Vedantam, Shankar. "Polygraph Test Results Vary Among Agencies: Discrepancies Affect Security Clearances." Washington Post, 20 Jun. 2006, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
Vedantam, Shankar. "Polygraph Test Results Vary Among Agencies: Discrepancies Affect Security Clearances." Washington Post, 20 Jun. 2006, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
Differences in the way Intelligence Community members handle the polygraph leads to one agency accepting an individual and another turning that person down. "Even those who believe in the value of polygraphs acknowledge that they are far from objective. Using a polygraph device ... is like searching in a dark room for an object whose shape is unknown. It is the examiner's job not only to figure out if someone is a spy but also to search for character flaws or past actions... that might make a person unfit to handle sensitive information."
[GenPostCW/00s/06]
Vego, Milan. The Battle for Leyte, 1944: Allied and Japanese Plans, Preparations, and Execution. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2006.
Kruh, Cryptologia 30.4 (Oct. 2006), finds that this work "addresses all aspects of the two-month-long ground, sea, air invasion and presents a complete evaluation of theater-wide command, organization, intelligence, and logistics."
[WWII/FEPac/Battles]
Vego, Milan N. "Operational Deception in the Information Age." Joint Force Quarterly 30 (Spring 2002): 60-66.
"New information technologies and techniques increase rather than reduce opportunities for deception, allowing both attackers and defenders greater choice of methods."
[GenPostwarIinfoWar; MI/Deception]
Velazquez, Loreta J. Ed., C.J. Worthington. The Woman in Battle: A Narrative of the Exploits, Adventures, and Travels
of Madam Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Otherwise Known as Lieutenant Harry T.
Buford, Confederate States Army. Hartford, CT: Belknap, 1876. [http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usamhi/RefBibs/intell/civwar.htm]
[CivWar/Conf/Women; Women]
Verbitsky, Anatole, and Dick Adler. Sleeping with Moscow: The Authorized Account of the KGB's Bungled Infiltration of the FBI by Two of the Soviet Union's Most Unlikely Operatives. New York: Shapolsky, 1987. [Petersen]
[FBI/To90s/Miller; Russia/SovSpies/Gen; SpyCases/U.S./Gen]
Verhaegen, Alix. "Belgium Security Service (BSS) [Sûreté de l'Etat (SE)]." Intelligence Watch Report Quarterly 2, no. 1 (1995): 3-5.
This article covers the basic organizational and functional structure of the Belgian civilian intelligence agency. The main problem identified by the author is the absence of "properly defined laws to state it's [sic] mission." There are no footnotes or bibliography.
[OtherCountries/Belgium][c]
Vermaat, J.A. Emerson. "The East German Secret Service Structure and Operational Focus." Conflict Quarterly 7, no. 3 (Fall 1987): 44-57. [Calder]
[Germany/East]
Verrier, Anthony. Agents of Empire: Anglo-Zionist Intelligence Operations, 1915-1919; Brigadier Walter Gribbon, Aaron Aaronsohn and the NILI Ring. Washington, DC: Brassey's, 1995.
According to Surveillant 4.2, Verrier uses Brig. Walter Gribbon's private papers and Aaron Aaronsohn's diaries to tell the story of a collaboration that "set in motion an intelligence operation which greatly helped General Allenby defeat the Turkish Army in the Levant, giving Britain its 'moment' in the Middle East and lay[ing] the foundations for a Zionist state."
[Israel; WWI/UK/ME]
Vert, Patrick du Morne. Mission Oxygène. Paris: Filipacchi, 1987.
[France/RainbowWarrior]
[Vertefeuille, Jeanne.] "Jeanne Vertefeuille's Address at CIRA Luncheon, 5 May 1997." CIRA Newsletter 22, no 2 (Summer 1997): 3-5.
Vertefeuille, who figures prominently in David Wise's Nightmover, worked in the Counterintelligence Center on the Ames case. In this talk, Vertefeuille addresses "myths and misperceptions" surrounding the case.
[SpyCases/U.S./Ames][c]
Verton, Daniel [Federal Computer Week].
Vespa, Amleto.
1. Secret Agent in Japan: A Handbook to Japanese Imperialism. Boston: Little, Brown, 1938.
Wilcox identifies this work as the autobiography of a "Japanese secret agent prior to World War II."
2. Espionage in the Far East: White Russians and White Slavers. [UK]: Allborough Publishing, 1992. Vol. 1 of the Allborough Espionage Series.
Surveillant 2.5 says this is a new edition of the 1938 book.
[Japan/PreWWII; Russia/Interwar]
Vessels, Ethan T. [2LT/USA] "Pillar of Intelligence Training: The 11th MI Brigade." Military Intelligence 21, no. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1995): 42-44.
[MI/Training][c]
Vest, Jason, and Wayne Madsen. "A Most Unusual Collection Agency: How the U.S. Undid UNSCOM Through Its Empire of Electronic Ears." Village Voice, 2 Mar. 1999, 46-48, 52. [http://www.villagevoice.com]
According to multiple sources, "the U.S. government's prime mover in Iraqi electronic surveillance was most likely a super-secret organization run jointly by the the CIA and the NSA ... called the Special Collection Service."
Clark comment: This lengthy article -- full of "it is possibles," speculation from supposedly "informed" non-government personnel, Scott Ritter charges, and Mike Frost "exposes" -- includes a brief discussion ("The Radome Archipelago," p. 48) of NSA Sigint acitivities and concludes with a list of "locations of ... ground-based" NSA sites around the world.
[GenPostwar/90s/UN-Iraq; NSA/Sigint]
Vetterling, Philip, and Avis Waring. "Tonnage Through Tibet." Studies in Intelligence 7, no. 2 (Spring 1963): 1-25.
The author discusses a methodology for estimating "the size of military force that can be supported" in campaigns that are "dependant on supply by road." The central example is the "Communist Chinese threat along the northeastern border of India."
[Analysis/Est & China]
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