Ros - Rose

Rose, Alexander. "The Strange Case of John Honeyman and Revolutionary War Espionage." Studies in Intelligence 52, no. 2 (Jun. 2008): 27-41.

The author argues that "key parts of the [Honeyman] story were invented or plagiarized long after the Revolution and, through repetition, have become accepted truth."

[RevWar/Other]

Rose, Alexander. Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring. New York: Bantam, 2006.

According to Peake, Studies 51.1 (Mar. 2007), the main topic of this book is the Culper Ring. The author's "documentation is exemplary," and the book "is well written, eminently readable and the best account of the Culper Ring to date."

Zeman, I&NS 22.3 (Jun. 2007), finds that "[a]ll the elements of a great cloak-and-dagger story are present" in this "most interesting and engaging" book. The author "gives a comprehensive overview" of the Culper Ring.

[RevWar/Hale & Overviews]

Rose, David. "'I Gave Bomb Secrets To Russia So It Could Stand Up To The West.'" Electronic Telegraph, 12 Sep. 1999. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk]

"In an exclusive interview ... Melita Norwood [revealed] the background to a remarkable story of treachery which compromised Britain's atomic weapons programme. More remarkable, the elderly widow who passed documents to the Soviets over three decades remains unrepentant."

[UK/SpyCases/99/Fever]

Rose, David. "Romeo Targeted 'Diana.'" Electronic Telegraph, 19 Sep. 1999. [http://www. telegraph.co.uk]

"A British woman, code-named Diana, became the victim of an attempted 'Romeo'-style recruitment by East German intelligence. She agreed to carry out missions for the Stasi while living in East Germany, but broke contact after returning to Britain."

[UK/SpyCases/99/Fever]

Rose, Kenneth. Elusive Rothschild. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2003.

West, IJI&C 17,3, says that this biography of Victor Rothschild, "while not entirely uncritical,... either neglects to mention the most significant" controversies of Rothschild's life, "or simply misrepresents them." One problem is that the author "simply does not understand the basics of the field [i.e., intelligence] he is attempting to investigate.... As a detailed analysis and assessment of the evidence of Victor's loyalty or treachery, Elusive Rothschild has very little value."

[UK/Biogs]

Rose, P.K. [Pseud., Kenneth A. Daigler] "The Civil War: Black American Contributions to Union Intelligence." Studies in Intelligence (Winter 1998-1999): 73-80.

"[I]ntelligence on Confederate forces provided by Negroes ... represented the single most prolific and productive category of intelligence obtained and acted on by Union forces throughout the Civil War."

[CivWar/Un/Gen]

Rose, P.K. [Pseud., Kenneth A. Daigler] "The Founding Fathers of American Intelligence." Intelligencer 11, no. 2 (Winter 2000): 9-15. [Appeared originally in Studies in Intelligence (Summer 2000).]

Vignettes of "George Washington: The First American Intelligence Chief," "John Jay: America's First Counterintelligence Chief," and "Benjamin Franklin: Master of Covert Action."

[RevWar/Overviews]

Rose, P.K. [Pseud., Kenneth A. Daigler] "Two Strategic Intelligence Mistakes in Korea, 1950." Studies in Intelligence 11 (Fall-Winter 2001): 57-65.

The failure to correctly predict, first, the North Korean invasion and, then, the Chinese attack, when all reports indicated that in each instance the capability existed, was rooted in perceptions in Washington that only the Soviet Union could order such acts, and Stalin would not do so.

Thomas J. Patton, "Commentary on 'Two Strategic Intelligence Mistakes in Korea, 1950': A Personal Perspective," Studies in Intelligence 46, no. 3 (2002): 81-83, finds that Rose's article is "somewhat unbalanced and incomplete, and an injustice to analytic personnel of the early 1950s.... [A] current reader of the Rose study might assume that all the information he describes and lists so thoroughly was available fairly promptly and on a fairly universal basis within the Agency. Such was not the case.".

[GenPostwar/50s/Korea]

Rosefielde, Stephen. False Science: Underestimating the Soviet Arms Buildup. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1982.

[Analysis/Sov]

Rosenau, William. "A Deafening Silence: US Policy and the Sigint Facility at Lourdes." Intelligence and National Security 9, no. 4 (Oct. 1994): 723-734.

This article discusses the SIGINT complex south-west of Havana, which has been operated by the Soviets/Russians since the 1970s. The author asks, Why so little debate about this facility? He offers some speculation to answer the question.

[Russia/Sigint][c]

Rosenbaum, David. "House Prevents Releasing Report on Intelligence." New York Times, 30 Jan. 1976, 1.

The House voted not to release the Pike Committee Report. The vote was 246-124 against releasing the report, with 127 Democrats and 119 Republican voting against and 122 Democrats and 2 Republicans voting for publication.

[CIA/70s/Investigations]

Rosenberg, Joab. "The Interpretation of Probability in Intelligence Estimation and Strategic Assessment." Intelligence and National Security 23, no. 2 (Apr. 2008): 139-152,

The author suggests that "a priori probabilities should be used when trying to predict strategic events such as wars, regime change or other global changes. This means that the only possible way to determine a certain futre probability is by using the analyst's intuition."

[Analysis/Est]

Rosenberg, Tina. "Poland's Belated Thanks to a Patriot Spy." New York Times, 29 Sep. 1997, A14 (N).

Following "much negotiation and a five-day interrogation of Colonel Kuklinski in Washington, Warsaw last week announced it had cleared his record. Colonel Kuklinski 'acted in conditions of higher necessity,' read the statement."

[CIA/80s/Kuklinski]

Rosenfeld, Susan. "Doing Injustice to the FBI: The Negative Myths Perpetrated by Historians." Chronicle of Higher Education, 8 Oct. 1999, B6-B8.

The former NARA archivist and former FBI official historian argues that "some people often allow untested negative assumptions about the F.B.I., and its former director J. Edgar Hoover, to color their responses" to current events. "Even more unfortunate, many scholars are among those who accept such untested assumptions -- and thus give them the imprimatur of truth." [Clark note: This article is a quick and informative read; I recommend it.]

[FBI/90s/99 & 90s/Gen]

Rosengarten, Adolf G., Jr. "With Ultra from Omaha Beach to Weimar Germany -- A Personal View." Military Affairs 42 (Oct. 1978): 127-132.

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

Rosenthal, Andrew. "Webster Leaving as C.I.A. Director; Ex-Deputy in Line." New York Times, 9 May 1991. [http://www.nytimes.com]

On 8 May 1991, President Bush announced the retirement of DCI William H. Webster. According to "administration officials," the leading candidate to replace Webster is Robert M. Gates, the deputy national security adviser and former DDCI.

[CIA/DCIs/Webster]

Rosenthal, Elisabeth. "China Changes Approach in Espionage Incident." New York Times, 27 Jan. 2002. [http://www.nytimes.com]

In contrast to the reaction in April 2001 when a U.S. spy plane collided with a Chinese jet, the Chinese have "barely made a peep after a new ... set of espionage revelations...: President Jiang Zemin's newly delivered Boeing 767 had been surreptitiously loaded with dozens of listening devices while its interior was being outfitted last year in San Antonio....

"There are many pragmatic reasons for such a change, from China's hope that a more conciliatory tone would help promote its views on the divisive issue of Taiwan, to its desire to avoid the distraction of international crises as it is prepares to host the Olympics in 2008 and to meet obligations as a new member of World Trade Organization."

[GenPostCW/00s/02/China]

Rosenthal, Elisabeth. "China Frees Scholar Who Worked in U.S." New York Times, 29 Jan. 2000. [http://www.nytimes.com]

Song Yongyi, a research librarian at Dickinson College, "detained in China for more than five months on vague charges of 'providing confidential materials to foreigners' was released" on 29 January 2000.

[China/Gen]

Rosenthal, Elisabeth, with David E. Sanger. "U.S. Plane in China After It Collides With Chinese Jet." New York Times, 2 Apr. 2001. [http://www.nytimes.com]

On 1 April 2001, a U.S. "Navy [EP-3e Aries II] spy plane on a routine surveillance mission near the Chinese coast collided ... with a Chinese fighter jet that was closely tailing it. The American plane made an emergency landing ... [on China's Hainan Island], and the United States said it was seeking the immediate return of the 24 crew members ... and of the sophisticated aircraft and all its intelligence equipment."

[GenPostCW/00s/01/China]

Rosenzweig, David. "Financial Accusations a Subplot in Spy Case." Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2003. [http://www.latimes.com]

"In declaring Katrina Leung a flight risk and ordering her held without bail, a U.S. magistrate expressed concern, not only about her close ties to high-ranking officials in China, but also about the possibility that she might have large sums of money hidden in overseas accounts."

[SpyCases/U.S./Leung]

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