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     

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 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.     

Consolidating Democracy: The Reform of Mongolian Intelligence

A different kind of intelligence failure

Martin E. Silverstein: Disasters: Your Right to Survive Brassey's, Washington, D.C., 1992, 207p., $26.00.

Howard R. Simpson: Tiger in the Barbed Wire: An American in Vietnam 1952–1991 Brassey's, Washington, D.C., 1992, 260 p., $23.00.

British intelligence in World War II: the final phase

F. H. Hinsley, with E. E. Thomas, C. A. G. Simkins and C. F. G. Ransom: British Intelligence in the Second World War: Its Influence on Strategy and Operations, Volume 3, Part II. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1988, 1038 p., $84.95. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, £29.95.

OSS special weapons and equipment: the arms of secrecy

H. Keith Melton: Spy Devices of World War II Sterling Publishing, New York, 1991, $14.95.

The new breed of spies

Thomas B. Allen and Norman Polmar: Merchants of Treason: America's Secret for Sale Delacorte Dell Press, New York, 1988, 471 p., $4.95 PB, $19.95 HB.

The Cambridge spies never die

Verne W. Newton: The Cambridge Spies: The Untold Story of Maclean, Philby, and Burgess in America Madison Books, Lanham, Md., 440 p. $24.95.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

Politics,presidents, and DCIs

Sukarno's Apologists Write Again

Audrey R. Kahin and George McT. Kahin: Subversion as Foreign Policy: The Secret Eisenhower and Dulles Debacle in Indonesia, The New Press, New York, NY, 1995, 318 pp., $25.00.

The Ames Case: Various Versions

James Adams: Sellout: Aldrich Ames and the Corruption of the CIA, Viking, New York, 1995, 322 p., $23.95.

Peter Maas: Killer Spy: The Inside Story of the FBI's Pursuit and Capture of Aldrich Ames, America's Deadliest Spy, Warner Books, New York, 1996,264 p., $6.50 (paperback; first published in hardback by Warner Books in 1995).

Tim Weiner, David Johnston, and Neil A. Lewis: Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, An American Spy, Random House, New York, 1995,308 p., $25.00.

David Wise: Nightmover: How Aldrich Ames Sold the CIA to the KGB for $4.6 Million, HarperCollins, New York, 1995,356 p., $25.00.

The Brutal March Backward

Dmitri Volkogonov: Lenin: A New Biography (Translated and edited by Harold Shukman), The Free Press, New York, 1994, 529 p., $30.00.

The Big Stretch

John Newman: Oswald and the CIA, Carroll &; Graf, New York, 1995,627 p., $28.00.

More About the Past

Oleg Gordievsky: Next Stop Execution, Macmillan, London, 1995, 396 pp., £16.99.     

The Case Against Intelligence Openness

The buccaneer as Donovan's heir

Joseph Persico: Casey: From the OSS To The CIA Viking, New York, 1990, 601 p., $24.95.

Keeping up with Jones

R. V. Jones: Reflections on Intelligence. Heinemann, London, 376 p. (Price not given.)

Toward the science of war

Edward N. Luttwak: Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace Belknap, Cambridge, Mass., 1987, 283 p., $20.00.

The Chinese puzzle

Roger Faligot and Remi Kauffer: The Chinese Secret Service: Kang Sheng and the Shadow Government in Red China William Morrow and Company, New York, 1989, 525 p., $24.95.

Peeking into keyhole

Jeffrey T. Richelson: America's Secret Eyes in Space: The U.S. Keyhole Spy Satellite Program Harper &; Row/Ballinger, New York, 1990, 375 p., $24.95.     

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     

Covert action's proper role in U.S. policy

Gerald Seymour: The Running Target William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York, 1990, 336 p., $19.95.

Robert Ludlum: The Bourne Ultimatum Random House, New York, 1990, 611 p., $21.95.

Graham Ison: Confirm Or Deny

St. Martin's Press, New York, 1989, 317 p., $17.95.

David Doyle: An Accurate Watch

William Morrow and Company, New York, 1990, 408 p., $20.95.     

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.     

Book Reviews

Battling for turf at the NSC

Cecil V. Crabb, Jr. and Kevin V. Mulcahy: American National Security: A Presidential Perspective Brooks/Cole Publishing Co., Pacific Grove, Calif., 1991, 208 p., PB, $11.95.

The Big Boondoggle

Tim Weiner: Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget Warner Books, New York, 1990, 273 p., $21.95.

The Missing Ingredient in Analyzing Soviet Politics

Peter Deriabin and T. H. Bagley: KGB: Masters of the Soviet Union Hippocrene Books, New York, 1990, 466 p., $24.95.

Once Over Lightly

Charles D. Ameringer: U.S. Foreign Intelligence: The Secret Side of American History Lexington Books, Lexington, Mass., 1990, 458 p., $24.95.

Perceptions in War and Peace

Robert Jervis: The Logic of Images in International Relations Columbia University Press, New York, 1989, PB, 281 p., $15.00.     

Reviews and commentary

Lifting bob Woodward's veil

Bob Woodward : VEIL : The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981–1987 Simon &; Schuster, New York, 1987, 543 p., $21.95.

His “Cover” Is Undercover

Steve Posner: Israel Undercover: Secret Warfare &; Hidden Diplomacy in the Middle East Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, N.Y., 1987, 350 p., $17.95.

Democracy and Intelligence: An Uneasy Compatibility

Stephen J. Cimbala, ed.: Intelligence and Intelligence Policy in a Democratic Society Transnational Publishers, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., 262 p., $37.50.

A Much‐Needed Primer

Herbert E. Meyer: R eal‐ World In teltigence. Weidenfeld &; Nicolson, New York, 1987, 102 p., $14.95.

Agee Finds Two Friends

Jonathan Bloch and Patrick Fitzgerald (introduction by Philip Agee): British Intelligence and Covert Action Brandon Book Publishers Ltd., Kerry, Ireland, 1983, 284 p., PB, $9.95.

Questionable Secrets‐Questionable Sources

Fabrizio Calviand Olivier Schmidt: Intelligences secretes — Annales de l'espionnage Hachette, Paris, 1988, 309 p., 148 Fr. fr.

Scaling the Wall

Vladimir Solovyov and Elena Klepikova: Behind the High Kremlin Walls Dodd, Mead, New York, 1986, 248 p., $17.95.

The USSR As a Counterintelligence State

John J. Dziak: Chekisty: A History of the KGB Heath/Lexington Books, Lexington, Mass., 1988, 234 p., $17.95.     

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 commentatry

CIAs inspector general — the DCI's independent eye: another view

Misplaced loyalties: the Pollards and “friends”

Wolf Blitzer: Territory of Lies: The Exclusive Story of Jonathan Jay Pollard: The American Who Spied on His Country for Israel and How He Was Betrayed. Harper & Row, New York, 1989, 336 p., $22.50.

Counterintelligence: hazards and goofs

Ronald Kessler: Spy vs. Spy: Stalking Soviet Spies in America Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1988, 308 p., $19.95.

The Lincoln assassination and the confederate secret service

William A. Tidwell, with James O. Hall and David Winfred Gaddy: Come Retribution: The Confederate Secret Service and the Assassination of Lincoln University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, Miss., 510 p., HB $38.50, PB $17.95.

A brief tour of American intelligence

Bruce D. Berkowitz and Allan E. Goodman: Strategic Intelligence for American National Security Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1989, 232 p., $19.95.

Les miserables in modern dress

Peter Maas: Manhunt: The Incredible Pursuit of a CIA Agent Turned Terrorist Random House, New York, 196, 301 p., $18.75.

Yale at war

Robin W. Winks: Cloak & Gown: Scholars in the Secret War, 1939–1961 William Morrow, New York, 1987, 322 p., $22.95.     

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).     

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).