Bittman, Ladislav. "The
Use of Disinformation by Democracies." International Journal of
Intelligence and Counterintelligence 4, no. 2 (Summer 1990): 243-261. Bittman, Ladislav. "The
Use of Disinformation by Democracies." International Journal of
Intelligence and Counterintelligence 4, no. 2 (Summer 1990): 243-261.
Boston University, College
of Communication, Disinformation Documentation Center. Disinformation
and Democracy: A Discussion on the Disinformation Campaign Against Libyan
Leader Khadafi, October 23, 1986. Boston: Boston University, 1986.
Charters, David A., and
Maurice A.J. Tugwell, eds. Deception Operations: Studies in the East-West
Conflict. New York: Macmillan, 1989. London: Brassey's (UK), 1990.
The text is divided into two parts: "Part I: Studies in Eastern Deception Operations"; "Part II: Studies in Western Deception Operations."
Surveillant 1.1 comments that the two Canadian authors have presented "a fine analysis of deception." Campbell, I&NS 6.1, finds that "[o]ne of the many attractions of the collection is that the contributors, while scholarly, are not at all squeamish about being judgemental."
Garthoff,
Raymond L. "Polyakov's Run." Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
56, no. 5 (Sep./Oct. 2000): 37-40 .[http://www.bullatomsci.org]
The author discusses the deception/disinformation aspects of the FBI-Army intelligence operation using Sgt. Joseph Cassidy, described in David Wise, Cassidy's Run: The Secret Spy War over Nerve Gas (New York: Random House, 2000), in connection with a similar operation run through Soviet Col. Dmitri Polyakov (Top Hat/Bourbon).
Ben Fenton, "US Blunder 'Triggered Global Germ Bomb Race,'" Electronic Telegraph, 12 Mar. 2001 [http://www.telegraph.co.uk], reports that on 11 March 2001 Garthoff had presented his argument about the negative effects of the Cassidy and Polyakov operations to "a conference of intelligence experts and former spies at Princeton University."
Riordan, Barrett J. "State-Sponsored Economic Deception and Its Determinants." Intelligence and National Security 17, no. 4 (Winter 2002): 1-30.
The author "develops a theoretical approach to state-sponsored international economic deception within a transaction cost economics (TCE) framework.... The case of US arms sales to Iran during the mid-1980s is used to evaluate the theory."
Wise, David. Cassidy's Run: The Secret Spy War over Nerve Gas. New York: Random House, 2000.
Macartney, AFIO WIN 18-00 (5 May 2000), notes that this is the story of U.S. Army Master Sergeant Joseph Cassidy who "spent 23 years as an FBI double agent, feeding misleading information to his GRU handlers about US chemical weapons programs." Taylor, Booklist, 1-15 Jan. 2000, calls Cassidy's Run "[q]uality cloak-and-dagger history."
According to Vernon Loeb's on-line intelligence column, "IntelligenCIA: A Spy War Exposed," Washington Post, 1 May 2000, Operation SHOCKER was "the FBI's longest running counterintelligence case of the Cold War," lasting 21 years. Cassidy "exposed 10 Russian spy handlers and surfaced three 'illegal' Russian agents also used to help run the putative American spy," while passing thousands of pages "of carefully vetted classified documents" to the Russians.
For Naftali, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2000, this work "is a meticulous reconstruction of a hitherto unknown counterespionage case.... Wise raises the possibility that the Cassidy deception operation backfired with horrendous consequences. Citing circumstantial evidence, he suggests that it compelled the Soviets to expand production of chemical weapons.... But lacking any rich sources in the chemical and biological weapons programs of the former Soviet Union, Wise is not able to build a persuasive case.... Cassidy did his country a great service in a field of battle that was mostly in the mind, but very real. David Wise has done readers a service in bringing Cassidy's remarkable tale to life."
See also, Raymond L. Garthoff, "Polyakov's Run," Bulletin of Atomic Scientists 56, no. 5 (Sep./Oct. 2000): 37-40, which discusses the deception/disinformation aspects of the Cassidy operation in connection with a similar operation run through Soviet Col. Dmitri Polyakov (Top Hat/Bourbon).
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