FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 2018
12:00-12:30 Registration
12:30-13:00 Welcome and Opening
Shlomo SHPIRO, Chairman of the IIHA
Siegfried BEER, Chairman of the ACIPSS
Florian BIEBER, Director of the CSEES, University of Graz
13:00-14:30 Panel I: Intelligence in Southeastern Europe from World War I until Today
Chair: Shlomo SHPIRO, Bar Ilan University, Israel
- Bogdan-Alexander THEODOR, National Institute for Intelligence Studies, Romania:
The Great War and the Eastern European Battlefront: The Role of the Romanian Intelligence
- Duncan BARE, ACIPSS, University of Graz, Austria:
Developing American HUMINT in Central Europe: The SSU/CIG and 'the Pond' in Early Cold War Budapest (Hungary)
- Christopher NEHRING, German Spy Museum Berlin, Germany:
New Perspectives on Bulgarian Intelligence”
14:30-15:00 Coffee Break
15:00-16:30 Panel II: Foreign and Domestic Intelligence Services in Austria
Chair: Siegfried BEER, University of Graz, Austria
- Dieter BACHER, Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for Research on Consequences of War, Graz, Austria:
Czechoslovakian Intelligence Services in Austria during the Early Cold War 1948-1968
- Przemysław GASZTOLD, Institute of National Remembrance & War Studies University of Warsaw, Poland:
Polish Military Intelligence in Austria, 1955-1990
- Paul SCHLIEFSTEINER, ACIPSS, University of Graz, Austria:
Publishing about Austria and Intelligence after 1945: Critical, Political, Anecdotal and Loathing, but barely Academic
17:00-18:30 Panel III: Intelligence during the Cold War I
Chair: Florian BIEBER, University of Graz, Austria
- Adrian HÄNNI, Distance Learning University, Switzerland:
Western Intelligence, the Pope and the Cold War in Eastern Europe: The strange Case of La Commission pour l’Eglise Persécutée
- Ivan BARIC, Zagreb Defence Academy, Croatia:
Conflict between Yugoslavia and the Cominform in the declassified CIA Reports – The Informbiro Period
- Igor LUKES, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University, USA
"Who Killed Secretary General Rudolf Slansky? Stalin? The CIA?"
19:00 Dinner
Keynote Address
SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 2018
09:00-10:30 Young Researcher Forum
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Panel IV: Intelligence and Terrorism
Chair: Wolfgang KRIEGER, University of Marburg, Germany
- Paul MADDRELL, Loughborough University, UK:
Terrorism in Central Europe: the Stasi as an International Terrorist Organization, 1950-1989
- John SCHINDLER, New York Observer, USA:
Black Actions: Yugoslav Intelligence and State Terrorism, 1965-1990
- Gordan AKRAP, Hybrid Warfare Research Institute Zagreb, Croatia:
Yugoslavian State Security Service and International Terrorism – German RAF and Yugoslavia
12:30-14:00: Lunch Break
14:00-15:30 Panel V: Intelligence during the Cold War II
Chair: Charlotte Backerra, University of Darmstadtg, Germany
- Cees WIEBES, Senior Analyst (ret.), National Coordinator for Counter-Terrorism, The Netherlands:
The Hungarian Uprising of 1956: 3000 Hungarian Refugees flee to the Netherlands and the Response of the Dutch Intelligence Community. A Historical Appraisal
- Simon GRAHAM, University of Sydney, Australia:
Ideology, Intelligence Cultures and Interdependence: A Transnational History of Intelligence in Soviet-aligned Central Europe, 1948-1958
- Daniela RICHTEROVA, University of Warwick, UK:
Communist Czechoslovakia, Revolutionaries and Terrorists: An Investigation into State Relations with Violent Non-State Actors
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Panel VI: Sharing and Gathering Intelligence in Time of Crisis
Chair: Anna ABELMANN, University of Bochum, Germany
- Aviva GUTTMANN, King’s College London, UK:
The Political Dimension of Intelligence-Sharing
- Ephraim LAPID, Bar Ilan University, Israel:
An Intelligence Triangle: Israel, Turkey and Iran – 1956-1979
- Natalia TELEPNEVA, University of Warwick, UK:
Agent SEKRETAR: Czechoslovakia in Africa and the Role of Human Intelligence during the Cold War
18:00-19:00 IIHA Membership Meeting 2018
19:00 Dinner
SUNDAY, JUNE 10, 2018
09:00-11:00 Panel VII: Oversight and Accountability: New Perspectives and Historical discoveries
Chair: Richard ALDRICH, University of Warwick, UK
- Melina DOBSON, University of Warwick, UK:
“Waste, Fraud and Abuse”: The Call for a Whistleblower Track in the Intelligence Community
- Sarah MAINWARING, University of Warwick, UK:
Regulating the swamp-attempts to develop Oversight for Cyberspace - 'from Clipper and TTP, to RIP’
- Jason DYMYDIUK, University of Warwick, UK:
NSA-Press Relations in a Post-Church Committee America
- Gisselle GWINNETT, University of Warwick, UK:
Beyond Oversight and Beyond Control? Thatcher's private Secret Services in the 1980s
Discussant: Chris MORAN, University of Warwick, UK
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Panel VIII: Developments of Intelligence in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe after the Cold War
Chair: Michael WALA, Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany
- Michal VASECKA, Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, Slovakia:
Intelligence and Anti-Semitism in the Process of Modernization of Central Europe after 1989
- Christian CONTRO, University of Glasgow-Charles University Prague, Czech Republic: The Czech Republic’s Intelligence Community and its Approach towards Intelligence Sharing, in the Years between 1993 and 2010
- John NOMIKOS, Rieas Institute, Athens, Greece:
Intelligence and Instability in Southeast Europe: Organized Crime and Illegal Immigration
13:00-13:30 Closing Remarks
13:30 Lunch
End of Conference