Batvinis, Raymond J. The Origins of FBI Counterintelligence. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2007. Batvinis, Raymond J. The Origins of FBI Counterintelligence. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2007.
From publisher: This book by a former FBI special agent covers "the crucial period before Pearl Harbor when the Bureau’s powers secretly expanded to face the developing international emergency." The author "examines the FBI’s emerging new roles during the two decades leading up to America’s entry into World War II to show how it cooperated and competed with other federal agencies.... Based on newly declassified documents and interviews with former agents, Batvinis’s account reconstructs and greatly expands our understanding of the FBI’s achievements and failures during this period."
Peake, Studies 51.3 (2007), concludes that "[f]or those interested in how the FBI crafted its niche in the American national security program," this book "is the place to start."
Boak, David G. "The Evolution of Signals Security as a Counterintelligence Discipline." Intelligencer 15, no. 3 (Summer/Fall 2007): 53-59.
CNN. "CIA Spy Hunter Talks to CNN about Notorious Turncoats." 29 May 2000. [http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/05/29/cia.spy.02/index.html]
In an interview with CNN National Security Correspondent David Ensor, Richard Haver, former executive director of the CIA's Community Management Staff, "talks about his experiences with ... John Anthony Walker; Aldrich Ames,... and Jonathan Pollard." (Includes video clips of interview.)
Counterintelligence News and Developments. "Passing the Torch." Mar. 2000. [http://www. nacic.gov]
Michael J. Waguespack, Director of the National Counterintelligence Center since its establishment in 1994, returned to the FBI in late January 2000. He will serve as Deputy Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Operations and Support, National Security Division, FBI Headquarters. Robert C. Thompson, on detail at the NACIC from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and previously Waguespack's deputy, will serve as Acting Director until a new Director is named.
Gertz, Bill. "Counterintelligence Posts Vacant." Washington Times, 10 Feb. 2006. [http://www.washingtontimes.com]
According to U.S. intelligence officials, the top positions at "government counterintelligence agencies are empty due to resignations and retirements amid a dispute over the role of counterspying.... The most senior U.S. government counterintelligence official -- presidential appointee Michelle Van Cleave -- resigned last month after the office of the National Counterintelligence Executive (NCIX), which she headed, was made part of the new Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). At the FBI, CIA and Pentagon, senior counterintelligence positions are held by acting officials. At the White House, the National Security Council (NSC) counterintelligence staff position has been downgraded.... Intelligence officials said the failure to fill the top posts is a sign of bias against counterspying by senior intelligence officials under DNI John Negroponte and at other agencies."
Gertz, Bill. Enemies: How America's Foes Steal Our Vital Secrets -- and How We Let It Happen. New York: Crown, 2006.
It seems odd to Peake, Studies 51.2 (2007), that the author "treats cases in which [enemy] agents were caught or confessed -- presumed successes -- yet he argues that 'FBI is out of control' ([p.] 199) and American CI isn't doing anything right, largely because it takes too long to catch the culprits, a problem he blames on the lack of high-level attention. Like others before him, Gertz argues that more resources, better leadership, and proactive programs are needed."
Brooks, NIPQ 23.1 (Jan. 2007), notes that this book "deals with the rather consistent failures of U.S. counterintelligence." The author "points out the failures of the FBI to detect, their ineptitude in investigating, and their flawed prosecutions as evidence that the nation requires an MI-5 type professional counterintelligence service."
For Goulden, Intelligencer 15.2 (Fall/Winter 2006-2007) and Washington Times, 12 Nov. 2006, "even someone who is reflexively friend[ly] towards intelligence and law enforcement agencies must feel appalled at Mr. Gertz's account of sweeping incompetence by the men and women who are paid good salaries to protect important secrets.... Not a pleasant read, to be sure, but a valuable one."
West, IJI&C 20.4 (Winter 2007), finds that this work "is not so much a work of disclosure, but more a series of case histories." The author's "account of wholesale ineptitude and worse at the FBI's Hoover Building is written in racy journalese, and reads as if it had been downloaded off his newspaper's website."
Gertz, Bill. "Ex-Spy Hunter Drops Intelligence Post Bid." Washington Times, 31 Mar. 2006. [http://www.washingtontimes.com]
Former CIA counterintelligence officer Paul Redmond "has withdrawn from consideration to become" national counterintelligence executive (NCIX). The post and the deputy position in NCIX "remain vacant following the resignations of Michelle Van Cleave in January and Ken deGraffenreid a month earlier. The office was recently placed under DNI John D. Negroponte as part of intelligence reform efforts, setting off a dispute over the role of counterintelligence."
Gertz, Bill. "Foreign Spy Activity Surges to Fill Technology Gap." Washington Times, 3 Jan. 2007. [http://www.washingtontimes.com]
An annual report by the Defense Security Service's counterintelligence office, "Technology Collection Trends in the U.S. Defense Industry," asserts that "foreign spies are stepping up efforts to obtain secret U.S. technology through methods ranging from sexual entrapment to Internet hacking, with China and other Asian countries leading the targeting of U.S. defense contractors." The report noted that "the use of third countries to disguise collection will continue as a common tactic."
Jonkers, Roy K. [COL/USAF (Ret.)] "Presidential Decision Directive CI 21 Counterintelligence." American Intelligence Journal 20, nos. 1 & 2 (Winter 2000-2001): 41-42.
Provides the substance of the Presidential Decision Directive (PDD) entitled "U.S. Counterintelligence Effectiveness for the 21st Century," released by the White House on 5 January 2001.
Kleinman, Steven M. "KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation Review: Observations of an Interrogator." Defense Intelligence Journal 15, no. 1 (2006): 79-134.
This is a detailed look at "the potential for lessons learned" from the controversial "KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation Manual," produced by the CIA in 1963 and declassified in 1997. The author finds in the manual "a wealth of valuable concepts that either have the potential for immediate application ... or that warrant further study."
Kramer, Lisa A., and Richards J. Heuer, Jr. "America's Increased Vulnerability to Insider Espionage." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 20, no. 1 (Spring 2007): 50-64.
"While information technology may be the most important single cause of increased risk of insider espionage, it may also be the nation's best hope for the future detection of offenders."
See Lisa A. Kramer, Richards J. Heuer, Jr., and Kent S. Crawford, Technological, Social, and Economic Trends That Are Increasing U.S. Vulnerability to Insider Espionage (Monterey, CA: Defense Personnel Security Research Center, 2005) [available at http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/dod/insider.pdf].
Kramer, Lisa A., Richards J. Heuer, Jr., and Kent S. Crawford. Technological, Social, and Economic Trends That Are Increasing U.S. Vulnerability to Insider Espionage. Technical Report 05-10. Monterey, CA: Defense Personnel Security Research Center, May 2005. [Available at http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/dod/insider.pdf]
Loeb, Vernon, and Walter Pincus. "Bush to Speed Clinton Spy Changes." Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2001, A4. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
"In the wake of the Robert P. Hanssen spy case, the Bush administration intends to swiftly carry out recommendations left by President Clinton for a government-wide reorganization of counterintelligence efforts, senior U.S. officials said" on 23 February 2001. "Both FBI Director Louis J. Freeh and CIA Director George J. Tenet have strongly endorsed David Szady, a counterintelligence expert now serving as special agent in charge of the FBI's field office in Portland, Ore., to fill the post" of "national counterintelligence executive." The position would "oversee counterintelligence spending by all federal agencies and ... identify the most important technologies, weaponry and other national assets that must be protected from foreign spies."
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