Intelligence in the Mediterranean and the Balkans
Friday, 21 June 2013
12:30-13:30 Registration
13:30-14:00 Welcome and Greetings
Shlomo Shpiro, Chairman of the IIHA
John Nomikos, Director of RIEAS
14:00-16:00 Panel I - Early History to World War I
Chair: Ioannis Anastasakis, Hellenic Airforce (ret.)
- Rose Mary Sheldon, Virginia Military Institute, USA - Ambush in Greek Warfare
- Eirini Christinaki, Athens, Greece - „Divine“ Intelligence in Byzantium: The Metaphysical Information and its Interpretation within the Extracts of Histories („Epitome Historian“) of Ioannis Zonaras
- Tilman Luedke, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute, Germany - A difficult Alliance: German Intelligence, the Ottoman Home Front and beyond, 1914-1918
- Yigal Sheffy, Tel Aviv University, Israel - Intelligence and Peace Negotiations: the British-Ottoman Experience in WWI
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-18:30 Panel II - World War II
Chair: Wolfgang Krieger, Marburg University
- Diego Navarro Bonilla, University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain - Not only Mare Nostrum: By Sea, Land and Sky: Italian Intelligence Operations during the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
- Erwin Schmidl, Innsbruck University, Austria - The Life and Work of a German Agent in Istanbul – based on the recollections of Dr. Wilhelm Hamburger (Hendricks)
- Valentin Filip, Bucharest, Romania - Intelligence Transformation in the Past - The Case of Romania's Special Intelligence Service during World War II
- Maria Robson, University of Calgary, Canada - Signals in the Sea: The Value of Ultra Intelligence in the Mediterranean during World War II
19:00-21:00 Conference Dinner and Keynote Speech
Award Ceremony of the Minas Nomikos Award for Security Research Excellence
Saturday, 22 June 2013
9:00-10:30 Panel III - World War II (cont.)
Chair: Anna Daun, University of Cologne
- Katrin Paehler, Illinois State University, USA - Nazi Foreign Intelligence, Italy, and Gender: Reevaluating Hildegard Beetz’ Role in the Ciano Affair
- Daniela Wellnitz, Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany - Silence is Golden – The Servizio Informazioni Militare and the Culture of In-telligence during Italian Fascism
- Nickolaos Mavromates, RIEAS, Greece - The role of Greek Diaspora in in-telligence operation during WW II - The case if Helias Dondulakis
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-12:45 Panel IV - The Cold War
Chair: Yu Chin Cheng, Charles University Prague
- Thomas Wegener Friis, University of Southern Denmark - East German In-telligence against Greece and Cyprus
- Wesley Johnson, Athens - The Odyssey of Ali Hassan Salameh from Black September terrorist to CIA collaborator
- Egemen Bezci and Ali Balci, Sakarya University, Turkey - An Intelligence-Cum Enemy?: The Depiction of the Soviets in Turkish Intelligence Reports in the 1950s
- Helmut Müller-Engberg, University of Southern Denmark - East German State Security and Albania
12:45-14:00 Lunch break (individual arrangements)
14:00-15:30 Panel V - Intelligence in the Mediterranean
Chair: Gerhard Schmid, Germany
- Peter Gill, University of Liverpool, UK - Transition from authoritari-an/conflict intelligence agencies to democratic control and oversight: the problem of parallel organisations
- Julian Richards, University of Buckingham, UK - Terrorism in North Africa: Intelligence perspectives past and present
- John Galatas, Hellenic Army (ret.) - 'Olympic Intelligence: CBRN Prepara-tions for the Athens Olympic Games'
- Chikara Hashimoto, University of Aberystwyth, UK - International Intelligence Cooperation under 'The Unknown alliance': intelligence liaison, counter-subversion and the question of the Kurds under Central Treaty Organisation
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Panel VI - Intelligence in the Balkans
Chair: Anna Abelmann, Ruhr University of Bochum
- Gordon Akrap, University of Zagreb, Croatia - Southeast Europe – Intelligence and Security Services battlefield?
- Dejan Miletic, Center for Globalization Studies (CGS), Serbia - Back to the future of the Serbian Intelligence Community
- Ioannis Konstantopoulos, University of Piraeus, Greece - Intelligence and Democracy: The Case of Romania
- Darja Koturovic, University of Sheffield, UK - Regional security challenges in South East Europe: coping with criminal networks in Serbia
17:30-18:45 Panel VII - Intelligence Histories - Writing History and Learning from History
Chair: Michael Herman, Nuffield College Oxford, United Kingdom
- Michael Wala, Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany - The Official History Project of the German Security Service BfV
- Wolfgang Krieger, Marburg University, Germany - The Official History Pro-ject of the German Intelligence Service BND
- Shlomo Shpiro, Bar-Ilan University, Israel - Israeli Intelligence - Operational Lessons from Historical Analysis and the Preservation of Service Herit-age
- John Nomikos, RIEAS, Greece - The History of the Greek Intelligence Service
19:00-20:00 IIHA 2013 Members Annual Meeting (IIHA members only)
20:00 Conference Dinner
Sunday, 23 June 2013
09:00-10:45 Panel VIII - 40 Years after the October 1973 Yom Kippur War
Chair: Michael Wala, Ruhr University of Bochum
- Efraim Lapid, IDF (ret.), Israel - Israeli Intelligence between Victory and Surprise 1967-1973
- Glen Segell, IINS, Israel - Intelligence Lessons from the 1973 Yom Kippur War
- Adi Frimark, Bar-Ilan University, Israel - Israeli Intelligence and the POWs and MIAs of the 1973 Yom Kippur War
- Hayim Iserovich, Maariv, Israel - British Intelligence and Libyan Support to the IRA 1973-1987
10:45-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-13:00 Panel IX - Between Arab Spring and European Debt Crisis: Contemporary Intelligence and Security Issues in the Region
Chair: Grigoris Balakos (ret.), Hellenic Police
- Alexander Bligh, Ariel University, Israel - Encountering regional terror though an „honest broker“ in light of the new political realities in the Middle East
- Antonia Dimou, Center for Strategic Studies, Jordan - Jordan and the Se-curity Challenges of the Arab Spring
- Andrew Liaropoulos, Univesity of Piraeus, Greece - Intelligence in the Age of Social Media: The implications of the Arab Spring for the Intelligence Community
- Vlatko Cvrtila and Anita Peresin, University of Zagreb, Croatia – Croatian Democratization and Intelligence Reforms
13:00-14:00 Lunch break (individual arrangements)
14:00-16:00 Panel X - Future Challenges for Intelligence in the Mediterranean and the Balkans
Chair: Andre Ranson, French Armed Forces (ret.)
- Michael Herman, Nuffield College Oxford, UK - Parallels between Government Intelligence and Statistics
- Yu Chin Cheng, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic - Intelligence co-operation framework: Turkey's access to The SCO
- Ron Schleifer, Ariel University, Israel - Intelligence for PSYOP (psychological operations) - The Mediterranean Cultural Context
- Thalia Tzanetti, RIEAS, Greece - When Intelligence Meets Civil Society Online
- Tamir Libel, University College Dublin, Ireland - Looking for a Meaning: Lessons from Mossad’s failed adaption to the post-Cold War Era, 1991-2011
16:00-16:15 Closing words: John Nomikos and Shlomo Shpiro
End of conference