Air University Library.
Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals. Quarterly. Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: 1949.2. United States
a. Guides to Reference Materials
b. Reference Materials
c. Reference Materials on the Federal Bureau of Investigation
3. Non-U.S.
a. Click for United Kingdom Reference Materials.
b. Click for Russia Reference Materials.
a. Guides to Reference Materials
Air University Library.
Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals. Quarterly. Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: 1949.
Petersen: "Essential for locating intelligence articles."
Barrett, David M., and Raymond Wasko. "Sampling CIA's New Document Retrieval System: McCone's Telephone Conversations during the Six Crises Tempest." Intelligence and National Security 20, no. 2 (Jun. 2005): 332-340.
The CIA Records Search Tool (CREST) at the National Archives II in College Park, Maryland, "uses computer terminals in the Archives' library at which researchers enter keywords. This brings up a list of document titles from which a reader chooses. After examining the ... document on the screen, he or she may then print it, at no cost, on an adjacent printer." The benefits of the system include "its sheer ease" -- it "is notably simple to operate.... [I]t works well in delivering the documents in the collection released by CIA" since 2001.
Brune, Lester. The
Missile Crisis of October 1962: A Review of Issues and References. Claremont,
CA: Regina Books, 1985. [Petersen]
Burns, Richard Dean,
ed. Guide to American Foreign Relations since 1700. Society for Historians
of American Foreign Relations. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1983.
Petersen: "Index includes intelligence and U.S. CIA entries."
Chapman, Bert. Researching National Security and Intelligence Policy. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2004.
Howard, Air & Space Power Journal 19.3 (Fall 2005), says that this work "is a veritable cornucopia of sources and ratings of their effectiveness. What may prove even more useful is the extent of each chapter's documentation. These endnotes, which attest to the author's thoroughness, include Web sites and e-mail addresses where appropriate. The book's user-friendliness also helps a great deal."
Cochran, Alexander
S., Jr. The MAGIC Diplomatic Summaries: A Chronological Finding Aid.
New York: Garland, 1982.
David,
James E. Conducting Post-World War II National Security Research in Executive
Branch Records: A Comprehensive Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,
2001.
According to Aftergood, Secrecy News (from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy), 11 Jun. 2002, this work "begins with a brief introduction to records retention and declassification policy. It then provides a detailed 200 page itemization of what kinds of national security records are located where, along with notations on their status and availability. Though overpriced at $85, the book has the potential to save serious researchers considerable time in finding what they are looking for, and to alert others to the existence of records they might never have known about."
Burr, Journal of Cold War Studies 6 (2004), notes that this is "the first major effort to chart the universe of classified and declassified federal records pertaining to national security policy." Most of the "book amounts to an inventory of two categories of federal historical records: those that are available at the National Archives (and to a lesser extent, smaller official archives and the Library of Congress); and those that remain under the control of the agencies that created them." Unfortunately, the author "does not provide the accession number assigned to each of the agency collections stored" at the Washington National Records Center (WNRC) in Suitland, Maryland.
Hendricks, Evan. Former
Secrets: Government Records Made Public Through the Freedom of Information
Act. Washington, DC: Campaign for Political Rights, 1982. [Petersen]
Higham, Robin D., ed.
A Guide to the Sources of United States Military History. Hamden,
CT: Archon, 1975. Supplements I (1981) and II (1986), ed. by Higham and
Donald J. Mrozek.
Petersen: "Numerous intelligence entries."
Kneitel, T. Guide
to Embassy and Espionage Communications. Commack, NY: CRB Research,
1986. [Petersen]
Kurland, Michael. The
Spymaster's Handbook. New York: Facts on File, 1988.
Mauch,
Christof. "Intelligence Holdings at Georgetown University in Washington,
D.C." International Intelligence History Study Group Newsletter
6, no. 1 (Summer 1998). [http:// intelligence-history.wiso.uni-erlangen.de/] "Intelligence Holdings at Georgetown University."
Intelligencer 10, no. 1 (Feb. 1999): 15.
"There are a number of unique intelligence collections in the Special Collections holdings of Georgetown University's Lauinger Library which are of considerable interest to historians of intelligence." These include the Russell J. Bowen Collection, the Martin F. Herz Papers, the Otto E. Guthe Papers, the Anthony Cave Brown Papers, and the Leonard S. Wilson Collection. The library maintains a Website at http://gulib.lausun.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/.
Robertson, Kenneth
G. "Editorial Comment: An Agenda for Intelligence Research." Defense
Analysis 3, no. 2 (Jun. 1987): 95-101.
Williams, George. "Intelligence
and Book Learning: A Comprehensive Survey of Public Sources on Secret Activities."
Choice 16 (Nov. 1979): 1125-1138. [Petersen]
b. Reference Materials
Booth, Ken, and Eric
Herring. Keyguide to Information Sources in Strategic Studies. New
York: Mansell, 1994.
From advertisement: "Part I is a narrative account of strategic studies and its literature; how the field developed relationships with other subjects and between information sources and weaknesses of these. Part II is an annotated bibliography of reference material arranged primarily by subject; and Part III is a directory of selected organizations in 59 countries which are major sources of information or contact points."
Buncher, Judith F.
1. et.al., eds. The CIA and the Security Debate: 1971-1975. New York: Facts on File, 1976.
This is a compilation of materials from congressional committees, government agencies, and newspaper reports, arranged topically and chronologically.
2. ed. The CIA and the Security Debate: 1975-1976. New York: Facts on File, 1976.
Picks up chronologically at end of earlier work.
Fain, Tyrus G., ed.
The Intelligence Community: History, Organization and Issues. Public
Affairs Documents Series. New York: Bowker, 1977.
Petersen calls this an "exceptionally useful collection of documents and extracts from Congressional publications." Lowenthal notes the material presented emphasizes "the issues highlighted during the investigations of the mid-1970s."
[Troy, Thomas F.] "Troy
Papers." U.S. National Archives. Record Group 263 (Records of the CIA).
Entry Troy Papers, 12 boxes.
Troy's research notes for Donovan and the CIA. See Troy, "Writing History...," IJI&C 7.4:409/fn. 1.
U.S. Congress. House. Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Compilation of Intelligence Laws and Related Laws and Executive Orders of Interest to the National Intelligence Community. (As Amended through 25 Mar. 2003). Washington, DC: GPO, 2003.
This is an excellent collection of intelligence laws and regulations, which has been regularly updated and reissued by the committee. This is sometimes available directly from the HPSCI at no cost; otherwise, the latest reissue remains a good buy through the GPO. FAS has posted an electronic copy (2.6 mb PDF file) at: http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2003_rpt/laws2003.pdf.
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. "[Press Release:] National Archives Opens Historic CIA Cold War Era Records." 17 Mar. 2008. [http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2008/nr08-74.html]
"The National Archives and Records Administration has opened 534 cubic feet or approximately 1.3 million pages of historic Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) records covering the Cold War period from 1946-1977.... These newly-released records are from the CIA's Foreign Documents Division, which provided translation, abstracting and research services on newspapers, periodicals and other foreign-language publications. The series consist of translations of newspapers, periodicals, and other foreign-language publications in verbatim, excerpt, and summary form.... Some of the newly released material is available on the NARA website through the Archival Research Catalog (ARC) at http://www.archives.gov/research/arc."
Click for United Kingdom Reference Materials.
Click for Russia Reference Materials.
National Intelligence
Book Center. Catalog Budapest 1989-1990. Washington, DC: NIBC, 1989.
Wheeler, Douglas L.
"The Archives of Portugal: A Guide to an Intelligence Treasure Trove."
International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 4,
no. 4 (Winter 1990): 539-550.
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