Vogel, Steve. "Charting a Military Course: After Cartographic Consolidation, Mapping Agency Is Aiding Forces in the Balkans." Washington Post, 9 May 1999, A21. [http://www. washingtonpost.com]
Vogel, Steve. "Charting a Military Course: After Cartographic Consolidation, Mapping Agency Is Aiding Forces in the Balkans." Washington Post, 9 May 1999, A21. [http://www. washingtonpost.com]
The National Imagery and Mapping Agency sits in a "secluded defense compound near MacArthur Boulevard and the Potomac River.... About 3,000 employees work in the Bethesda compound.... NIMA [also] has 1,000 employees in several other facilities throughout the Washington area, including the District, Reston, Fort Belvoir and Chantilly. Some of the agency's most sensitive work is done inside Building 213 [home of the former NPIC] at the Washington Navy Yard, where analysts study imagery collected by satellites....
"NIMA, commanded by a three-star Army general, is a hybrid, both an intelligence agency and a combat support agency for the Pentagon.... The agency was born in 1996 from a controversial effort to streamline intelligence gathering, in part because commanders during the Persian Gulf War had trouble getting useful and timely satellite intelligence.... NIMA incorporates all of the former Defense Mapping Agency,... as well as all or portions of six other agencies, including the CIA's photographic intelligence center, the National Reconnaissance Office, and the Defense Intelligence Agency."
[GenPostCW/90s/ChiEmb]
Vogel, Steve, and John Mintz. "Translator Accused of Spying: U.S. Airman Worked With Guantanamo Detainees." Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2003, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
According to officials on 23 September 2003, Senior Airman Ahmad I. Halabi, "[a] U.S. Air Force translator who worked with al Qaeda and Taliban detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison[,] has been charged with spying for Syria." Military authorities allege that Halabi "attempted to deliver sensitive information to Syria, including more than 180 notes from prisoners, a map of the installation, the movement of military aircraft to and from the base, intelligence documents and the names and cellblock numbers of captives at the prison in Cuba."
[SpyCases/U.S./Gitmo]
Vogel, Steve, and Walter Pincus. "Weather Obstructing Survey of Missile Strike Site." Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2002, A17. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
Gen. Tommy R. Franks, head of the U.S. Central Command, said on 7 February 2002 that "[b]ad weather is preventing U.S. military forces from surveying the site of a CIA-launched missile strike in eastern Afghanistan to verify whether a senior al Qaeda leader and other members of the terrorist network were killed....
"The attack [on 4 February 2002] near Zhawar Kili ... was launched by an armed Predator surveillance drone operated by the CIA. The Predator had ... followed for two days a convoy of suburban utility vehicles.... [T]he vehicles were parked at a previously known al Qaeda camp and the officers noticed a group, protected by security personnel.... With no U.S. fighter aircraft in the vicinity, the CIA officers fired a Hellfire missile at the group."
[Terrorism/02/War]
Vogel, Thomas T., Jr., and Matt Moffett. "Hostage Crisis Tarnishes Peru Spymaster." Wall Street Journal, 28 Jan. 1997, A12.
ProQuest: "Vladimiro Montesinos became a legend as the mastermind of [Peru's] anti-insurgency strategy." However, Peru's victory over the Shining Path guerrillas "has been compromised" by the hostage situation at Japan's Embassy in Lima. "Many Peruvians are blaming Montesinos and an intelligence apparatus that became increasingly distracted from its duties by infighting and alleged dirty tricks."
[LA/Peru]
Volck, Adalbert J. The Work of Adalbert
Johann Volck. Baltimore, MD: George McCullough Anderson, 1970. [Petersen]
[CivWar/Conf/Related]
Volckman, Russell W. We Remained: Three Years behind the Enemy Line in the Philippines.
New York: Norton, 1954. [Petersen]
[WWII/FE/Pac/Philippines]
Volmer,
Louis. "East Europe's Espionage and Terrorism Maze." International
Freedom Review 4, no. 1 (1990): 5-28. [Petersen]
[Terrorism]
Vomécourt, Philippe de. Who Lived to See the Day: France in Arms, 1940-1945. London: Hutchinson, 1961.
[WWII/Eur/Fr]
Von Bülow, Mathilde. "Myth or Reality? The Red Hand and French Covert Action in Federal Germany during the Algerian War, 1956-61." Intelligence and National Security 22, no. 6 (Dec. 2007): 787 – 820.
From abstract: "This article argues that the attacks on West German territory were executed neither by vigilantes nor by renegade agents. Instead, they were carried out by the French foreign intelligence service SDECE with the full approval of the highest political authorities in Paris.... The article will show that the Red Hand served merely as a cover to detract from the state's resort to such violent and criminal means."
[France/Postwar; Germany/West]
von Hassell, Agostino, and Sigrid MacRae. Alliance of Enemies: The Untold Story of the Secret American and German Collaboration to End World War II. New York: St. Martin's, 2006.
From publisher: This work tells the "history of the secret World War II relationship between Nazi Germany's espionage service, the Abwehr, and the American OSS." It "fills a huge void in our knowledge of the hidden, layered warfare -- and the attempts for peace -- of World War II."
Pinck, OSS Society Newsletter (Spring 2007), calls this "an outstanding book, buttressed by hard rock research, fairness, a felicitous style -- and facts, facts, facts."
For Peake, Studies 51.3 (2007), this work provides a needed narrative on the "backgrounds, positions, motivations, conflicts or, in many cases, the[] executions" of German plotters against Hitler.
Boghardt, DIJ 16.2 (2007), sees Alliance of Enemies as "a well-researched, persuasively argued account of German opposition to the Nazi regime.... The authors contend that active Allied support of the German Resistance through intelligence channels could have tipped the balance in favor of the conspirators."
[WWII/Eur/Germany/Resistance]
Von Hassell, Agostino. Strike Force: U.S. Marine Corps Special Operations. Charlottesville,
VA: Howell Press, 1991. [Gibish]
[MI/Marines & SpecOps]
Von Hoene, John P.A. Intelligence User's Guide. Washington, DC: DIA, 1983.
[WhatIsIntel?]
Von Meding, Dorothee. Tr., Michael Balfour. Courageous Hearts: Women and the Anti-Hitler Plot of 1944. Oxford and Providence, RI: Berghahn, 1997.
According to Flynn, History 26.2, the author "presents the life stories of eleven women who were the wives or friends" of conspirators in the 20 July Hitler assassination plot. The book is based on the women's memories as recorded in television interviews.
[Women/WWII/Other; WWII/Eur/Ger/Res]
Voska, Emanuel Victor, and William Irwin. Spy and Counterspy. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1940. London: Harrap, 1941.
According to Constantinides, Voska ran a Czechoslovak-based counterintelligence organization in the United States prior to the U.S. entry into World War I. He placed his organization at the disposal of British intelligence, and after 1915 cooperated with the FBI as well. See also, Willert, The Road to Safety (1952).
[WWI/U.S.]
Votaw, John F. United States Military Attaches, 1885-1919: The American Army Matures in the International Arena. PhD dissertation. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University, 1991. UB260V67
http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usamhi/RefBibs/intell/1900-39.htm: Includes a list of more than 200 attaches at pp. 235-241.
[MI/Attaches]
"Vulture." "Vulture's Row: Air Force Intelligence to Get a Three Star Leader." Naval Intelligence Professionals Quarterly 22, no. 1 (Jan. 2006): 17.
On 26 October 2005, "USAF Chief of Staff General T. Michael Moseley announced two major organizational changes.... [H]e will appoint a three-star officer to lead the intelligence field" and will "increase end-strength and stand up separate intelligence directorates in USAF Headquarters around the world." [emphasis in original]
[MI/AF/00s]
"Vulture." "Vulture's Row: Aussie Eyes Are Smiling." Naval Intelligence Professionals Quarterly 22, no. 1 (Jan. 2006): 16.
Australian Prime Minister Howard had concluded a new agreement with the United States on intelligence sharing. The "arrangement reportedly grants Canberr access to all levels of raw US intelligence, assessments and real-time operational information for planning." [emphasis in original]
[Australia/00s]
Vyborny, Lee, and Don Davis. Dark Waters: An Insider’s Account of the NR-1, the Cold War’s Undercover Nuclear Sub. New York: New American Library, 2003.
Murray, NWCR 56.4, notes that "Vyborny was a new-construction plank-owner and member of the first commissioning crew of the U.S. Navy’s small nuclear-powered submarine NR-1.... Overall, the book well rewards its readers, but unevenly." The authors’ depiction of the routine when operating NR-1 is "masterful." But, "[a]s good as their depictions of the ordinary are, Vyborny and David convey the dangers of NR-1’s unusual and exceptional missions and experiences in a less forceful and riveting manner." Nonetheless, this "insider account of how NR-1’s first crews built and operated their ship fully pays back the reader’s investment."
[MI/Navy/To90s]
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