Counterintelligence reader
Subtitle: American Revolution to World War II
By: editor Frank J. Rafalko
Contributors: National Counterintelligence Center (U.S.)
Publisher: National Counterintelligence Center
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Intelligence service; History
Description: A four-volume account of the history and evolution of U.S. Counterintelligence that was prepared for the now-defunct National Counterintelligence Center (NACIC). The encyclopedic 1500 page work begins with an account of counterintelligence (CI) from the American Revolution to World War II (volume 1), proceeds with a study of CI in World War II (volume 2), continues with a survey of the post-WWII atom bomb spies up to the latest espionage cases (volume 3), and concludes with a look at current counterintelligence challenges from China, Russia and elsewhere (volume 4). The study, prepared over several years by multiple authors, deals in part with well-trodden ground such as the Venona intercepts. But it also includes extended treatments of much more obscure topics, such as counterintelligence in the Civil War, and official accounts of numerous individual espionage cases that never made headlines, as well as a U.S. government perspective on "counterintelligence in the turbulent 1960s and 1970s."
Notes: Title from title screen (viewed on Oct. 14, 2004).

Includes bibliographical references.

Mode of access: Internet from GPO's permanent access server. Address as of 10/14/04: http://permanent.access.gpo.gov/lps54742/counterintelligencereader/ci/docs/; current access is available via PURL.
Table of contents: title: V.1, Ch.1.; title: American revolution and the post-revolutionary era, a historical legacy. -- -- v.1, ch. 2.; title: Civil War, lack of a centralized direction. -- -- v.1, ch. 3.; title: Post Civil War to World War I. -- -- v.1, ch. 4.; title: Counterintelligence between the wars. -- v.2., ch.1.; title: Counterintelligence in World War II. -- -- v.2, ch.2.; title: Magic. -- -- v.2, ch. 3.; title: Counterintelligence in the Office of Strategic Services. -- -- v.2, ch.4.; title: Venona. -- -- v. 3, ch.1.; title: Cold War counterintelligence. -- -- v.3, ch.2.; title: Counterintelligence in the turbulent 1960s and 1970s. -- -- v.3, ch.3.; title: 1980s, decade of the spy. -- -- v.3, ch.4.; title: Counterintelligence at the end of the 20th century. -- -- v.4, ch.1.; title: China. -- -- v.4, ch.2.; title: Russia. -- -- v.4, ch.3.; title: Worldwide threats. -- v.4, ch.4.; title: Counterintelligence issues in the U.S.