Tatum, Georgia Lee. Disloyalty in the Confederacy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1934. [Reprint] New York: AMS Press, 1970.
Tatum, Georgia Lee. Disloyalty in the Confederacy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1934. [Reprint] New York: AMS Press, 1970.
This book looks at the subversion activities of dissident Southerners, including organizations such as the Peace and Constitutional Society, the Heroes of America, and the Peace Society. While their activities were generally focused on undermining the Confederate war effort, the relationships between these societies and Union intelligence is unclear.
[CivWar/Conf/Intel]
Tauber, Eliezer. "The Capture of the NILI Spies: The Turkish Version." Intelligence and National Security 6, no. 4 (Oct. 1991): 701-710.
The author seeks to shed some light on how the Jewish NILI spy ring was wrapped up by the Ottoman authorities in 1917 by using the memoirs of 'Aziz Bek, head of intelligence for the Ottoman Fourth Army.
[Israel/Historical; OtherCountries/Turkey][c]
Taubitz, D.M. "National Security Versus the Right to a Passport (Haig v. Agee)." Detroit College of Law Review (Winter 1982): 945-967.
Calder: "Concludes that Supreme Court decision to withhold Agee's passport was correct in view of national security implications."
[Overviews/Legal/Travel]
Taubman, Philip. "Failure to Launch: In Death of Spy Satellite Program, Lofty Plans and Unrealistic Bids." New York Tmes, 11 Nov. 2007. [http://www.nytimes.com]
The collapse of the Future Imagery Architecture (FIA) project in September 2005, "at a loss of at least $4 billion, was all but inevitable." It was "the result of a troubled partnership between a government seeking to maintain the supremacy of its intelligence technology, but on a constrained budget, and a contractor [Boeing] all too willing to make promises it ultimately could not keep." Combined with other recent failures, this has left "the nation ... without advanced new systems to replace a dwindling number of reconnaissance satellites first designed in the 1970s and updated in the 1990s."
[Recon/Sats/07]
Taubman, Philip. "Secrecy of Reconnaissance Office Is Challenged." New York Times, 1 Mar. 1981, 10.
Taubman reported that consideration was being given to declassification of the NRO, and discusses some of the reasons why there was concern about doing so.
[NRO]
Taubman, Philip. Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.
From http://www.secretempirethebook.com: "Taubman ... tells ... the gripping story of one of the great spy enterprises of the twentieth century -- the creation of reconnaissance satellites and high-altitude spy planes.... Taubman uncovers startling information about the origins and evolution of the projects, and how close they came to failing."
Umansky, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2003, comments that "[t]he story of how scientists eventually broke through th[e] barriers [to reconnaissance from space] ... could make for a fascinating tale. But Secret Empire isn't it. Taubman, a longtime New York Times editor and reporter, is not a lively writer. And despite his efforts, the book's characters blend into one -- an overachieving, patriotic man who loves flying.
"This wouldn't have been a problem if Taubman had focused on some of the larger questions about satellites and intelligence policy.... But the book is mostly small-bore, resolutely sticking to a step-by-tiny-step history of the program. Frequently, the only obvious point seems to be to get it all down on paper. The result, unfortunately, is often something only a satellite buff, or perhaps a product manager, could love."
The reviewer for Publishers Weekly, 17 Feb. 2003, has a different view of Taubman's work, calling it an "exciting, meticulously researched spy story.... [It] functions marvelously as a history of science, detailing the research, engineering and policy decisions behind the U2 and Corona, but it's also an excellent social history of the Cold War in the 1950s and early '60s. It's a page-turner as well."
Freedman, FA 82.3, finds that "Taubman provides a wealth of detail..., based on many interviews and copious research. He weaves together complex strategic, organizational, and engineering issues, managing to convey the drama and excitement of a race to find some way of getting consistent and reliable intelligence on Soviet nuclear missiles at a time when the United States was widely assumed to be falling behind."
For Mahnken, NWCR 57.1, this "history of the strategic issues, politics, personalities, and technologies that drove the development of America’s extraordinary space reconnaissance capability ... does a splendid job of interpreting the significance of the technical problems encountered and the brilliant ingenuity of the solutions." The author is "attuned to the importance of the enabling technologies and brings their role and impact to the reader’s understanding."
Bath, NIPQ 19.3, "strongly" recommends this work "to layman and specialist alike." Although the work "adds little new or startling to reconnaissance history," it pulls together "the many strands of the story into one coherent and highly readable volume."
To Robarge, Studies 48.1, the author "has filled the 'if you read only one book on the subject, this is it' category. Secret Empire is an accessible, thorough (but not definitive) synthesis for the general reader."
Day, IJI&C 17.4 (Winter 2004-2005), finds that this work is "[r]eadable and [provides] a decent overview of the subject.... But it is not original. It contains no information that could not be found in books written several years ago.... [In addition,] the book does not advance a more knowledgeable person's understanding of what happened during this period."
[Recon/Imagery, Planes, & Sats]
Taubman,
Philip. "U.S. and Peking Jointly Monitor Russian Missiles." New
York Tmes, 18 Jun. 1981, A1, A14.
[China/U.S.Relations]
Tauscher, Ellen O. "Stop the Spies." Washington Post, 1 Jun. 1999, A15.
This Op-Ed piece by Representative Tauscher (D-CA) argues that the revelations about PRC spying at U.S. nuclear labs indicates a "systemic failure of our counterintelligence operation. It has lacked centralization and did not adequately address emerging threats in the post-Cold War paradigm. Our intelligence agencies also have failed to embrace new technologies. Just as our national labs lead the world in state-of-the-art technology, so too must our counterintelligence agencies lead the world in surveillance and verification measures."
[CI/90s; GenPostCW/90s/China/Jun99]
Tauss, Edward. "Foretesting a Soviet ABM System." Studies in Intelligence 12, no. 1 (Winter 1968): 21-26.
The author offers a "case history in inductive reasoning" to "show how a slim amount of data may give a basis for determining the general characteristics and net capabilities of a new Soviet system before the Soviets themselves have a firm prototype of it."
Sayre Stevens, "'Foretesting' ABM Systems: Some Hazards," Studies in Intelligence 12, no. 3 (Summer 1968): 1-9, takes issue with some of the propositions presented in this article.
[GenPostwar/Issues/S&T/To70]
Tavernise, Sabrina. "American Jailed as Spy in Moscow Is Freed on Putin's Orders; U.S. Welcomes Gesture." New York Times, 15 Dec. 2000. [http://www.nytimes.com]
"Edmond Pope ... was pardoned [on 14 December 2000] by President Vladimir V. Putin and was immediately flown out of Russia."
[Russia/00/U.S.Spy]
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