Pechan, Bruce
L. "The Collector's Role in Evaluation." Studies in Intelligence
5, no. 3 (Summer 1961): 37-47. In Inside CIA's Private World: Declassified
Articles from the Agency's Internal Journal, 1955-1992, ed. H. Bradford
Westerfield, 99-107. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995.
The field collector is already performing, for his own purposes, a number of evaluative activities, and should be a part of the process of producing an in-depth or definitive Evaluation (with a capital "E") of the significance of the information collected.
[Analysis; CIA/C&C/Culture][c]
Pedlow,
Gregory W., and Donald E. Welzenbach.
1. The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: The U-2 and OXCART Programs, 1954- 1974. Washington, DC: Central Intelligence Agency, 1992.
This study was written in the 1980s as a CIA internal history. Robarge: "Chapter 6 on OXCART declassified October 2004."
2. The CIA and the U2 Program, 1954-1974. Washington, DC: History Staff, Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, 1998.
For Goulden, Intelligencer 10.2, "[t]he technical and political problems of the U-2's birth are grippingly told" by this work.
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[CIA/60s/U-2; Recon/Planes]
Peed,
George L. "Voices in the Sand: Deception Operations at the NTC (National
Training Center)." Armor 97 (Sep.-Oct. 1988): 26-31. [Seymour]
[MI/Deception]
Peers, W. R. [LTGEN/USA] "Intelligence Operations of OSS Detachment 101." Studies in Intelligence 4, no. 3 (Summer 1960): A1-A13.
The author was commander of Detachment 101. "For Detachment 101 intelligence was an all-pervasive mission. The Detachment did plan and carry out espionage operations specifically to collect both strategic and tactical information, but intelligence was also a by-product of all its other operations, including guerrilla actions, sabotage, and psychological measures."
[WWII/OSS/CBIOps]
Peers, William R. [LTGEN/USA], and Dean Brelis. Behind the Burma Road: The Story of America's Most Successful Guerrilla Force. Boston: Little, Brown, 1963.
According to Pforzheimer, Peers commanded OSS Detachment 101 which operated behind Japanese lines in Burma. The unit conducted both paramilitary and tactical intelligence collection operations.
Constantinides notes that the emphasis here is on the "strategic and tactical picture of both military and paramilitary operations," with intelligence activity receiving lesser treatment.
[WWII/OSS/CBIOps]
Peis, Günter.
The Mirror of Deception: How Britain Turned the Nazi Spy Machine Against
Itself. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1977. New York: Pocket Books,
1980.
Constantinides sees this effort to chronicle the activities of Tate and others in the XX system as "rather disjointed." The work has value, however, in its approach from the German viewpoint.
[UK/WWII]
Pekel, Kent. "Integrity, Ethics, and the CIA: The Need for Improvement." Studies in Intelligence (Spring 1998): 85-94.
The article is based on the author's "participation in an Office of Training and Education working group charged with looking at how ethics education is conducted at the CIA" and "50 one-on-one interviews" in 1996 with "a rough cross-section" of the CIA population. At the time, Pekel was serving at the CIA as a White House Fellow.
[Overviews/Ethics]
Pekelney, Richard. "Excellent, Exceptional, Enormous Crypto Source." Cryptologia 29, no. 3 (Jul. 2005): 255256.
"The usefulness of NARA's online catalog varies depending on the age and quality of the finding aids, but it is a place to start: http://www.archives.gov/research_room/arc." There are additional finding aids at the Historic Naval Ships Association Web site: http://www.hnsa.org/doc/nara.
[Cryptography/RefMats]
Pell,
Eve. "White House Secret Powers: The Backbone of Hidden Government."
The Nation 248, no. 24 (19 Jun. 1989): 833 ff.
Valcourt, IJI&C 3.2: "While reflecting an often excessive liberal apprehension about the possibility of a statist secret government headed by the national security apparatus, the article nonetheless raises important points pertaining to the manner in which such directives [SDDs] are circulated to the NSC staff and the ease with which they bypass the Congress."
[Oversight]
Pelletier,
Jean, and Claude Adams. The Canadian Caper. New York: Morrow, 1981.
The Canadian Embassy helped smuggle six U.S. diplomats disguised as Canadians out of Tehran in January 1980 after the Iranian takeover of the U.S. Embassy the previous November.
[CIA/80s/IranExfiltration]
Pendergass,
J.T. "Cryptanalytic Use of High-Speed Digital Computing Machines."
Cryptologia 17, no. 2 (Apr. 1993): 124-147.
See Collin Burke, "An Introduction to an Historic Computer Document: The 1946 Pendergass Report Cryptanalysis and the Digital Computer," Cryptologia 17, no. 2 (Apr. 1993): 113-123.
[Cryptography]
Penkovsky, Oleg. The Penkovsky Papers. Intro. & commentary, Frank Gibney. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965. New York: Avon, 1966. [pb] New York: Ballantine, 1982.
Given the controversy that surrounded the publication of this book, it is noteworthy that the baseline validity of The Penkovsky Papers (as well as the importance of Penkovsky's information) has been firmly established by the Church Committee and, more recently, by Schecter and Deriabin's The Spy Who Saved the World.
[CIA/60s/Penkovsky][c]
Pennetier,
Jean-Marc. "Review Article: The Springtime of French Intelligence."
Intelligence and National Security 11, no. 4 (Oct. 1996): 780-798.
While reviewing three books by former intelligence officers and heads (Prieur, Paillole, and Silberzahn), the author makes some observations about French intelligence in general and the context of the three books specifically that are well worth reading.
[France/Overviews][c]
Pennypacker,
Morton.
1. General Washington's Spies on Long Island and in New York. Brooklyn, NY: Long Island Historical Society, 1939.
Constantinides notes that this work is based on correspondence between George Washington and Maj. Benjamin Tallmadge, who ran the Culper ring. There is a great deal here on clandestine operations of the time. Washington's "flair for and use of deception based on reliable intelligence are well brought out and illustrated."
2. General Washington's Spies on Long Island and in New York. Vol. 2. Supp. East Hampton, NY: Pennypacker Long Island Collection, East Hampton Free Library, 1948.
This is a slim (42 pages) addition to the materials and story presented by the author in his 1939 publication (see above).
[RevWar/Hale&Overviews][c]
Penrose,
Barrie, and Simon Freeman. Conspiracy of Silence: The Secret Life of
Anthony Blunt. London: Grafton, 1987. New York: Vintage, 1988.
Cecil, I&NS 2.4, is unimpressed with this work, noting that the portrait of Blunt is obscured by an abundance of local color background. Except possibly for the early Cambridge years, Cecil argues, Burgess was not the dominant influence in Blunt's life. The authors, in fact, miss the importance of Blunt's work when compared to the peripheral role of Burgess.
Chambers notes that this book has a good bibliography.
[UK/SpyCases/OtherFour]
Pepper, William
F. Orders to Kill. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1995.
Surveillant 4.4/5 notes that this piece of conspiracy theory comes from the attorney for James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King's assassin. The author claims that Ray "was a victim of a conspiracy involving the FBI, the CIA, Army intelligence, the Mafia and the Memphis, TN police."
[CIA/Accusations]
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