Roberts, Brad, ed. Terrorism with Chemical and Biological Weapons: Calibrating Risks and Responses. Alexandria, VA: Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute, 1997.
Roberts, Brad, ed. Terrorism with Chemical and Biological Weapons: Calibrating Risks and Responses. Alexandria, VA: Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute, 1997.
[Terrorism/90s]
Roberts, Geoffrey. Stalin's War From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007.
From publisher: "While frankly exploring the full extent of Stalin’s brutalities and their impact on the Soviet people, Roberts also uncovers evidence leading to the stunning conclusion that Stalin was both the greatest military leader of the twentieth century and a remarkable politician who sought to avoid the Cold War and establish a long-term detente with the capitalist world."
Goulden, Intelligencer 15.2 (Fall/Winter 2006-2007) and Washington Times, 11 Feb. 2007, puts it this way: "As to Stalinn and Cold War,... Roberts spouts some of the revisionism that even left-wing American academics have seen fit to abandon." Nevertheless, the reviewer goes on to note that the author "has done a tremendous amount of research, and Stalin's War is a remarkable historical work. Which is not to say, however, that all of it should be accepted at face value."
[Russia/Overviews/00s]
Roberts, John B., II. "Potential Bush-CIA Crisis." Washington Times, 1 Sep. 2005. [http://www.washingtontimes.com]
In this Op-Ed piece, the author quotes a former intelligence officer and a source friendly to former DCI George J. Tenet for the belief that "Tenet is not going to let himself become the fall guy for the September 11 intelligence failures." According to the friendly source, Tenet's response to the CIA Inspector General's report, critical of Tenet and other senior CIA managers, "is a 20-page, tightly knitted rebuttal of responsibility.... The latest salvo in the ongoing wars between the CIA and the White House may be about to burst.... Tenet has kept silent about what [President] Bush knew and when he knew it." Tenet's decision to defend himself "puts the White House back in the spotlight."
[CIA/DCIs/Tenet]
Roberts, Mark J. "Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate: A State within a State?" Joint Force Quarterly 48 (1st Quarter 2008): 104-110.
"Is it possible to carry out effective, combined U.S.-Pakistani counterterrorism operations yet encourage structural reforms within Pakistan’s security organs with any hope of success? While the easy answer is to continue the war on terror and maintain the status quo, ignoring Pakistan’s structural deficiencies, this path of least resistance has potentially deadly ramifications."
[OtherCountries/Pakistan; Terrorism/00s/Gen]
[Roberts, Pat.] "News Release: Republican Members of Intelligence Committee Officially Elect Senator Roberts as Chairman." 7 Jan. 2003. [http://www.senate.gov/~roberts/01-07a-2003.htm]
On 7 January 2003, "U.S. Senator Pat Roberts [R-KS] ... was elected by the Republican members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to serve as Chairman for the 108th Congress."
[GenPostCW/00s/03/Gen]
Roberts, Sam. The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric Chair. New York: Random House, 2001.
Haynes, I&NS 17.3, calls this book "a well-written melodrama with the ethics of the grade school playground. Espionage against the United States in the service of Stalin is a mere piffle compared [to] the monstrous crime of snitching on your sister.... The Brother is written for a popular audience, scholarly apparatus is minimal, and the sources of much information are unclear or not given."
For Ehrman, Studies 46.4 (2002), this "book is a notable addition to the literature on the case.... More than anyone else, [Roberts] has told us about the human beings in the story, and shown that they were not admirable people."
[SpyCases/U.S./Bomb/Gen & Rosenbergs]
Roberts, Steven
V. "Ex-Students Aides Defend Subsidies." New York Times,
26 Feb. 1967, 2.
[CA; CIA/60s/Subsidies]
Roberts, Steven V. "Webster Sworn In as C.I.A. Director." New York Times, 27 May 1987. [http://www.nytimes.com]
William H. Webster was sworn in as DCI on 26 May 1987.
[CIA/DCIs/Webster]
Robertson,
Kenneth G. "Accountable Intelligence: The British Experience."
Conflict Quarterly 8 (Winter 1988): 13-28.
[UK/Postwar/Gen]
Robertson,
Kenneth G. "Canadian Intelligence Policy: The Role and Future of CSIS."
International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 3,
no. 2 (1989): 225-248.
[Canada/Gen]
Robertson, Kenneth
G. "Editorial Comment: An Agenda for Intelligence Research." Defense
Analysis 3, no. 2 (Jun. 1987): 95-101.
[RefMats/Guides]
Robertson,
Kenneth G., ed. Intelligence and National Security. London: Macmillan, 1987.
According to Dockrill, I&NS 3,2, this is a compendium from a conference held in London in 1984. The contributors are "either academics with a research interest in the subject or former practitioners in the field, and as such they are concerned with the higher issues of intelligence and policy-making."
[Overviews/Gen/To89]
Robertson, Kenneth G. "Recent Reform of Intelligence in
the UK: Democratization or Risk Management?" Intelligence and National
Security 13, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 144-158.
The author answers the question posed in his title thusly: "The recent flurry of intelligence legislation in the UK ... is more a process of risk management than democratization."
[UK/PostCW/Gen]
Robertson, Kenneth G. "The Study of Intelligence in the United States." In Comparing
Foreign Intelligence: The U.S., the USSR, the U.K. & the Third World,
ed. Roy Godson, 7-42. Washington, DC: Pergamon-Brassey's, 1988.
[RefMats/Bibs/U.S./Topical][c]
Robertson,
Kenneth G., ed. British and American Approaches to Intelligence. London: Macmillan Press Ltd., RUSI Defence Studies Series, 1987. New York: St Martin's, 1987.
Pearson, APSR 82.3: The emphasis here is on the British experience. Beyond its "unfortunate title..., the collection as a whole contains some worthwhile material" and makes "a number of fresh contributions.... Students of intelligence operations will find a few new morsels to chew over and newcomers will find genuine food for thought."
[UK/Overviews]
Robertson, Kenneth G., ed. War, Resistance and Intelligence: Essays in Honour of M.R.D. Foot. Barnsley, UK: Leo Cooper, 1999.
Jeffrey, I&NS 16.1, believes that this edited volume succeeds in doing "justice to M.R.D. Foot's lifetime contribution to historical scholarship and studies."
[UK/Overviews]
Robertson,
Miles. The KGB Under Gorbachev. London: Brassey's (UK): 1992.
[Russia/To89]
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