Paul W. Blackstock (c. 1913–14 August 1978) was a former US Army Intelligence officer who wrote books and articles on counterintelligence after leaving service.
[1][2] Blackstock worked for the US Army Intelligence during World War II, and later specialized in psychological warfare.
[1][3][4] He is credited with having first translated works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn from Russian to English.
[2] A book review by the New York Times of The Strategy of Subversion (1965) 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" (long) text."
[3] A book review by the CIA stated that The Secret Road to World War Two (1969) had "grave defects" resulting from the author's being "insufficiently grounded in intelligence, or insufficiently critical, to make discriminating judgments about his sources.