Smith,
Francis O.J. The Secret Corresponding Vocabulary; Adapted for Use to Morse's Electro-Magnetic Telegraph: and Also in Conducting Written Correspondence, Transmitted by the Mails, or Otherwise. Portland, ME: Thurston Ilsley, 1845. [Petersen] Smith,
Francis O.J. The Secret Corresponding Vocabulary; Adapted for Use to Morse's Electro-Magnetic Telegraph: and Also in Conducting Written Correspondence, Transmitted by the Mails, or Otherwise. Portland, ME: Thurston Ilsley, 1845. [Petersen]
[Cryptography/Gen]
Smith, Gaddis. "Was Moscow Our Real Target?" New York Times, 18 Aug. 1985.
[WWII/FEPac/Bomb]
Smith, G.R. "Royalist Secret Agents at Dover during the Commonwealth." Historical Studies: Australia & New Zealand 12 (1967): 477-490.
Royal Historical Society Database places the period covered as 1625-1675.
[UK/Historical]
Smith, Geoffrey. Royalist Agents, Conspirators and Spies: Their Role in the British Civil Wars, 1640-1660. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011.
Hutton, I&NS 26.6 (Dec 2011), says this book "both fills out our knowledge of the age and events concerned and augments the history of espionage and secret diplomacy."
[UK/Historical]
Smith, Hedrick. "U.S. Aides Say Loss of Post in Iran Impairs Missile-Monitoring Ability." New York Times, 2 Mar. 1979. A1, A8.
[GenPostwar/70s/Iran]
Smith, Henry Bascom. Between the Lines: Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After. New York: Booz Brothers, 1911.
Smith was Chief of Detectives and Assistant Provost Marshal with Lew Wallace.
[CivWar/Union/Gen]
Smith, Hugh. "Intelligence and UN Peacekeeping." Survival
36 (Autumn 1994): 174-192.
[GenPostCW/90s/Peacekeeping][c]
Smith, I.C. Inside -- A Top G-Man Exposes Spies, Lies, and Bureaucratic Bungling Inside the FBI. Nashville, TN: Nelson Current, 2004.
Peake, Studies 49.3 (2005), says that the author "gives us a genuine inside look at the FBI and his own life. Both make absorbing reading.... [I]intelligence professionals will be ... interested in his insights into the familiar counterintelligence cases of the era." Smith also provides "very candid comments about the directors under whom he served." This is "is a valuable contribution to current intelligence issues and to the literature of the profession."
[FBI/00s/General]
Smith, I.C., and Nigel West. Historical Dictionary of Chinese Intelligence. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2012.
To Peake, Studies 56.3 (Sep. 2012) and Intelligencer 19.3 (Winter-Spring 2013), this work provides "a valuable mix of case studies, institutional descriptions, organizational relationships, and commentary on key personnel." The book "documents the extent of Chinese global reach in espionage, including cyberespionage, and is the best reference work on the subject to date." Mattis, Studies 56.4 (Dec. 2012), is less than enthusiastic about this work, calling it "incomplete, often misleading, and ultimately" providing "a shaky foundation for building understanding of the challenge" represented by the PRC. Nevertheless, "on its technical merits, the book makes a lot of material readily accessible."
[China/Gen/10s; RefMat/Dictionaries/Historical]
[Smith, Jeffrey H.] "An Interview with Former CIA General Counsel Jeffrey H. Smith." National Security Law Report 18, no. 6 (Oct. 1996): 1, 4-7.
Chairman of the ABA's Standing Committee on Law and National Security, Paul Schott Stevens, interviews Jeffrey H. Smith, "shortly after he returned to private law practice."
[CIA/C&C/ODCI]
Smith, John Chabot. Alger Hiss: The True Story. New York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, 1976.
From the "Hiss-was-framed" genre. Allen Weinstein, "Was Alger Hiss Framed?" New York Review of Books, 1 Apr. 1976, 16-18, is a negative contemporaneous review.
[SpyCases/U.S./Hiss]
Smith, John H. The Atom Spy and MI5: The Story of Alan Nunn May. Malvern, UK: Aspect Design, 2013.
Peake, Studies 58.1 (Mar. 2014), notes that most of this work "concerns Nunn May's relationship with MI5, his family, and his life after his release in 1952."
[SpyCases/Bomb]
Smith, Joseph B. Portrait of a Cold Warrior. New York: Putnam's, 1976. New York: Ballentine, 1981.
Constantinides notes that Smith served with the CIA from 1950 to 1973. This book looks at the CIA "from the perspective of the case officer" and "gives the reader the feel and smell of operations." Smith does not clarify his motives for publishing these memoirs, which leaves the reader unsure of the author's objectivity.
[CIA/Memoirs]
Smith, Joseph K. [CPT/USA] "MIOAC Preparation for the El Salvador Challenge." Military Intelligence 20, no. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1993): 31-35.
Military Intelligence Officers Advanced Course (MIOAC).
[CIA/90s/95-96/ElSalvador]
Smith, Kevin D. "Coming into Its Own: The Contribution of Intelligence at the Battle of Alma Halfa." Military Review 82, no. 4 (Jul.-Aug. 2002): 74-77.
The article covers both the impact of Ultra material and the use of deception operations.
[UK/WWII/NAf]
Smith,
Laurence D. Cryptography: The Science of Secret Writing. New York: Dover Books, 1955. [Petersen]
[Cryptography/Gen]
Smith, Leef. "Australian Aide Under Probe
Dead in Apparent Suicide." Washington Post, 17 Jun. 1999, B2.
Mervyn Jenkins, "[a] senior Australian Defense Intelligence official who was under investigation for mishandling documents[,] was found dead [on 12 June 1999] at his Arlington home, the victim of an apparent suicide."
[Australia/99]
Smith, Lou. The Secret of MI6. London: Hale, 1975. New York: St. Martin's, 1978.
[UK/Overviews]
Smith,
Lyn. "Covert British Propaganda: The Information Research Department,
1947-77." Millennium: Journal of International Studies 9, no. 1 (1980): 67-83.
[UK/Postwar/IRD]
Smith, Michael (Telegraph).
Smith, Michael Douglas. "CIA Publications: Serving the President
with Daily Intelligence." International Journal of Intelligence
and Counterintelligence 12, no. 2 (Summer 1999): 201-206.
Smith traces the history of CIA daily analytic support to the President from the CIG's Daily Summary, which began 15 February 1946, to today's President's Daily Brief.
[Analysis/Historical]
Smith, Michael Douglas. "The Perils of Analysis: Revisiting Sherman Kent’s Defense of SNIE 85-3-62." Studies in Intelligence 51, no. 3 (2007): 29-32. [https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol51no3/index.html]
"The crucial lesson" to be drawn for SNIE 85-3-62 "is that simply being aware of our mental traps is not enough. To reduce the potential for analytic errors, some form of analytic structuring technique must be used to overcome cognitive traps." See Sherman Kent, "A Crucial Estimate Relived." Studies in Intelligence 8, no. 2 (Spring 1964): 1-18; and Studies in Intelligence 36, no. 5 (1992): 111-119.
[Analysis/Est; GenPostwar/60s/MissileCrisis]
Smith, Michael M. "The Mexican Secret Service in the United States, 1910-1920." The Americas 59, no. 1 (Jul. 2002): 65-85.
[Historical/U.S./ToWWI; LA/Mexico]
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