Spiegel, Peter. "Pentagon Battle Breaks Out Over a Spy Plane." Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2008. [http://www.latimes.com]
Spiegel, Peter. "Pentagon Battle Breaks Out Over a Spy Plane." Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2008. [http://www.latimes.com]
"Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has ordered the Air Force to put nearly all of its unmanned Predator aircraft into the skies over the Middle East, forcing the service to take steps that officers worry could hobble already-stressed drone squadrons."
[MI/Ops/Iraq/08; Recon/UAVs/00s]
Spiers, Edward M. "Intelligence and Command in Britain's Small Colonial Wars of the 1890s." Intelligence and National Security 22, no. 5 (Oct. 2007): 661-681.
The author reviews the lessons from two campaigns -- Sudan (1896-1899) and South Africa (1899-1902). "Intelligence may not have decided the outcome in either of these conflicts but it certainly affected command decisions, tactical choices, and the evolution of British operations in the face of new conditions of warfare."
[UK/Historical]
Spiller, Roger J. "Assessing Ultra." Military Review 59 (Aug. 1979): 13-23.
http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usamhi/RefBibs/intell/ww2/ultra.htm: "Cautionary note about Ultra's role" in operations and revising WWII history.
[WWII/RefMats; UK/WWII/Ultra]
Spohn, Lawrence. "Espionage Case Against Wen Ho Lee Looking Empty, Some Say." Albuquerque Tribune, 25 Aug. 1999. [http://www.abqtrib.com/]
"Some former employees at Los Alamos National Laboratory say they believe the momentum in the investigation of suspected Chinese espionage at the lab may be shifting from government prosecutors to the chief suspect."
[GenPostCW/90s/China/99]
Spolar, Christine. "A Cold War Spy, Warm at Last: Polish Colonel Who Fed Soviet Secrets to CIA Is Absolved by His Homeland." Washington Post, 2 Oct. 1997, A17, A20.
Col. Ryszard Kuklinski, the Polish army officer who supplied the CIA Soviet military documents from 1972 until his defection in 1981, has been absolved of charges of treason in his homeland. The decision was made public on Polish television on 22 September 1997.
[CIA/80s/Kuklinski; OtherCountries/Poland]
Spooner, Tony. Supreme Gallantry: Malta's Role in the Allied Victory, 1939-1945. London: John Murray, 1996.
Foot, I&NS 12.2, notes that Spooner flew from Luqa during Malta's wartime crisis, so he writes of the day-to-day life there from personal experience. No convoy, known through Ultra, could be attacked until it had been sighted by Allied aircraft or vessels. Nevertheless, much of the routing of reconnaissance aircraft and submarines out of Malta was assisted by Ultra information; this is a clear instance of the tactical use of Ultra. To protect that vital source, a notional anti-fascist source in Naples was created.
[UK/WWII/Med]
Spracher, William C. "Homeland Security and Intelligence: Can Oil Mix with Water in an Open Society?" Low Intensity Conflict & Law Enforcement 11 (Spring 2002): 29-54.
[Terrorism/Homeland/02]
Spracher, William C. "Mired in Gray: Juggling Legality, Lawfulness, and Ethics as an Intelligence Professional." American Intelligence Journal 25, no. 1 (Summer 2007): 63-70.
"[I]n all too many instances, the trade-off between usefulness and legality was so problematic that appropriate guidance was evident only in hindsight when it was too late to rectify the damage or resulting embarrassment."
This is an expanded and updated version of William C. Spracher, "The 'Lawfulness' of Intelligence Operations," Military Intelligence 5, no. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1979): 11-15.
[Overviews/Ethics]
Squire, P. S. The Third Department: The Political Police in the Russia of Nicholas I. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1968.
Pforzheimer says this "is a more in-depth study..., with less social commentary" than Monas' The Third Section. It is recommended "for those seeking a deeper understanding of the traditions and modus operandi of the Tsarist and succeeding Soviet security organizations."
[Russia/Historical]
Srodes, James. Allen Dulles: Master of Spies. Washington, DC: Regnery, 1999.
Stein, Washington Post, 20 Jun. 1999, suggests that this is a story "that now has been told many times, unfortunately for James Srodes." In a similar vein, Hochschild, Times Literary Supplement, 17 Sep. 1999, suggests that the reason for a new biography of Dulles is that the author "apparently thinks Dulles deserves a more admiring view" than was given in Peter Grose's Gentleman Spy.
For Goulden, Intelligencer 10.2, "Srodes' strength is that he grasps what made Mr. Dulles an effective spymaster." The author also "devotes major space to the OSS period, providing a keen insight into the daily activities of a working intelligence officer."
Harold Ford, IJI&C 13.2, suggests that while "Srodes points up some weakness and failures, ... on balance [he] generates marked and deserved gratitude for Dulles's many contributions to American life.... Srodes is especially good at pointing out that Allen Dulles had made a lifetime of contributions to United States diplomacy and foreign policy long before he had become DCI.... [And he] renders an excellent treatment of the many episodes of Dulles's incumbency as DCI."
To Bates, NIPQ, Spring 2000, this book is "entertaining and easy to read." The narrative of Dulles' service in Bonn "is well done and describes in detail [his] fine espionage tradecraft." Srodes does, however, spend "an inordinate amount of time on the Bay of Pigs fiasco."
[CIA/DCIs/Dulles]
Srodes, James. Franklin: The Essential Founding Father. Washington DC: Regnery, 2002.
Jonkers, AFIO WIN 24-02 (19 Jun. 2002), suggests that the author provides "insights on our revolutionary past ... in an easily digestible form, while still creating food for contemplative thought." Franklin "was suited for his chosen role, of supporting the American revolution from abroad with skills as a diplomat, spymaster, covert operator and propagandist. He played a key role in bringing the revolution to a successful conclusion, and Srodes tells the story well, with an easy and readable style."
[RevWar/Foreign]
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