Defty, Andrew. "'Close and Continuous Liaison': British Anti-Communist Propaganda and Cooperation with the United States, 1950-51." Intelligence and National Security 17, no. 4 (Winter 2002): 100-130.
Defty, Andrew. "'Close and Continuous Liaison': British Anti-Communist Propaganda and Cooperation with the United States, 1950-51." Intelligence and National Security 17, no. 4 (Winter 2002): 100-130.
The author asserts that "the extent of cooperation between Britain and America in the field of anti-Communist propaganda was far greater than has previously been appreciated." The British Foreign Office's Information Research Department (IRD) produced "discreet propagenda" targeted on the free world; the CIA's "mighty Wurlitzer" focused on the Soviet Union and the Iron Curtain countries. Thus, "[i]n many respects British and American approaches to anti-Communist propaganda were complementary."
Dobrynin, Anatoly Fedorovich.
In Confidence: Moscow's Ambassador to America's Six Cold War Presidents.
New York: Random House, 1995. [pb] 1997.
Surveillant 4.4/5 notes that a six-page section (beginning on page 352), entitled "Intelligence Wars," discusses Dobrynin's interaction with the GRU and KGB.
Kaiser, WPNWE, 25 Sep.-1 Oct. 1995, says that "when he sticks to the subjects he really knows, Dobrynin is a fine analyst and a wonderful raconteur. He has left a record of his life and his times that will enrich Cold War history for as long as anyone cares to read about it."
Donovan, Robert J. The Second Victory: The Marshall Plan and the Postwar Revival of Europe. New York : Madison, 1987.
Dulles, Allen W. "The
Role of Intelligence in the Cold War." In Peace and War in the Modern
Age: Premises, Myths, and Realities, ed. Frank R. Barnett, 205-221.
New York: Anchor, 1965.
Dunn, Keith A. "A Conflict of World Views: The Origins of the Cold War." Military Review 57 (Feb. 1977): 14-25.
Feis, Herbert. From Trust to Terror: The Onset of the Cold War, 1945-1950. New York: Norton, 1970.
Fischer, Benjamin B. "The Soviet-American War Scare of the 1980s." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 19, no. 3 (Fall 2006): 480-518.
"The last decade of the Cold War was potentially more perilous than it seemed at the time.... The main reason was a heightened sense of the danger of war. Each side focused on the likelihood of war, and both made extensive military preparations against a possible attack from the other."
Fleming, Denna F. The Cold War and its Origins, 1917-1960. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961.
Frankel, Benjamin, ed. The Cold War, 1945-91. 3 vols. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1992.
Cold War Connection, "Top Books on the Cold War," http://www.cmu.edu/coldwar/annot.htm, calls this "a highly useful set of reference[] books, which will serve both student and scholar alike."
http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usamhi/Bibliographies: See especially overview, Vol. 3, pp. 53-100.
Friedman, Norman. The Fifty Year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2000.
Wilson, NWCR 56.4, finds that the author presents "a broad look at the conflict between East and West.... Friedman contends that the Cold War was in fact a 'real war' fought in slow motion. It was also a war lost by the Soviet Union for sociopolitical, economic, and ideological reasons.... Friedman presents a new, provocative survey of the Cold War from a joint force perspective while keeping both sides of the Iron Curtain in mind."
Fursenko, Alexander, and Timothy Naftali. Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary. New York: Norton, 2006.
Dobbs, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2007, notes that this work "is the latest example of a literary collaboration that became possible only with the collapse of the Soviet Union.... But there are pitfalls ... in gaining access to closed archives, and they are clearly on display in Khrushchev's Cold War. On the one hand,... the authors have unearthed many interesting details about the Soviet side of the Cold War. On the other, [the book is] marred by sloppy research, including mistranslations of Russian documents. The errors are so numerous that it becomes difficult to have much confidence in the authors' uncheckable citations from Soviet archival documents that remain closed to other scholars."
Gallicchio, Marc S.
The Cold War Begins in Asia: American East Asian Policy and the Fall of the Japanese Empire. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.
Ganser, Daniele. "The British Secret Service in Neutral Switzerland: An Unfinished Debate on NATO's Cold War Stay-behind Armies." Intelligence and National Security 20, no. 4 (Dec. 2005): 553-580.
The list of annoyances and not-quite-rights in this article is long. For instance, Maj. Gen. Sir Colin Gubbins is introduced as "a small, wiry Scotsman with a moustache." Which of these elements are needed prior to quoting him on the role of SOE in World War II? Then, there are such statements as "no documents supporting such a claim have been found so far." Is the "so far" really necessary? In other words, too much of this article does not rise above speculation. Nevertheless, the article "suggests that Switzerland ... was integrated into the international stay-behind network of NATO covering Western Europe during the Cold War." Maybe, but not proven here.
Ganser, Daniele. NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe. London and New York: Frank Cass, 2005.
Riste, I&NS 20.3 (Sep. 2005), finds little good to say about this book. He comments that in the author's hands, the "stay behind" preparations initiated in several European countries as a hedge against Soviet occupation "becomes a story of a nefarious conspiratorial network." Ganser also inflates their significance by terming them "armies," a term that he seems to believe "covers units of less than 100 men." In addition, the author accepts "many unfounded allegations ... as historical findings."
For Hansen, IJI&C 19.1 (Spring 2006), this is "a journalistic work with a big spoonful of conspiracy theories." The thesis of the work "is unsubstantiated by the content"; in fact, the author "fails to present any proof ... of the claimed conspiracy.... [T]he big U.S.-UK conspiracy theory does not hold water." Hansen, JIH 5.1 (Summer 2005), notes that "[o]ne of the important documents that Ganser bases his claim of the big conspiracy on is an American field manual.... In Denmark this field manual popped up on several occasions.... It was first presented in the late 1960’s during the situation in Greece and also several times during the 1970’s.... According to an analysis made by the Danish Defense Intelligence Service (DDIS) in 1976, this field manual was part of a KGB disinformation campaign."
Peake, Studies 49.3 (2005), puts the issue succinctly: "proof is a problem for Ganser."
Ganser, Daniele. "Terrorism in Western Europe: An Approach to NATO’s Secret Stay-Behind Armies." Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations 6, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2005): 69-95.
The author argues that "secret armies" existed in Western Europe during the Cold War. They were coordinated by NATO, and run by the European military secret services in close cooperation with the CIA and MI6. "The clandestine international network covered the European NATO membership, including Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, and Turkey, as well as the neutral European countries of Austria, Finland, Sweden, and Switzerland."
Garthoff, Raymond L. A Journey Through the Cold War: A Memoir of Containment and Coexistence. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2001.
"Editor's Shelf," Parameters, Winter 2002-03: "Perhaps no other author has been as singularly successful in capturing" the events that defined the Cold War as Ambassador Garthoff. His book "is by far one of the most personal and thoroughly credible accounts of this period."
Peake, Studies 51.1 (Mar. 2007), notes that the author's story of his career "spans the entire Cold War.... The story is absorbing and shows what rewarding careers analysts can have."
Graham,
Daniel O. Confessions of a Cold Warrior. Fairfax, VA: Preview Press, 1995.
Houser, Proceedings, Jan. 1996, reports that this book "is both an autobiography and a recording of the Cold War period, from the end of World War II to the present, told by someone who had a major role in its outcome.... Confessions of a Cold Warrior is about a gutsy young Army officer who didn't follow the rule book on how to succeed but rather sorted things out as right or wrong as he saw them.... He discloses the aggressive and corruptive competition between intelligence agencies.... This short book is one of a very few I wished was longer."
For those who knew Graham, Bates, NIPQ 12.3, makes a telling comment about this book, noting that Graham "wrote like he talked and the story is always lively." The book has a chapter on Graham's "order-of-battle dispute with Sam Adams and his subsequent support to General Westmoreland in the General's suit against CBS." The last half of the book deals with the Strategic Defense Initiative and Graham's High Frontier organization.
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