Waagenaar, Sam. The Murder of Mata Hari. London: Arthur Barker, 1964.
Waagenaar, Sam. The Murder of Mata Hari. London: Arthur Barker, 1964.
Wheeler, IJI&C 1.3, says this is the "only reasonable study" of Mata Hari. Its author is "an amateur historian."
[France/WWI]
Wade, Alexander G. Spies Today. London: S. Paul, 1939.
Peake (in personal correspondence) notes that this book "focuses on the interwar period and the threat of German spies in England that turned out to be overrated. The singular feature of the book is that it is one of the first to have chapters on women spies and assert that they can do just as good a job as men."
[UK/Interwar/Gen]
Wadhams, Nick. "Former KGB Chief Chebrikov Dead." Associated Press, 2 Jul. 1999.
Viktor Chebrikov, who headed the KGB from 1982 to 1988, has died. Chebrikov presided over the KGB "during one of the most infamous incidents in the Cold War, the shooting down of Korean Airlines Flight 007 in Russia's Far East in 1983"; 269 people died.
[Russia/99]
Wagner, Arthur L. The Service of Security and Information. Kansas City, MO: Hudson-Kimberly, 1893. 3d ed., 1896. 9th ed., 1903. 14th ed. Kansas City, MO: Franklin Hudson, n.d.
According to Constantinides, this multi-edition work by the head of the War Department's Bureau of Military Intelligence was primarily a "tactical military manual covering such military practices and methods as reconnaissance, patrols, and advance and rear guards." He treats intelligence as an arm of military operations.
[Historical/1865-1918; MI/Overviews][c]
Wagner, Donald C. [COL/USAF (Ret.)] "An All-Source Collection Management Process." Defense Intelligence Journal 2, no. 1 (Spring 1993): 81-92.
"The current, single-discipline, stovepipe process makes it difficult if not impossible to determine how well all US intelligence activities fulfill the intelligence need.... The needs expressed by military commanders for more responsive intelligence to the several changing threat situations that exist in the current world environment dictate use of an all-source approach." The author gives a hypothetical "example of all-source interaction activities using seven complementary subdisciplines as they could be applied against a typical military intelligence problem."
[MI; Reform/Mil/Gen][c]
Wagner, Helmut. Schöne Grüsse aus Pullach: Operationen des BND gegen die DDR. Berlin: edition ost/Das Neue Berlin, 2001.
According to Maddrell, I&NS 18.1, the author "was for 30 years an officer in the MfS' Line II..., the main element in the MfS' counter-espionage service." The work "is strongest on the ... last 10 or 15 years of the DDR's life."
[Germany/East]
Wagner, J. Richard, and Daniel J. O'Neill. "The Gouzenko Affair and the Civility Syndrome." American Review of Canadian Studies 8 (Spring 1978): 31-43.
[Canada]
Wagnleitner, Reinhold. Coca-Colanization and the Cold War: The Cultural Mission of the United States in Austria after the Second World War. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
[GenPostwar/CW; OtherCountries/Austria]
Wahlers, Stuart. "Rumors." Military Intelligence 17 (Jul.-Sep. 1991): 22-27. [Seymour]
[MI/Deception]
Wainstock, Dennis D. The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996.
Giangreco, Parameters, Autumn 1999, finds that "Wainstock's work has a rough, uneven quality to it," but represents "an honest effort to examine all sides of the subject." Overall, the work suffers from the author's "lack of familiarity with the military dimensions of the conflict."
For Tate, Air & Space Power, http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil, this "well-written, highly documented" work presents an "extraordinarily balanced and riveting account of the ... maneuvering that took place on both sides of the Pacific and within Stalin's Soviet Union, resulting in the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan."
[WWII/FE/Pac/Bomb]
Wait, Patience. "NGA Releases 2007 Priorities." Federal Computer Week, 16 Mar. 2007. [http://www.fcw.com]
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's 2007 Statement of Strategic Intent spells out the agency’s priorities. "Those priorities are:
"* Unifying NGA and the National System for Geospatial Intelligence and strengthening its partnerships across the intelligence community.
"* Advancing the geospatial intelligence mission, 'help win the fight.'
"* Attracting, challenging and retaining the highest-quality workforce in first-class working environments.
"NGA’s plans also include building, populating and maintaining a Geospatial-Intelligence Knowledge Base, a virtual central repository for geospatial intelligence data and information. The agency also outlined its intention to develop a research and development road map aligned with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s Scientific and Technical Plan to pursue technology breakthroughs that can address enduring problems in securing intelligence. NGA stressed its intention to make use of all sources of geospatial information, including commercial, foreign and national satellite collection, and to speed up establishing standards for sensor data, metadata, compression formats and file identifiers, to facilitate information sharing."
[MI/NGA/00s]
Wake, Nancy. The White Mouse. Melbourne: Macmillan, 1985.
Nancy Wake-Fiocca ("Andreé") was an Australian national who was living in Marseilles when France fell in June 1940. She joined the Resistance and had to flee France when the escape organization with which she was working was rolled up in March 1943. She parachuted back into France as an SOE liaison with the Maquis in March 1944. Cookridge, Inside SOE, p. 355. See also Russell Braddon, The White Mouse (New York: Norton, 1957), and Peter Fitzsimons, Nancy Wake (London: HarperCollins, 2002).
[UK/WWII/SOE; Women/WII/UK; WWII/Eur/Fr]
Wakeman, Frederic, Jr. Spymaster: Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003.
Kruh, Cryptologia 28.2, says that this "comprehensive biography ... opens a unique window on the clandestine history of China's Republican period." The author "masterfully illuminates a previously little-understood world as he discloses the details of Chinese secret service trade-craft."
For Rawnsley, I&NS 19.2, "this detailed and exceptional biography ... makes an important contribution to the study of Chinese history." The author's "lucid narrative and descriptive prowness bring to life the structures" of Chiang Kai-shek's powers. The author "has written what is sure to become the definitive analysis of Chinese intelligence in the first half " of the 20th century.
Unsinger, IJI&C 18.1 (Spring 2005), finds that this book "provides background material and some idea of just how the BIS [Bureau of Investigation and Statistics] functioned." However, it has sourcing problems: "some cited sources would be difficult to justify.... Still others are questionable.... Other sources seem to be indicators of possible bias."
To Henderson, IJI&C 18.3 (Fall 2005), this "masterly-written biography ... is a tour de force.... It also provides an excellent background survey of internal Chinese politics" from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s.
[China/Gen]
Walcott, John. "Mission Impossible? Anthony Lake Will Be Taking on a Demoralized, Recalcitrant CIA." Washington Post National Weekly Edition, 16-22 Dec. 1996, 23.
The title and subtitle give a clear impression of the thrust of this article; the focus is less on Lake than on what the writer perceives to be problems with the clandestine service.
[CIA/90s/97/Lake]
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