Packard, Wyman H. [CAPT/USN (Ret.)] A Century of U.S. Naval Intelligence. Washington, DC: GPO, 1994. Washington, DC: Office of Naval Intelligence and the Naval Historical Center, 1996.
Packard, Wyman H. [CAPT/USN (Ret.)] A Century of U.S. Naval Intelligence. Washington, DC: GPO, 1994. Washington, DC: Office of Naval Intelligence and the Naval Historical Center, 1996.
Bates, NIPQ, Fall 1996, calls this work "the high water mark of Naval Intelligence history.... While Wyman's Preface says it is designed as a research aid for those interested in doing Naval Intelligence history, it is much more.... [T]he first chapter ... is an extremely well written history of [Naval Intelligence] from the years before the establishment of the Office of Naval Intelligence in 1882 to the 1970s." The book's other 39 chapters are devoted to specific aspects of Naval Intelligence.
To Cutler, Proceedings 122.11 (Nov 1996), this is a "meticulously researched and comprehensive" work. The reviewer for NWCR 52.1 agrees, calling it "the most comprehensive such record available" and "the definitive reference for some time to come." Jonkers, AIJ 17.1/2, sees Packard's work as an "outstanding professional compendium, providing context, precedent, and pride of continuity and achievement." Similarly, Kruh, Cryptologia 21.1, finds A Century of U.S. Naval Intelligence to be an "impressive history ... cover[ing] virtually all facets of naval intelligence" and providing "much valuable information about the work of ONI."
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Packard,
Wyman H. "The History of ONI." Naval Intelligence Professionals
Quarterly [4 pts.] 3, no. 3 (Fall 1987): 2-3; 4, no. 1 (Winter 1988): 6-11; 4, no. 2 (Spring 1988): 3-6; and 4, no. 3 (Fall 1988): 8-12.
Petersen: "Packard's serial account of the Office of Naval Intelligence is also a sound organizational history."
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Packard, Wyman H. "Intelligence and the Navy." Naval Review (1968): 201-217.
Calder: "Argues that the Navy has the leading intelligence service among all the armed services."
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Packard, Wyman H. "The Naval Attaché." U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 91, no. 4 (1965): 130-133.
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Packard,
Wyman H. "Notes on the Early History of Naval Intelligence in the United
States." ONI Review 12 (Apr.-May 1957): 169-175.
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Packard,
Wyman H. "The Origins of Naval Intelligence Professionals." Naval
Intelligence Professionals Quarterly 5, no. 3 (Fall 1989): 17-18.
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