Parameters, U.S. Army War College Quarterly: http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/ Parameters/parahome.htm
Parameters, U.S. Army War College Quarterly: http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/ Parameters/parahome.htm
Occasionally has intelligence-related articles and book reviews. Site includes materials from current and past issues, with a cumulative index of articles and review essays. Also offers a book review index and links to on-line resources.
[MI/RefMats]
Parfitt, Tom. "Qatar Hands Back Moscow Agents Jailed for Murder." Electronic Telegraph, 16 Jan. 2005. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk]
"Two Russian secret agents convicted of assassinating" Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, "a former Chechen president living in the Gulf state of Qatar," were handed over to the Russian government in December 2004. Upon their return, "the agents received a hero's welcome in Moscow."
[Russia/05]
Parish, John
C. "Intelligence Work at First Army Headquarters." Historical
Outlook 11 (Jun. 1920): 213-217. [Petersen]
[WWI/U.S.]
Parisi, Albert
J. "The CIA and the Media." Editor & Publisher, 17
Nov. 1990, 20, 52.
This is a report on remarks made by the CIA's chief of media relations to the New Jersey press club. The emphasis is on greater CIA openness and on presenting the Agency as nonthreatening to journalists.
[CIA/Relations/Media][c]
Park, Edwards. "A Phantom Division Played a Role in Germany's Defeat." At: http://www.laynor.org/articles/parkart.htm [not found 11/5/04]. From The Smithsonian, Apr. 1985.
The focus here is the U.S. Army's 23rd Headquarters Special Troops. The 23rd's troops "specialized in impersonating other troops.... For 268 days in mid-1944 and early l945, the 23rd's 82 officers and 1,023 enlisted men pretended. at one time or another, to be the 5th Armored Division, the 4th Infantry Division, the 6th Armored Division, the 90th Infantry Division and many other Army outfits hard at work in the hedgerows and forests of northern Europe. With inflatable rubber guns and vehicles, with ever-changing shoulder patches, stencils to make phony signs, and with amplified recordings of heavy equipment in action, the 23rd played role after role."
This article was carried on the Laynor Foundation Museum site [http://www.laynor.org] dedicated to Harold A. Laynor (1922-1991), an American artist who served with the 603rd Camouflage Engineers, a unit of the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, in World War II.
[WWII/Eur/Deception]
Parker, Charles F., and Eric K. Stern. "Blindsided? September 11 and the Origins of Strategic Surprise." Political Psychology 23, no. 3 (2002).
[Analysis/Warning]
Parker, Frederick
D. "How OP-20-G Got Rid of Joe Rochefort." Cryptologia
24, no. 3 (Jul. 2000): 212-234.
Lt. Cdr. Edwin T. Layton and Cdr. Joseph Rochefort "were caught in the infighting between the director of naval intelligence and the director of naval communications over which directorate should control the production and dissemination of communications intelligence." Layton's career survived the struggle; Rochefort's did not.
[WWII/Services/Navy]
Parker, Frederick
D. Pearl Harbor Revisited: United States Communications Intelligence,
1924-1941. Ft. George Gordon Meade, MD: Center for Cryptologic History,
National Security Agency, 1994.
According to Sexton, this is a "[v]aluable history of the evolution of Army and Navy Comint agencies" in the interwar years.
Kruh, Cryptologia 19.1, says that "[t]his excellent work" provides a "detailed examination and analysis of the U.S. Navy's communications intelligence (COMINT) efforts" in the interwar years.
For Wilford, Northern Mariner 12.1/22, "Parker's work constitutes one of the most meticulous examinations" of intercepted JN-25 messages.
[Interwar/U.S.; MI/Army/Interwar & Navy/Interwar]
Parker, Frederick
D. A Priceless Advantage: U.S. Navy Communications Intelligence and the Battles of Coral Sea, Midway and the Aleutians. Ft. George Gordon Meade, MD: Center for Cryptologic History, National Security Agency, 1994.
According to Kruh, Cryptologia 29.3 (Jul. 2005), the author has produced "a masterfully detailed account of the comint associated ... with the Coral Sea and Midway actions" and with events in the Aleutians. He provides "a marvelous context from which to view the unfolding history of U.S. naval comint in the Pacific."
[WWII/FE/Pac/Battles]
Parker, Frederick
D. "The Unsolved Messages of Pearl Harbor." Cryptologia
15, no. 4 (Oct. 1991): 295-313.
The author argues that the Navy's failure to break Japanese naval signals prevented the exploitation of messages in the Navy's possession that would have warned of the attack on Pearl Harbor. He blames the failure to break JN-25b messages on the emphasis given and resources devoted to the Japanese diplomatic cipher systems. Sexton gives this article a "highly recommended" notation.
[WWII/PearlHarbor]
Parker, James E., Jr. Codename Mule: Fighting the Secret War in Laos for the CIA. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1995.
Chambers calls this a "very straight and narrowly focused telling of Parker's role in the later stages of the Laotian campaign."
Bates, NIPQ 12.2, finds that the "Foreword" by William A. Leary, a history professor at the University of Georgia, is "an excellent history of Laos from the mid 1950s to the date Parker arrived.... Parker's story is written in an entertaining first person format and reads like a novel." On the other hand, Reske, NIPQ 12.3, learned little from Parker's book: "It was mostly a series of episodic 'I was there, I did that, I saw that' war stories that never quite connect."
For Warren, Surveillant 4.4/5, Parker "provides insights into the Agency's extensive covert operations in Laos and the men who conducted them." Bode, WIR 15.5, says that Parker "tells his story simply, with minimal commentary, and allows the reader to reach his own conclusions." Although the author's experiences cover only a "relatively narrow period" (from late 1971 to early 1975), he is "a keen observer" and "a fine story-teller."
See also the review by Col. Donald F. Lunday at http://www.thehistorynet.com/ reviews.
[CIA/Laos]
Parker, John. Death of a Hero. London: Metro, 1998.
Although Death of a Hero is ostensibly about Capt. Robert Nairac, Army Suveillance Unit member killed by the IRA in 1977, van Straubenzee, Spectator, 13 Mar. 1999, notes that the book "contains much background to the work of army intelligence and the Special Forces. It is very informative and immensely readable," even though it does have some "annoying inaccuracies."
[UK/Postwar/IRA]
Parker,
Robert R. "Deception: The Missing Tool." Marine Corps Gazette
76 (May 1992): 97-101. [Seymour]
[MI/Deception]
Parks, W. Hays. "Memorandum of Law: Executive Order 12333 and Assassination." Army Lawyer, Dec. 1989, 4-9.
[Overviews/Legal/Assassination]
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