Pas - Pat

Paschall, Rod. "Deception for St. Mihiel, 1918." Intelligence and National Security 5, no. 3 (Jul. 1990): 158-175.

This article looks at the "Belfort Ruse," and concludes that it "was not much to brag about." The author follows that solid conclusion with the speculation that Col. (later Gen.) Fox Conger may have passed the ploy to his student, Dwight D. Eisenhower

[WWI/U.S.][c]

Paschall, Rod. LIC 2010: Special Operations and Unconventional Warfare in the Next Century. New York: Brassey's (US), 1990.

Surveillant 1.2 notes that in this book a former Delta Force Commander and Director of the U.S. Army Military History Institute at Carlisle, PA, "charts the likely course of low-intensity conflict (LIC) over the next two decades."

To Beckett, I&NS 6.3, "Paschall has produced a highly stimulating book well worth reading."

[MI/SpecOps]

Paseman, Floyd.

Pash, Boris T. The ALSOS Mission. New York: Award House, 1969.

See "Boris Pash and Science and Technology Intelligence" at the Huachuca History Program under "Masters of the Intelligence Art": http://huachuca-www.army.mil/History/html/SiteMap.html.

Pforzheimer notes that the author led the military part of a joint military-scientific team that went into Germany with the advancing Allied forces on a scientific intelligence mission. The goal was determine what the Germans knew about our atomic bomb and the extent of German progress in producing such a device.

For Constantinides, Pash "is good on how intelligence leads were acquired and pursued to get further intelligence." The leader of the ALSOS civilian scientists was Samuel Goudsmit and his book, ALSOS, should also be read.

[WWII/Eur/Ger/Alsos]

Pasternak, Douglas. "Lack of Intelligence." U.S. News & World Report, 11 Aug. 2003. [http://www.usnews.com]

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) "is in crisis. Despite its $7 billion annual budget, its satellites don't always work as promised. Its projects run billions in the red and years behind schedule. Some national security experts say the place just doesn't work." In response, "Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and CIA Director George tenet [last year] created a new top-secret office to develop cutting-edge spy satellite technologies. The office is an arm of the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology. The new office maintains bogus commercial 'cover' facilities outside the agency's headquarters in Langley, VA.

"The coming months will be pivotal for the NRO. The agency hasn't put up a satellite in 22 months, and planned launches have been repeatedly delayed. But if all goes well, the NRO will launch two satellites before the end of the year."

Clark comment: This is a very interesting and informative article. It is recommended reading about a critical part of the Intelligence Community that rarely gets attention from the mainstream media.

[NRO/00s]

Pastor, Robert A. Whirlpool: U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Latin America and the Caribbean. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992. F1418P365

Clark comment: The author worked on Latin America on the National Security Council during the Carter administration.

Lowenthal, FA 71.5, calls this book "impressive." Gleijesus, WPNWE, 4-10 Jan. 1993, finds that Pastor is "probing, knowledgeable, interesting -- and at times maddeningly opaque, prey to th[]e same stereotypes he seeks to dissolve."

[LA/Gen]

Pasztor, Andy. "Spy Agencies Outdo Air Force In Getting Satellite Funding." Wall Street Journal, 7 Dec. 2007. [http://online.wsj.com]

"U.S. intelligence agencies are quietly spending about $7.5 billion to build a pair of older-technology spy satellites, people familiar with the matter said, at a time when more-technically-advanced military satellite projects are faltering because of budget cuts.... The Air Force has had difficulty moving advanced projects, and the new spending highlights how control of such projects is moving away from the Air Force and toward intelligence officials."

[Recon/Sats/Arts/07]

Pateman, Roy. Residual Uncertainty: Trying to Avoid Intelligence and Policy Mistakes in the Modern World. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2003.

From publisher: The author "gives numerous examples of where security has been breached, and networks, severely, even irreparably compromised and explains how the consequences of intelligence failure will surely be graver in the future. Pateman pinpoints the causes of failures in intelligence and policy in today's world and offers solutions that will drastically overhaul and improve our intelligence networks."

[GenPostwar/Policy/00s]

Paterson

Pathak, D.C. Intelligence: A Security Weapon. New Delhi: Manas, 2003.

Peake, Studies 50.2 (2006), notes that this is "the first book published by a former director of India’s Intelligence Bureau, the organization responsible for domestic security." However, the author's approach is "normative -- how things should work --" rather than "a functional[] description of how intelligence actually operates." This "is a thoughtful book that provides an idealistic view of how the author hopes the Indian intelligence services practice their profession."

[OtherCountries/India]

Patrick, Louis S. "The Secret Service of the American Revolution." Journal of American History 1 (1907): 497-508. [Petersen]

[RevWar/Overviews]

Patrick, Marsena L. Ed., David S. Sparks. Inside Lincoln's Army: The Diary of Marsena Rudolph Patrick. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1964. [Petersen]

[CivWar/Union/Gen]

Pattakos, Arion N. "Counterintelligence and the OPSEC Connection: Past, Present, and Future." American Intelligence Journal 18, no. 1/2 (1998): 43-50.

[MI/CI][c]

Pattakos, Pat. "Operations Security." NMIA Newsletter 10, no. 3 (1995): 7-8.

Current U.S. government security policy stresses risk management approaches: "In brief -- security risk avoidance is out and security risk management is in." The author relates the concept and process of Operations Security (OPSEC) to the security risk management paradigm.

[CI][c]

Patterson, Eric, and Teresa Casale. "Targeting Terror: The Ethical and Practical Implications of Targeted Killing." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 18, no. 4 (Winter 2005-2006): 638-652.

"Targeted killing is often confused with assassination.... Politically motivated assassinations can and should be distinguished from the legitimate use of force directed against specific enemy combatants.... [I]t is both pragmatic and ethical to utilize killing of targeted enemies in the war on terror, while necesarily considering the potential and pitfalls of such a strategy."

[Overviews/Legal/Assassination]

Patti, Archimedes L. A. Why Viet Nam? Prelude to America's Albatross. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. 1981. [pb]

Pforzheimer: Patti was briefly OSS chief of station in Hanoi in 1945 after a stint running OSS Indochina operations from Kunming. He "had access to the OSS files in writing this heavily footnoted book...." He carries the story of U.S. involvement in that area until the mid-1950s. "Patti's friendship with, and admiration for, Ho Chi Minh" made the book controversial.

[Vietnam/Gen & Eisenhower]

Patton, George S., Jr. War As I Knew It. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975.

[WWII/Eur/Bulge; WWII/Eur/Gen]

Patton, Kerry. Terrorism Intelligence and National Security. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2007.

Martinson, DIJ 16.2 (2007), is unimpressed with this self-published book, arguing that while the author is sincere, "his work falls significantly short of being a serious book on terrorism, intelligence, and national security." It "is a book of opinion and commentary, instead of well researched facts and sound analysis."

[Terrorism/00s]

Patton, Thomas J. "The Monitoring of War Indicators." Studies in Intelligence 3, no. 1 (Winter 1959): 55-68.

The author outlines "the organization and procedures for advance strategic warning which have evolved in the United States." At present, they are "[f]ar from perfected and [are] still evolving." He then discusses "the four aspects of indications intelligence...: mental attitude, doctrine, the development of techniques, and organization."

[Analysis/Warning]

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