Ree

Reece, T. Dennis. Captains of Bomb Disposal 1942-1946. Philadelphia, PA: Xlibris, 2005.

According to the author, "[i]n 1946 U.S. G-2 in Frankfurt organized Operation 'Hidden Documents.'  It seized documents buried near Stechovice, Czechoslovakia, by the German SS in early 1945.  Some of the documents were used as evidence to convict and execute Karl Hermann Frank for war crimes, including the notorious destruction of the village of Lidice." This operation forms Part II of Captains of Bomb Disposal.

[WWII/Eur/Gen]

Reed, Terry, and John Cummings. Compromised: Clinton, Bush, and the CIA. New York: Shapolsky, 1993.

Surveillant 4.1 refers to Compromised as "[c]onspiracy weaving at its finest. Given a button, the authors have crafted an entire 3-piecesuit.... [The book has] as much logic as the spoof publication Spy magazine.... But ... this [is] a useful book -- a litmus test of ultimate gullibility."

[CIA/Accusations/Drugs]

Reed, Thomas C. At the Abyss: An Insider’s History of the Cold War. New York: Ballantine, 2004.

According to Cerami, Parameters, Winter 2004-05, the author provides "insider accounts of Washington and White House politics and insights on the Cold War Presidents." Reed's narrative is also "significant for its insight on science and technology, and on the research and development communities. In addition, it includes some gripping spy stories and illustrates the realities of bureaucratic and organizational politics involving the Pentagon, the CIA, and the White House."

[GenPostwar/CW]

Reed, William, and W. Craig Reed. "Thirteen Days: The Real Story." Troika Magazine [on-line]. http://www.troikamagazine.com/network/13days.html. [not available on 1/26/08]

This work argues that NSA's "Boresight" program was critical to U.S. strategy during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The "Boresight" program had developed the capability to locate submerged Soviet submarines by triangulating on recordings of their burst transmissions. This knowledge gave the United States confidence that it could stand firm during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

[GenPostwar/60s/MissileCrisis]

Rees, Gorowny. A Chapter of Accidents. London: Chatto & Windus, 1972. New York: Library Press, 1972.

Wilcox: "Account of the Kim Philby, Guy Burgess & Donald Maclean spy scandal in Britain."

[UK/SpyCases/TheFive]

Rees, Jenny. Looking for Mr. Nobody: The Secret Life of Gorowny Rees. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994.

The author is Gorowny Rees' daughter. Aldrich, I&NS 11.3, views Gorowny Rees as "an intriguing figure," given his literary and intellectual background, his service as an SIS officer, and his friendship with Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt. His daughter's search for the answer to the question of whether her father was a Soviet spy took her to Oleg Tsarev who told her that "Rees had been recruited in a vague way by Burgess in 1937 and had briefly 'co-operated' with Soviet intelligence, but was not properly considered to be an agent."

[UK/SpyCases/TheFive]

Rees, Matt. "Barak to CIA: Butt Out." Newsweek International, 23 Aug. 1999. [http:// newsweek.com]

"CIA training and intelligence [has] helped the Palestinian Authority wage a more effective counterterror campaign.... Still, [Israeli Prime Minister] Barak's advisers think the agency's involvement is not helping the peace process. Israeli analysts argue that winning the CIA's approval has only made Arafat more confident and less open to compromise.... The Clinton administration is lobbying Barak to let the CIA monitors stay, but it's a tough sell."

[CIA/90s/99/ME]

Rees, Mervyn. "The Spy Who Knew It All." Daily Mail (London), 20 Nov. 1983, 1-2, 31-34.

Rocca and Dziak describe this article as "[a]n in-depth account of the ... case of Commodore Dieter Gerhardt, a long-standing Soviet penetration of the South African naval establishment."

According to Polmar and Allen, Gerhardt spied for the GRU from 1960 until his arrest in 1981. He was found guilty of high treason and espionage and sentenced to life in prison in December 1983.

[OtherCountries/SAfrica; Russia]

Reese, John R. "A Case Study in Operational Intelligence." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 11, no. 1 (Spring 1998): 73-92.

The author looks at the estimates done at U.S. Strategic Air Forces in Europe (USSTAF) relative to the Germans' ability to bring on line and utilize jet aircraft, specifically the Me 262, to counter Allied air superiority. He concludes: "While the results remain open to question, rarely have intelligence analysis and targeting doctrine been so neatly applied as in the case of the Me 262."

[WWII/U.S./Services/Air]

Reese, Mary Ellen. General Reinhard Gehlen: The CIA Connection. Fairfax, VA: George Mason University Press, 1990.

Simpson, I&NS 8.2: found "much of the text to be poorly researched, poorly footnoted, and at points self-contradictory." NameBase says that "Reese offers the first book about Gehlen that concentrates on the American connection. She interviewed former CIA and Army Intelligence officers, and received 'hundreds' of documents under FOIA from various agencies."

[CIA; Germany]

Reeve, Simon. The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the Future of Terrorism. London: Deutsch, 1999. New York: Northeastern University Press, 2002. [pb]

Seale, Sunday Times (London), 26 Sep. 1999, calls this a "scaremongering book," and adds that the "apocalyptic vision [presented] is wrong on several counts." The author's "references show that he had ample access to western intelligence sources, but there is no evidence that he ever met an Afghan Arab or attempted to penetrate the mind of a Muslim activist, except through the filter of a police investigation."

[Terrorism/90s]

Reeves, Richard. "E-Squad Launched to Crack Criminal Codes on The Net: Government Starts £20 Million Anti-Encryption Force Amid Claims That US has Windows Super Key." The Observer, 5 Sep. 1999. [http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/observer/uk]

"A specialist code-cracking unit is being set up to counter the growing use of encrypted e-mail messages by drug-runners and paedophile rings. The unit, with funding of £15-20 million, will draw staff from the Government's communications centres at GCHQ.... [T]he unit ... will be given a deliberately anodyne name -- almost certainly the Government Telecommunications Advisory Centre.... [T]he National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) ... will also provide staff and support for the unit."

[UK/PostCW/99]

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