Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh. Enigma: The Battle for the Code. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000.
Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh. Enigma: The Battle for the Code. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000.
For Kruh, Cryptologia 25.1, the author provides "one of the most detailed accounts of how the Enigma cipher was broken.... [His] research is superb and he has written a remarkable book."
[UK/WWII/Ultra]
Secord, Richard V., and Jay Wurts. Honored and Betrayed: Irangate, Covert Affairs, and the Secret War in Laos. New York: John Wiley, 1992.
From publisher: "The inside account of Irangate by the man who coordinated and operated the Iran Initiative. Includes how it came about. Delineates his dealings with Oliver North, William Casey, Admiral Poindexter, and others. Reveals new information on what President Reagan's and then Vice President Bush's roles were. A point-blank response to Secord's accusers and the administration that hung him out to dry."
Armstrong, WPNWE, 19-25 Oct. 1992, believes that Secord's version of Iran-Contra adds "little that is new" and "is marred by myriad mistakes of fact.... [I]t is difficult to take seriously Secord's protestations that he is blameless and upright."
[CIA/Laos & Memoirs; GenPostwar/80s/Iran-Contra]
Security Service - MI5. "History: 4 March 2008 Releases." 4 Mar. 2008. [http://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/Page603.html]
"This is the seventh release of Security Service records since the full implementation of the Freedom of Information Act in January 2005." It is the "seventeenth Security Service release" overall. It "contains 137 files, bringing the total number of its records in the public domain to nearly 4,000.... [N]early three-quarters of the records are personal files relating to individuals..., with a small number of subject files..., policy files..., organisation files... and a single list file.... The majority of files are from 1939-45 but there are a considerable number from the inter- and post- war periods, dealing with a range of groups and subjects, including: German agents and intelligence officers; British Communists and suspected Communists, Soviet intelligence agents and officers; Soviet defectors; right-wing extremists; and others."
[Refmats/Release/UK/ToC]
Segaller, Stephan. Invisible Armies: Terrorism into the 1990s. Rev. ed. London: Sphere, 1987.
[Terrorism/80s]
Segell, Glen M. "Creating Intelligence: Information Operations in Iraq." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 22, no. 1 (Spring 2009): 89-109.
The author discusses the work of the Information Operations Task Force (IOTF) in Iraq. "The IOTF's specific information warfare was initiated through a media campaign essentially utilizing persuasion and dissuasion.... Specifically the IOTF was empowered to offer the Iraqi population alternatives more attractive than those offered by the insurgents and terrorists.... [I]ntelligence should not be limited to gathering and analyzing information"; "it can also create information aimed at 'winning the hearts and minds' of a population, while seeking to dissuade it from supporting an adversary."
[MI/Ops/Iraq/09; CA/PsyOps]
Segell, Glen M. "French Cryptography Policy: The Turnabout of 1999." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 13, no. 3 (Fall 2000): 345-358.
France has been slow in the use of information technology "compared to other developed countries.... Prior to 1999, France was the only country that both restricted the export of cryptography and enforced restrictions on its internal use and provision." Then, in early 1999, the French government liberalized cryptography, raising the key length from 40 bits to 128 bits.
[France][c]
Segell, Glen M. "Intelligence Agency Relations between the European Union and the U.S." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 17, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 81-96.
"[T]he European Union and the U.S. became progressively involved, after 9/11, in a joint intelligence counterterrorism effort, alongside the evolution of the restructuring of European Union institutions and associated enlargement integration."
[Liaison]
Segell, Glen M. "Intelligence Methodologies Applicable to the Madrid Train Bombings, 2004." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 18, no. 2 (Summer 2005): 221-238.
The author looks at the use of (1) trends and patterns, (2) frequency, and (3) probability in antiterrorist intelligence analysis, with the 2004 Madrid train bombings serving as a case study.
[Analysis/Gen]
Segell, Glen M. "Reform and Transformation: The UK's Serious Organized Crime Agency." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 20, no. 2 (Summer 2007): 217-239.
The Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA) was created in 2006. It brings together the National Crime Squad, National Criminal Intelligence Service, and investigators from Customs and the Home Office's Immigration Service. The author uses SOCA's formation to argue that intelligence in the UK "is undergoing a process of reform and transformation."
[UK/PostCW/Gen]
Segev, Samuel. Tr., Haim Watzman. Iranian Triangle: The Untold Story of Israel's Role in
the Iran-Contra Affair. New York: Free Press, 1988. [Chambers]
[GenPostwar/80s/Iran-Contra; Israel]
Seib, Gerald F. "Briefly, A Spy Steps Forward." Wall Street Journal, 24 Nov. 1999, A20.
[CIA/80s/Kuklinski]
Seib, Gerald F. "Some Urge CIA to Go Further in Gathering Economic Intelligence." Wall Street Journal, 4 Aug. 1992, A1.
[GenPostwar/EconIntel]
Seib, Philip. "The News Media and the Intelligence Community: A Clash of Civilizations?" Defense Intelligence Journal 16, no. 2 (2007): 57-74.
The author reviews some past difficulties in the intelligence-media relationship, and looks at how there might be "a renewed relationship that reflects changes in global security issues and incorporates a reasonable level of cautious cooperation."
[CIA/Relations/Media]
Seifert, Jeffrey W. Data Mining and Homeland Security: An Overview. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, Updated 3 Apr. 2008. [Available at: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/RL31798.pdf]
"Data mining is becoming increasingly common in both the private and public sectors.... However, some of the homeland security data mining applications represent a significant expansion in the quantity and scope of data to be analyzed.... Questions that may be considered include the degree to which government agencies should use and mix commercial data with government data, whether data sources are being used for purposes other than those for which they were originally designed, and possible application of the Privacy Act to these initiatives. It is anticipated that congressional oversight of data mining projects will grow as data mining efforts continue to evolve."
[NSA/08; PostCW/00s/Gen; DHS/08]
Seigle, Greg. "CIA Too Involved in Palestinian Peace Accord?" Jane's Defence Weekly, 4 Nov. 1998, 4.
[CIA/90s/98/ME]
Seligmann, Matthew S.
1. Spies in Uniform: British Military and Naval Intelligence on the Eve of the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Stevenson, I&NS 21.6 (Dec. 2006), comments that "[t]his book fills a very significant gap in our knowledge of British policy towards Germany" before World War I. The focus is on "the military and naval attachés in Berlin between 1900 and 1914." The author's "lucidly constructed presentation is rich in detail." For Boghardt, DIJ 16.1 (2007), this is "a fine study of a hitherto underappreciated intelligence provider to the British government.... [It] is highly recommended to anyone interested in Anglo-German relations, pre-World War I intelligence, and the role of service attachés in the intelligence gathering process."
2. "A View From Berlin: Colonel Frederick Trench and the Development of British Perceptions of German Aggressive Intent, 1906–1910." Journal of Strategic Studies 23, no. 2 (2000).
From abstract: Trench was British military attaché in Berlin from 1906 to 1910. "At this time, the British Army ... had to rely heavily on the reports of military attachés for information about their continental rivals. Trench, who believed that Germany planned to wage war against Britain..., was the main source of data on the German Army. From the limited surviving records of who read these reports and how they responded to them, this essay posits that Trench's views contributed to the growing British perception of a German threat, a perception that did much to influence British strategic planning in this period."
3. ed. Naval Intelligence from Germany: The Reports of the British Naval Attachés in Berlin, 1906-1914. Navy Records Society no. 152. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.
According to Bönker, H-Soz-u-Kult, H-Net Reviews [http://www.h-net.org], Jun. 2008, there are 222 of these reports included in this "extremely useful collection of primary documents meant to provide insight into British thinking about Germany and its navy during the Anglo-German naval arms race before World War I."
[UK/Historical; WWI/UK/Gen]
Seliktar, Ofira. Politics, Paradigms, and Intelligence Failure: Why So Few Predicted the Collapse of the Soviet Union. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2004.
Peake, Studies 51.1 (Mar. 2007), points out that the author "quotes other works on the subject of the USSR's collapse, but she ignores views that do not coincide with her own," such as those that show the Intelligence Community really did not miss the Soviet collapse. Nonetheless, Seliktar has presented "an innovative approach for students and analysts alike to solve or at least study a perennial problem."
[Analysis/Critiques]
Sellers, Charles Coleman. Patience Wright: American Artist and Spy in George III's London. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1976.
Constantinides: The focus here is on Wright's "social and artistic life. There is very little on any espionage she performed on behalf of the American revolutionary cause."
[RevWar/Indiv/Other]
Selth, Andrew. "Burma's Intelligence Apparatus." Intelligence and National Security 13, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 33-70.
The author describes "a complex structure of intelligence and specialized security agencies" in Burma. The article includes diagrams of the intelligence and security establishment in the mid-1950s, 1970s, mid-1980s, mid-1990s, and 1997.
[OtherCountries/Burma][c]
Seper, Jerry (Washington Times).
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