Wiant, John. A. "Reflections on Mail-Order Tradecraft: The Sears Catalog." Studies in Intelligence 37, no. 5 (1994): 59-61.
Wiant, John. A. "Reflections on Mail-Order Tradecraft: The Sears Catalog." Studies in Intelligence 37, no. 5 (1994): 59-61.
The author finds an alternative way to pay indigenous agents in Vietnam in 1966-1967.
[CIA/60s/Gen & Components/Tradecraft]
Wiarda,
Howard J. American Foreign Policy Toward Latin America in the 80s and
90s: Issues and Controversies from Reagan to Bush. New York: New York
University Press, 1992. F1418W648
[LA/Gen]
Wichtrich, A.R. MIS-X: Top Secret. Raleigh, NC: Pentland Press, 1997.
Seamon, Proceedings, Aug. 1998, notes that the author commanded the Air Ground Aid Section (AGAS), "a covert Army intelligence outfit that operated in China through most of World War II and helped to rescue some 900 U.S. aviators who had been shot down or crash landed."
[WWII/FE/Pac/CBI]
Wicker, Tom. "Destroy the Monster." New York Times, 12 Sep. 1975, 33.
[CIA/70s/Gen]
Wicker,
Tom. "The Truth Is Needed" New York Times, 24 Dec. 1974, 19.
[Reform]
Wicker,
Tom. "What Have They Done Since They Shot Dillinger?" New York
Times Magazine (28 Dec. 1969): 4-7, 14-15, 18-19, 28-29.
[FBI]
Wickham, John A., Jr. [GEN/USA (Ret.)] "The Intelligence Role in Desert Storm." Signal, Apr. 1991, 12 ff. [http://www.us.net/signal]
[MI/Ops/90s/DesertStorm]
Wickham-Crowley,
Timothy P. Guerrillas and Revolution in Latin America: A Comparative Study of Insurgents and Regimes Since 1956. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993.
[LA/Gen]
Widder, Arthur. Adventures in Black: The Inside Story of Undercover Agents, Espionage, and Counterespionage Activities -- from the Civil War to the Present.
New York: Harper & Row, 1962.
[Overviews/U.S./Older]
Wideman, John C. The Sinking of the USS Cairo. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1993.
Tidwell, April '65, fn. 27, p. 227: This is "an excellent account of [Zere] McDaniel's relationship with the Confederate secret service."
[CivWar/Conf/IntelRelated]
Widen, J.J. "The Wennerström Spy Case: A Western Perspective." Intelligence and National Security 21, no. 6 (Dec. 2006): 931-958.
This article provides "a description of Wennerström as a Soviet spy, the counter-intelligence cooperation between Sweden and the Western powers during the investigation of the case and an evaluation of the damage done to Western interests due to Wennerström's espionage."
[OtherCountries/Sweden/Wennerstrom]
Widener, Andrea. "Anti-Spy Work Complex. Safeguards: Security Measures Are Not Like Movie Dramatics." San Jose Mercury News, 19 Apr. 1999. [http://www7.mercurycenter.com]
A quicky view of security measures at Los Alamos national laboratory.
[OtherAgencies/DOE]
Widlake, Patrick. "National Reconnaissance Leadership for the 21st Century: Lessons from the NRO's Heritage." National Reconnaissance: Journal of the Discipline and Practice (2005-U1): 19-34. [A scanned version is available at http://www.fas.org/irp/nro/journal/index.html]
"[T]he intelligence priorities of the 21st century constitute a difficult targeting challenge for [NRO satellite] systems that were optimal for Cold War era spying.... The insurgents aligned against the U.S. in its ongoing combat operations pose, in many ways, a more difficult reconnaissance challenge than the one faced by reconnaissance pioneers....
"The key lessons [from the past] for national reconnaissance leadership to consider are: cooperation between government and its industry partners helped leverage success; a strong industrial base is essential for knowledge and production; access to leadership at the highest levels can garner the support for research and development that increases the chances for program success; leaders and scientists must rekindle the creative spark; and risk is integral to achieving technological breakthroughs."
[NRO/00s/05]
Wiebes, Cees. "Dutch Sigint during the Cold War, 1945-94." Intelligence and National Security 16, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 243-284.
The author views his article as "as a real first attempt to reconstruct the Sigint history" of the Mathematical Centre (WKC)/Technical Information Collection Centre (TIVC) during the Cold War.
[OtherCountries/Netherlands]
Wiebes, Cees. Intelligence and the War in Bosnia, 1992-1995. Amsterdam: Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, 2002. Hamburg and London: LIT Verlag, 2003. Piscataway, NJ: Transaction, 2003.
The author provides this description of his work: Intelligence and the War in Bosnia, 1992-1995 "includes chapters on sharing of intelligence with the UN, plus US, British, Canadian and European Intelligence operations in Bosnia and Croatia, Human Intelligence, Imint, Sigint (2 chapters including NSA operations} and Covert Operations. It is based on top secret Dutch intel. archives plus (de)classified US, UK, Canadian, Bosnian and UN documents."
According to Jonkers, AFIO WIN 26-02, 1 Jul. 2002, the author had "unrestricted access to the Dutch intelligence community to prepare an intelligence report as an Annex to the overall Dutch after-action report" regarding the participation of a Dutch Air Mobile Battalion in the UNPROFOR mission in Bosnia. The report provides "a different perspective on the interplay of foreign attitudes and capabilities with US intelligence and policy."
Peake, Studies 48.1, says that "[t]his book is not easy reading. The names are strange, the acronyms profuse, the political alignments complex, and the geography often confusing.... These shortcomings notwithstanding, it is an important work -- the most thorough treatment of the topic to date."
To Martyn, IJI&C 18.1 (Spring 2005), the author "is quite harsh in his indictment of the political leadership which sent the Dutch Battalion (DutchBat) into harm's way with inadequate intelligence support." In the telling of his story, "Wiebes gets maximum utility out of disparate, incomplete details." This work "is a thoroughly researched and thoughtful examination of this dark period in the history of multinational peacekeeping."
See also, Brendan O'Neill, "You are only allowed to see Bosnia in black and white," 23 Jan. 2004 at http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CA374.htm.
[MI/Ops/Bosnia; OtherCountries/Netherlands]
Wieck, Hans-Georg. "The GDR -- As Seen by the Federal German Foreign Intelligence Agency (BND) 1985-1990." Journal of Intelligence History 6, no. 1 (Summer 2006). [http://www.intelligence-history.org/jih/journal.html]
[Germany/West]
Wieck, Randolph. Ignorance Abroad: American Educational and Cultural Foreign Policy and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of State. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1992.
[CA/PsyOps]
Wiel, Jérôme aan de. "Austria-Hungary, France, Germany and the Irish Crisis from 1899 to the Outbreak of the First World War." Intelligence and National Security 21, no. 2 (Apr. 2006): 237-257.
From abstract: This "article argues that there was a definite 'Irish factor' in the events leading to the outbreak of the First World War, notably in Germany and Austria-Hungary's decision-making process."
[Germany/Historical; OtherCountries/Ireland/ToWWII]
Wiener, Jon. Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon-FBI Files. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000.
Carson, WPNWE, 3 Apr. 2000, is unimpressed by the author's contention that the FBI's surveillance of Lennon succeeded in neutralizing him as a spokesman for dissent. Nonetheless, Lennon himself is not the focus of Weiner's book; rather, the story is about the effort to get Lennon's files from the FBI and how that shows the tenacity of government secrecy.
[FBI/Lennon]
Wighton, Charles. Pin-Stripe Saboteur: The Story of "Robin," British Agent and French Resistance Leader. London: Odhams, 1959.
Constantinides notes that the basic premise of this work seems to be in error, as "Robin," the organizer of the Juggler Resistance network, was not Jacques Weil, as identified by the author, but Jean Worms.
[WWII/Eur/Fr/Res]
Wighton, Charles. The
World's Greatest Spies: True-Life Dramas of Outstanding Secret Agents.
New York: Taplinger, 1962. [Petersen]
[Overviews/Gen/Older]
Wighton, Charles, and Gunter Peis. Hitler's Spies and Saboteurs -- Based on the German Secret Service War Diary of General Lahousen. New York: Holt, 1958.
According to Pforzheimer, Studies 5.2 (Spring 1961), Lahousen "headed the Abwehr's sabbotage section" during part of World war II.
[WWII/Eur/Ger/Ops]
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