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1. 'No Wishful Thinking Allowed': Secret Service Committee and Intelligence Reform in Great Britain, 1919-23.

Author

Madeira, Victor

Subjects
*INTELLIGENCE service, *ESPIONAGE, *SECURITY classification (Government documents), *SUBVERSIVE activities, *NATIONAL security, *OFFICIAL secrets, *CLASSIFIED defense information, *GOVERNMENT publications, *GOVERNMENT information
Abstract

The May 2002 tranche of British Security Service files released to the Public Record Office included hitherto classified policy files containing documents on Secret Service Committee meetings held from 1919 to 1923. This body wrote an important yet relatively obscure chapter in British intelligence history: the post-First World War reorganization and retasking of British secret service machinery, the focus now being Soviet Russia. However, by encouraging the deliberate overstatement of the Bolshevik 'subversive' threat and then backing excessive measures to counter it, some British officials may have sown the seeds of government's later inability to detect a much graver peril to national security, that of Soviet espionage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2003
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2. The U.S. Presidency and national security directives: An overview

Author

Dwyer, Catherine M.

Subjects
*PRESIDENTS, *GOVERNMENT information, *NATIONAL security, *SECURITY classification (Government documents), *OFFICIAL secrets, *CLASSIFIED defense information
Abstract

The president of the United States issues a variety of directives to communicate to his staff and to the nation. One such directive is commonly referred to as a national security directive. National security directives have been used, in some form, by every president since Truman. Frequently classified national security directives can have wide-ranging impact on foreign and domestic policy and provide insight into the strategies of an administration. The use of national security directives and their availability is the subject of this article. The first part of the article provides a history of national security directives, by president. The second part offers suggestions on locating the text of directives. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Published
2002
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3. america.

Author

Stephen, Andrew

Subjects
*SEPTEMBER 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, *SECURITY classification (Government documents), *TERRORISM, *TERRORISTS, *NATIONAL security, *SECURITY management, *CLASSIFIED defense information, *GOVERNMENT information, *INTELLIGENCE service, *GOVERNMENT publications, *OFFICIAL secrets, UNITED States politics & government, 2001-2009
Abstract

Comments on newly released papers which show the extent of terrorist warnings to U.S. President George W. Bush's administration before September 11, 2001. Highlights of the classified briefings, written by Richard Clarke, that were sent to then National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice; Reluctance of the government to release the documents; Clarke's belief that al-Qaeda was a potent threat, and his call for immediate action; Rice's perception of al-Qaeda as an organisation that was creating problems for U.S. foreign policy; Warnings sent to the administration.

Published
2005

4. Information Incognito.

Author

Block, Robert and Shatz, Amy

Subjects
*SECURITY classification (Government documents), *NATIONAL security, *SECURITY management, *ESPIONAGE, *INTELLIGENCE service, *CLASSIFIED defense information, *GOVERNMENT information, *OFFICIAL secrets
Abstract

Focuses on the climate in the United States of keeping sensitive security information (SSI) concealed for fear that terrorists may use the information. Comments from Melissa Rudinger of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association regarding the policy requiring pilots not to fly near nuclear reactors while the government keeps the location of reactors a secret; History of the concept of SSI, which originated in 1974 and has expanded under 2002's Homeland Security Act; Reference to another information classification called "Sensitive but Unclassified" (SBU); Other classifications of certain types of information, including FOUO (For Official Use Only) and UCNI (Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information), indicating the government's desire to keep information that is not considered top-secret from being released to the public; Comments from Jack Johnson Jr., the former chief security officer for the Department of Homeland Security, regarding the kind of information that is vital to national security.

Published
2005

5. A KERRY ADVISER LEAVES THE RACE OVER DOCUMENTS.

Author

Lichtblau, Eric

Subjects
*POLITICAL candidates, *PRESIDENTIAL candidates, *SUBVERSIVE activities, *LIBRARY buildings, *READING rooms, *NATIONAL security, *SECURITY classification (Government documents), *OFFICIAL secrets, *CLASSIFIED defense information, *GOVERNMENT publications, *GOVERNMENT information, *POLITICAL campaigns
Abstract

Reports that Samuel R. Berger resigned as a senior adviser to presidential candidate John Kerry's campaign after the disclosure that he had improperly removed classified material on terrorism from a secure government reading room. Criticism of Berger from Republican leaders who accused him of crossing lines of national security in an effort to improve Kerry's campaign; Acknowledgement that Berger removed copies of classified documents related to a failed 1999 terrorist plot to bomb the Los Angeles airport; How Berger did not want his actions to detract from Kerry's candidacy.

Published
2004

6. Pre-9/11 Files Show Warnings Were More Dire and Persistent.

Author

Johnston, David and Dwyer, Jim

Subjects
*MILITARY intelligence, *COUNTERTERRORISM, *SECURITY classification (Government documents), *INTELLIGENCE service, *NATIONAL security, *REVIEW committees, *TERRORISTS, *OFFICIAL secrets, *CLASSIFIED defense information, *HEADS of state, *ORGANIZATIONAL effectiveness, *STRATEGIC planning, *GOVERNMENT agencies, *COMMITTEES, *ORGANIZATION, *PRESIDENTS of the United States, *MILITARY policy
Abstract

Discusses how the hearings of the September 11 commission and its preliminary findings have made clear that Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda were a threat that was recognized and discussed at the highest levels of the U.S. government. Suggestion by some commission members that the attacks could have been prevented; Political implications of the examination; Focus on previously classified information given to two presidents, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, and their senior advisors; Overview of the findings, including missed opportunities amid a stream of warnings; Ways that the attacks might have been prevented; Counterterrorism approaches of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Published
2004

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