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Simeone, John, and David Jacobs. The Complete Idiot's Guide to the FBI. Indianapolis, IN: Alpha, 2002.

[FBI/Overviews/00s]

Simmons, Chris. "When Spies Become Diplomats." Miami Herald, 11 Mar. 2008. [http://www.miamiherald.com]

"[T]wo former Cuban intelligence officers who are now in the United States" have identified René Mujica Cantelar, Cuba's ambassador to the United Kingdom, "as a deep-cover spy in Cuba's foreign-intelligence service, the Directorate of Intelligence (DI)."

[LA/Cuba; UK/PostCW/00s/08]

Simmons, Robert Ruhl. "Intelligence Policy and Performance in Reagan's First Term: A Good Record or Bad?" International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 4, no. 1 (Spring 1990): 1-22.

"In the final analysis, an exceptionally good record was marred by several extraordinarily bad decisions," specifically, the Nicaraguan harbor mining incident and the resulting rupture with Congress.

Lowenthal sees this article as "most useful for insights into clashes between Congress and DCI Casey than about the extent and limits of oversight."

[CIA/80s; Oversight][c]

Simon, Jeffrey D. The Terrorist Trap -- America's Experience with Terrorism. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1994.

https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/intellit/index.html: "A history of America's experience with terrorism and a useful description of the role and importance of intelligence in combatting it."

[Terrorism]

Simons, Anna. The Company They Keep: Inside the U.S. Army Special Forces. New York: Free Press, 1997. New York: Avon Books, 1998. [pb]

Seamon, Proceedings, Jun. 1997, calls this the "definitive study of an often misunderstood branch of the U.S. Army.... For the dirty little wars that now seem inevitable, if and when the United States becomes involved, says Dr. Simons, the most potent weapon in our arsenal will be the Special Forces."

For Gole, Parameters, Spring 1999, The Company They Keep is "a very insightful book useful to anyone who would understand SF [Special Forces] as it really is.... The excellent and comprehensive sketch of the big picture drawn by the author familiarizes the reader with the totality of Special Forces, but she is particularly deft in penetrating the A-Team to reveal what makes it tick."

[MI/SpecOps]

Simpson, A.W. Brian. In the Highest Degree Odious: Detention without Trial in Wartime Britain. Oxford: Clarendon, 1994.

Rogers, Political Studies 44.4, sees this work as a "precise and carefully researched study of the use of the notorious Defence Regulation 18B." The author has produced an "excellent combination of academic detail and readability."

[UK/WWII]

Simpson, Charles M., III. Inside the Green Berets: The First Thirty Years. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1984.

[MI/SpecOps]

Simpson, Christopher. Blowback -- America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.

To Mapother, IJI&C 2.4, Blowback "provides more than average curiosity value ... [but] does not achieve clear focus." Simpson's "research is unreliable," although he "does useful research when the mood strikes him, yet even then [he] often contradicts himself.... Nevertheless, his prodigious research churns up information that is new."

Sinkin, NameBase, says that Simpson "traces the post-World War II recruitment by the U.S. of defeated Nazi chief of intelligence for Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, Reinhard Gehlen, and the increasing reliance of U.S. intelligence on the Gehlen organization's estimates of Soviet strengths and intentions. In the critical period from 1945 to 1948, the correct assessments by U.S. military intelligence that the Soviet occupation forces in Eastern Europe were worn out and posed no threat, were supplanted with the Gehlen organization's lie that these same forces were a major military threat posed to invade Germany. The rest is our history, known as the Cold War."

[GenPostwar/40s/Germans; Germany/Gehlen]

Simpson, Christopher. Science of Coercion: Communication Research and Psychological Warfare, 1945-1960. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. 1995. [pb]

Surveillant 3.6: The author argues that "government-funded psychological warfare programs bankroll[ed] most U.S. university research projects looking at techniques of political and military mobilization, persuasion, opinion measurement, interrogation, and ideological promotion during the Cold War."

[CA/Psyops; CIA/Relations/Academe]

Simpson, John. "In From the Cold." The Spectator, 27 Nov. 1995, 16-18.

Journalist meets with two SIS officers at the Savoy. In their discussion, the SIS officers expressed support for "the bill which would place it under parliamentary scrutiny: since it was firmly under political control anyway, it would only help the SIS if this were made clear in the most public way possible, by an Act of Parliament." The article includes other odds and ends about the current SIS.

[UK/PostCW/Gen]

Simpson, John, with Mark Adkin. The Quiet Operator: Special Forces Signaller Extraordinary. London: Leo Cooper, 1993.

Foot, I&NS 9.3: "Len Willmott (1921-1993) ... entered the British Army as a boy signaller in 1937, operated in secret in Poland, Greece, France, and Holland during the Second World War, ran some line-crossers from east to west Germany, helped sort out the SAS from some of its worst tangles in Malaya, and emigrated to New Zealand to work in the security sevice when the army dropped him.... [Simpson] writes good, clear ... English, and tells the story as straight as he can ... and always tells the reader whether he knows or is guessing."

[UK/Biogs; UK/Postwar/SAS; UK/WWII/Services/Army]

Simpson, William Brand. Special Agent in the Pacific, WWII: Counter-Intelligence -- Military, Political and Economic. New York: Rivercross, 1995.

Surveillant 4.4/5: "Simpson provides a full account of counter-intelligence activities at the close of WWII and the early postwar years in the Philippines and Japan."

[WWII/FE/Pac/Philippines]

Sims, Jennifer E. "Foreign Intelligence Liaison: Devils, Deals, and Details." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 19, no. 2 (Summer 2006): 195-217.

The author offers a "framework for analyzing and comparing the costs and benefits" of liaison relationships. She concludes that these relationships "are going to be an increasingly important source of U.S. intelligence collection" against the terrorist threat. They will also represent a significant counterintelligence challenge.

[Liaison]

Sims, Jennifer E. "Intelligence to Counter Terror: The Importance of All-Source Fusion." Intelligence and National Security 22, no. 1 (Feb. 2007): 38-56.

"A great American debate awaits. The debate will be over the extent to which the federal government can ally with state and local governments and private industry to manage the new, secure information infrastructure that is already emerging in order to enable domestic intelligence authorities to do their job within the law."

[Terrorism/00s/Gen]

Sims, Jennifer E. "Transforming U.S. Espionage: A Contrarian's Approach." Georgetown Journal of International Affairs 6, no. 1 (Winter 2005): 53-59.

[Reform/00s]

Sims, Jennifer E., and Burton L. Gerber, eds. Transforming U.S. Intelligence. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2005.

DKR, AFIO WIN 42-05 (31 Oct. 2005), says that this book is "[t]he work of thoughtful and careful writers," and "will provide valuable knowledge for the average private citizen or congressman who knows little about the IC and how it works. IC professionals, however, may find it fails to come to grips with what needs to be done to effectively transform US intelligence."

For Peake, Studies 50.1 (Mar. 2006), "[t]his timely volume, with valuable contributions from authors with various levels of experience in the intelligence profession, presents a challenging series of articles that comment on the changes now underway and needed soon in the Intelligence Community." A summary chapter by the editors "is an excellent synopsis of this very significant work."

Winn, Parameters, Summer 2006, comments that "[i]t would be extremely difficult to find a better team of contributors for a book of this nature.... The editors note that many of the significant challenges facing the US intelligence community are issues of policy and practice that predate 9/11 and have quietly persisted."

To Emerson, DIJ 15.2 (2006), this work "presents an in-depth look at many of the requirements, capabilities, and management challenges facing both the producers and consumers of intelligence." However, "there is very little that is actually 'transformational' about the contributors' recommendations.... Too many of the essays address problems that the IC has been grappling with for decades."

Wirtz, IJI&C 21.2 (Summer 2008), finds that "the essays in this collection highlight several reasons why U.S. intelligence is likely to continue to miss the mark unless reform moves beyond reorganization."

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