Wubben, H.H. "The Maintenance of Internal Security in Iowa, 1861-1865." Civil War History 10, no. 4 (Dec. 1964): 401-415.
Wubben, H.H. "The Maintenance of Internal Security in Iowa, 1861-1865." Civil War History 10, no. 4 (Dec. 1964): 401-415.
Security concerns to state officials included the southern border countries with Missouri and the state's vocal Copperhead minority. "Iowa's officialdom and its loyalist citizens consistently exaggerated both threats."
[CivWar/Conf/CA]
Wyatt, Ray A. Yank Down Under: From America's Heartland to Australia's Outback. Manhattan, KS: Sunflower University Press, 1999.
According to Kruh, Cryptologia 24.1, the author served as an intercept operator with MacArthur's Headquarters in Melbourne, as chief operator of the Advanced Headquarters Signal Corps station in Darwin, and at the Signal Center in New Guinea. This "is a fabulous story with many wartime photographs."
[WWII/FE/Pac/Australia]
Wyden, Peter. Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979. London: Jonathan Cape, 1979.
Pforzheimer notes that although critical of the CIA, the book has its supporters. Overall, Wyden's work "is flawed by errors" and should be approached "with circumspection."
Constantinides sees that the "force of momentum in operations and self-fulfillment in planning, flaws in security[] and intelligence estimates are highlighted.... Though there are good looks into CIA thinking, it cannot be said Wyden explored this aspect thoroughly."
[CIA/60s/BoP]
Wyden, Peter. Day
One: Before Hiroshima and After. New York: 1984.
[WWII/FE/Pac/Bomb]
Wylde, N.M., ed. The Story of Brixmis, 1946-1990. London: Brixmis Association, 1993.
Aldrich, I&NS 11.1, comments that this book represents "the combined recollections of personnel" who served with the British Military Liaison Mission (Brixmis) in East Germany from 1946 to 1990. Brixmis "deployed a greater number of personnel with passes to travel around East Germany[] than either of the equivalent American or French Missions." This is an "invaluable addition" to the literature.
See also Tony Geraghty, BRIXMIS (1996).
[UK/Postwar]
Wylie, Neville. "'An Amateur Learns His Job?' Special Operations Executive in Portugal, 1940-1942." Journal of Contemporary History 36, no. 3 (2001): 455-471.
[WWII/Eur/Other/Portugal; UK/WWII/Services/SOE]
Wylie, Neville.
1. Britain, Switzerland, and the Second World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Alvarez, I&NS 19.1, says that the author has produced "a comprehensive survey of Anglo-Swiss wartime relations.... The treatment of Swiss political and diplomatic personalities is especially illuminating." The chapter on British covert operations in Switzerland has "more detail on the cryptanalytic successes of Bletchley Park (which managed to crack several Swis cyphers) and the covert operations" of SOE than on SIS' clandestine intelligence operations.
2. "'Keeping the Swiss Sweet': Intelligence as a Factor in British Policy towards Switzerland during the Second World War." Intelligence and National Security 11, no. 3 (Jul. 1996): 442-467.
"Between the summer of 1940 and early 1943, Britain's intelligence community exercised a powerful, and at times crucial, influence over the evolution of British policy towards Switzerland.... Critical to the success of Britain's intelligence operations in Switzerland was the benevolence of the Federal political and security forces."
[UK/WWII/Overviews/Gen; WWII/Eur/Other]
Wylie, Neville. "'The Importance of Being Honest': Switzerland, Neutrality and the Problems of Intelligence Collection and Liaison." Intelligence and National Security 21, no 5 (Oct. 2006): 782-808.
The period since the end of the Cold War has seen the Swiss intelligence community undergo a "profound transformation[].... The new emphasis given to international cooperation in the country's defence and security policy has impacted directly on the field of secret intelligence."
[OtherCountries/Switzerland]
Wylie, Neville. "Ungentlemanly Warriors or Unreliable Diplomats? Special Operations Executive and 'Irregular Political Activities' in Europe." Intelligence and National Security 20, no 1 (Mar. 2005): 98-120.
"SOE's experience in political activities over the course of the war lacked consistency and coherence.... The government's refusal to maintain SOE in business after the war was symptomatic of its reluctance to accept that 'irregular political activities' had a place in British peacetime foreign relations in the middle of the twentieth century."
[UK/WWII/Services/SOE/I&NS & SOE/Gen]
Wylie, Neville, ed. European Neutrals and Non-Belligerents during the Second World War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
From advertisement: The articles in this collection "focus on how individual neutral governments perceived international developments and reveal the domestic political circumstances that critically affected their response to the course of the war."
[WWII/Eur/Other]
Wylie, Neville, ed. The Politics and Strategy of Clandestine War: Special Operations Executive, 1940-1946. New York: Routledge, 2007.
Peake, Studies 51.3 (2007), finds that by exploiting the SOE's wartime files that were released to the public in the late 1990s, Wylie and his contributors have produced "a welcome contribution."
[UK/WWII/Services/SOE]
Wylie, Neville, ed. "Special Issue on Special Operaitons Executive -- New Approaches and Perspectives." Intelligence and National Security 20, no 1 (Mar. 2005): Entire issue.
Click for Table of Contents.
[UK/WWII/Services/SOE/I&NS]
Wylie, Paula. Ireland and the Cold War: Recognition and Diplomacy 1949-1963. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2006.
From publisher: "Arguing that Irish foreign policy in the area of recognition was based on the flexibility required of small state diplomacy..., the author's research in the area of Ireland's approach toward emerging and reconstituted states illustrates the high level of professionalism, commitment and administrative consistency within the Department of External Affairs in the administration of foreign policy."
[OtherCountries/Ireland]
Wyman, Janet. Secrets, Lies, Gizmos, and Spies: A History of Spies and Espionage. New York: Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2006.
This work was published in conjunction with the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, and is targeted at the 9-12 age group. Engberg, Booklist (via Amazon.com), comments that "[h]eavily illustrated pages introduce legendary spies through the ages, the techniques of the trade, and glossaries of terms, including spy agencies around the world.... The format is jumbled, with references sometimes appearing pages before they are fully explained, and there are no source notes or index to support the text."
[Overviews/Gen/00s]
Wyn, Humphrey. RAF Nuclear Deterrent Forces. London: HMSO, 1994.
[UK/Postwar/Nukes]
Wynne, Greville.
1. The Man from Moscow: The Story of Wynne and Penkovsky. London: Hutchinson, 1967. Contact on Gorky Street. New York: Atheneum, 1968.
Clark comment: Wynne's account of his involvement with Penkovsky should in all instances be crosschecked with Schecter and Deriabin, The Spy Who Saved the World.
Pforzheimer identifies this book as a "British agent's first-hand, though somewhat colored, account of his missions to Moscow to contact Colonel Penkovskiy."
For Constantinides, "the principal value of Wynne's account is ... that it is the only first-hand one on this important espionage case. It contains examples of good tradecraft required for the secure handling of a sensitive agent in a hostile environment. Concurrently, he alleges instances of questionable security and tradecraft."
2. The Man from Odessa. London: Hale, 1981.
Rocca and Dziak: "An autobiographical introduction to Wynne's role in the Penkovskiy case. It also includes new material" that is "difficult to cross-check." (See Clark comment above for The Man from Moscow.)
[CIA/60s/Penkovsky]
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