. It may seem simplistic..., but it has played very well in Russia."

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

Page, Jeremy. "Spies Collect More Toys as Cold War Turns to Hot Peace." Times (London), 25 Jan. 2006. [http://www.timesonline.co.uk]

"[I]f intelligence experts are correct,... Western spy agencies [are] step[ping] up their operations in Russia to a level not seen since the Soviet collapse.... Western intelligence services said last year that Russia had aggressively escalated its spying ... since President Putin... took power in 2000.... What is less widely publicised is that US and British intelligence have also been actively recruiting Russian-speaking agents in tandem with Russia’s growing economic and political clout."

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

Page, Jeremy, and Richard Beeston. "The 'British' Spy Operation Found Lurking under a Rock." Times (London), 24 Jan. 2006. [http://www.timesonline.co.uk]

At first glance, the grainy film aired on Moscow television on 22 January 2006 seems to show innocent behavior. But, according to the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), what is seen is "Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service in action."

Four men are accused of being "spies working under cover at the British Embassy in Moscow. And the mysterious object [in the film] was a high-tech telecommunications device concealed inside a fake rock.... Passing agents could transmit secret information to this electronic dead letter box through a simple hand-held computer."

The television report "identified the four alleged spies as Marc Doe, a second secretary in the political section, Paul Crompton, a third secretary in the political section, and Christopher Pirt and Andrew Fleming, both researchers without diplomatic status. It also alleged that a Russian citizen who had contacts with the four had been detained and confessed to espionage."

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

Paget, Julian. Counter-Insurgency Campaigning. London: Faber & Faber, 1967.

[UK/Postwar/Counterinsurgency]

Paget, Karen. "From Stockholm to Leiden: The CIA's Role in the Formation of the International Student Conference." Intelligence and National Security 18, no. 2 (Summer 2003): 134-167.

This article focuses on the period from 1949 to 1952, not the full existence of the National Student Association-International Student Conference-CIA relationship. The author believes that "a careful distinction must be made between CIA objectives and its capacity to execute them.... Who had the power to make decisions, and to make them stick, varied greatly throughout the life of the relationship.... In the earlier years,... most differences between the CIA and NSA or ISC offficials tended to be tactical."

[CA/Eur; CIA/60s/Subsidies]

Paillole, Paul [Col.]

1. Services spéciaux [?sèciaux], 1935-1945. Paris: Robert Laffont, 1975. Fighting the Nazis: French Intelligence and Counterintelligence, 1935-1945. New York: Enigma, 2003.

Porch, I&NS 2.1, sees this work as offering "a frank and revealing glimpse into the workings of the service de renseignement, the counter-espionage section of the military Deuxième bureau from 1935 to 1945."

For Peake, Studies 48.1, this "is a tale of French political maneuvering as much as counterespionage operations." Nonetheless, the author's "assiduous application and articulation of counterintelligence principles demonstrate their universality while making clear that it is the people who make the difference."

2. Notre espion chez Hitler. Paris: Robert Laffont, 1985.

Porch, I&NS 2.1, notes that the title subject of this work is "Hans Schmidt, code named H.E. or Asché..., employee in the German code and cipher section, who provided the French with much useful information between 1932 and the Fall of France in 1940, most notably on the development of the Enigma codes." The author has "the disconcerting habit of reproducing verbatim conversations at which he could not possibly have been present.... [I]t is difficult to be certain where fact leaves off and fiction takes over.... In a word, Monsieur Paillole's book needs to be read with great caution."

3. With Alain-Gilles Minella. L'homme des services secrets. Paris: Julliard, 1995.

According to Pennetier, I&NS 11.4, Paillole worked in the German counter-espionage section of the Deuxième bureau prior to World War II. As opposed to his earlier two books, this work "deals much more with wartime and especially on how ... pre-war intelligence services continued their work throughout most of the occupation of France."

[France/Interwar; WWII/Eur/Fr/Gen]

Paine, Lauran.

Painton, Frederick C. "Fighting with 'Confetti.'" Reader's Digest, Dec. 1943, 99-101. [Winkler]

[WWII/PsyWar]

 

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