Weadon, Patrick D.
Weale, Adrian. Secret Warfare: Special Operations from the Great Game to the SAS. London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1997.
[UK/WWII/Services/SAS]
Weaver, Jay. "FIU Couple Plead Guilty in Cuba Spy Case." Miami Herald, 19 Dec. 2006. [http://www.miami.com]
"[F]ormer Florida International University [FIU] professor Carlos Alvarez pleaded guilty [on 19 December 2006] to conspiring to be an unregistered agent who informed on the Cuban exile community for the communist government of Fidel Castro. His wife, Elsa, an FIU counselor on leave, also pleaded guilty in Miami federal court to being aware of his illegal activity, harboring him and failing to disclose it to authorities.... The plea agreements ... mean that Carlos Alvarez faces up to five years in prison and his wife, Elsa, up to three years at their sentencing," which is set for 27 February 2007. Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Axelrod "said Carlos Alvarez's involvement with the Cuba intelligence service began in 1977, noting he gathered information in Miami 'on prominent people, community attitudes, political developments and current events of interest to the Cuban government.'"
[SpyCases/U.S./Other]
Weaver, William G., and Robert M. Pallitto. "State Secrets and Executive Power." Political Science Quarterly 120, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 85-112.
[GenPostCW/00s/Gen]
Webb, Gary.
1. "Dark Alliance." San Jose Mercury News, 18 Aug. 1996 [from Mercury Center Web site at http://www.sjmercury.com/].
Clark comment: This is the original article, followed by two additional pieces in the series, that launched the idea that California cocaine dealers who claimed connections with the Nicaraguan Contra rebels were responsible for introducing crack cocaine into black neighborhoods in the 1980s. The drug trafficking was supposedly condoned by the CIA because the dealers were helping to fund the Contras. The story launched a fire storm of criticism and investigation, and still resonates throughout the African-American community. The fact that it was patently false in its implications and perhaps false even in its basic outline seemingly was irrelevant to the story's lifecycle.
Referring to the power and effect of myth, Abraham H. Miller, "How the CIA Fell Victim to Myth Posing as Journalism," International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 10, no. 3 (Fall 1997), 257-268, makes a valiant effort to explain the unexplainable. Whether Miller has the answer or not, his hypothesis is better than most. See also, Abraham H. Miller, "The CIA and the Crack Cocaine Story: Fact or Fiction?" The World and I, Feb. 1998, 304-317.
Interestingly, the original version of the story disappeared from the Mercury Center Web Site sometime around midyear 1997 (unwisely, I never copied it from that site). Miller notes that the story is still available at the Knight Ridder library site at http://newslibrary.infi.net/. (p. 266 and fn. 8, p. 267). More recently, again courtesy of Abraham Miller, the original series is again available at the Mercury Center Web Site: http://www1.sjmercury.com/drugs/ library/37.htm.
Clearly not one to let an attention-getting and/or moneymaking proposition slip away, Webb has turned his exercise in journalistic excess into a book (see below).
2. Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. New York: Seven Stories Press, 1998.
Even someone as anti-CIA as David Corn, Washington Post, 9 Aug 1998, has some problems with this book: Webb's "threshold of proof is on the low side. In one instance, he passes on ... the allegations of a drug dealer who claimed Vice President George Bush met with (and posed for a photo with) Colombian dealers to craft an agreement under which the traffickers could smuggle coke into America if they supplied weapons to the contras. And Webb is indiscriminating in his use of the term 'CIA agent,' making it appear as if Blandon and Meneses were dealing with James Bond-like officials of the CIA, when actually their contacts were Nicaraguan contras on the Agency payroll."
Abraham H. Miller, IJI&C 12.1, cuts Webb considerable slack in reviewing Dark Alliance: "Whatever one may think of his conclusions, or the inferential leaps that got him there, there is some excellent journalism" in the book, and Webb "strongly believes everything he has written." However, "in the final analysis, he is not convincing.... [T]he preponderance of evidence is against him."
[CIA/90s/96/Crack]
Webb, G. Gregg. "Effective Interagency Collaboration: Intelligence Liaison between the FBI and State, 1940-44." Studies in Intelligence 49, no. 3 (2005). Available at: http://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/vol49no3/html_files/index.html.
"In a community famous for its deep fissures and debilitating rivalries, the working relationship forged between the Department of State and the Special Intelligence Service of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Latin America during World War II is both unique and instructive."
[FBI/WWII]
Webb, G. Gregg. "New Insights into J. Edgar Hoover's Role: The FBI and Foreign Intelligence." Studies in Intelligence 48, no. 1 (2004): 45-58.
Established in 1940, the FBI's Special Intelligence Service (SIS) collected "political, economic, financial, and industrial intelligence throughout Central and South America" during World War II. The author argues that historians have attributed to Hoover "a more aggressive interest in expanding his purview overseas than the record supports."
[FBI/WWII]
Weber, Paul. On the Road to Rebellion: The United Irishmen and Hamburg, 1796-1803. Dublin: Four Courts, 1997.
[OtherCountries/Ireland]
Weberman, A.J. "Mind Control: The Story of Mankind Research Unlimited, Inc." Covert Action Information Bulletin 9 (June 1990): 15-21.
Far out, man, far out....
[CIA/Accusations]
Webster, Philip. "MI5 to Face Shake-Up in Spy Scandal." Times (London), 14 Sep. 1999. [http://www.the-times.co.uk]
On 13 September 1999, Home Secretary Jack Straw "ordered a shake-up of MI5 ... and an investigation into the way it and MI6 handled the Melita Norwood spy scandal." This came in the wake of the disclosure that the security services "had decided in 1992 without consulting ministers that Mrs Norwood ... should neither be prosecuted nor interviewed."
[UK/SpyCases/99/Fever]
Webster, Philip, Andrew Pierce, and Frances Gibb. "Straw Seeks Reason For MI5 Delay." Times (London), 13 Sep. 1999. [http://www.the-times.co.uk]
Home Secretary Jack Straw will meet with Stephen Lander, director-general of MI5, on 13 September 1999 "to try to clear up the mystery over why the KGB spy Melita Norwood was never prosecuted."
[UK/SpyCases/99/Fever]
Webster, William H. [Judge, D/FBI, DCI]
Webster, W. Russell [CDR/USCG]. "The Changing of the Guard." U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, Aug. 1996, 40-42.
"In high demand as a teacher and role model for emerging-nation navies, the U.S. Coast Guard also is working with the former Soviet Union's KGB Maritime Border Guards as it transitions to a more multimission organization. Mutually beneficial exchange efforts ... could enhance cooperation from search and rescue to airfield access."
[Russia][c]
Wedemeyer, Albert C. [GEN/USA] Wedemeyer Reports! New York: Devin-Adair, 1958.
[WWII/FE/Pac/CBI]
Weeks, Albert L. "The KGB: A Key Player in Kremlin Politics?" Journal of Defense and Diplomacy 7, no. 10 (Oct. 1989): 68-74.
[Russia/To89]
Weeks,
Albert L. "Yeltsin's Monopoly of the Security Organs." American
Intelligence Journal 14, no. 3 (Autumn/Winter 1993/1994): 55-59.
[Russia/90s][c]
Weems, Miner L. "Propaganda as an Instrument of Foreign Policy." Southern Quarterly 4, no. 2 (1966): 144-158.
[CA/Psyops]
Wege, Carl Anthony.
1. "Assad's Legions: The Syrian Intelligence Services." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 4, no. 1 (Spring 1990): 91-100.
2. "The Syrian Socialist Party: An Intelligence Asset?" International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 7, no. 3 (Fall 1994): 339-351.
The author argues that the Syrian Social Nationalist Party is an operational asset for Syrian intelligence services.
[OtherCountries/Arab][c]
Wege, Carl Anthony. "Iranian Intelligence Organizations." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 10, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 287-298.
The author finds that the Iranian government has become "an interwoven network of clerical factions and security organs." A reorganization of Iran's security architecture took place in the 1990s as a result of "a serious relationship with the Russians," specifically the Russian SVR. The regime's "clandestine operational abilities are significant in terms of covert weapons acquisition programs and state sponsored terrorism. Iranian agencies are at least adequate at internal security."
[OtherCountries/Iran][c]
Wegmann, Bodo. "German Intelligence Agencies: An Overview." Intelligence Watch Report Quarterly 2, no. 1 (1995): 13-15.
This is a nuts and bolts look at the German intelligence community -- BND, AfV, BSI, AfNBw, and MAD. It includes addresses and telephone numbers for the offices.
[Germany/PostCW]
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