Pocock, Chris.
Poe, Larry L. [RADM/USNR] "Naval Reserve Intelligence Command: Intelligence Support for the Fleet and Joint Warfighter." American Intelligence Journal
18, no. 1/2 (1998): 5-14.
[MI/Reserves][c]
Pöhlmann, Markus. "German Intelligence at War, 1914-1918." Journal of Intelligence History 5, no. 2 (Winter 2005). [http://www.intelligence-history.org/jih/journal.html]
From abstract: This "article introduces [the] organisation and missions of German military intelligence" during World War I. "It focuses on espionage, battlefield intelligence, signals intelligence, counter-intelligence, and covert operations." It also "provides a biographical sketch of the war-time director of the general staff’s intelligence department IIIb, Colonel Walter Nicolai."
[Germany/WWI]
Pöhlmann, Markus. "[Introduction to special issue:] Towards a New History of German Military Intelligence in the Era of the Great War: Approaches and Sources." Journal of Intelligence History 5, no. 2 (Winter 2005). [http://www.intelligence-history.org/jih/journal.html]
"[O]ur knowledge of German military intelligence in the era of the Great War is not only extremely limited, but it is also chronically distorted.... This special issue will try to demonstrate that by a judicious use of sources from different places, and by posing new questions, new light can be thrown on many aspects of the history of German military intelligence."
[Germany/WWI]
Pohl-Wannemacher,
Helga. Tr., Rena Wilson. Red Spy at Night: A True Story of Espionage and Seduction Behind the Iron Curtain. London: New English Library, 1977.
Rocca and Dziak refer to this book as "[p]robably an apocryphal account by a self-declared Soviet agent who claimed to have defected to the West." Constantinides also has doubts about this book, noting that there "are 'Perils of Pauline'-like episodes ... that give it an improbable tone and quality."
[Russia/Sov/Defectors]
Poirier, Jacques
R.E. The Giraffe Has a Long Neck. London: Leo Cooper, 1995.
From advertisement: The author was an SOE officer. Here, he "describes the everyday life of the Resistance with its tragedies and also moments of comedy."
[UK/WWII/Services/SOE; WWII/Eur/Res/Fr]
Polenberg, Richard, ed. In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Security Clearance Hearing. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002.
West, cicentre.com, notes that Polenberg has edited the transcript of the 1954 Personnel Security Board hearing to about a quarter of its original 1,000 pges and added an Introduction and Conclusion. According to the reviewer, Polenberg sees Oppenheimer as "a casualty of McCarthyism." West also remerks that "[t]he hearings were not a manifestation of some groundless paranoia about Russian spies, but a direct consequence of the absolute confidence that dozens of NKVD agents had stolen huge quantities of atomic secrets."
[SpyCases/U/S./Bomb/Gen]
Politi, Alessandro. "The Citizen as 'Intelligence Minuteman.'" International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 16, no. 1 (Spring 2003): 34-38.
"Urging a democracy's citizens to exercise caution, and encouraging them to report suspicious behavior can be a valuable self-defense mechanism when used to protect the public, rather than keep it under surveillance for political purposes and social control.... The fact that intelligence is, at least in the overwhelming majority of democracies, under the rule of law shows that politics, ethics, and intelligence may be an odd, but not an improbable trio."
See Leslie A. Donovan, "Citizens as Intelligence Volunteers: The Impact of Value Structures," International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 18, no. 2 (Summer 2005): 239-245, discussing the counterintuitive phenomena whereby "in many nations people do not necessarily value national security as generally understood by political leaders and specialists in the field."
[Overviews/Ethics]
Polk, Morgan
M. [CAPT/USMC] "Intelligent Life on the Planet MOOTW." Marine
Corps Gazette, Apr. 1998, 43-45.
"The time has come to revamp basic information gathering techniques in order to better support the Corps' expanding role in MOOTW [military operations other than war]."
[MI/Marines]
Polk, William R. A History of Insurgency, Terrorism, and Guerrilla War, From the American Revolution to Iraq. New York: HarperCollins, 2007.
Kahl, FA 86.6 (Nov.-Dec. 2007), notes that the author has found that "coercion has more often than not been ineffective -- or counterproductive" -- in insurgency situations. Polk "provides ample proof that occupying armies ... find it excruciatungly difficult to use legitimacy to defeat local insurgents and then exit gracefully."
[MI/SpecOps/00s]
Pollack, Kenneth M. "Spies, Lies, and Weapons: What Went Wrong?" Atlantic Monthly 293, no. 1 (Jan.-Feb. 2004): 78-92.
[GenPostCW/00s/04/WMD]
Pollard, Carol.
"A Plea that Was No Bargain for a Crime of Conscience." Washington
Post National Weekly Edition, 4-10 Mar. 1991, 25.
Carol Pollard is Jonathan Pollard's sister. Here, she has been given a national forum from which to argue that Pollard did wrong, but....
[SpyCases/U.S./Pollard][c]
Pollard,
Robert A. Economic Security and the Origins of the Cold War, 1945-1950. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985.
Reynolds, I&NS 3.2, finds that this book "is a readable, clear analysis, offering concise summeries of American policy on crucial events." Nevertheless, the author's concentration on the State Department means that "we get little real sense ... of the Pentagon's very different approach to national security.... Pollard also shows little awareness of British contributions to Cold War scholarship."
[GenPostwar/ColdWar]
Pollin, John
M. "The Rumsfield Commission Report Has Legs." U.S. Naval Institute
Proceedings, Nov. 1999, 71-74.
In retrospect, the impact of the Rumsfeld Commission "upon the intelligence communities, leaders in both major political parties, and the ballistic missile defense community has been profound. It argues for nothing less than a re-evaluation of intelligence collection and analysis methods by America's intelligence community as a whole."
[GenPostCW/90s/Rumsfeld]
Pomerantz, David. "Wife of Ex-Spy Says CIA Blocked Her From Lawyer." New York Sun, 9 Jul. 2007. [http://www.nysun.com]
In a brief filed in a Manhattan federal court on 6 July 2007, the wife of a former covert CIA official accuses "the CIA of blocking communication between her and her lawyer about a suit she filed against the intelligence agency in 2006." A federal district judge in Manhattan dismissed the case in January 2007 on national security grounds. The plaintiff, identified only as Jane Doe, "is now appealing to the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals.
[CIA/00s/07]
Pomfret,
John. "China Finds Bugs on Jet Equipped in U.S.: Devices Taken Off
Presidential Plane Could Become Issue at Summit." Washington Post,
19 Jan. 2002, A1. [http://www. washingtonpost.com]
According to Chinese and Western sources, quoting Chinese military officers and aviation officials, Chinese military communications experts in October 2001 "discovered numerous high-tech listening devices planted inside" the Boeing 767-300ER meant to be China's presidential aircraft. "Chinese aviation officials and military officers have charged that U.S. intelligence agencies planted the bugs aboard the plane while it was being refitted in the United States, the sources said."
[GenPostCW/00s/02/China]
Pomfret,
John. "Cloak and Dagger and Johnnie Walker Red." Washington
Post National Weekly Edition, 23-29 Jan. 1995, 15-16.
Several weeks after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, Polish intelligence officers smuggled six American intelligence personnel (apparently a mix of CIA and DIA officers) out of Iraq and into the safety of Turkey. In at least two other operations, the Poles later aided another 15 foreigners to escape.
[CIA/90s; OtherCountries/Poland][c]
Pomfret,
John. "Senior Chinese Military Officer Defects to U.S." Washington
Post, 23 Mar. 2001, A18. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
"[K]nowledgeable U.S. sources" have confirmed that a "senior colonel in the [Chinese] People's Liberation Army defected to the United States while visiting as part of a delegation of Chinese officers.... Chinese sources ... identified him as a member of the foreign affairs department of the army's general staff who was involved in managing China's military relations with the United States and disarmament issues."
[China; GenPostCW/00s/01]
Pomfret, John. "Taiwanese Mistake Led to Three Spies' Execution." Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2000.
This is the end-piece on the exposure of a ROC spy ring in Beijing in September 1999.
[China; OtherCountries/Taiwan]
Pomper, Miles
A. "U.S. Intelligence Takes the Heat for Dim Insight on Nuclear Proliferation."
Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, 6 Jun. 1998, 1543-1544.
The focus here is on the Jeremiah report and on Congressional and administration reaction to it.
[CIA/90s/98/IndianNukes]
Poole,
Oliver. "'I Will Stand By My Mother Whatever She's Done.'" Electronic
Telegraph, 12 Sep. 1999. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk]
Anita Ferguson, the daughter of Melita Norwood, "has spoken of her distress at discovering the double life led by her mother throughout her childhood."
[UK/SpyCases/99Fever]
Poole, Walter S. "From Conciliation to Containment: The Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Coming of the Cold War, 1945-1946." Military Affairs 42 (Feb. 1978): 12-15.
[GenPostwar/CW]
Pooley, Eric.
"Why the Senate Loves an Understudy." Time, 31 Mar. 1999. [http://www.time.com]
"George Tenet, President Clinton's latest nominee for director of the Central Intelligence Agency, has set new records for both speed and elegance of ascent [up the ladder of power]. Last week Republican Senators were all but telling Tenet he would be confirmed even before Clinton had nominated him."
[CIA/DCIs/Tenet/Confirmtaion]
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