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Article Excerpts from The Intelligencer

Winter-Spring 2025:

When Intelligence Made a Difference - Part XIII - Peter C. Oleson
When Intelligence Made a Difference Section Articles:
- The Trust - James Roth
- Intelligence and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir – Alan C. Cunningham

Summer-Fall 2024:

WET AFFAIRS, PART IV - Opposition is Fatal – Putin's Campaign of Oppression - Some of the Individuals Attacked, Killed, Sentenced or Silenced Since the Rise of Putin - Peter C. Oleson and Daniel Osen
The Wagner Group in Africa – A Challenge to the West - Roger O'Hara, Daniel Osen, Dohyun Lim, and Thomas White
When Intelligence Made a Difference Section Articles:
- The Glomar Explorer Program and Public Release – M. Todd Bennett
- The Final Campaign – Intelligence and the Invasion of the Japanese Home Islands and the A-bomb Decision – Peter C. Oleson
- The Untold Story of Patton at Bastogne – David T. Zabecki PhD
- Richard Sorge – Moscow's Spy in Tokyo – Peter C. Oleson
- 100 Miles Up – Gathering Intelligence from Space – Ricky Deutsch
- Almost Lost – The Recovery of a Hexagon Capsule – Naval History Command
Selected Book Reviews:
- Final Flight: Queen of the Air - Review by Lt Gen Patrick M. Hughes
- Assorted Reviews by Peter Oleson

Winter-Spring 2024:

Cold War Strategy for Genuine Peace with China - John Lenczowski PhD
Shadow Frontlines — Assessing the Impact of Russian Special Operations on Ukrainian Irregular Warfare and the Strategic Calculus for U.S. Policy in Eastern Europe - Brett Simpson
Renewing the OSS Legacy — Recruiting Academics as Consultants - Lester Paldy PhD
Understanding U.S. Intelligence Records — How Journalists and Scholars Can "Get it Right" - Gary B. Keeley
East Asians in Soviet Intelligence: "The Naturals" — One Variant of Soviet Illegal - Jon K. Chang PhD
When Intelligence Made a Difference Section Articles:
- Revolutionary Spymaster — How Michael Collins Won the Anglo-Irish Intelligence War - Michael J. Ard PhD
- CIA Rescue Operation — Retold – Jack Kassinger
- Strangling the Empire - Peter C. Oleson
- Farewell Dossier - Peter C. Oleson
Selected Book Reviews:
- Professional Courage: My Journey in Military Intelligence through Peace, Crisis, and War: Jack Leide -Review by Lt Gen Patrick M. Hughes
- Assorted Reviews by Peter Oleson

Summer-Fall 2023:

Intelligence on the High Seas—Using Intelligence to Counter Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing - by Peter C. Oleson
NSA Was Right: CIA Was Not—Challenges in Understanding What Went Wrong before the 1973 Arab-Israeli War - by Gary B. Keeley
Review of former Under Secretary of State and MI5 & MI6's Legal Director David Bickford's remarkable new novel: "Katya: What Would You Risk for Half a Billion Dollars?" - reviewed by AFIO Chairman Stewart Baker

Winter-Spring 2023:

"U.S. Counterintelligence—One Team, One Plan, One Goal – or Not?" by Michelle Van Cleave
"The Mysteries—and Realities—of the Havana Syndrome. It's the Russians" - by Lewis Regenstein
"Snowden—Finally Revealed" - by Peter Oleson
"Pervasive Threats to U.S. National Security from Chinese Tech Companies" - by Jason A Harriman
Opinion by Michael Sulick, Lucinda Webb, Mark Kelton Former CIA Counterintelligence Chiefs Weigh in on The Fourth Man—Alternative Perspectives

Summer-Fall 2022:

"What's Old Is New Again: A Strategy of Re-Containment of Russia" - article by Christopher D. Thuma (winner AFIO-Rocca 2022 Counterintelligence Award at the National War College)
"The Ghost of Angleton" - Review by Raymond J. Batvinis PhD of the book "The Fourth Man" by Robert Baer
"Conquest Without War: The Threat of Chinese Political Influence Operations" by John Lenczowski PhD

Winter-Spring 2022:

"The Imperative of Intelligence Services to Protect from Exposure the Sources and Methods of Intelligence Collection" by Gary B. Keeley

Winter-Spring 2021:

"Terror in Athens — Remembering CIA Station Chief Dick Welch" by Samantha Randazzo Childress and Carol "Rollie" Flynn.
Also see:
- "Assassination of CIA Dick Welch" 2024 October 23 video interview of Ralph Mariani, former CIA Operations Officer who served in Greece with Welch. Interviewer: Sr CIA Analyst Laurence Sanford of the American Security Council Foundation on Youtube.
- "Spy Spots: Episode 7: The Assassination of CIA Chief of Station Richard Welch in Greece" on YouTube.

Winter 2017-18:

"Climate Change and National Security" by Peter Oleson

Fall-Winter 2007:

Dysfunctional Information Restrictions by M.E. Spike Bowman, Capt USN-Ret, former NSA and FBI; former Chairman, AFIO