Paul W. Blackstock


Paul W. Blackstock was a former US Army Intelligence officer who wrote books and articles on counterintelligence after leaving service.

Career

Blackstock worked for the US Army Intelligence during World War II, and later specialized in psychological warfare. In 1960 he became an associate professor at the University of South Carolina. He is credited with having first translated works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn from Russian to English.
As of January 1973, Blackstock had published four books and 20 articles.
A book review by the New York Times of The Strategy of Subversion said that author could have "written a briefer, modern handbook along the lines of Machiavelli's The Prince" instead of the "somewhat discursive" and "redundantly" text." The book criticizes the CIA for its role in the Bay of Pigs fiasco in 1961.
A book review by the CIA stated that The Secret Road to World War Two had "grave defects" resulting from the author's being "insufficiently grounded in intelligence, or insufficiently critical, to make discriminating judgments about his sources."

Death

Paul W. Blackstock died on 14 August 1965, aged 65.

Selected works

Books authored

The Strategy of Subversion: Manipulating the Politics of Other Nations Agents of Deceit Secret Road to World War Two: Soviet versus Western Intelligence, 1921-1939
  • ''The CIA and the Intelligence Community: Their Roles, Organization, and Functions''

Books co-authored

The Right to Know, to Withhold & to Lie
  • "Covert Military Operations," Handbook of Military Institutions edited by Roger W. Little
  • ''Intelligence, Espionage, Counterespionage, and Covert Operations''

Books edited

  • ''The Russian Menace to Europe''

Books translated

We Never Make Mistakes by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Articles

  • "The Central Intelligence Agency," Twentieth Century 21
  • "The CIA and the Penkovskiy Affair: 'A New Dis-Service for all Concerned'," Worldview 9
  • "CIA: A Non-Inside Report." Worldview 9:5
  • "'Books for Idiots': False Soviet 'Memoirs'," The Russian Review 25:3
  • "The Tukhachevsky Affair," The Russian Review
  • "On the Moral Implications of Torture and Exemplary Assassination"
  • "The Intelligence Community Under the Nixon Administration," Armed Forces and Society 1
  • "Counterintelligence and the Constitutional Order," Society 12

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