Conboy, Kenneth. Intel: Inside Indonesia's Intelligence Service. Jakarta, Indonesia: Equinox, 2003.1. Indonesia
2. Kazakhstan
3. Kosovo
4. Kyrgyzstan
5. Lithuania
6. Malaysia
7. Mongolia
8. Morocco
9. North Korea
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Conboy, Kenneth. Intel: Inside Indonesia's Intelligence Service. Jakarta, Indonesia: Equinox, 2003.
King, NIPQ 21.3 (Sep. 2005), finds that this book provides "a well-documented view of Indonesia's role during the Cold War years.... [This] is a groundbreaking work of research that fills in gaps in our knowledge of the secret services of Indonesia and provides a framework for further work in this area."
Derdzinski, Joseph L. [LTCOL/USAF] Internal Security Services in Liberalizing States. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009.
From publisher: This work "provides a comparative account of the internal security situations of Morocco and Indonesia."
Lefebvre, Stéphane, and Roger N. McDermott. "Russia and the Intelligence Services of Central Asia." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 21, no. 2 (Summer 2008): 251-301.
The authors cover Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, as well as "Russia's lingering influence." The authors conclude that "the main intelligence agency in each of the Central Asian states has yet to operate similarly to those of mature democracies. For the most part, none is transparent or subject to any kind of rigorous review or oversight. In addition to traditional intelligence gathering functions, each has law enforcement powers that are at times used discriminately in support of the political regime in power."
RFE/RL. "Kazakh Senate Approves New Intelligence Chief ." 2 Mar. 2006. [http://www.rferl.org]
On 2 March 2006, Kazakhstan's Senate unanimously approved Amangeldy Shabdarbaev, the personal security boss of President Nursultan Nazarbaev, to replace Nartai Dutbaev as the head of the National Security Service (KNB). "Dutbaev resigned following the slaying of opposition leader Altynbek Sarsenbaev. Five officers from the KNB's elite Arystan (Lion) anti-terrorism unit were arrested over the killing."
Lombardi, Ben. "Balkan Intrigue: German Intelligence and Kosovo." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 22, no. 3 (Fall 2009): 470-490.
The author reviews the state of play involved in the arrest in November 2008 in Kosovo of three members of the Federal German intelligence service (BND).
Lefebvre, Stéphane, and Roger N. McDermott. "Russia and the Intelligence Services of Central Asia." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 21, no. 2 (Summer 2008): 251-301.
The authors cover Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, as well as "Russia's lingering influence." The authors conclude that "the main intelligence agency in each of the Central Asian states has yet to operate similarly to those of mature democracies. For the most part, none is transparent or subject to any kind of rigorous review or oversight. In addition to traditional intelligence gathering functions, each has law enforcement powers that are at times used discriminately in support of the political regime in power."
Saralayeva, Leila. "Russian TV Accuses US of Spying on Russia, China." Associated Press, 6 Apr. 2009. [http://www.ap.com]
A film aired on the Rossiya TV channel on 5 April 2009 "accused the U.S. of using an air base in Kyrgyzstan to spy on Russia and China -- an allegation a spokesman for the base flatly denied" on 6 April 2009. The film also shows "a building it said was used for electronic surveillance" and "shows a woman identified as Vicki Lynn Rundquist, whom it says is first secretary of the political division at the U.S. Embassy in Kyrgyzstan and an undercover CIA agent."
Sulick, Michael J. "As the USSR Collapsed: A CIA Officer in Lithuania." Studies in Intelligence 50, no. 2 (2006): 1-11.
The author is the former ADDO and Chief/SE/DO. As the Soviet Union began to implode and the communist governments in Eastern Europe began to fall, Milt Bearden, Chief of the CIA's Soviet and East European Division (SE), "moved quickly to forge relationships with these former Soviet Bloc adversaries.... As the bastion of communism was about to fall in Moscow, Bearden was eager to continue engaging old enemies -- and potential new friends -- only this time on what had been Soviet territory.... [I]n the last week of August 1991, just a week after the failure of the coup attempt in Moscow, I embarked on one of the most thrilling and rewarding trips of my CIA career."
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Jumper, Roy D.L. "Malaysia's
Senoi Praaq Special Forces." International Journal of Intelligence
and Counterintelligence 13, no. 1 (Spring 2000): 64-93.
The author argues that the Senoi Praaq "now plays an important role in national security affairs, reaching into the realm of Malaysia's high politics."
Karniol, Robert. "Mongolia
Reshapes Intelligence Agency: Interview with Ravdangiin Bold." Jane's
Defence Weekly, 2 Sep. 1998, 17, 32.
Bold is Secretary-General of the Mongolian National Security Council.
Williams,
John W. "Mongolia: Political Oversight of Intelligence." World
Intelligence Review 14, no. 4 (Jul.-Aug. 1995): 1-3.
In 1994, Mongolia had at least three security organizations, the heads of which are appointed by and report to the prime minister: The Central Intelligence Directorate (the former Department of State Security), with responsibility for internal security and headed by Lt. Col. Dalhjavyn Sandag; the Police Directorate, headed by Maj. Gen. Baastyn Purev; and the Border Troops Directorate, headed by P. Sundev.
Derdzinski, Joseph L. [LTCOL/USAF] Internal Security Services in Liberalizing States. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009.
From publisher: This work "provides a comparative account of the internal security situations of Morocco and Indonesia."
Nomikos, John M., and Aya Burweila. "Another Frontier to Fight: International Terrorism and Islamic Fundamentalism in North Africa." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 22, no. 1 (Spring 2009): 50-88.
"[T]he alliance of North Africa's regional militant groups with international networks represents not only the further globalization of Islamic terror, but also strongly suggests that North Africa, in particular Morocco and Algeria, is to act as another major frontier of Jihad against the United States, Europe, and secular regimes in Muslim populated countries." [Footnote omitted]
Bermudez, Joseph.
1. North Korean Special Forces. London: Jane's. 1988. 2d ed. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1998.
Commenting on the second edition, Moran, I&NS 14.1, describes this work as "basically an excellent handbook for those dealing with or analysing the North Korean state's subversive capabilities. However for those with a more political or sociological bent it may be too limited, as the context is very narrow."
2. "North Korea's Intelligence Agencies and Infiltration Operations." Jane's Intelligence Review, Jun. 1991, 269-274.
Blancke, Stephan. "North Korean Intelligence Structures." North Korean Review 5, no. 2 (Fall 2009): 6-20.
"Mainly because of the disappearance of the former Eastern Bloc as well as for economic reasons, the DPRK intelligence agencies have to seek cooperation with structures and organizations that can be labeled 'sub-intelligence': these include the gray market of information brokers, commercial intelligence firms, organized crime and its access to information or the right people, private security organizations, and information technology firms, as well as other people who are able and willing to hack into databases and computer networks."
Emerson, Tony. "The CIA Lands a Big Fish." Newsweek, 8 Sep. 1997, 54.
North Korea's Ambassador to Egypt, who defected to the United States at the end of August together with his Paris-based brother, had been working for the CIA for some time prior to his defection. See also Anthony Spaeth, "Another One Slips Away," Time, 8 Sep. 1997.
Mercado, Stephen C. "Hermit Surfers of P'yongyang: North Korea and the Internet." Studies in Intelligence 48, no. 1 (2004): 39-44.
North Korean "[r]esearchers can surf the Internet via a connection routed through the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications." [footnote omitted] In this way, the Pyongyang government "can promote scientific exploration while keeping researchers in country and under surveillance."
Spaeth, Anthony. "Another One Slips Away." Time, 8 Sep. 1997. [http://www.time.com]
"Agents of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency provided [North Korea's Ambassador to Egypt], his wife and family with phony passports ... which they used to slip through immigration at Cairo International Airport. At exactly the same time, Jang's brother, a commercial counselor at North Korea's mission in Paris, boarded a plane in France accompanied by his family. Within hours, they were ensconced in a CIA safe house somewhere in the U.S., and the White House was informed of the success of the operation, which had been approved personally by President Clinton." See also Tony Emerson, "The CIA Lands a Big Fish," Newsweek, 8 Sep. 1997, 54.
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