Sleeper, Raymond S., ed. Mesmerized by the Bear: The Soviet Strategy of Deception. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1987.
Sleeper, Raymond S., ed. Mesmerized by the Bear: The Soviet Strategy of Deception. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1987.
[Russia/Disinfo]
Slepyan, Kenneth. Stalin's Guerrillas: Soviet Partisans in World War II. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2006.
House, Military Review (Sep.-Oct. 2007), notes that while the author "describes the partisan organization and its effectiveness, he does not provide extensive information about the actual military conduct of the partisan war. What the reader will find, however, is an excellent analysis of the psychology and sociology of insurgents within the context of their larger society."
[Russia/WWII/Gen]
Slevin, Peter. "Libya Takes Blame for Lockerbie Bombing." Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2003, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
Libya "said in a letter delivered to the U.N. Security Council [on 15 August 2003] that it is responsible for the actions of Libyan intelligence agent Abdel Basset Ali Megrahi," convicted of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
[Terrorism/03]
Sloan, Geoff. "Dartmouth, Sir Mansfield Cumming and the Origins of the British Intelligence Community." Intelligence and National Security 22, no. 2 (Apr. 2007): 298-305.
The author suggests that the process of institutionalization that led to intelligence becoming an integral part of the British government was linked to the "education and training" that three of the early leaders of British intelligence -- Mansfield Smith (Cumming), Hugh Sinclair, and William Hall -- received at the naval training facility at Dartmouth.
[UK/Historical]
Sloan, James F. [Assistant Commandant (CG-2), U.S. Coast Guard] "Coast Guard Expands Intelligence Efforts." U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 131, no. 5 (May 2005): 98.
"In December 2001, President George Bush signed legislation that amended the National Security Act of 1947 and made the U.S. Coast Guard a full partner as the 14th member of the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). Since that date, the Coast Guard Intelligence Program has grown significantly."
[MI/CG]
Slowikowski, Rygor [MAJGEN]. In the Secret Service: The Lighting of the Torch. London: Windrush, 1988.
Bennett, I&NS 4.1, comments that "[t]here seems to be no doubt that Slowikowski's Polish 'Agency Africa' was the single largest source of information about conditions in the Torch area..., but the decision to invade depended only marginally upon information from inside the territory ... and chiefly upon political and strategic considerations of far wider range." The work draws a "vivid picture ... of the daily life and work of an espionage organization."
[OtherCountries/Poland; WWII/NAfrica]
Slusser, Robert M.
1. "Recent Soviet Books on the History of the Soviet Security Police." Slavic Review 14 (Mar. 1965): 90-98. [Rocca and Dziak]
2. "Recent Soviet Books on the History of the Soviet Security Police -- Part II." Slavic Review 22 (Dec. 1973): 825-828. [Rocca and Dziak]
[Russia/RefMats]
Smart, Nigel. Cryptography: An Introduction. Maidenhead, UK: McGraw-Hill, 2003.
Kruh, Cryptologia 28.1, calls this "a remarkable book that provides the rigorous detail required for advanced cryptography studies, but approaches the subject matter in an accessible style.... [T]his book is a complete introduction to cryptography."
[Cryptography/Gen]
Smigel, Stanley E. "Some Views on the Theory and Practice of Intelligence Collection." Studies in Intelligence 2, no. 2 (Spring 1958): 33-45.
A State Department official looks at "the more important functions of a typical headquarters collection specialist. The emphasis is placed very largely on overt activities; little [is] said of clandestine collection."
[OtherAgencies/State]
Smiley, David. Albanian Assignment. London: Chatto & Windus, 1984. [Chambers]
[WWII/OSS/Balkans/Albania]
Smist, Frank J., Jr. Congress Oversees the United States Intelligence Community, 1947-1989. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1991. Congress Oversees the United States Intelligence Community, 1947-1994. 2d ed. 1994.
Valcourt, IJI&C 5.2, calls this the "finest outsider's overview to date of the early years of oversight by both the Senate and House." It is "mandatory reading for those who want to put the pre- and post-Church periods into perspective ... [and] can be considered the standard reference work on the first period of oversight."
Cline, PSQ 106.2, refers to Smist's "nitty-gritty research" which has produced "an extremely useful book" and an "important contribution to history." Cline's "only reservation" concerns the author's "enthusiasm for the benign role of Congress as an investigative agent prying out intelligence mistakes and scandals."
Writing with regard to the second edition, Cohen, FA 74.2, notes that the "dates in the title are misleading": the book "covers primarily 1975 to 1993." In addition, Smist's work "is heavy on names and dates but rather thin on analysis. Nonetheless, it is a useful monograph."
O'Reilly, JAH 78.3, seems less than pleased that Smist focused on the process of oversight rather than what the intelligence community was doing. Hilsman, APSR 86.2, accepts that the work is a "careful, scholarly history," but finds Smist's recommendations "unexceptionable." Also lacking is a discussion of the "politics" involved in the process.
[Oversight/90s][c]
Smothers, Ronald. "Former Marine Admits Passing Secret Documents." New York Times, 5 May 2006. [http://www.nytimes.com]
On 4 May 2006, Leandro Aragoncillo "pleaded guilty in federal court to passing top-secret information and documents to political opponents of the current Philippine government." Aragoncillo worked in the White House in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations and, from 2004, as an FBI intelligence analyst.
[SpyCases/U.S./Aragoncillo]
Smothers, Ronald. "Two Men Are Charged With Passing Secrets to Philippines." New York Times, 13 Sep. 2005. [http://www.nytimes.com]
FBI analyst Leandro Aragoncillo and Michael Ray Aquino, former deputy director of the Philippines National Police, have been arrested and are "accused of passing classified agency information to government officials in Manila.... According to affidavits by F.B.I. agents, Mr. Aragoncillo passed copies of classified F.B.I. documents about the Philippines to Mr. Aquino between February and August [2005] by way of cellphone text messages and e-mail messages through Hotmail and Yahoo accounts."
[SpyCases/U.S./Aragoncillo]
Smyth, Denis. "Les Chevaliers de Saint-George: la Grande-Bretagne et la corruption des généraux espagnols (1940-1942)." Guerres mondiales et conflits contemporains 162 (1991): 29-54.
[UK/WWII/Spain]
Smyth, Denis. Diplomacy and Strategy of Survival: British Policy and Franco's Spain, 1940-41. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
From advertisement: This work analyses "Britain's diplomatic efforts to preserve the non-belligerency of Franco's Spain, during the period from late 1940 to the end of 1941." The author makes "extensive use of recently available British and Spanish documentary records," and "explains how Britain's uphill struggle to secure Spanish non-belligerency had been rewarded with success by December 1940."
[UK/WWII/Spain]
Smyth, Denis. "Screening 'Torch': Allied Counter-Intelligence and the Spanish Threat to the Secrecy of the Allied Invasion of French North Africa in November 1942." Intelligence and National Security 4, no. 2 (Apr. 1989): 335-356.
"The Anglo-American counter-intelligence and security services ... managed to keep the Spaniards in the dark about Torch for as long as secrecy ... matter[ed]."
[UK/WWII/Med, NAf, & Spain][c]
Smyth, Frank. "Still Seeing Red: The CIA Fosters Death Squads in Columbia." Progressive, Jun. 1998, 23-26.
Being of the mindset that outrage does not replace research, the two errors of fact in the first 13 lines of this article provide sufficient evidence of a lack of knowledge about his subject on the part of the author for this reader to abandon this piece: (a) "...in the basement of its Directorate of Operations headquarters in Langley..."; and (b) "the agency is seeking a new purpose to justify its $26.7 billion annual subsidy."
[CIA/Accusations/Drugs]
Smyth, Howard McGaw. "The Ciano Papers: Rose Garden." Studies in Intelligence 13, no. 2 (Spring 1969): 1-63.
The author provides substantial detail in telling the story of how the remarkable documents that were Ciano's diaries and supporting papers made their way into American hands.
[WWII/Eur/Italy; WWII/OSS/Gen]
Smythe, Donald. "The Ruse at Belfort." Army Magazine 22, no. 6 (1972): 34-38. [Petersen]
[WWI/U.S./General]
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