Penkovsky and Western Spy Craft
Chicagostyle referencing pleaseAn analysis of the operation – essentially picking apart the requirement, the planning, the utilisation of resources, the implementation, the inter-agency/international cooperation – or any other relevant factors.Questions to answer:– Management of Penkovsky as a spy. Entire framework (compare what was done with what exist now as we identify lapses)– Who was his Case Officer?– Analysis of the chain of command that existed for supply of information/intelligence?– Level of security clearance he was given and possessed at both sides of the divide– System of maintaining contact – dead drops, how convenient were they? How easy were they to access? Frequency of contact– How did CIA and MI6 jointly handle him?– What were the risks (tied to arguments against his genuineness)?– How did the agencies deal with the risks?– How was information from Penkovsky processed? What was the cycle? System of verification– What operational level was Penkovsky placed? Strategic? Operational? Tactical? – – – And how was information dealt with at each level?– How effective was the handling of Penkovsky? – Identify lapses and make key judgmentsWhat lessons can be learned?Literature:The Spy Who Saved The World by SchecterSpy Wars by BagleySchecter, Jerrold L.; Deriabin, Peter S. (1992). The Spy Who Saved the World: How a Soviet Colonel Changed the Course of the Cold War. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons. p. 284. ISBN 978-0-684-19068-6.Oleg Gordievsky and Christopher Andrew (1990). KGB: The Inside Story. Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 0-340-48561-2; cited from Russian edition of 1999,Penkovskiy, Oleg, The Penkovskiy Papers, Doubleday & Co., New York, 1965Peter Wright, Spy Catcher. William Heinemann Publishers Australia, 1987Schecter, Jerrold L.; Deriabin, Peter S. (1992), The Spy Who Saved the World: How a Soviet Colonel Changed the Course of the Cold War, Scribner, ISBN 0-684-19068-0Wynne, Greville. The Man from Moscow. Hutchinson & Co., London, 1967Spy Catcher,Kalugin, Oleg. The First Directorate: My 32 Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West (St. Martin’s Press, 1994). ISBN 0-312-11426-5.Sakharov, Vladimir. High Treason (Ballantine Books, 1980),Suvorov, Viktor. Soviet Military Intelligence. Grafton Books, London, 1986, p. 155Tennent H. Bagley, Spymaster, startling cold war revelations of a Soviet KGB chief, Skyhorse Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-1-62636-065-5Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, Khrushchev’s Cold War, 2006. ISBN 978-0-393-05809-3David G. Coleman, The Fourteenth Day: JFK and the Aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis (New York: W.W. Norton, 2012)The Cold War. Prod. Jeremy Isaacs & Pat Mitchell. CNN, 1998. DVDSuvorov, Viktor. Aquarium (Grafton Books, London, 1987),The Newer Meaning Of Treason|New RepublicErnest Volkman, Spies: The Secret Agents Who Changed the Course of History. ISBN 978-0-471-02506-1Дорогой наш Никита Сергеевич : Дело Пеньковского (in Russian)“Nuclear Secrets The Spy From Moscow”. IMDb. 15 January 2007. Retrieved 16 January 2007.Espionage and the cold war: Oleg Penkovsky and the Cuban missile crisis: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02684529908432551Ghosts of the Spy Wars: A Personal Reminder to Interested Parties: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08850607.2014.962362Britain and the Missile Gap: British Estimates on the Soviet Ballistic Missile Threat, 1957–61: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02684520802560058America and the world of intelligence liaison: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02684529608432375
