[Serabian, John.] "Text: CIA Official Assesses Information Warfare Threat." 7 Dec. 1998. https://www.cia.gov. [Serabian, John.] "Text: CIA Official Assesses Information Warfare Threat." 7 Dec. 1998. https://www.cia.gov.
Serabian is chief of the CIA's Critical Technologies Group. This item is text of a speech he gave on 7 December 1998 at a "Defense Week" conference. In the speech, he argues that "information warfare has the potential to deal a crippling blow to our national security if we do not take strong measures to counter it."
[GenPostwar/Infowar]
Sergueiev, Lily. Secret Service Rendered. London: Kimber, 1968.
According to Constantinides, Sergeyev was the XX agent codenamed Treasure, who was used in the pre-D-Day invasion deception. The reasons for Masterman's exasperation with Treasure show up in this book, which is more concerned with personal relationships than with the intelligence being passed by the Allies to mislead the Germans.
[UK/WWII; WWII/Eur/D-Day]
Serov, Ivan A. "Work With Walk-ins." Studies in Intelligence 8, no. 1 (Winter 1964): 16-47.
This article purports to have been "adapted from one of several on Soviet intelligence doctrine written by high-ranking officers of the GRU." The article reflects a change in GRU policy from hands-off walk-ins to receiving and assessing them. Serov had headed the NKVD from 1954, and took over as GRU chief in 1958.
[Russia/To89]
Serrano, Richard A. "Privatize the C.I.A.? Radical Idea Being Considered." New York Times, 26 Mar. 1995, A1, A16.
[Reform/90s/CIA]
Sessions, William S. "Counterintelligence Challenges in a Changing World." FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Sep. 1991, 1-4.
Proquest: "Improved diplomatic relations do not necessarily decrease the foreign intelligence threat to US national security.... The need for a heightened awareness by all US citizens is examined."
[FBI/Topics/Sessions]
Sessions,
William S. "The Evolving Threat. Meeting the Counter-intelligence Challenges
of the 1990s: A Strategic Issue Facing Our Nation." American Intelligence
Journal 10, no. 2 (1989): 19-23.
[FBI/Topics/Sessions]
Sewell, Kenneth, with Clint Richmond. Red Star Rogue: The Untold Story of a Soviet Submarine's Nuclear Strike Attempt on the U.S. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.
According to Brooks, NIPQ 22.2 (Apr. 2006), this book is from the "conspiracy theory" genre of writing. It concerns the May 1968 loss of the Soviet Golf-II class submarine, the K-129, in the mid-Pacific. "[T]he authors' arguments are a literary 'house of cards' built on unsupportable premises"; nonetheless,"they are a cleverly-constructed house of cards, cleverly presented."
[Russia/45-89]
Sexton, Donald J., comp. Signals Intelligence in World War II: A Research Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996.
Clark comment: This work has 828 annotated bibliographic entries dealing with the role of ULTRA and MAGIC. Entries include both primary and secondary sources, and the annotations average 4-5 lines each. There are also entries on sources on the Sigint and cryptanalytic programs of the Axis and neutral powers. The brief (18 pages) introductory essay is worth reading for its general sweep across some of the main sources.
Kruh, Cryptologia 20.4, calls this a "thoughtfully organized annotated bibliography" and a "valuable contribution to the history of WW II."
According to McKay, I&NS 13.2, the author "has carefully avoided riding hobby-horses and his judgements on the whole seem fair and sensible." Nevertheless, the flood of material that has come out since the bibliography's cut-off date of 1995 probably means that the work "will soon require to be updated." In addition, the reviewer finds some gaps in Sexton's coverage of older materials and of foreign language sources.
[WWII/RefMats]
Sexton, Donald J., and Myron J. Smith, Jr. Electronic Intelligence in World War II: ULTRA
and MAGIC -- A Bibliography. London: Meckler, 1994.
[WWII/RefMats]
Seymour, Janet L., comp. Deception in Warfare. Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University, 1996. [http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/bibs/decwar/dwtoc.htm]
This Web-based bibliography includes materials by type of publication (Books, Documents, and Periodicals) under the following topics: General Information; Operational Deception; Tactical Deception (General, Camouflage, Decoys, Electronic Deception; and Stealth Concept); Historical Examples (World War I, World War II, Ultra/Enigma and Magic/Purple, Vietnamese Conflict, Persian Gulf War [Desert Storm]; Other Conflicts [Miscellaneous]); and Soviet/Russian Deception.
[MI/Deception; MI/Refs]
Seymour, Janet L., comp. Intelligence: History and Role in American Society. Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Library, Apr. 2001. [http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/bibs/intelam/intams.htm]
This is a Web-based general bibliography with some brief annotations.
[RefMats/Bibs/U.S./Gen]
Shackley, Theodore. The Third Option: An American View of Counterinsurgency Operations. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981.
According to Pforzheimer, Shackley, a retired senior CIA official, has written "a primer of the essential steps for effective counterinsurgency operations in areas important to the United States."
Constantinides sees the work as "unmistakably that of a man who has studied the problems as well as having faced them." However, there is "insufficient discussion of the problems and difficulties involved once a nation is committed in a counterinsurgency effort."
Lowenthal notes that this book "[m]ay be somewhat dated in the post-Cold War world."
[MI/SpecOps]
Shackley, Theodore, and Richard A. Finney. Spymaster: My Life in the CIA. Dulles, VA: Potomac, 2005.
Theodore (Ted) G. Shackley, retired CIA Associate Deputy Director for Operations, died on 9 December 2002 at the age of 75. He was a three-time recipient of the Distinguished Intelligence Medal. J.Y. Smith, "Theodore Shackley Dies; Celebrated CIA Agent," Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2002, B8.
Peake, CIRA Newsletter 30.4 (Winter 2005) and Studies 49.4 (2005), notes that Shackley comments "selectively on various aspects of his career.... For those who expected a more expansive tale of clandestine operations, Spymaster may be something of a disappointment. On the other hand, what Ted Shackley was able to give us is extremely valuable -- a first hand account with lessons for all."
For Schecter, I&NS 20.4 (Dec. 2005), "Shackley's first-person account is rich in remarkable detail.... They take CIA memoirs to a new level of specificity and revelation of tradecraft that makes for fascinating, and at times hilarious and bizarre reading."
Huck, Periscope (Summer 2006), feels that much was left out of this work, first by Shackley's death (not to denigrate the "tireless and faithful" work of Richard Finney to complete the book) and by the publisher's requirement that the manuscript be reduced in length.
[CIA/60s/Gen; CIA/70s/Gen; CIA/Laos; CIA/Memoirs]
Shackley, Theodore, with Richard A. Finney. Still the Target: Coping with Terror and Crime. Baltimore, MD: Noble House, 2003.
Jonkers, AFIO WIN 2-03, 14 Jan. 2003, notes that this "was the late Ted Shackley's last effort. In it he identifies the nature and scope of the threat of terror and crime to senior executives, and secondly, provides a frame of reference for evaluating an executive protection program."
[Terrorism/00s/Gen]
Shadid, Anthony, and Daniel Williams. "U.S. Recruiting Hussein's Spies." Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2003, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
According to U.S. and Iraqi officials, "U.S.-led occupation authorities have begun a covert campaign to recruit and train agents with the once-dreaded Iraqi intelligence service to help identify resistance to American forces." Although it is not the only target of the U.S. effort, "[t]he emphasis in recruitment appears to be on the intelligence service known as the Mukhabarat," the former regime's foreign intelligence service and the "most sophisticated of the four" branches in Hussein's former security service.
[MI/Ops/Iraq]
Shafer, D. Michael. Deadly Paradigms: The Failure of U.S. Counterinsurgency Policy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988.
[MI/SpecOps]
Shainberg, Maurice. Breaking from the KGB. New York: St. Martin's, 1986. [pb] New York: Berkley, 1986.
Wilcox: "Author was Polish KGB agent during WWII, was imprisoned before escaping to the West."
[Russia/SovDefectors]
Shakya, Tsering. The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
Mufson, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 1999, comments that the author "has employed thorough research, a balanced view and a dispassionate tone in writing a tremendously informative, definitive history of his native land."
[CA/Tibet]
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