Steven, Stewart. Operation Splinter Factor. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1974. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1974.
Steven, Stewart. Operation Splinter Factor. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1974. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1974.
Constantinides finds this story of U.S. perfidy against the Soviet Union "quite unreliable," and calls it "one of the worst books to appear in years in the field of intelligence; no time need be spent on it." For Fischer, IJI&C 22.2/343-345 (Summer 2009), this is a "specious account." The book is "replete with factual errors," and its basic thesis "is sheer nonsense."
[SpyCases/Other/Field]
Steven, Stewart. The Spymasters of Israel. New York: Macmillan, 1980. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1981. New York: Ballantine Books,1982. [pb]
NameBase says that Spymasters of Israel "reads more like a mass-market thriller than a scholarly effort, but this British editor conducted over a hundred interviews and the book holds up fairly well. He is hampered ... by his need to protect his sources and his tendency to glorify the exploits of Mossad agents as they protect 'this small and beleaguered nation.' In the end he manages to spin a good story, but fails to contribute to the international debate on the ethics of Israeli policy."
Constantinides finds "good recaps of the Lavon affair, Operation Susannah, and the essence of the Lotz and Cohen operations in Egypt and Syria respectively." The intelligence failure of the 1973 war "is well described." However, "it is nonsense to say virtually all CIA men in the Middle East were working at second hand for the Israelis."
[Israel/Overviews]
Stevenson, Charles. The End of Nowhere: American Policy Toward Laos Since 1954. Boston:
1972.
[CIA/Laos]
Stevenson, Charles A. "Underlying Assumptions of the National Security Act of 1947." Joint Force Quarterly 48 (1st Quarter 2008): 129-133.
This well-done article points out that: "The National Security Act of 1947 was a compromise -- between advocates and opponents of a highly centralized military establishment, between supporters of a regularized process for interagency policymaking and defenders of Presidential prerogatives, and between an executive branch needing new legal authorities to deal with a postwar world and a Congress determined to maintain its special powers over the Armed Forces."
[CIA/40s/Gen; GenPostwar/NatSec/00s; Overviews/U.S./00s; Reform/00s]
Stevenson, Johnathan. Losing Mogadishu: Testing U.S. Policy in Somalia. Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute Press, 1995.
Rich, WIR 14.6, says that this "short but sensible analysis of U.S. involvement in Somalia is well worth reading." The author believes that President Bush and JCS Chairman Powell failed to understand the political situation on the ground in Somalia. And "American military planners for Restore Hope lacked intelligence about the Somali people. They did not know their enemy."
[MI/Ops/90s/Somalia]
Stevenson, Richard W. "John Cairncross, Fifth Briton in Soviet Spy Ring, Dies at 82." New York Times, 10 Oct. 1995, A13 (N).
Cairncross, generally accepted to have been the "Fifth Man" since he was named as such by Yuri Modin, died on 9 October 1995. This NYT obituary notes that Rupert Allason [Nigel West] edited Cairncross' "forthcoming memoirs."
[UK/SpyCases/Blunt]
Stevenson, Richard W., and Christopher Drew. "Bush Set to Name Ex-Chief of Police for Top Security Post." New York Times, 3 Dec. 2004. [http://www.nytimes.com]
Former New York City police commissioner Bernard B. Kerik "has been selected by President Bush to replace Tom Ridge as secretary of homeland security, a senior administration official and associates of Mr. Kerik said" on 2 December 2004.
[DHS/04]
Stevenson, William. Intrepid's Last Case. New York: Villard, 1983.
This involves the Gouzenko defection case.
[Canada/Gouzenko]
Stevenson, William. A Man Called Intrepid: The Secret War, 1939-1945. London: Macmillan, 1976. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976. New York: Ballantine, 1976. [pb]
According to Pforzheimer, the author's work "has been severely attacked ... as inaccurate in many respects, badly documented and grossly inflated." Constantinides says the book "does not fully represent a historically correct account of Stephenson's work and that of BSC." Implying that Stephenson was the leader of British intelligence and BSC the center of British intelligence efforts worldwide is a serious exaggeration.
Charles, I&NS 15.2, sees this as an "embellished account" that "contains inaccuracies" and makes "[q]uestionable claims." Even stronger negative comments come from Troy, IJI&C 20.4 (Winter 2007), who characterizes A Man Called Intrepid as a "best-selling but thoroughly unreliable" book, and West, I&NS 19.2/276, to whom the work is "hopelessly unreliable."
[UK/WWII/BSC][c]
Stevenson, William. Ninety Minutes at Entebbe. New York: Bantam, 1976.
Israeli rescue of hijacked airplane passengers at Entebbe, Uganda, in 1976. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's older brother was killed on this mission.
[Israel/Ops/Other]
Stevenson, William. Spymistress: The Life of Vera Atkins: The Greatest Female Agent in World War II. New York: Arcade, 2007.
Troy, Studies 51.2 (2007), rips this book as "history and fiction distressingly conmingled." The reviewer hastens to note that "[t]here is no question" of the author's honesty. Rather, Troy sees Stevenson as letting his passion and imagination run rampant. That Atkins "worked in an especially dangerous wartime role ... is beyond cavil." However, this account "hardly proves her a great agent, much less 'the greatest female secret agent in World War II.'"
Just as negative a reaction to this book comes from West, IJI&C 21.3 (Fall 2008), who says that the author is "just wrong about ... almost every ... item in his book." West also uses such descriptions as "nonsensical," "fanciful," "patent invention," "invariably inaccurate or plain wrong," and "many obvious fabrications." He concludes that "Stevenson's interpretations, based on fake quotations, invented missions, and non-existent organizations, really amounts to literary fraud."
[UK/WWII/Services/SOE; Women/WWII/UK]
Stewart, Anthony Terence Quincey. Michael Collins: The Secret File. Belfast: Blackstaff, 1997.
Facsimile of all the main documents in the RIC's secret file on Collins (1916-1920), released in the PRO, London.
[OtherCountries/Ireland]
Stewart, Brian "Winning in Malaya: An Intelligence Success Story." Intelligence and National Security 14, no. 4 (Winter 1999): 267-283.
The author served throughout the Emergency in the Chinese Affairs Department, as a Malayan Civil Service officer. He argues that the successful development of the Malayan government's intelligence community owed much to General Sir Gerald Templer.
[GenPostwar/CW/I&NS; UK/Postwar/Malaya]
Stewart, Cameron. "Our UN Team Used as Spies." The Australian, 28 Jan 1999. [http://www.theaustralian.com.au]
Scott Ritter, "an American and former senior UNSCOM inspector, said four of the Australians under his command in Iraq expressed fears last August that the US was using UNSCOM's intelligence information for its own purposes.... Ritter said one Australian military officer was used by UNSCOM specifically for the purposes of installing sensitive electronic surveillance equipment targeted at uncovering information about Iraq's weapons programs."
The head of UNSCOM, Australian Richard Butler "strongly denied that the Australian inspectors or anyone in UNSCOM had worked on behalf of the US and he said that the Australians were merely carrying out the UN Security Council's mandate to hunt down [Iraqi President Saddam] Hussein's illegal weapons."
[Australia/99]
Stewart, Jacque J. The U.S. Government and the Apache Indians, 1871-1876: A Case Study in Counterinsurgency. Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 1993.
[Historical/U.S./ToWWI/IndianWars]
Stewart, John F. "Intelligence Strategy for the 21st Century." Military Review, Sep.-Oct. 1995, 75-81.
[MI/Overviews]
Stewart, Nina. "In Transition: Counterintelligence and Security Countermeasures in the Information Age." American Intelligence Journal 13, no. 3 (Summer 1992): 11-16.
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counterintelligence and Security Countermeasures.
[MI/CI][c]
Stewart, Richard A. "Rommel's Secret Weapon: Signals Intelligence." Marine Corps Gazette 74 (Mar. 1990): 51-55.
Sexton notes that this article looks at the activities of Wireless Intercept Company 621 in the 1941-1942 campaigns, connecting direction finding and intercepts to Rommel's actions.
[WWII/Eur/Ger]
Stewart, Walter J. [COL/USA] "The Army's Reserve Component Intelligence Forces." American Intelligence Journal 18, no. 1/2 (1998): 15-19
[MI/Reserves][c]
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