Suro, Roberto. "Australian Arrested on Spy Charge." Washington Post, 18 May 1999, A9. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
Suro, Roberto. "Australian Arrested on Spy Charge." Washington Post, 18 May 1999, A9. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
Jean-Philippe Wispelaere, the former Australian intelligence official arrested on 15 May 1999 on espionage charges, "worked at the Australian Defence Intelligence Organization for only six months, but he allegedly filched more than 900 highly sensitive documents and photographs that were generated by U.S. intelligence agencies and shared with the Australian government, according to court papers filed [on 17 May 1999]."
[SpyCases/U.S./Wispelaere]
Suro, Roberto. "CIA Is Unable to Precisely Track Testing." Washington Post, 3 Oct. 1999, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
Senior officials said on 2 October 1999 that "the Central Intelligence Agency has concluded that it cannot monitor low-level nuclear tests by Russia precisely enough to ensure compliance with the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty."
[GenPostwar/Issues/Proliferation]
Suro, Roberto. "FBI's 'Clean' Team Follows 'Dirty' Work of Intelligence: Units Pool Facts on Sensitive Foreign Cases but Work Apart." Washington Post, 16 Aug. 1999, A13. "Dirty Work, but Someone's Got to Do It." Washington Post National Weekly Edition, 23 Aug. 1999, 30.
Clark comment: It is interesting and, perhaps, instructive that as the FBI expands its new-found foreign intelligence role both overseas and in the United States, it is encountering many of the same difficulties within the Bureau as were previously attributed to "friction" between the FBI and the CIA. [See Mark Riebling's Wedge (1994).] For a long time, individuals who are less inclined to run around pointing fingers have understood the inherent differences between the agendas of those entrusted with enforcing the law and those whose function it is to collect information.
This article notes that "[a]s the FBI becomes more and more involved in overseas investigations of terrorist threats, using two distinct teams of agents kept apart by an imaginary wall has become a key to separating criminal cases that can be prosecuted in open court from intelligence secrets that must be protected forever.... 'We find ourselves more and more frequently in situations that require us to protect intelligence assets even as we develop evidence that can be used in a criminal prosecution,' Larry R. Parkinson, general counsel of the FBI, said in an interview."
[FBI/99]
Suro, Roberto. "GOP Calls for Hill Probe of Chinese Nuclear Spying." Washington Post, 8 Mar. 1999, A13. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
On 7 March 1999, "Republican congressional leaders ... called for investigative hearings and threatened sanctions against the Clinton administration if it was found to have looked the other way while Chinese spies raided U.S. nuclear warfare technology."
[SpyCases/U.S./China/99]
Suro, Roberto. "Justice Dept. Investigates Satellite Exports." Washington Post, 17 May 1998, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
"The Justice Department's campaign finance task force has begun to examine whether a Clinton administration decision to export commercial satellites to China was influenced by contributions to the Democratic Party during the 1996 campaign."
[CIA/90s/98/China]
Suro, Roberto. "New FBI Spy Unit Gets Reno's Approval." Washington Post, 26 Jun. 1999, A5. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
"Officials at the FBI, CIA and Department of Defense have been discussing a possible reorganization of counterintelligence operations for months. But in the wake of a scathing congressional report on Chinese espionage, [Attorney General] Reno 'has signed off' on the proposal and forwarded it to the White House," a senior Justice Department official said on 25 June 1999.
[FBI/99]
Suro, Roberto, and John F. Harris. "President Overrode China Launch Concerns." Washington Post, 23 May 1998, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
Documents released by the White House on 22 May 1998 show that "President Clinton gave the go-ahead in February" to Lorel's satellite launch in China "despite staff concerns that granting such approval might be seen as letting the company 'off the hook' in a Justice Department investigation of whether it previously provided unauthorized assistance to China's ballistic missile program." The documents also show "that the State Department and other agencies had determined that the launch ... was in 'the national interest' and recommended approval."
[CIA/90s/98/China]
Suro, Roberto, and Thomas E. Ricks. "Pentagon: NATO Kosovo Air War Data Leaked." Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2000, A2. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
On 9 March 2000, Defense Department spokesman Kenneth H. Bacon told reporters traveling with Defense Secretary William S. Cohen on an Asian trip that "NATO officials believe that security leaks at the beginning of the Kosovo air war enabled the Serbian military to gain key information about NATO missions and targets.... 'There were security problems in the first two weeks of Allied Force,'" Bacon said.
[MI/Ops/Kosovo/NATOSpies]
Suro, Roberto, and Peter Slevin. "Fired CIA Operative Accused of Spying." Washington Post, 4 Apr. 1998, A1, A9.
[SpyCases/U.S./Groat]
Suskind, Ron. The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11. New York Simon & Schuster, 2006.
Gellman, Washington Post, 20 Jun. 2006, calls this "an important book.... It enriches our understanding of even familiar episodes from the Bush administration's war on terror and tells some jaw-dropping stories we haven't heard before." The "book is full of amazing, persuasively detailed vignettes about the[] world" of intelligence and counterterrorism professionals. The author calls these "career terror-fighters 'the invisibles,' and he likes them.... Reviled for failure to develop human spies inside al-Qaeda, the CIA in fact has done so at least twice, Suskind reports."
For Peake, Studies 51.1 (Mar. 2007), the author "tells an interesting story about the war on terror," but his book "is little more than Washington gossip" when it deals with intelligence. Because there is no sourcing, it is impossible to tell whether Suskind's stories are accurate.
Shaun Waterman, "Subway Cyanide Gas Device 'probably wouldn't work.'" United Press International, 26 Jun. 2006, quotes experts as stating that the "Mubtakker," the device identified in Suskind's The One Percent Doctrine as having been "developed by al-Qaida to disperse deadly cyanide gas in subway cars and other confined spaces[,] has never been used in a terrorist attack and probably would not be very effective."
[Terrorism/00s/Gen]
Sutherland, Christine. Monica: Heroine of the Danish Resistance. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990.
Surveillant 1.2: This book is a biography of "Monica Massy-Beresford Wichfield, an Irish aristocrat, educated in England and Europe," who became "a leading member of the Danish Resistance." She was eventually "betrayed & sentenced to death."
[Women/WWII/Other; WWII/Eur/Res/Other]
Sutherland, David. He Who Dares: Recollections of Service in the SAS, SBS and MI5. Barnsley, UK: Cooper, 1998. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1999.
Jonkers, AFIO WIN 35-99, 3 Sep. 1999, notes that this is "a personal recollection of special operations during ... World War II, mostly in the Aegean area and covering raids on German-held airfields, in conjunction with Greek resistance fighters.... The author served in the Army during World War II and until 1955, when he joined MI5, for whom he worked for twenty-five years. Although the title indicates coverage of his MI5 years, this gets short shrift in a few pages. The book really covers the Special Boat Service ... and its operations against the Germans."
Foot, I&NS 14.3, notes that Sutherland succeeded Lord Jellicoe as commander of SBS. The author "describes several of the operations SBS carried out, in riveting detail.... This book shows irregular forces at their most effective."
[UK/WWII/Services/SAS]
Sutherland, Douglas. The Fourth Man: The Story of Blunt, Philby, Burgess and Maclean. London: Secker & Warburg, 1980. The Great Betrayal: The Definitive Story of Blunt, Philby, Burgess and Maclean. New York: Times Books, 1980.
Clark comment: Sutherland believed that the revelations with regard to Blunt settled the issue of the scope of the Cambridge ring. We know today that this was not the case.
Constantinides says the author "offers very little that is new, much speculation, and a number of mistakes."
[UK/SpyCases]
Sutherland, Ian D.W. [LTCOL/USA (Ret.)] Special Forces of the United States Army. San Jose, CA: R. James Bender, 1990.
Yang, FILS 12.4, notes that the author sees the Green Berets as part of the legacy of OSS. The book "briefly traces the illustrious career of Colonel [Aaron] Bank [USA (Ret.)].... OSS...[had] a profound influence on the doctrinal, institutional, and organizational makeup of today's S[pecial] F[orces].... SF has yet to overcome institutional misconceptions and prejudices within the U.S. Army.... Special Forces can be considered the unofficial SF 'bible.' While the book may well be the best overall publication on SF, it is not without some minor faults.... Despite its authenticity, thorough discussion, and extensive bibliography, the book contains no citations."
[MI/SpecOps]
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