CIA History Staff, 2012. — 30 p. In late 1961, CIA employees began relocating from a disparate collection of buildings in Washington, to a newly constructed headquarters complex in Langley, Virginia. The Original Headquarters Building (OHB) was the first home designed specifically for Agency officers, and it still serves today as an iconic symbol of CIA and its mission. As part...
New York, Berlin, London: Bloomsbury Press, 2006. — 884 p. In February 2006, while researching this book, Matthew Aid uncovered a massive and secret document reclassification program―a revelation that made the front page of the New York Times. This was only one of the discoveries Aid has made during two decades of research in formerly top-secret documents. In The Secret Sentry,...
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1916. — 235 p. What would happen if a man went undercover into enemy territory during World War One? One man ventured to find out. The book’s unnamed narrator, a Daily Mail journalist, begins his journey posing as a steel worker in Essen, before being ‘dismissed with ignominy’ and moving on to Constantinople. The journalist, who at the beginning...
Philadelphia: 1867. — 704 p. IN" giving to the public this volume, it has been the design to present the operations of the Bureau of the National Detective Police during the war, so far as it is proper to make them known to the people. It is not a book of romantic adventures, but a narrative of facts in the secret history of the conflict, and mainly an exposure of the manifold and...
Third Impression. — Boston: The Page Co., 1926. — 322 p. The romance of war in its most thrilling form is exemplified in this narrative of the adventures of "The World's Greatest Military Spies and Secret Service Agents." I Much has been published upon the subject of espionage, and the memoirs and secret histories of the courts of Europe give us instances of men and women who...
US Army Intelligence and Security Command, 2012. — 59 p. On July 1, 2012, the Military Intelligence (MI) Branch turned fi fty years old. When it was established in 1962, it was the Army’s fi rst new branch since the Transportation Corps had been formed twenty years earlier. Today, it remains one of the youngest of the Army’s fi fteen basic branches (only Aviation and Special...
Studies in Intelligence Vol. 57, No. 2, June 2013. — P. 1-18. Two of the most riveting spy movies of all time, The Third Man (1949) and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965), are set in postwar Central Europe. The time and place of the plots are no coincidence. Germany’s location at the heart of Europe, its industrial potential, and its large, well-educated population gave it...
Thesis. — Monterey: Naval Postgraduate School, 2002. — 94 p. This thesis identifies and analyzes recruiting strategies that exist outside of the military service that might be considered to increase the number of high-quality enlisted recruits for the United States Army Special Forces Command (USASFC). The thesis contains a review of the current Special Forces recruiting processes...
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1983. — 176 p. This collection also describes another form of sabotage-ideological- which is part of the subversive activity conducted by the CIA against the socialist world and the national liberation movement. These ‘champions of the idea’, whose weapons are the pen and the microphone, are paid from the same purse as those whose hands are stained...
Washington: National Defense University Press, 1994. — 189 p. In this volume, John Collins speaks with the authority of one who was literally present at the birth of the "low intensity conflict. His long-term. intimate, and direct contact with the esoteric world of special operations has fcw parallels, Their roots go back in time and history considerably farther, but todaky's...
Studies in Intelligence. — 2014. — Vol 58. — No. 2 (Extracts). — p. 65-75. The OSS counterintelligence division known as X-2 was responsible for identifying and neutralizing German intelligence activity abroad.
A thesis presented to the Faculty of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Military Art and Science. — Fort Leavenworth: Christopher Newport College, 1993. — 99 p. This study reviews the current roles and capabilities of U.S. Army military Freefall (MFF) and Underwater Operations (UWO) teams in the...
Las Cruces: TBR News, 1986. — 204 p. Most books on historical personages are only repetition of the subject done by earlier writers. New historical material, especially important material, on controversial individuals rarely appears in print, either because it has been destroyed or deliberately hidden away. If such material does surface, it is generally met with hostility by...
New York, Toronto, London: Touchstone, 2015. — 277 p. — ISBN10: 147679605X, 13 978-1476796055. A hands-on, practical survival guide from retired Navy SEAL Clint Emerson-adapted for civilians from actual special forces operations-to eluding pursuers, evading capture, and surviving any dangerous situation. In today's increasingly dangerous world, threats to your personal safety...
A thesis presented to the Faculty of the US Army Command and General Staff College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Military Art and Science. — Fort Leavenworth: US Army Command and General Staff College, 2004. — 100 p. Army Special Operations (ARSOF) are a significant contributing force in the Global War on Terrorism and have no explosive...
Fort Leavenworth: Combat Studies Institute Press US Army Combined Arms Center, 2009. — 146 p. — ISBN: 978-0-9823283-3-0 The Israeli incursions into Lebanon in mid-2006 and into Gaza in late 2008/early 2009 are important studies in contrasts. During the first, often termed “the Second Lebanon War,” Hezbollah fought Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) seeking hostage rescue and...
Quantico: FBI, 2003. — 90 p. In the wake of the September 11, 2001, airline hijackings the Firearms and Toolmarks Unit of the FBI Laboratory has started a collection of small and easily concealed knives. This is the first installment of a continuing effort to collect and distribute information on knives that otherwise may be dismissed as non threatening items. Many of the knives...
Arizona: US Army Intelligence Center & Fort Huachuca, 1995. — 445 p. Defining military intelligence as “all the knowledge which we have of the enemy and his country,” Carl von Clausewitz goes on to discount its trustworthiness. “Great part of the information obtained in War is contradictory, a still greater part is false, and by far the greatest part is of a doubtful character.”...
A Monograph. — Fort Leavenworth: School of Advanced Military Studies United States Army Command and General Staff College, 1993. — 57 p. This monograph examines the utility of U.S. Army Special Forces in the changing world security environment. It first analyzes the security environment by looking at several theories and assessments. Then it rocuses on the post-Cold War...
Field Manual. Department of the Army, 1955. — 194 p. The group is a cellular type unit employed at theater level. It operates initially within the Army forces of the theater to conduct guerrilla operations. An appropriate command organization for the conduct of Unconventional Warfare may be organized as needed by the theater commander. Typical of an appropriate command...
Sperling & Kupfer, 2018. — 612 p. Q uando, nel giugno 2013 , Edward Snowden rivelò che la National security agency aveva intercettato milioni di persone, compresi diversi capi di Stato e di governo, si scoprì che non erano sfuggiti allo spionaggio neppure Jorge Mario Bergoglio e i cardinali che avevano eletto il nuovo Pontefice. Niente di nuovo per le organizzazioni di...
New York: The Home Publishing Company, 1903. — 295 p. The summer night was falling softly upon Saratoga when that great watering place was scarce more than a village embowered in trees ; when most of its present magnificent avenues were pretty turnpike roads and some only bridle paths; Saratoga when those who sought its summer retreat came to it leisurely, many of them by...
Center for Cryptologic History National Security Agency, 2002. — 500 p. AThe Indochina peninsula extends south from the Chinese landmass like a pendulous bulge. The coastline of Vietnam twists in a great S-curve extending south from the Tonkin region along the coastal areas of Annam and Cochin before it heads west to Cambodia. Indochina is divided by two great riverine systems....
A thesis presented to the Faculty of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Military Art and Science. — Fort Leavenworth: U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 1993. — 160 p. This thesis traces the development of American radio intelligence at the operational and tactical levels from its beginnings...
Thesis. — Monterey: Naval Postgraduate School, 2014. — 123 p. The U.S. Army Special Forces (SF) are the most highly trained, best equipped, and most seasoned soldiers to which the United States can turn to achieve national security objectives. The future, however, will require more indirect application of SF, through special warfare operations (e.g., UW, FID, etc.), in a host of...
MacDill Air Force Base: The JSOU Press, 2011. — 50 p. This study, Cultural and Linguistic Skills Acquisition for Special Forces: Necessity, Acceleration and Potential Alternatives, was initiated before the directive mentioned in the Preface. However, the directive is well-timed in that it makes the findings and recommendations from this monograph-and its post-publication...
U.S. Army Intelligence Center, 1959. — 4408 p. History of the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps. Intelligence Axiom: "To remain in ignorance of the enemy's condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred ounces of silver in honors or emoluments is the height of inhumanity..." Sun Tzu The mission of the Counter Intelligence Corps is to contribute to the...
U.S. Army Intelligence Center, 1959. — 4408 p. History of the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps. Intelligence Axiom: "To remain in ignorance of the enemy's condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred ounces of silver in honors or emoluments is the height of inhumanity..." Sun Tzu The mission of the Counter Intelligence Corps is to contribute to the...
Washington, Military Intelligence Division War Department, 1946. — 86 p. Guided Missiles — The Weapon Of The Future Compulsory Military Training In The USSR Defense By Flame German Combustible Cartridge Cases Credit — Where It's Due Black Dragon German Induction Mine Detonator Hasty Minefields — Russian Style Amt Vi D 4 — A Story Of Nazi Espionage Incendiary Rifle Grenade...
Headquartfrs United States Arm Forces Pacific Ocean Areas APO 958, No. 8 -14 Jan 1945. — 34 p. Jap Commandos American Propaganda Leaflets Japanese Non-Poisonous Smoke Candles Method of Attacking Pillboxes CIC Operations on Leyte Jap Sticky Type Mine Jap Raiding Party Equipment Attacking Tanks With Explosives Note on Bacteria Hold that MG Fire! Attack Behavior Japanese Method of...
War Department N1, Washington, September 1942. — 183 p. Armored Forces. The 88-mm. Gun. Tanks in the Spotlight. Mechanized Warfare. Air Forces. Focke-Wulf - FW190. Parachutists. Training. Tactics. Organization of Division. The Parachutist's "Ten Commandments". Booby Traps. General. Operation. Principles of Use. Keeping Normal Appearance. Small Spaces. Many Traps In One Place....
Jackson Brian, Peter Chalk, Richard Warnes, Lindsay Clutterbuck, Aidan Winn. — Santa Monica: RAND Corporation, 2009. — 194 p. With terrorism still prominent on the U.S. agenda, whether the country’s prevention efforts match the threat the United States faces continues to be central in policy debate. One element of this debate is questioning whether the United States should create...
Washington: NSA, 1995. — p. 289-652. Within NSA's Production organization, fully 50 percent worked the Soviet problem. Another 8.4 percent worked in Acorn (Asian Communist) while 7.6 percent were in AHo (all others, Le., Third World). The remaining 35 percent was allocated to centralized technical or staff functions such as machine processing and collection support (including...
Monterey: Naval Postgraduate School, 2016. — 35 p. In light of increasing Special Operations Forces (SOF) mission requirements, United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) requires a tool for planning to fulfill force requirements of the most valuable missions while sustaining SOF capabilities within operations tempo constraints. Currently, USSOCOM stakeholders attend...
University Publications of America, 1989. — 96 p. Soon after declassif¡cation of selected communications intelligence material from World War II was undertaken by the National Security Agency in the late 1970s, many valuable documents were made available to researchers in the National Archives. An early scholar of this material, the late Ronald Lewin, said to the press in...
University Publications of America, 1989. — 40 p. Special Research Histories (SRHs), a series of studies, monographs, and reports principally concerning cryptographic operations in World War II, were compiled mostly from highly classified contemporary files by wartime participants. Each SRH addresses a specific topic. For example, SRH- 090, compiled only in six copies in late...
University Publications of America, 1989. — 48 p. Soon after declassif¡cation of selected communications intelligence material from World War II was undertaken by the National Security Agency in the late 1970s, many valuable documents were made available to researchers in the National Archives. An early scholar of this material, the late Ronald Lewin, said to the press in...
First Printing. — Washington: Department of the Army, 2006. — 514 p. This book tells the story of an unusual group of American soldiers in World War II , second-generation Japanese Americans (Nisei) who served as interpreters and translators in the Military Intelligence Service. It describes how the War Department recruited soldiers from an ethnic minority and trained them in a...
HarperCollins e-books, 2009. — 178 p. John Mulholland was never a household word, like the world famous escapologist Houdini or, more recently, the illusionist David Copperfield. But among professional magicians from the 1930s to the 1950s, he was seen as the very model of what a magician should be-urbane, highly skilled, inventive, and prolific. He was very successful...
New York: Wonder Books, 1965. — 87 p. The Hollow Nickel How the Bureau Began On the Firing Line New Approaches to Combating Crime Outwitting the Bank Robbers The Fighting Fronts of Science The War on Spies More About Jimmy's Nickel The Many Faces of Crime "The Ten Most Wanted" G-Men in Action A Tip Traps a Kidnapper Outwitting the Bank Robbers The FBI and Civil Rights A Career...
United States: Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 1945. — 37 p. "This booklet is designed to supplement the lectures on OSS organization. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) is an agency of the Joint Chiefs of Staff charged with collecting and analyzing strategic information and secret intelligence required for military operations, and with planning and executing programs of...
Carlisle Barracks: US Army War College, 1991. — 30 p. This paper argues for the development of a horse-mounted capability within US Special Operations Forces to support the conduct of counter insurgency operations. Horse-mounted troops are an asset that cannot be ignored given the likelihood that the US will be involved in assisting friendly governments combating insurgencies...
Washington: War Department, 1949. — 449 p. The previous volume has outlined the growth of COI/ OSS in Washington and the development of the functions of its various branches. In this section, OSS activity in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East is related, not by branches, but according to each successive target area. Eight parts cover: North Africa; the outlying neutral areas,...
Monograph. — FBI, 1969. — 44 p. This monograph released for sale in February, 1969, is an inquiry into the nature and operations of the FBI. It discusses in detail many of the virulent charges that the FBI runs "amuck" without regard to the rights of individuals and groups and is, therefore, a danger to our democratic society. The conclusions reached by the authors state that...
Council on Foreign Relations Press, 2013. — 51 p. — (Council Special Report No. 66, April 2013). The United States has arrived at a critical inflection point in the development and employment of its special operations forces. Budget pressures and exhaustion with large-scale wars now place a new premium on small-footprint operations and partnering with allies to provide...
First edition. — New York: Walker and Company Inc, 1976. — 261 p. — ISBN: 0-8027-0529-4 The Office of Coordinator of Information (COl) was established on 11 July 1941. It was announced to the public as an agency for the collection and analysis of information and data. Actually, through COl and its successor, the Office of strategic Services (OSS), the United States was...
Gerard Arthus Publishers, 1965. — 12 p. These are images for a 1965 take-apart vintage Secret Sam Pistol/Rifle Set. The last image includes the instruction sheet. After the creation of the spy-hero genre thanks to the James Bond films, kids all over America and the rest of the civilized Western world put aside for a while their six-guns, catcher's mitts, and domino masks, and...
2013. — 120 p. From my own experience and study of military history, understanding what is really going on as well as the opportunities and threats, i.e. situational awareness, is crucial for sound decision making in battles, operations and campaigns. It seems this is universal and timeless although the internal weighting among the detailed factors will vary among these levels....
FBI, 1955. — 69 p. Espionage by Soviet officials, operating out of official Soviet establishments in this country, is one of the most important problems faced by the Bureau in discharging its responsibilities in the internal security field. Obviously, penetration of the Soviet intelligence services becomes a prime objective in the Bureau’s increasing counterintelligence...