Insight and Analysis from Foreign Affairs Practitioners and Scholars
Established 1996 • Raymond F. Smith, Editor
Reviewed by Robert Rayle Bayard Stockton, Flawed Patriot: The Rise and Fall of CIA Legend Bill Harvey, Potomac Books, Dulles, VA, 357 pages, $28.95 Bill Harvey was arguably America’s most competent and effective intelligence and counter-intelligence officer of the past … Read more
Structures and Strategies Needed by Sam Holliday Defense Secretary Gates recently called for a build-up of American “soft power” instruments in order to better combat the long-term threats we face from Islamic extremists. In this essay, a frequent American … Read more
Reviewed by J. R. Bullington, Editor
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA. By Tim Weiner. New York: Doubleday, 2007.
Review by Katherine A. S. Sibley
Engineering Communism: How Two Americans Spied for Stalin and Founded the Soviet Silicon Valley. By Steven T. Usdin. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 329.) Notes, pictures, index. $40.00 cloth.
Book Review Editor’s Note This special “Intel Issue” reflects the explosion in intelligence historiography and the cornucopia of declassified Soviet and American documents covering the Second World War and the Cold War that began following the end of the Cold … Read more
Book Review Editor’s Note This special “Intel Issue” reflects the explosion in intelligence historiography and the cornucopia of declassified Soviet and American documents covering the Second World War and the Cold War that began following the end of the Cold … Read more
Book Review Editor’s Note This special “Intel Issue” reflects the explosion in intelligence historiography and the cornucopia of declassified Soviet and American documents covering the Second World War and the Cold War that began following the end of the Cold … Read more
An Agency “Guest” of the Ayatollah Review by John D. Stempel In the Shadow of the Ayatollah: A CIA Hostage in Iran. By William J. Daugherty. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2001. Pp. xix, 288. $29.95 cloth.) “Daugherty’s first-hand account of … Read more
The author, director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies based at Duke University, sets forth a cogent, thoughtful rationale for the changed direction the United States has taken in waging preemptive war against a putative foe.—Ed. “The truth is … Read more
David Work is executive director of the North Carolina Board of Pharmacy. POISON EXPORTS: The U.S. has cast a blind eye to poison drug tragedies By David R. Work “It’s an international scandal that, over fifty years later, dealers in … Read more
Cold War Diplomatic Negotiations A Personal Recollection by J. Edgar Williams I n early 1953, I finished my year as a Fulbright scholar in New Zealand and headed home. I teamed up with three other Americans who also had been … Read more