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Stober, Dan, and Ian Hoffman. A Convenient Spy: Wen Ho Lee and the Politics of Nuclear Espionage. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.

To Marston, Baltimore Sun, 19 Jan. 2002, this book, "like the Lee probe itself, struggles -- and mostly succeeds -- in making immensely complex scientific concepts understandable to a lay reader. Despite the collapse of the government's case, however, the authors are unconvinced of Lee's innocence."

Bamford, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2002, sees A Convenient Spy as "a well-written cautionary tale that dissects what can happen when race, ambition and politics mix with espionage, criminal law and foreign policy."

For Panofsky, American Scientist, Jul.-Aug. 2002, the authors "offer an excellent sequential account of [a] complex series of events. They also cover facets of China's nuclear weapons program, emphasizing in particular that the Chinese have been much more forthcoming than they are given credit for.... [This] excellent, sober and factual account is well worth reading for the light it sheds on murky events."

Epstein, Wall Street Journal, 16 Jan. 2002, says that Stober and Hoffman "brilliantly unravel" this "curious case." He notes that the question of why Wen Ho Lee copied what he did onto his computer is not answered by the authors, although "they find implausible [his] claim that he wanted to protect the data from computer failure."

[SpyCases/U.S./China/Lee/Books]

Stockinger, Edwin. "Five Weeks at Phalane." Studies in Intelligence 17, no. 1 (Spring 1973): 11-19.

Laotian paramilitary units fight North Vietnamese regulars for Muang Phalane in 1971.

[CIA/Laos]

Stockton, Bayard. Flawed Patriot: The Rise and Fall of CIA Legend Bill Harvey. Dulles, VA: Potomac, 2006.

Click for reviews.

Stockwell, A.J. "Policing During the Malayan Emergency." In Policing and Decolonisation: Nationalism, Politics and the Police, 1917-1965, eds. David M. Anderson and David Killingray, 105-126. Manchester: Manchester University Press 1992.

[UK/Postwar/Malaya]

Stockwell, A.J., ed. Malaya: Part II: The Communist Insurrection, 1948-53. London: HMSO, 1995.

[UK/Postwar/Malaya]

Stockwell, John. After the Cold War: The CIA and the National Security State. Boston: South End Press, 1990.

Is this the same book noted in an advertisement? The Praetorian Guard: The U.S. Role in the New World Order (Boston: South End Press). From advertisement: "Ex-CIA agent John Stockwell analyzes the CIA and other institutional forces shaping U.S. domestic and foreign policy. Includes a selected bibliography on the national security state."

[CIA/Overviews]

Stockwell, John. In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story. New York: Norton, 1979.

Pforzheimer identifies this book as an attack on the CIA -- particularly the clandestine services -- by a disaffected former case officer who headed the CIA's Angola Task Force in 1975-1976.

To Blum, NameBase, the book "chronicles the political evolution of a CIA officer that culminated in his resignation from the Agency.... The book deals primarily with Angola and is most instructive about the world of mercenaries and about Joseph Mobutu, the notoriously unscrupulous leader of Zaire and CIA comrade-in-arms."

Constantinides sees Stockwell providing a view of the CIA's "personnel, administration, and mental outlook that stemmed from first-hand experience." The book's allegations were overshadowed by the legal wrangling surrounding his failure to submit the book for the CIA's prepublication review.

[CA; CIA/Memoirs]

Stoll, Clifford. The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage. New York: Doubleday, 1989. London: Bodley Head, 1990.

Surveillant 1.1 says this is the "well-told story of the discovery of a clever computer system interloper in search of defense secrets for ... the KGB." It received the Best American Intelligence Book award for 1989, given by NISC.

Petersen sees it as an "[i]nteresting but overpublicized account of low-level computer spying."

[SpyCases/U.S./Gen]

Stolz, Richard. "A Case Officer's First Tour: Assignment Trieste." Studies in Intelligence 37, no. 5 (1994): 53-58.

The former DDO remembers: "[N]ow, even after 40 years, I have strong memories of our first post.... It was the beginning of my lifelong love affair with the men and women of the CIA."

[CIA/Memoirs]

Stone

Storrs, Christopher. "Intelligence and the Formulation of Policy and Strategy in Early Modern Europe: The Spanish Monarchy in the Reign of Charles II (1665-1700)." Intelligence and National Security 21, no. 4 (Aug. 2006): 493-519.

From abstract: "There was nothing particularly distinctive about Spain's intelligence machinery. Nor was it always effective.... [However,] intelligence contributed to the remarkable resilience of the Spanish Monarchy in an age of supposed Spanish decline."

[Historical/PreWWI; OtherCountries/Spain]

Story, Paula. "Accused Spy Flies Home for Holiday." Washington Post, 26 Dec. 1997, A26.

[GenPostCW/90s/97/Qcom]

Stout, Chris E., ed. The Psychology of Terrorism. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002.

[Terrorism/00s]

Stout, David. "Clinton Asks Panel to Analyze Security Threats at Nuclear Labs." New York Times, 19 Mar. 1999. [http://www.nytimes.com]

On 17 March 1999, President Clinton announced that the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) will "analyze security threats at the Energy Department's nuclear laboratories, after suspicions surfaced that China stole nuclear-weapons designs from the United States.... The president asked the board's chairman, Warren Rudman, a former Republican senator from New Hampshire, to report back within 60 days."

[CIA/90s/99/China/Fallout]

Stout, David. "Hearings on Lake's Appointment Delayed." New York Times, 31 Jan. 1997, A20.

[CIA/90s/97/Lake]

Stout, David. "Naval Petty Officer Is Accused of Giving Russia Information." New York Times, 30 Nov. 1999. [http://www.nytimes.com]

According to military officials, Petty Officer First Class Daniel M. King, a Navy code expert, was arrested on 5 November 1999 and charged with "passing intelligence about submarines to the Russians while he worked in a Navy unit of the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Md."

[SpyCases/U.S.]

Stout, Mark. "The Pond: Running Agents for State, War, and the CIA." Studies in Intelligence 48, no. 3 (2004): 69-82. American Intelligence Journal 23 (2005): 17-27.

John "Frenchy" Grombach created the Pond in early 1942 and keep it operational for the next 13 years. The organization "spent most of its existence not as a government agency, but as a private sector organization, operating within real companies.... [footnote omitted] This practice contributed substantially to obscurity and security. However, three successive government agencies found that having such an independent intelligence operation -- and, worse yet, one run by a pugnacious, conspiratorial ideologue -- was more trouble than it was worth.... [T]he Pond's independence allowed it to play one American agency off against another, in this case particularly the FBI and the CIA. The Pond's exclusive ownership of its product meant that Grombach could disseminate to the FBI or other agencies information that the CIA might have been able to determine was bad."

[GenPostwar/40s/Gen & 50s/Gen]

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