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Sinclair, Andrew. The Red and the Blue: Intelligence, Treason and the Universities. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986. The Red and the Blue: Cambridge, Treason and Intelligence. Boston: Little, Brown, 1987.

Sinclair, Robert. "One Intelligence Analyst Remembers Another: A Review of Who the Hell Are We Fighting? The Story of Sam Adams and the Vietnam Intelligence Wars." Studies in Intelligence 50, no. 4 (2006): 1-9.

While this is a review article, veteran analyst Sinclair also provides an interesting view of the order-of-battle controversy and the dilemmas associated with the Vietnam war. He makes the point that "intelligence was only a peripheral player in the policy debates. The focus was on what our side should do, not the capabilities or intentions of the other side."

[Vietnam/Analysis]

Sinclair, Robert S. Thinking and Writing: Cognitive Science and the Directorate of Intelligence. Washington, DC: Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, 1984.

[Analysis/T&M]

Singel, Ryan. "Point, Click ... Eavesdrop: How the FBI Wiretap Net Operates." Wired, 29 Aug. 2007. [http://www.Wired.com]

According to nearly a thousand pages of documents released under the Freedom of Information Act, the FBI's surveillance system, the Digital Collection System Network or DCSNet, is a "sophisticated, point-and-click surveillance system that performs instant wiretaps on almost any communications device." DCSNet "connects FBI wiretapping rooms to switches controlled by traditional land-line operators, internet-telephony providers and cellular companies. It is far more intricately woven into the nation's telecom infrastructure than observers suspected."

[FBI/00s/07]

Singer, Abe, and Scott Rowell. "Information Warfare: An Old Operational Concept with New Implications." Institute for National Strategic Studies Strategic Forum 99 (Dec. 1996): 1-4 (entire issue).

The authors argue that the energy-information equation in warfare is changing rapidly, and suggest that the conduct of warfare will have to change to keep pace.

[GenPostwar/Issues/InfoWar]

Singer, Daniel. "The Spying Game." Nation, 20 Mar. 1995, 367-368.

Editorial on flap in France over CIA intelligence collection activities. The Interior Minister's rhetoric is not aimed at the United States, but rather at diverting attention from the scandal involving Prime Minister Edouard Balladur when the latter's presidential race is losing steam

[CIA/90s/95/France]

Singer, Jeremy. "Congressional Panel Proposes NRO Space Reconnaissance Office." Space News, 27 Nov. 2000, 4.

[NRO/00s]

Singer, Jeremy. "Peters Criticizes Space Commission Findings." Space News, 22 Jan. 2001, 14.

[NRO/00s]

Singer, Jeremy. "U.S. Air Force, Spy Agency Team up for Space Protection." Space News, 9 Apr. 2008. [http://www.space.com]

Gen. Robert Kehler, commander of Air Force Space Command, said on 8 April 2008 that the "U.S. Air Force Space Command and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) have joined together to create a new program to advise the military and intelligence community on how to protect space assets.... The ... top priority at the moment is the development of a congressionally mandated space protection strategy that is due in July, he added."

[NRO/00s]

Singer, Kurt, and Jane Sherrod. Spies for Democracy. Minneapolis, MN: Denison, 1960.

Singh, V.K. [Maj. Gen.] India’s External Intelligence: Secrets of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). New Delhi, India: Manas, 2007.

Peake, Studies 51.4 (2007), comments that the author gives us "insightful views of India’s intelligence community that are worthy of serious attention and have much in common with the services of other democratic nations."

[OtherCountries/India]

Singh, Simon. The Code Book : The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots to Quantum Cryptography. New York: Doubleday, 1999. London: Fourth Estate, 1999.

Booklist, 1 Sep. 1999, finds that the author mixes "nicely balanced technical detail with vibrant storytelling."

For Cohen, FA 78.6, the author "has done an excellent (and blessedly concise) job of retelling the history of code writing.... [H]e should be particularly commended for the book's graphics, which help explain ideas otherwise too abstruse for the lay reader."

Although he is bothered by the absence of footnotes, Kruh, Cryptologia 24.2, notes that the author combines "a storyteller's sense of drama with a scientist's ... appreciation for clear mathematical descriptions.... Singh offers an interesting, illustrated and up-to-date history of cryptology."

Steury, I&NS 15.4, says that this is "a truly remarkable history of the development of ciphers." The author "introduces some little-known incidents in the history of intelligence and does so in a fresh and interesting way." Unfortunately, "[t]he book is full of errors of fact, each of which is comparatively small, but which, taken together, call into question its general veracity.... [However,] none of the numerous errors it contains amount to a serious distortion of the history of ciphers."

[Cryptography/Gen]

Singlaub, John K. [MGEN/USA (Ret.)], and Malcolm McConnell. Hazardous Duty: An American Soldier in the Twentieth Century. New York: Summit, 1991. [pb] Old Tappan, NJ: Simon & Schuster, 1992.

Clark comment: John Singlaub is a political troglodyte of the first order, but saying that neither describes him nor does him justice. Singlaub's honesty and integrity are so real that they have an almost tangible quality. Foolish, he may have been but never false. From his jump into occupied France with the OSS (Bill Casey was his case officer) to postwar China with the CIA to Korea and Vietnam and back to Korea with two stars and an attitude, John Singlaub lived for service to the country he loves and believes in. The funny thing is that Carter's plan to withdraw U.S. ground forces from Korea really was ill-advised. His story after the end of his military career is much less interesting, even with the involvement in Iran-Contra. I would not choose to side with the General in a political discussion, but I sure would want him on my side in a fight.

Surveillant 1.6/2.6 says that "General Singlaub ... provides a window on four decades of overt and covert operations with personal accounts of the heroes and scoundrels of America's intelligence and military elite."

For Gugliotta, WPNWE, 23-29 Sep. 1991, Singlaub is "on safe ground" as long as he sticks with narrating events, but his political commentary on events "remains shallow and one-dimensional." Despite working with most of the main characters in Iran-Contra, Singlaub "offers few fresh insights" into the affair.

[CIA/Memoirs; GenPostwar/80s/Iran-Contra; WWII/OSS]

Sinkov, Abraham. Elementary Cryptanalysis. New York: Singer, 1968. [Petersen]

[Cryptography/Gen]

Sipress, Alan, and Vernon Loeb. "Bush Ends CIA's Role as Middle East Broker." Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2001, A25. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]

According to a senior administration official on 21 March 2001, President George W. Bush has ended "the CIA's high-profile role as a broker between Israeli and Palestinian security services.... The CIA's ... exceptional role ... has included passing intelligence information and complaints, pressing for closer coordination and arbitrating disputes over how to address specific threats.... But the agency's involvement had been waning even before the Bush administration decided to end it.... When the CIA assumed its role at Israel's request four years ago, the agency did so reluctantly. Intelligence officials now say they are pleased to be relieved of the task."

[CIA/90s/99/Mideast; CIA/00s/01Gen]

Sipress, Alan, and Vernon Loeb. "CIA's Stealth War Centers on Eroding Taliban Loyalty and Aiding Opposition." Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2001, A1. "The CIA's Stealth War: U.S. Covert Efforts Include Winning the Loyalty of Taliban Defectors." Washington Poat National Weekly Edition, 15-21 Oct. 2001, 6.

According to administration officials, the CIA has launched an effort "in the parts of Afghanistan where the ruling Taliban is most deeply rooted in the local ethnic Pashtun community ... to win the loyalty of dissident Taliban commanders through the use of money or fear.... The success of this strategy could turn on the intelligence efforts and intimate cooperation of Pakistan.... That prospect received a crucial boost" on 7 October 2001 when Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf "ousted several influential intelligence and military leaders who remained close to the Taliban, most notably purging Gen. Mahmoud Ahmed of the Interservices Intelligence Agency, which long served as the Taliban's patron."

[CIA/00s/01/Gen; OtherCountries/Pakistan; Terrorism/01/WTC]

Sixsmith, Martin. The Litvinenko File: The Life and Death of a Russian Spy. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2007.

From publisher: The author "draws on his long experience as the BBC's Moscow correspondent and his contact with the key London-based Russians to dissect Alexander Litvinenko's murder... The Litvinenko File is a gripping inside account of a shocking act of murder, when Russia's war with itself spilled over onto the streets of London and made the world take notice."

Goulden, Washington Times, 24 Jun. 2007, and Intelligencer 15.3 (Summer/Fall 2007), says that Sixsmith "gives a superb picture of how Russian intrigue has spilled over into the rest of Europe as rival business factions compete for riches."

For Peake, Studies 51.3 (2007), the author "does a plausible job" of explaining "how and why Litvinenko was killed." However, he leaves the answer to who was responsible "in a haze of speculation."

[Russia/Overviews/00s]

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