Abbott, James P. "The Intelligence Puzzle Has Seven Pieces: The Essential Elements of Information." Army 7 (Aug. 1956): 48-49.Materials on U.S. Army special operations units and activities can be accessed at Special Operations.
Abbott, James P. "The Intelligence Puzzle Has Seven Pieces: The Essential Elements of Information." Army 7 (Aug. 1956): 48-49.
This is a discussion of intelligence at a time when it had much less visibility than today.
Abbott, Steve. "The Wizards of War." Soldier 36 (May 1981): 28-31
Calder: Profiles the Army's 11th Military Intelligence Battalion.
Army. Editors. "Surveillance and Target Acquisition."
16, no. 5 (1966): 43 ff. [Petersen]
Atkeson,
Edward B. "When Turfs Overlap: A Study of Organizations in Collision."
Army 30 (Nov. 1980): 38-43.
Petersen: "U.S. Army intelligence community."
Baldwin,
Hanson W.
1. "Army Intelligence." New York Times, 13 Apr. 1952, 12; and 14 Apr. 1952, 4.
2. "Battlefield Intelligence." Combat Forces 3 (Feb. 1953): 30-41. [Petersen]
Banfill,
C.Y. "Military Intelligence and Command." Infantry Journal
62 (Feb. 1948): 28-30. [Petersen]
Baskir,
Lawrence M. "Reflections on the Senate Investigations of Army Surveillance."
Indiana Law Journal 49 (Summer 1974): 618-653. [Petersen]
Brown,
Dallas C. "Combat Intelligence Today." Armor 73 (Oct. 1964):
20- 23. [Petersen]
Chandler,
Stedman, and Robert W. Robb. Front-Line Intelligence. Washington, DC: Infantry Journal Press, 1946.
Pforzheimer notes that ths while this work is outdated, it remains "a readable primer to prepare officers to be combat '2s.'"
Coleman, Joseph. "Papers Tie U.S. to 1950s Japan Coup Plot." Associated Press, 28 Feb. 2007. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
Declassified CIA files released by the National Archives in January 2007 "reveal that Japanese ultranationalists with ties to U.S. military intelligence plotted to overthrow the Japanese government and assassinate the prime minister in 1952.... [T]he documentary evidence... illustrates the violent potential of the right-wing, anti-communist cabal that had worked under the U.S. occupation authority's 'G-2' intelligence wing in the ... late 1940s and early 50s.... The CIA files ... say the [G-2] operations were riddled with intelligence leaks, hobbled by a lack of competent agents, and deeply compromised by rivalries among the rightists themselves.... The departure of [Maj. Gen. Charles] Willoughby [chief of G-2 in the occupation government] from Japan in 1951 ... deprived the rightists of their leading American patron and paymaster."
Colley, David. "'Shadow
Warriors': Intelligence Operatives Waged Clandestine Cold War." VFW,
Veterans of Foreign Wars Magazine, Sep. 1997, 24-30.
The author mentions briefly the activities of a number of military units, with some focus on CIC and ASA units, in the early years of the Cold War in Europe. The stories of covert activities lack detail.
Cook,
Earle F. "Electronic Black Chamber." Army 13, no. 2 (1962):
37 ff. [Petersen]
Gilbert, James L. The Most Secret War: Army Signals Intelligence in Vietnam. Ft. Belvoir, VA: Military History Office, U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command, 2003.
Kruh, Cryptologia 28.1, says that this "expertly written text" includes over a hundred photographs of "ASA and other personnel performing their duties, from the routine to the dangerous."
For Hanyok, I&NS 19.2, this book "is well put together and illustrated." The reviewer notes that there is "[n]o need to worry about this history being an official gloss. ASA's successes and failures are recounted here." However, the book is hampered by the lack of source notes.
Glass,
Robert R., and Phillip B. Davidson. Intelligence Is for Commanders. Harrisburg, PA: Military Service Publishing Co., 1948.
Pforzheimer: "Although basic, fundamental, and somewhat outdated, the book nevertheless has valuable insights into the critical relationship between the commander and his intelligence officer."
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 know 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.
Graham,
Daniel O. "Estimating the Threat: A Soldier's Job." Army
23 (Apr. 1973): 14-18. [Petersen]
McCauley, Nathan E. "The Military Intelligence Profession in the U.S.
Army." Military Intelligence 13, no. 3 (1978): 14-17, 37.
McChristian, Joseph A. [MGEN/USA] The Role of Military Intelligence, 1965- 1967. Washington, DC: GPO, 1974.
According to Pforzheimer, the author, who later headed Army Intelligence, relates his experiences as J-2 MACV. Constantinides finds that the work is "of greatest value on the organization of military intelligence." Because the material is unclassified, many subjects are omitted.
Scherer, F.M. "Horst Hesse: A Cold War Military Intelligence Mole." Intelligence and National Sceurity 21, no. 2 (Apr. 2006): 224-236.
From abstract: "[T]his article presents the story of Horst Hesse's penetration as a double agent" into the U.S. 522nd Military Intelligence Battalion "in Würzburg, Germany during 1955 and 1956."
Searle, Alaric. "'Vopo'-General Vincenz Müller and Western Intelligence, 1948-54: CIC, the Gehlen Organization and Two Cold War Operations." Intelligence and National Security 17, no. 2 (Summer 2002): 27-50.
Former Wehrmacht Generalleutnant Vincenz Müller returned to the Eastern Zone of Germany from Russia in September 1948 and began "a remarkable career as both soldier and politician." This article looks at two unsuccessful efforts -- one by the U.S. Army's CIC and the other by the Gehlen organization -- to encourage Müller to defect to the West.
Silver, Arnold M. "Questions, Questions, Questions: Memories of Oberursel." Intelligence and National Security 8, no. 2 (Apr. 1993): 199- 213. Studies in Intelligence 37, no. 5 (1994): 81-90.
Army's center for detailed interrogation after World War II.
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