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Peake, Hayden B. "Risks of Recruitment." Foreign Intelligence Literary Scene 7, no. 6 (1988): 8-10.

Polmar, Norman, and Thomas B. Allen. "Decade of the Spy." U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 115, no. 5 (1989): 104-109.

See Thomas B. Allen and Norman Polmar, Merchants of Treason: America's Secrets for Sale (New York: Delacorte, 1988).

Powers, Thomas. "The Plot Thickens." New York Review of Books, 11 May 2000. Chapter 5 in Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda, 81-108. Rev. & exp. ed. New York: New York Review of Books, 2004.

This is an essay on Communism in America, written around reviews of Weinstein and Vassiliev, The Haunted Wood; Haynes and Klehr, Venona; Andrew and Mitrokhin, The Sword and the Shield; Duff, A Time for Spies; West, The Crown Jewels; and Morgan, A Covert Life.

Powers, Thomas. "Spy Fever." New York Review of Books, 12 Feb. 2004. Chapter 6 in Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda, 109-122. Rev. & exp. ed. New York: New York Review of Books, 2004.

The author uses Ted Morgan's Reds (2003) as the springboard to a discussion of McCarthy and McCarthyism. He concludes that "[i]t was the bogies McCarthy and his colleagues persecuted -- the thousands of American of vaguely leftist bent -- who paid the price for the convenience the Moscow spymasters found in tapping [Communist] Party activitists for secret work."

Sandilands, Roger J. "Guilt by Association? Lauchlin Currie's Alleged Involvement with Washington Economists in Soviet Espionage." History of Political Economy 32, no. 3 (Autumn 2000): 473-515.

Sarbin, Theodore R., Ralph M. Carney, and Carson Eoyang, eds. Citizen Espionage: Studies in Trust and Betrayal. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994.

According to Richards J. Heuer, Jr., "[t]he authors are behavioral scientists at the Defense Personnel Security Research Center."

Sibley, Katherine A.S. Red Spies in America: Stolen Secrets and the Dawn of the Cold War. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2004.

From advertisement: "In the 1930s and 1940s, Soviet engineers and technicians, under the guise of international cooperation, reaped a rich harvest of intelligence from our industrial plants.... The uncovering of atomic espionage in 1943 in particular not only led to increased surveillance of our ostensible Russian allies but also underscored a growing distrust of the Soviet Union." The author "also reviews recent cases -- John Walker, Jr., Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen -- that demonstrate how Russian efforts to gain American secrets continue[]."

Peake, Studies in Intelligence 49.4 (2005), says that this work is "well documented," "well written," and looks at at domesic counterintelligence in America "from a new perspective." Nonetheless, the author's thesis that the FBIS was more active prior to the end of World War II than previously thought "is not proved."

For Kirkland, JIH 5.1 (Summer 2005), the author's "scholarship is impressive, drawing upon multi-archival research in the United States and Russia.... Her work is balanced and perceptive and is a compelling and authoritative treatment of Soviet spying and the actions the United States took to counter it."

Craig, I&NS 21.1 (Feb. 2006), comments that while "[t]here is little new" in the author's "generalized thesis,... [w]hat is unique ... is [Sibley's] assessment of espionage in the manufacturing, military, and industrial sectors.... [T]he book is enlightening and a good read."

Sibley, Katherine A.S. "Soviet Industrial Espionage against American Military Technology and the US Response, 1930-1945." Intelligence and National Security 14, no. 2 (Summer 1999): 94-123.

The author notes that the Soviet espionage activities against U.S. industrial and military technology were "highly successful." Although these activities were known to Washington officials, the United States "mounted only a limited response," because of preoccupation, first, with the Depression and, then, with World War II.

Soyster, Harry E. "The Changing Nature of the American Spy." American Intelligence Journal 10, no. 2 (1989): 29-32. [Petersen]

Stoll, Clifford. The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage. New York: Doubleday, 1989. London: Bodley Head, 1990.

Surveillant 1.1 says this is the "well-told story of the discovery of a clever computer system interloper in search of defense secrets for ... the KGB." It received the Best American Intelligence Book award for 1989, given by NISC.

Petersen sees it as an "[i]nteresting but overpublicized account of low-level computer spying."

Taylor, Stan A., and Daniel Snow. "Cold War Spies: Why They Spied and How They Got Caught." Intelligence and National Security 12, no. 2 (Apr. 1997): 101-125.

This is an interesting, though scarcely definitive, piece of research. The authors used 139 cases of Americans charged with spying and 40 variables (an appendix with seven of those variables is included). They group motivation into four primary categories -- money, ideology, ingratiation, and disgruntlement. Their research indicates that the availability of electronic surveillance after passage of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 1978 has made the government more successful in catching and prosecuting traitors. In addition, they express amazement "at the poor level of tradecraft, even abject stupidity, displayed in many cases."

Verbitsky, Anatole, and Dick Adler. Sleeping with Moscow: The Authorized Account of the KGB's Bungled Infiltration of the FBI by Two of the Soviet Union's Most Unlikely Operatives. New York: Shapolsky, 1987. [Petersen]

Whitaker, Reg. "Cold War Alchemy: How America, Britain and Canada Transformed Espionage into Subversion." Intelligence and National Security 15, no. 2 (Summer 2000): 177-210.

Abstract: "At the outset of the Cold War, a series of high-level Soviet espionage scandals unfolded in the English-speaking countries. These cases had a very significant impact in shaping the dominant counter-espionage model in the West."

Wood, Suzanne, and Martin F. Wiskoff. Americans Who Spied Against Their Country Since World War II. Monterey, CA: Defense Personnel Security Research Center, 1992.

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