Bennett,
Richard. "Syria's Intelligence Services: A Primer." http://www.thepalmerpress.com/syria_EXP.html [Jack Morris ceased maintaining this site on 7/1/05].
"A special assessment on Syria's several intelligence services acquired from the archives of the Middle East Intelligence Bulletin."
Rathmell, Andrew. "Brotherly Enemies: The Rise and Fall of the Syrian-Egyptian Intelligence Axis, 1954-1967." Intelligence and National Security 13, no. 1 (Spring 1998): 230-253.
This is the story "of allied services whose ties helped bring about a union between their two states. However, after the collapse of the union the services concentrated their energies on attacking each other."
Thomas, Martin. "Crisis Management in Colonial States: Intelligence and Counter-Insurgency in Morocco and Syria after the First World War." Intelligence and National Security 21, no. 5 (Oct. 2006): 697-716.
This article "analyses the performance of French security services confronted with violent unrest and communal rebellion in Morocco and Syria in the 1920s.... [T]he central proposition ... is that the inter-war protectorates, mandates and colonies stretching in an arc through the Arab world were 'intelligence states.'"
Wege,
Carl Anthony.
1. "Assad's Legions: The Syrian Intelligence Services." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 4, no. 1 (Spring 1990): 91-100.
2. "The Syrian Socialist Party: An Intelligence Asset?" International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 7, no. 3 (Fall 1994): 339-351.
The author argues that the Syrian Social Nationalist Party is an operational asset for Syrian intelligence services.
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