Pfaff, Tony, and Jeffrey R. Tiel. "The Ethics of Espionage." Journal of Military Ethics 3, no. 1 (2004): 1-15.
Pfaff, Tony, and Jeffrey R. Tiel. "The Ethics of Espionage." Journal of Military Ethics 3, no. 1 (2004): 1-15.
[Overviews/Ethics]
Pfaltzgraff,
Robert L., Jr., Uri Ra'anan, and Warren Milberg, eds. Intelligence Policy
and National Security. London: Macmillan, 1981.
Pforzheimer notes that this book consists of the papers (later updated and expanded) from a 1979 conference hosted by Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. The authors include a number of distinguished practitioners and "thinkers" in the field of intelligence. "The reputations of many of the authors ... makes this book an interesting contribution to the literature and worth reading."
[GenPostwar/NatSec]
Pfeiffer, Jack. The Official History of the Bay of Pigs Operation, Volume III: Evolution of CIA's Anti-Castro Policies, 1951-January 1961. [http://www14.homepage.villanova.edu/david.barrett/bop.html]
This document appears at the address above. The site belongs to: David M. Barrett, Ph.D., Department of Political Science, Villanova University.
Dr. Barrett states: "During the 1970s, CIA historian Jack Pfeiffer wrote a Top Secret multi-volume history of 1961's Bay of Pigs intervention in Cuba. Before his death, Pfeiffer sued unsuccessfully to de-classify some of the History. Though it is widely believed that all volumes are still classified, one is available at National Archives' JFK Assassination Records Collection. Pfeiffer writes of incompetence at CIA, of an out-of-touch Allen Dulles, of too-close relations between CIA and anti-Castro U.S. corporate leaders, and about 'The Question of Assassination.'" The Introduction and Chapters 1 through 8 are available as PDF files.
[CIA/60s/BoP]
Pfennigwerth, Ian. A Man of Intelligence: The Life of Captain Theodore Eric Nave, Australian Codebreaker Extraordinary. NSW, Australia: Rosenberg Publishing, 2006.
According to Kruh, Cryptologia 30.4 (Oct. 2006), Neve's skills gained him "widespread respect and admiration within the closed confines of Allied codebreaking before, during, and after World War Two."
Peake, Studies 52.2 (Jun. 2008) and Intelligencer 16.1 (Spring 2008), comments that "conspiracy devotees" will ignore this book, because the author shows that the critical parts of Rusbridger and Nave's Betrayal at Pearl Harbor (1991) were written without Nave's involvement. The biography will, however, be "accepted with gratitude by intelligence historians and clear-thinking readers."
[Australia/Gen; WWII/FEPac/Aus; WWII/PearlHarbor]
Phares,
Walid. "The Intelligence Services in Lebanon During the War of 1975-1990."
International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 7,
no. 3 (Fall 1994): 363-381.
[OtherCountries/Arab][c]
Phelps, Timothy M., and Knut Royce. "Columnist Blows CIA Agent's Cover." Newsday, 22 Jul. 2003. [http://www.newsday.com]
"The identity of an undercover CIA officer whose husband [Ambassador Joseph Wilson] started the Iraq uranium intelligence controversy has been publicly revealed by a conservative Washington columnist [Robert Novak] citing 'two senior administration officials.' Intelligence officials confirmed to Newsday" on 21 July 2003 that Wilson's wife "worked at the agency on weapons of mass destruction issues in an undercover capacity."
[GenPostCW/00s/03/IraqUranium]
Philby,
Eleanor. The Spy I Married. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1967.
New York: Ballantine, 1968. [Chambers]
[UK/SpyCases/Philby]
Philby,
Harold A.R. ("Kim"). My Silent War. London: MacGibbon & Kee,1968. New York: Grove Press, 1968. [pb] New York: Dell, 1968. 2d ed. My Silent War: The Soviet Master Spy's Own Story. New York: Ballantine,
1983.
Pforzheimer notes that this book "was written in Moscow after Philby's defection.... It is basically ... designed to further Moscow's aims in a classic example of Soviet disinformation.... The book must be read with care."
To Constantinides, the book is not "mendacious but highly selective, with the purpose of causing mischief." Nonetheless, "Philby included some rich detail of SIS procedures and on SIS personnel and relationships."
Cecil, I&NS 9. 4, complains of the "listing [of] ... tedious detail [and] errors both of fact and interpretation in Kim's text."
Harrison, I&NS 10.3, takes issue with Cecil's depiction of his (Harrison's) position on Philby's reliability. He stresses his conviction that Philby lied, but notes that "the fact that Philby was a liar, by itself, does not mean that SIS was a success in the Second World War." Harrison, then, goes on to reiterate his "view that the record of SIS in 1939-1945 was predominantly one of failure."
[UK/SpyCases/Philby]
Philby,
Rufina, Mikhail Lyubimov, and Hayden Peake. The Private Life of Kim Philby:
The Moscow Years. London: Little, Brown, 1999. New York: Fromm, 2000.
Clark comment: Philby's Russian wife from their marriage in 1970 to his death in 1988 tells her story. There is no real insight here to Philby the Spy, but seemingly honest glimpses of Philby the Expatriate, not even trusted by his KGB masters, come through.
A Publisher's Weekly, 1 May 2000, review notes that "[e]xcept for disclosing that her husband did 'an occasional job for the KGB' during his Moscow years, [Rufina Philby's] chronicle of marital domesticity sheds little light on Philby's political activities behind the Iron Curtain." The work includes some previously unpublished writings by Kim Philby and Hayden Peake's "useful, scholarly bibliographic essay [that] coolly reassesses the Philby saga by sifting the myths and distortions in a slew of books and articles."
Jonkers, AFIO WIN 37-00, 15 Sep. 2000, also points to the significance of Peake's bibliographic essay: "If there is a redeeming quality to the book, it is in the part written by ... Hayden Peake.... He provides an essay entitled 'The Philby Literature,' and covers the voluminous and contentious books on Philby in 157 annotated entries, divided in three sections -- case histories, books primarily devoted to Philby, and memoirs or intelligence-service histories that pertain to him.... Without Peake's contribution, the book would not be worth mentioning."
For Legvold, FA 79.3, Rufina Philby "gives a simple account of their cloistered, privileged, but torpid existence.... One ... gets a good sense of what his existence was like under the perpetually watchful eye of the KGB."
Schecter, I&NS 15.3, comments that "Peake's skillful, dedicated and fascinating exegesis of the Philby literature[] sheds new light on the man and the myths around him." This sentiment is shared by Bath, NIPQ, Summer 2001, who suggests that "[a]nyone coming late to the Philby story will find [Peake's] introduction to its vast literature invaluable."
[UK/SpyCases/Philby]
Philipsen, Ingeborg. "Out of Tune: The Congress for Cultural Freedom in Denmark, 1953-1960." Intelligence and National Security 18, no. 2 (Summer 2003): 237-253.
The author notes that the formation of the Society for Freedom and Culture "was an all-Danish initiative," not the result of activities by the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF). Even when the CCF Secretariat tried to take a more active role with the national committee, controlling the Danish committee was not an easy task -- or perhaps was an impossible proposition.
[CA/Eur; OtherCountries/Denmark]
Phythian, Mark. "The British Experience with Intelligence Accountability." Intelligence and National Security 22, no. 1 (Feb. 2007): 75-99.
"Fundamentally. the ISC [Intelligence and Security Committee] was set up to serve the executive.... Members are accountable to the Prime Minister, and beyond this to themselves collectively and individually. There is no parliamentary accountability." [Italics in original] Establishment of the ISC in 1994 can "be seen as represent[ing] a first step on the road to accountability.... [T]he time is ripe for a further step."
[UK/PostCW/Gen]
Phythian, Mark. "Hutton and Scott: A Tale of Two Inquiries." Parliamentary Affairs 58, no. 1 (Jan. 2005): 124-137.
[UK/PostCW/Gen]
Phythian, Mark. "Intelligence, Policy-Making and the 7 July 2005 London Bombings." Crime, Law & Social Change 44, no. 4/5 (Dec. 2005): 361-385.
[UK/PostCW/00s/Gen]
Phythian, Mark. "Still a Matter of Trust: Post-9/11 British Intelligence and Political Culture." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 18, no. 4 (Winter 2005-2006): 653-681.
"[I]n the light of the revelations at the Hutton and, particularly, Butler inquiries, little public confidence exists in [the intelligence services'] capacity to determine matters concerning individual liberty.... While 9/11 and the subsequent 'war on terror' seemed likely to remove the mistrust that has historically attached to the work of MI5 and MI6, the events of 2002-2004 served instead to confirm it as a key element of British political culture."
[UK/PostCW/Gen]
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