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AFIO Intelligencer The Intelligencer Journal of U.S. Intelligence Studies Volume 26 • Number 3 • $15 single copy price Summer-Fall 2021 C O N T E N T S I. Introduction V. AFIO Business and Events Activities During the Pandemic “AFIO Now” — Videos and Podcasts “AFIO Now” Interviews ............................... 3 for members-only and the public .............. 77 II. Current Issues Scholarships, Member Statistics .................. 83 The Evolving Nature of International Relations Chapters, Officers, Activities ....................... 84 and What It Means for Intelligence Intelligence Exhibits & Tours Norman A. Bailey PhD ............................... 5 in Washington Metro Area ...................... 121 Guarding Against Politicization VI. Deaths Robert M. Gates PhD ................................... 7 Deaths in the Intelligence Community ......... 91 Domestic Intelligence - An Enigmatic Piece of the National Security Puzzle VII. Professional Reading Patrick M. Hughes, LTG (USA, Ret.) .......... 15 Reviews by Peter C. Oleson North Korean Control Systems - Insights from a Kazeta: Toxic: A History of Nerve Agents, NKIS Intelligence Officer/Defector From Nazi Germany to Putin’s Russia ............ 119 Jihyun (Amanda) Won MPS and Kim Dong-sik PhD ................................... 35 Doughty: Invading Hitler’s Europe: From Salerno to the Capture of Göring – The Memoir of a U.S. III. Historical Context Intelligence Officer ..................................... 121 A Poem for Yakov Eisenberg — A CIA Operation to Determine If a Ukrainian Company Was Storey: Beating the Nazi Invader: Hitler’s Spies, Saboteurs and Secrets in Britain, 1940 ........... 122 Delivering Missile Parts to Iran Lester Paldy ............................................. 43 Kavanagh: Hitler’s Spies: Lena and the Prelude to Operation Sealion .................... 122 IV. Professional Insights When Intelligence Made a Difference - Assorted Books on China and Chinese Espionage ................................ 124 Part VI Intro — Peter Oleson ..................... 49 • Doctor Jameson’s Raid – Alex Vermeulen 51 Higgins: We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, • First Battle of Bull Run: A First On-line Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News .... 126 in Many Ways – Greg Elder ................ 55 Review by David Chambers • The Karakol Organization and the Lynn: Where Is Juliet Stuart Poyntz?: Turkish War of Independence, 1919-1922 Gender, Spycraft, and Anti-Stalinism – Evren Altinkas PhD .......................... 61 in the Early Cold War ................................. 128 • Preparation for Operation Torch – Robert Girod JD PhD ....................... 67 New Books in Brief ................................... 129 • Denial and Deception in the Indian Nuclear Test Blogs, Newsletters, Podcasts of Interest ..... 131 – Robert M. Clark JD PhD ................... 73 Publication Watchdog – Forthcoming, On the Horizon, Under Contract, or Announced ....................................... 134 This issue is dedicated to the brave officers and agents whose obituaries begin on page 91. Summer-Fall 2021 Intelligencer: Journal of U.S. Intelligence Studies Page 1 The Intelligencer Journal of U.S. Intelligence Studies Volume 26 • Number 2 • $15 single copy price Winter-Spring 2021 C O N T E N T S I. Introduction V. Deaths Activities During the Long Pandemic Deaths in the Intelligence Community ......... 89 “AFIO Now” Interviews, Chapter Forums, VI. AFIO Business and Events Enhanced Social Media Engagement .......... 3 Letters, Scholarships, Member Statistics .... 115 II. Current Issues Chapters, Officers, Activities ..................... 116 Wet Affairs, Part III — Russia’s Assassination Intelligence Exhibits & Tours Pandemic in Washington Metro Area ...................... 122 Peter Oleson ............................................. 5 The Cooperating Scientist — Counterintelligence VII. Professional Reading Resource in a Time of Pandemic Reviews by Peter C. Oleson Lester Paldy ............................................. 25 Reassessing Edward Snowden — Whistleblower? Shimer: Rigged: America, Russia, Traitor? or Spy? and One Hundred Years of Covert Peter Oleson ............................................. 31 Electoral Interference .................................. 123 III. Historical Context Taub: Big Dirty Money: The Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White Collar Crime ........... 125 Terror in Athens: Remembering Station Chief Wells: Between Five Eyes: 50 Years of Dick Welch Intelligence Sharing ................................... 125 Samantha Randazzo Childress and Carol “Rollie” Flynn ................................ 37 Vuving: Hindsight, Insight, Foresight: Agnes Smedley — Singular Woman, Thinking About Security in the Indo-Pacific ..... 126 Exceptional Spy Toll: Twilight of the Gods: War in the Bob Bergin .............................................. 47 Western Pacific, 1944-45 ........................... 128 IV. Professional Insights New Books in Brief ................................... 131 When Intelligence Made a Difference - Publication Watchdog – Forthcoming, Part V Intro — Peter Oleson ....................... 65 On the Horizon, Under Contract, • Soviet Deception and the Cuban Missile Crisis or Announced ....................................... 136 — Robert M. Clark ............................. 67 • Occasionem Cognosce — Francis Cabot Lowell — Joel Wickwire ............................... 71 • The Seizure of Danang City Hall — Jim Schnell PhD ............................ 75 • The Breaking of JN-25 and its Impact in the War Against Japan — Peter C. Oleson .............................. 79 • Developing a Cooperative Strategy in the El Salvador Civil War — John Fishel .... 85 This issue is dedicated to the brave officers and agents whose obituaries begin on page 89. Winter-Spring 2021 Intelligencer: Journal of U.S. Intelligence Studies Page 1 The Intelligencer Journal of U.S. Intelligence Studies Volume 26 • Number 1 • $15 single copy price Fall 2020 C O N T E N T S I. Introduction V. Deaths Election Threats — Two Statements Deaths in the Intelligence Community ......... 61 William Evanina, NCSC Director ................ 3 VI. AFIO Business and Events II. Current Issues Letters, Scholarships, Member Statistics ...... 95 Espionage During a Pandemic: Collection, Chapters, Officers, Activities ....................... 96 Analysis, and Counterintelligence Implications Intelligence Exhibits & Tours of COVID-19 in Washington Metro Area ...................... 100 Edward Mickolus ...................................... 7 Chinese Offensive Intelligence Operations VII. Professional Reading Peter Oleson ............................................... 9 Dead Doubles Cyber Intelligence and the Private Sector Review by Raymond J. Batvinis ................ 101 Al Lewis .................................................. 13 Reviews by Peter C. Oleson U.S. Domestic Security—Establishing a U.S. Belton’s Putin’s People: How the KGB Domestic Security Service Modeled on MI-5 Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West ... 103 Anthony Fratini ....................................... 19 Mattis and Brazil’s Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer and Faligot’s III. Historical Context Chinese Spies—From Chairman Mao to Intelligence Support to Arms control—The Bomber Xi Jinping ................................................ 109 Gap 1955 - Sputnik I 1957 - The Missile Gap 1958 Clark’s Geospatial Intelligence: Origins and Evan Hineman ......................................... 27 Evolution ................................................ 112 The Top Secret Story of Coast Guard Code Breaking Otis’s True or False – A CIA Analyst’s Guide Michael Bennett ...................................... 31 to Spotting FAKE NEWS ............................. 113 Gellman’s Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden IV. Professional Insights and the American Surveillance State ............... 115 Larson’s The Splendid and the Vile: When Intelligence Made a Difference - A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance Part IV Intro — Peter Oleson ..................... 33 During the Blitz ........................................ 117 • The Doolittle Raid — Peter Oleson ................................. 35 New Books in Brief ................................... 119 • Dismantling 17 November Intelligence and Terrorism Themes — Maria (Mary) Papageorgiou ............ 41 in Documentaries, TV, and Movies • Stuxnet Compiled by Allen Read ......................... 123 — Al Lewis ....................................... 45 Publication Watchdog – Forthcoming, • William Weisband — Naiomi Gonzalez .. 49 On the Horizon, Under Contract, • The First Victory—The Duquesne Spy Ring or Announced ....................................... 128 — Raymond J. Batvinis ....................... 53 • The 1947 Pukhtoon Invasion of Jammu and Kashmir and India’s ‘Prescience’ — Christopher Snedden ..................... 57 This issue is dedicated to the brave officers and agents whose obituaries begin on page 61. Fall 2020 Intelligencer: Journal of U.S. Intelligence Studies Page 1 The Intelligencer Journal of U.S. Intelligence Studies Volume 25 • Number 3 • $15 single copy price Winter-Spring 2020 C O N T E N T S I. Introduction V. Deaths Infectious Disease and National Security — Deaths in the Intelligence Community ......... 61 Strategic Information Needs VI. AFIO Business and Events Gary Cecchine and Melinda Moore ............. 3 Recent AFIO National Events ....................... 79 II. Current Issues Scholarships, Member Statistics .................. 84 The Theory and Practice
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