Sudbeck, Kevin J. [CDR/USN] "End Manned Aerial Reconnaissance." U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, Jan. 2004, 88.
Sudbeck, Kevin J. [CDR/USN] "End Manned Aerial Reconnaissance." U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, Jan. 2004, 88.
UAVs "are cost-effective, value-added, and their use does not have the same consequences as manned aircraft. It is time to take the air breathers out of reconnaissance aircraft."
[Recon/UAVs]
Suffolk Transnational Law Journal. "Passports -- Revocation -- Implicit Congressional Approval of Passport Revocation, Haig v. Agee, 101 S. Ct. 2766." 6 (Spring 1982): 197-207.
[Overviews/Legal/Travel]
Sui, Cindy. "China Unmoved by CIA Sanctions Over Embassy Attack." Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2000, A24. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
In a statement released by the official New China News Agency on 10 April 2000, PRC Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhu Bangzao "expressed strong dissatisfaction ... with CIA disciplinary action taken against several employees in connection with the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade and once again rejected U.S. conclusions that human error caused the attack."
[GenPostwar/90s/99/ChiEmb]
Sulick, Michael J. "As the USSR Collapsed: A CIA Officer in Lithuania." Studies in Intelligence 50, no. 2 (2006): 1-11.
The author is the former ADDO and Chief/SE/DO. As the Soviet Union began to implode and the communist governments in Eastern Europe began to fall, Milt Bearden, Chief of the CIA's Soviet and East European Division (SE), "moved quickly to forge relationships with these former Soviet Bloc adversaries.... As the bastion of communism was about to fall in Moscow, Bearden was eager to continue engaging old enemies -- and potential new friends -- only this time on what had been Soviet territory.... [I]n the last week of August 1991, just a week after the failure of the coup attempt in Moscow, I embarked on one of the most thrilling and rewarding trips of my CIA career."
[CIA/90s/Gen; CIA/Memoirs; OtherCountries/Lithuania]
Sumaida, Hussein Ali, with Carole Jerome. Circle of Fear: From the Mossad to Iraq's Secret Service. Toronto: Stoddart, 1991. London: Robert Hale, 1992. Circle of Fear: My Life as an Israeli and Iraqi Spy. Washington, DC: Brassey's, 1994.
According to RJB, Surveillant 1.6/2.6, the author, whose father was a high-ranking official and an intimate of Saddam Hussein, claims to have worked with Mossad in Europe and later with the Iraqis. "Despite an occasional tendency toward glib generalization, this would seem to be a powerful and informative book; its many plausible, but unsupported, assertions should be carefully evaluated."
Ashton, I&NS 9.4, sees Sumaida as "more concerned to vindicate his own actions than to dwell in any detail on intelligence structures and methods.... [Some] sections seem to have been sensationalized ... [and] his evidence is little more than hearsay." It would be "difficult to show" that his "claims could be relied on."
Karl, WIR 15.2, says that "there is something not quite right in th[is] story." There is no way "to confirm or verify [Sumaida's] stories regarding his frequent encounters with the Mukhabarat, the CIA, or Canadian intelligence officials." There is also some "questions about who actually wrote this book, and when and why it was written.
[Israel/OtherOps; OtherCountries/Iraq]
Summe, Jack N. "PSYOP Support to Operation Desert Storm." Special Warfare 5 (Oct.
1992): 6-9. [Gibish]
[MI/DesertStorm]
Summers, Anthony. Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover. New York: Putnam, 1993.
Ambrose, WPNWE, 1-7 March 1993: "Drawing on anonymous and hostile sources,... and relying heavily on innuendo, rumor, hearsay, and his own speculations,... Summers depicts FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover as a moral and political monster without a single redeeming feature.... Much of the material here is familiar, already covered in detail in Richard Gid Powers's 1978 biography.... But the two biographers are often in disagreement. Powers dismisses as 'preposterous' the charge that Hoover was responsible for the intelligence failure at Pearl Harbor; Summers devotes an entire chapter to it. In general, in my opinion, in areas of disagreement Powers's work is better researched and more reliable than Summers's. Except, perhaps, on the biggest disagreement of all...: the sex life of J. Edgar Hoover. Powers found no convincing evidence to prove the widely held belief that Hoover was a homosexual; Summers presents an abundance of evidence to show that he was.... Summers's most sensational charge is that Hoover was a transvestite. His source is Susan Rosenstiel."
Surveillant 3.1 notes that the "fact that Hoover created a smooth law enforcement machine out of a corrupt outfit is left briefly examined in this hostile exposé." The author "has included many half-baked innuendos, gossipy twiddle-twattle, and [every] third-hand smear he could find." Summers claims that "Dusko Popov ... had been sent to warn America that the Japanese were planning to attack the [Pearl Harbor] naval base.... [G]etting someone to give you a quote about a rumour does not make it true."
According to Wannall, Periscope 18.3, Hoover's "vilification rested upon..., principally, a British author [Summers] whose allegations against a previous American public servant (AFIO founder David Atlee Phillips), repeated in a London newspaper, resulted in open-court retraction, apology, and acknowledgement of the payment of a substantial sum in damages."
O'Reilly, Policy Studies Journal 21.3, comments that the stories of cross-dressing "may be true, but the 'he said/she said' sources don't prove it."
NameBase identifies the author thusly: "Anthony Summers, based in Ireland and best known for his JFK assassination research...." [Enuf' said.]
[FBI/90s]
Summers,
Anthony, and Stephen Darril. Honey Trap: The Secret Worlds of Stephen Ward. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987. [Wilcox]
[UK/SpyCases/Other]
Summers,
Harry G., Jr. The Vietnam War Almanac. New York: Facts on File, 1985.
[Vietnam/Ref]
Sunday Times (UK).
Sun Tzu. Tr., Samuel B. Griffith. The Art of War. Oxford: Clarendon, 1963. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.
Pforzheimer says that "Chapter XIII on 'Employment of Secret Agents' is ... a classic in early intelligence literature, as are [Sun Tzu's] references to deception." For Constantinides, the work is "compulsory reading for the intelligence officer."
The Sun Tzu Website at: http://www.sonshi.com/ ("Sonshi is the largest Sun Tzu website") notes that Griffith's translation "has commentaries within the text itself; good history and analysis." It also includes "[e]xcellent and unique sections on Sun Tzu's influence in Japan and on Mao Tse-Tung, and a foreword by ... B.H. Liddell Hart."
See Michael Warner, "The Divine Skein: Sun Tzu on Intelligence," Intelligence and National Security 21, no. 4 (Aug. 2006), for a positive assessment of the relevance of The Art of War to intelligence practice today.
There are a number of translations of Sun Tzu other than Griffith's (which I continue to use). These include:
Sun Tzu. Tr., Denma Translation Group. The Art of War. Boston, MA: Shambhala, 2002.
According to http://www.sonshi.com/, this translation is "based mostly on the Yin Chueh Shan text, deciphered from bamboo strips (dated 140 - 118 B.C.) discovered in 1972. The Yin Chueh Shan text predates all previously known Sun Tzu copies by 1,000 years."
Ames, Roger T., Tr. Sun-Tzu: The Art of Warfare. New York: Ballantine, 1993.
http://www.sonshi.com comments: "Of all the Sun Tzus on the market, [this translation] has the most perfect balance between accuracy and readability."
Cleary, Thomas, Tr. The Illustrated Art of War. Boston, MA: Shambhala, 2003.
Cleary, Thomas, Tr. The Art of War: Complete Text and Commentaries. Boston, MA: Shambhala, 2004
http://www.sonshi.com notes that Cleary's translation first appeared in 1988 and "is considered by many to be the most accessible" translation.
Minford, John, Tr. The Art of War. New York: Viking, 2002.
According to http://www.sonshi.com, this translation incorporates "the conventionally accepted text, Shiyijia zhu Sunzi, along with commentary from various ancient and modern sources. This book "is perfect for someone who wants both an accurate translation and an extensive explanation of its many concepts and principles."
Sawyer, Ralph D., Tr. Sun Tzu: The Art of War. Nashville, TN: Westview, 1994.
http://www.sonshi.com says that "Sawyer's rendering from the Chinese is incredibly accurate; it is high on readability as well."
Sawyer, Ralph D., Tr. The Complete Art of War: Sun Tzu and Sun Pin. Nashville, TN: Westview, 1996.
According to http://www.sonshi.com, this edition "has both Sun Tzu's and Sun Pin's Art of War, but without Sawyer's in-depth analysis of Sun Tzu" in the 1994 edition.
[Historical/Ancient]
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