The first Moscow station: An espionage footnote to cold war history

Views of intelligence

Abram N. Shulsky: Silent Warfare: Understanding the World of Intelligence Brassey's (US), Inc., Washington, D.C., 1991, 222p., $19.95.

An introduction to intelligence

Abram N. Shulsky: Silent Warfare: Understanding the World of Intelligence Brassey's, Washington, D.C., 1991, 222 p., $19.95.

Scuttling notions

G. J. A. O'Toole: Honorable Treachery: A History of U.S. Intelligence, Espionage, and Covert Action from the American Revolution to the CIA A A Morgan Entrekin Book, The Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 1991, 591 p., $35.

Which will is will?

Peter Sammartino: The Man Who Was William Shakespeare Cornwall Books, New York, 1990, 132p., $14.50.

FDR's mistake? Not likely

Good camera, poor exposure

Morris G. Moses: Spy Camera—The Minox Story Hove Press Books, Sussex, U.K., 1990, 194 p., $37.95.

Istanbul a la Casablanca

Barry Rubin: Istanbul Intrigues McGraw‐Hill, New York, 1989, 301 p., $18.95.

Understanding terrorism

David E. Long: The Anatomy Of Terrorism The Free Press, New York, 1990, 224 p., $22.95.     

The watch committee and the national indications center: The evolution of U.S. strategic warning 1950–1975

A new pearl harbor villain: Churchill

Introductory Commentary

James Rusbridger and Eric Nave: Betrayal at Pearl Harbor: How Churchill Lured Roosevelt into World War II. Summit Books, New York, 1991, 303 p., $19.95.

A cryptologic analysis

Behind the drums and bugles

Trevor N. Dupuy (USA ret.): International Military and Defense Encyclopedia Brassy's/Macmillan, Washington, DC, 1993. 6 volumes, ca 3,200 p., $995.00 and $1,250.00 (after 1 January 1994).

Breaking the German codes

David Kahn: Seizing the Enigma: The Race To Break the German U‐Boat Codes, 1939–1943 Houghton &; Mifflin, New York, 1991, 336 p., $24.95.

Whales in the air

Curtis Peebles: The Moby Dick Project: Reconnaissance Balloons Over Russia Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC, 1991, 250 p., $45.70.

Getting the message through

C and A Entwistle: Undercover Addresses of World War II Bloomfield, Perth, Scotland, 88 pps., £6. (Available in the United States from L. D. Mayo, Jr., Box 20837, Indianapolis, Ind., $8.00.).

Intelligence: the first line of defense

Samuel M. Katz: Soldier Spies: Israeli Military Intelligence Presidio Press, Novato, Calif., 1992, 389 p., $21.95.     

Reviews and commentary

Conspiring for democracy

Peter Coleman: The Liberal Conspiracy: The Congress For Cultural Freedom And The Struggle For The Mind Of Postwar Europe The Free Press, New York, 1989, 333 p., $22.95.

The importance of doing homework!

H. H. A. Cooper and Lawrence J. Redlinger: Catching Spies: Principles and Practice of Counterespionage Paladin Press, Boulder, Colo., 1988, 403 p., $19.95.

_____: Making Spies: A Talent Spotter's Handbook Paladin Press, Boulder, Colo., 1986, 272 p., $16.95.

The CIA and intelligence policy

Loch K. Johnson: America's Secret Power: The CIA in a Democratic Society Oxford University Press, New York, 1989, 344 p., $24.95.

RAF Secret missions in southeast Asia during World War II

Terence O'Brien: The Moonlight War: The Story of Clandestine Operations in Southeast Asia, 1944–45 Collins, London, 1987, 363 p., £12.95.

Outside the inside story

Ernest Volkman and Blaine Baggett: Secret Intelligence: The Inside Story of America's Espionage Empire Doubleday, New York, 1989, 229 p., $19.95.

Prescribing caution on glasnost

Edward Jay Epstein: Deception: The Invisible War Between the KGB and the CIA Simon and Schuster, New York, 1989, 335 p., $19.95.

U.S. intelligence: a long view

Nathan Miller: Spying for America: The Hidden History of U.S. Intelligence Paragon House, New York, 1989, 482 p., $24.95.     

Modernization of Terror: The Transformation of Stalin's NKVD, 1934–1941

A defector's Russian barbecues

Edward Lee Howard: Safe House: The Compelling Memoirs of The Only CIA Spy to Seek Asylum in Russia. National Press Books, Bethesda, Maryland, 1995, 299 pp., $23.95.

The Comintern's U.S. legion — I Stalin's American division

Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes and Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov: The Secret World of American Communism. Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 1995, 348 p., $25.00.

Arcane no more

Roy Godson: Dirty Tricks and Trump Cards: U.S. Covert Action and Counterintelligence. Brassey's, Washington, DC, 1995, 337 pp., $24.95.

Chiang's aide keeps mum

Sidney H. Chang and Ramon H. Myers, eds.: The Storm Clouds Clear Over China: The Memoir of Ch ‘en Li‐fu. The Hoover Institution Press, Stanford, Calif., 1994, 359 p., $24.95.     

The imperial Japanese Navy and espionage: The Itaru Tachibana case

Hitler's secret agents

William Breuer: Hitler's Undercover War St. Martin's Press, New York, 1989, 320 p., $19.95.

The Pueblo capture: an NSA ploy?

Robert Liston: The Pueblo Surrender M. Evans And Company, Inc., New York, 1988, 272 p., $18.95.

A fresh look at the Cambridge comintern

Verne W. Newton: The Cambridge Spies: The Untold Story of Maclean, Philby, and Burgess in America Madison Books, New York, 1990, 464 p., $24.95.

KGB: Useful but flawed

Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky: KGB: The Inside Story of Its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev HarperCollins, New York, 1990,776 p., $29.95.     

News for the association garmisch80

Yeshayahu Jelinek, The Parish Republic; Hlinka's Slovak People's Party, 1939–1945, East European Quarterly, Boulder, Colorado; distributed by Columbia University Press, New York, 1976, 206 p., $11.50.

M.K. Dziewanowski, The Communist Party of Poland: An Outline of History. 2d ed. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976. 419 p. $20.00.

Branko Horvat, Mihailo Markovic and Rudi Supek, eds., Self‐governing Socialism. A Reader. White Plains, N.Y.: International Arts and Sciences Press, 1975. Vol. I, xiv, 490 pp., Vol. II, viii, 327 pp. $19.00 paper.

Celia S. Heller, On the Edge of Destruction: Jews of Poland Between the Two World Wars. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977. 369 p. $14.95.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Turner's turn with the CIA

Stansfield Turner: Secrecy and Democracy: The CIA in Transition Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1985,304 p., $16.95.

007s Analysis of KAL's Flight 007

Alexander Dallin: Black Box: KAL 00 7 and the Superpowers University of California Press, Berkeley, 1985, 130 p., $14.95

Oliver Clubb: KAL Flight 007: The Hidden Story The Permanent Press, Sag Harbor, N.Y., 1985, 132 p., $14.95

Knowing who's who

Ernest May: Knowing One's Enemies Princeton University Press, 1985, 561 p., $29.50

British intelligence from A To Z

Anthony Read and David Fisher: Colonel Z: The Secret Life of a Master of Spies Viking, New York, 1985, 264 p., $17.95

Setting the record straight

Nigel West: A Thread of Deceit: Espionage Myths of World War II Random House, New York, 1985, 285 p., $16.95

Unreliable Witness: Espionage Myths of the Second World War In England: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1984, 275 p., £8.95.

The catcher in the lie

Paul Ekman: Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage W. W. Norton &; Company, N.Y., 1985, 320 p., $17.95

The cat's meow

William M. Leary: Perilous Missions: Civil Air Transport and CIA Covert Operations in Asia. The University of Alabama Press, Birmingham, Ala., 1984, 281 p., $22.50

Proceed with caution

Ernest Volkman: Warriors of the Night William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York, 1985, 434 p., $17.95

Beyond what the facts will bear

Walter Laqueur: A World of Secrets: Uses and Limits of Intelligence New York: Basic Books, 1985, 404 p., $21.95     

Crisis and resurgence: East German state security

The Great Case Officer

Peter Grose: Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1994, 641 p., $30.00.

Chronicle of a Secret War (III) Laos: The CIA's Biggest Venture

Kenneth Conboy, with James Morrison: Shadow War: The CIA's Secret War in Laos Paladin Press, Boulder, CO, 1995, 453 p., $49.95

Much Ado About Nothin'?

H. W. Brands: The Devil We Knew: Americans and the Cold War. Oxford University Press, New York, 1993, 243 p. $11.95 pb.     

FIM: A Business Information System for Intelligence

Three to Read and Keep

S. Steven Powell: Covert Cadre: Inside The Institute for Policy Studies Green Hill Publishers, Ottawa, Ill., 1987, 469 p., $29.95.

James Adams: Secret Armies: Inside the American, Soviet and European Special Forces Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 1987,440 p., $19.95.

Steven Emerson: Secret Warriors: Inside the Covert Military Operations of the Reagan Era G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1988, 256 p., $17.95.

Dangerous Dossiers

Herbert Mitgang: Dangerous Dossiers: Exposing the Secret War Against America's Greatest Authors Donald I. Fine, New York, 1988, 331 p., $18.95.

Crossing Paths in Belgium

Paul Thomas: Le KGB en Belgique Editions J. M. Collet, Brussels, 1987, 207 p., PB.     

Planning and Strategy in Reforming Romania's SRI

Counting the wars

Count Alexandre de Marenches and David A. Andelman: The Fourth World War: Diplomacy and Espionage in the Age of Terrorism William Morrow, New York, 1992, 281 p., $23.00.

The Israeli nuclear minimax

Seymour M. Hersh: The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy Random House, New York, 1991, 356 p., $23.00.

Weighing evidence for the intelligence analyst

David A. Schum: Evidence and Inference for the Intelligence Analyst 2 Vols./ University Press of America, 1987, Vol. 1—486 p., $125.00; Vol.2—359 p., $85.00.

Yankee secrets

Edmund R. Thompson, ed.: Spies of the American Revolution David Atlee Phillips New England Chapter, Association of Former Intelligence Officers, Kennebunk, Maine, 1991, 234 p., $12.95.

Enquiring minds want to know…

Peter Gudgin: Military Intelligence: The British Story Arms and Armour Press, London, 1989, 156 p., $21.95.     

Reviews and Commentary

Managing the secret war in Laos

Timothy N. Castle: At War in the Shadow of Vietnam, U.S. Military Aid to the Royal Lao Government, 1955–1975. Columbia University Press, New York, 1993,257 p., $15.00 p.b.

The angry intriguer with a marble pulse

Albert Glotzer

Lars T. Lih, Oleg V. Naumov, and Oleg V. Khlevniuk, eds.: Stalin's Letters to Molotov, 1925–1936

Yale University Press, New Haven, 1995, 276 p., $25.00.

The NKVD in Spain

Herbert Romerstein: Heroic Victims: Stalin's Foreign Legion in the Spanish Civil War The Council for the Defense of Freedom, Washington, DC, 1994, 127 p., $7.95 (paper).     

Between warning and response: The case of the Yom Kippur War

Reforming Japanese Intelligence

James Hansen: Japanese Intelligence: The Competitive Edge NIBC Press, National Intelligence Book Center, Washington , D.C., 1996, 222 p., $29.95.

Ichiro Ozawa: Blueprint for a New Japan: The Rethinking of a Nation Kodansha International, New York, 1994, 208 p., $25.00. English translation of Nihon Kaizo Keikaku (1993).

Masao Miyamoto: Straitjacket Society: An Insider's Irreverent View of Bureaucratic Japan Kodansha International, New York, 1994, 197 p., $22.00. English translation of Oyakusko no Okite (1993).

It's Warmer Inside

Michael Smith: New Cloak, Old Dagger: How Britain's Spies Came In From the Cold Victor Gollancz, London, 1996, 338 p., £20.00

Saving U.S. Convoys from U‐boats

Kathleen Broome Williams: Secret Weapon: U.S. High‐Frequency Direction Finding in the Battle of the Atlantic Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Md., 1996, $35.00

Getting Serious About Intelligence

Angelo Codevilla: Informing Statecraft: Intelligence for a New Century The Free Press, New York, 1992, 491 p., $24.95

Matters Still Unresolved

Harvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh: The Amerasia Spy Case: Prelude to McCarthyism Chapel Hill, N.C., University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, N.C., 266 p., $29.95     

>Pedagogy and politics: Origins of the special conference of 1905 on primary education for non‐Russians in the east

Sean R. Roberts, Waiting for Uighurstan. 55 minute video documentary with Companion Study Guide, 1996. Study Guide: xi, 73 pp., 2 maps, works cited, Appendix I: Script to video, Appendix II: Annotated bibliography of suggested readings.

Dennis P. Hupchick and Harold E. Cox, A Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996, viii, 120 pp., 50 maps, index.

Jörg Brechtefeld, Mitteleuropa and German Politics: 1848 to the Present. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996, vii, 195 pp. + maps, index. $49.95.

Seamus Dunn and T. G. Fraser, eds, Europe and Ethnicity: The First World War and Contemporary Ethnic Conflict. London: Routledge, 1996, xii, 218 pp. + index.

Marc A. Weiner, Richard Wagner and the Anti‐Semitic Imagination. Lincoln, NB. &; London: University of Nebraska Press, 1995, 353 pp. + notes, bibliography, index.

Robert B. Pynsent, ed., The Literature of Nationalism. Essays on East European Identity. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996, 282 pp. + index.

Ladislav Holy, The Little Czech Nation and the Great Czech Nation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, x, 226 pp., index.

Jaroslav Krej?í and Pavel Machonin, Czechoslovakia 1918–92: A Laboratory for Social Change. St Antony's series. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996, 244 pp. + notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0–312–12693‐X (hard). $49.95.

Jan Rychlík, Thomas D. Mazrik and Miroslav Bielik, eds, R. W. Seton‐Watson and His Relations with the Czechs and Slovaks; Documents, 1906–1951, 2 Vols. Ústav T. G. Masaryka and Matica Slovenská, 1995, footnotes, photographs, register of documents, name index, geographic index. Distributed by Interpress, London, England. $50.00.

Peter F. Sugar, Nationality and Society in Habsburg and Ottoman Europe. Aldershot, Hampshire, U.K.: Variorum, 1997, ix + 253 + index.

Eric Roman, Hungary and the Victor Powers: 1945–1950. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996, 172 pp.

Graham Smith, ed., The Baltic States: The National Self‐determination of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996, xx, 214 pp. + maps, tables, index.

V. Stanley Vardys and Judith B. Sedaitis, Lithuania: The Rebel Nation. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997, 222 pp. + maps, illustrations, index. $60.00 ($21.50 pbk).

Moshe Rosman, Founder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba'al Shem Tov. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996, xii, 296 pp. + maps, photographs, tables, index.

David R. Marples, Belarus: From Soviet Rule to Nuclear Catastrophe. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996, xxi, 179 pp. + photographs, tables, bibliography, index.

Jeff Chinn and Robert Kaiser, Russians as the New Minority: Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Soviet Successor States. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996, xii, 308 pp. + tables, maps, index.

Leokadia Drobizheva, Rose Gottemoeller, Catherine McArdie Kelleher and Lee Walker, eds, Ethnic Conflict in the Post‐Soviet World: Case Studies and Analysis. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1996, xv, 365 pp.

Kathleen E. Smith, Remembering Stalin's Victims: Popular Memory and the End of the USSR. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996, xv, 220 pp. + photographs, appendix, index.

Peter H. Solomon, Jr, Soviet Criminal Justice Under Stalin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, xvii, 494 pp. + photographs, tables, index.

Stephen White, Russia Goes Dry: Alcohol, State and Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, xiii, 189 pp. + photographs, illustrations, notes, index.

Hafeez Malik, ed., Central Asia: Its Strategic Importance and Future Prospects. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994, xi, 325 pp. + index.     

Reviews and commentary

The (a)ble, (b)rave, and “c” of sis

Anthony Cave Brown: The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Graham Menzies, Spymaster to Winston Churchill Macmillan, New York, 1987, 830 p., $25.00.

Sentries in the Senate

William S. Cohen and George J. Mitchell: Men of Zeal: A Candid Inside Story of the Iran‐Contra Hearings Viking Press, New York, 1988, 350 p., $19.95.

Disappointing Stalin: Cold War Compromises

Christopher Simpson: Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effect on the Cold War Weidenfeld &; Nicolson, New York, 1988, 290 p., $19.95.

Flaws in the Perfect Book on Technowar

James William Gibson: The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam The Atlantic Monthly Press, Boston, Mass., 1986, 523 p., $24.95.     

Book reviews

Yeshayahu Jelinek, The Parish Republic; Hlinka's Slovak People's Party, 1939–1945, East European Quarterly, Boulder, Colorado; distributed by Columbia University Press, New York, 1976, 206 p., $11.50.

M.K. Dziewanowski, The Communist Party of Poland: An Outline of History. 2d ed. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976. 419 p. $20.00.

Branko Horvat, Mihailo Markovic and Rudi Supek, eds., Self‐governing Socialism. A Reader. White Plains, N.Y.: International Arts and Sciences Press, 1975. Vol. I, xiv, 490 pp., Vol. II, viii, 327 pp. $19.00 paper.

Celia S. Heller, On the Edge of Destruction: Jews of Poland Between the Two World Wars. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977. 369 p. $14.95.     

Intelligence Methodologies Applicable to the Madrid Train Bombings, 2004

You Gotta know when to hold

Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali: "One Hell of a Gamble:” Khrushchev, Castro and Kennedy 1958–1964, W.W. Norton and Company, New York, 1997, 408 p., $27.50.

Encyclopedic hits and misses

Norman Polmar and Thomas B. Allen: Spy Book: The Encyclopedia of Espionage, Random House, New York, 1997, 633 pp., $30.00

Political arithmetic and cyberterrorism

Winn Schwartau: Information Warfare; Cyberterrorism: Protecting Your Personal Security in the Electronic Age, New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, (2nd ed., p.b.) 1996; 768 p. $16.95.

Snooping around Asia

Peter Elphick: Far Eastern File: The Intelligence War in the Far East, 1930–1945, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1997, 510 p., S$47.95.     

Six general principles of intelligence

The KGB's loyal critic

Oleg Kalugin (with Fern Montaigne): The First Directorate: My 32 Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West St. Martin's Press, New York, 1994, 375 p., $23.95.

Marks for the Marxists

Craig R. Whitney: Spy Trader: Germany's Devil's Advocate and the Darkest Secrets of the Cold War Times Books/Random House, New York, 1993, 375 p., $25.00.

Miffed in Canada

Mike Frost and Michel Gratton: Spyworld: Inside the Canadian and American Intelligence Establishments Doubleday Canada Limited, 1994, 280 p., $29.95 Cdn.

Will we ever know?

Pavel Sudoplatov and Anatoli Sudoplatov with Jerrold L. and Leona P. Schecter: Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness — A Soviet Spymaster; Foreword by Robert Conquest Little, Brown and Company, Boston and New York, 1994, 532 p., $24.95.

Defense's tormented soul

Townsend Hoopes and Douglas Brinkley: Driven Patriot: The Life and Times of James Forrestal Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1992, 387 p., $30.00.

Anti‐Semitic spies

John Loftus and Mark Aarons: The Secret War Against the Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed The Jewish People St. Martin's Press, New York, 1994, 658 p., $26.95.     

ANALYSIS IN CRISIS PREVENTION

Congress and intelligence policy

Frank J. Smist Jr.: Congress Oversees The United States Intelligence Community 1947–1989 University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, 1990, 336 p., $24.95 (paper), $49.95 (cloth).

The priest of ambiguity

Tom Mangold: Cold Warrior James Jesus Angleton: The CIA;s Master Spy Hunter Simon &; Schuster Ltd., London, 1991, 403 p., Simon &; Schuster, New York, 1991, 462 p., $24.95. The difference in pagination is due primarily to the spacing in the endnotes. The narrative of the two editions is essentially the same. Several photos appear in the UK but not the U.S. edition.

A conventional approach to counterinsurgency

Francis J. Kelly: The Green Berets in Vietnam, 1961–71 Brassey's, Washington, D.C., 1991,227 p., $12.95.

Pioneering West Germany's intelligence

Walter Imle: Zwischen Vorbehalt und Erfordernis—Eine Historische Studie zur Entstehung des Nachrichtendienstlichen Verfassungsschutzes nach 1945, (Between Reservation and Exigency — A Historical Study of the Origins of German Counterintelligence after 1945) tuduv Studien, Munich, 1984, 000 p., SNA (not available).     

Reviews and commentary

Reflections on come retribution

Tossing wins away

William Colby (with James McCargar): Lost Victory: A Firsthand Account of America's Sixteen‐Year Involvement In Vietnam Contemporary Books, Chicago, 1989, 438 p., $22.95.

Deception a la Russe

Brian D. Dailey and Patrick J. Parker, eds.: Soviet Strategic Deception Lexington Books, Lexington, Mass., 538 p., $49.00.

On using mirrors to see others

Roy Godson, ed.: Comparing Foreign Intelligence: The U.S., the USSR, the U.K. &; the Third World Pergamon‐Brassey's, Washington, D.C., 1988, 157 pp., $18.95.

Another look at “Moscow Station”

Ronald Kessler: Moscow Station Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1989, 320 p., $19.95.     

Social Capital,Civic Engagement and the Performance of Local Self-Government in Azerbaijan

Victor M. Fic. Revolutionary War for Independence and the Russian Question: Czechoslovak Army in Russia 1914–1918. New Delhi: Albhinav Publications, (E. 37 Hauz Khas), 1977. Pg. xv, 270. $12.

Thomas Spira. German‐Hungarian Relations and the Swabian Problem: From Karolyi to Gömbös 1919–1936. Boulder: East European Quarterly, Distributed by Columbia University Press, New York, 1977. Pp. 382. $18.50.

Robert A. Kann, Béla A. Király, Paul S. Fichtner, eds. The Habsburg Empire in World War I. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977. Pp. xiv, 247. $17.50.