Aid, Matthew M., and Cees Wiebes, eds.
Aid, Matthew M., and Cees Wiebes, eds.
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1. "Special Issue on 'Secrets of Signals Intelligence during the Cold War and Beyond.'" Intelligence and National Security 16, no. 1 (Spring 2001): Entire issue.
2. Secrets of Signals Intelligence during the Cold War and Beyond. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2001.
This volume comes out of a conference on "The Importance of Sigint in Western Europe during the Cold War 1945-1999," organized by the Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association (NISA) in Amsterdam in November 1999. ("Preface")
Andrew, "Foreword": This work brings together "a wider and more innovative range of material on the role of Sigint since the Second World War than has ever been published before."
For Jonkers, Intelligencer 13.1, this work is "very useful for understanding the worldwide intelligence world." The editors provide "a series of essays covering the US, British, Canadian, German, French, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Dutch SIGINT services and liaison programs."
Kruh, Cryptologia 26.2, sees "[t]his excellent book" as providing "an abundance of interesting information." It "should be read leisurely for maximum enjoyment."
Aldrich, Richard J. The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence. London: John Murray, 2001.
From advertisement: "What role did Western secret service play in the Cold War? For British Prime Ministers, secret service helped to sustain post-imperial influence and to protect interests with minimum costs and visibility.... For American Presidents,... secret service allowed the extension of the power of the President over American foreign policy."
From http://www.rsars.org.uk/aldrich.htm: This "study reveals that the major British aim in the Cold War was not to contain the Soviet Union, but instead to contain the danger of a hot war provoked by the US Air Force and the CIA."
Deighton, I&NS 17.1, calls this book "a delight to read." The work "is episodic, and only touches on the key moments of [the] period," but the author "combines scholarship with a light touch."
Aldrich, Richard J.,
Gary Rawnsley, and Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, eds.
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1. "Special Issue on 'The Clandestine Cold War in Asia, 1945-65: Western Intelligence, Propaganda and Special Operations.'" Intelligence and National Security 14, no. 4 (Winter 1999): entire issue.
2. The Clandestine Cold War in Asia, 1945-65: Western Intelligence, Propaganda and Special Operations. Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2000.
For Cohen, FA 79.6, this is a "dense but fascinating collection of essays.... Not a book for the general reader, but one definitely of interest to students of the subject."
Kruh, Cryptologia 24.4, comments that "[a]nyone interested in intelligence, propaganda, special operations and security in Asia's Cold War will find this comprehensive account thought-provoking."
Andrew, Christopher. "Intelligence and International Relations in the Early Cold War." Review of International Studies 24, no. 3 (1998): 321-330.
Aronsen, Lawrence R., and Martin Kitchen. The Origins of the Cold War in Comparative Perspective: Canadian, American and British Relations with Soviet Union, 1941-1948. London and Toronto: Saint Martin's, 1998.
Bacevich, Andrew J., ed. The Long War: A New History of U.S. National Security Policy Since World War II. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.
According to a publisher's note, this edited work covers the "Cold War, the post-Cold War interval of the 1990s, and today's 'Global War on Terrorism.'" The contributors "evaluate the evolution of the national-security apparatus and the role of dissenters who viewed the myriad activities of that apparatus with dismay."
Halcrow, Proceedings 133, no. 11 (Nov. 2007), calls this work "a remarkable collection of 12 essays ... by the foremost scholars in their field."
Ball, S.J. The Cold War: An International History, 1947-1991. London: Arnold, 1998.
Shryock, IJI&C 11.4, seems to be amazed by what is lacking in this book: "Ball ... has somehow managed to write a history of the protracted conflict between East and West ... without displaying any particular interest in the myriad activities of the principal combatants' intelligence services.... [I]n an omission that stretches a reviewer's credulity to the limit, he does not even note the existence ... of the Soviet Committee of State Security, the KGB."
In another omission, Ball is "oddly disinclined to recognize Eastern Europe as a major theater of war." Even with these lapses, the work represents "a good, brave try" to deal with a difficult subject; it is noteworthy that Ball "reveals no pervasive ideological bias."
Bowie, Robert, and Richard Immerman. Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Aldrich, I&NS 17.1/149/fn.4, says that this work "is interesting on Eisenhower's ambiguous message to his administration on the subject of roll-back."
Bundy, McGeorge. Danger
and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years. New York: Random House, 1988. New York: Vintage, 1988. [pb]
Petersen: "Detailed discussion of the missile gap question."
Bungert, Heike, Jan Heitmann, and Michael Wala, eds. Secret Intelligence in the Twentieth Century. Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2003.
Van Nederveen, Air & Space Power Journal, Spring 2004, notes that this work "examines German intelligence structures and policy as well as the attempts of other powers to gather intelligence about German states." Although some of the early essays "cover issues already known to most intelligence researchers,... one also finds real gems dealt with for the first time in print.... What makes this book unique, however, are the post–World War II pieces."
Carafano, James Jay. Waltzing into the Cold War: The Struggle for Occupied Austria. College Station, TX: Texas A&M Press, 2002.
Brown, I&NS 19.1, notes that the author believes that U.S. Forces, Austria (USFA) "misused intelligence to bolster the case for viewing the Soviet Union as a threat to American interests in Austria." However, in the end, the author does not supply satisfactory support for his assertion.
Cookridge,
E.H. Spy Trade. London: Hodder, 1971.
Chambers: "An examination of East-West spy exchanges. Cookridge is critical, but seems to avoid the ethical dilemma."
Cowley, Robert, ed. The Cold War: A Military History. New York: Random House, 2005.
Wilson, Proceedings 132.3 (Mar. 2006), sees this as a "first-rate collection of essays.... [S]ome of the finest writers and historians... discuss the relevance of ... important episodes and conflicts" during the Cold War.
Cradock, Percy [Sir]. Know Your Enemy: How the Joint Intelligence Committee Saw the World. London: John Murray, 2002.
Addison, History Today, 52.7, finds that the author, a former JIC chairman, "has written a sober and persuasive analysis" of the JIC's "less than infallible performance during a number of post-war crises.... But the Cold War is the main theme and, as he demonstrates, the JIC's advice was consistently sane and a calming influence during periods of tension."
For Unsinger, NIPQ 19.1/2, this "[i]nteresting and enlightening" book is "thoroughly researched and well-written." Similarly, Cohen, FA 81.3, declares Know Your Enemy "interesting and thoughtful.... The author's discussion of the relationship between intelligence estimates and policymaking is particularly well done."
West, IJI&C 16.1, notes that "Cradock's treatment of the JIC's declassified files is excellent and largely fair," but "he strays when reaching beyond the Cabinet Office to areas where his personal experience is limited.... The tone is mildly critical of politicians, perhaps even slightly anti-American, and emphatically self-congratulatory about the JIC structure."
To Morrison, I&NS 17.4, Cradock had "one of the finest analytical minds ever applied in the UK to the problems of intelligence." The chapter in this book on "Intelligence and Policy" is "essential reading for any student or practitioner of intelligence, and especially for those who have unrealistic ideas of what intelligence can achieve."
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