THURSDAY, 30 March 2017 (Woodrow Wilson Center)

12:00 – 12:30 Registration

12:30 – 13:00 Welcome and Opening

Christian OSTERMANN (Director, Woodrow Wilson Center, USA)

Thomas BOGHARDT (U.S. Army Center of Military History, USA)

Michael WALA (Ruhr-University of Bochum/IIHA, Germany)

13:00 – 14:00 Panel I: From World War to Cold War and Beyond

Chair: Anna DAUN (Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany)

Huw DYLAN (King’s College London, UK): “Deceiving Ourselves? The Transatlantic Struggle to Learn the Lessons of World War Two Deception and Apply them to the Cold War”
Michael HERMAN (Nuffield College Oxford, UK): “What Difference did it Make? Cold War Intelligence from a Todays’ Point of View”

14:00 – 14:15 Coffee Break

14:15 – 16:15 Panel II: Exchanging Intelligence, Exchanging Data

Chair: Matthew AID (Washington D.C, USA) (tentative)

John FOX (FBI Historian, USA): “Foreign Counterintelligence Cooperation and the Transatlantic Intelligence Community”
Jens WEGENER (Montclair State University, USA): “A Many-Headed Beast: The CIA’s Project HYDRA and the Dawn of the Information Age in the Transatlantic Intelligence Cooperation”
Verena DIERSCH (University of Cologne, Germany): “Digital Network Intelligence in a Transatlantic Organizational Field and Cooperation between NSA, BND, and BfV”
Samantha HOSSACK (University of Calgary, Canada): “Coopetition and the Istanbul Summit: The Development of NATO’s Cooperative but Competitive Intelligence Sharing Program”

16:15 – 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 – 18:30 Panel III: Transatlantic Intelligence and Eastern Europe

Chair: André RANSON (Lt.-Gen. ret., Ministry of Defence, France)

Mark STOUT, Katalin KADAR LYNN (Johns Hopkins University, USA): “Failed Transatlantic Liaison: Early Cold War Paper Mills and the Case of the MHBK (Association of Hungarian Veterans)”
Gordan AKRAP, Miroslav TUDJMAN (St. George Association, Croatia): “The Cooperation of US and Croatian Intelligence Services in the 1990s and the Crisis in South East Europe”
Enrico HEITZER (Brandenburg Memorial Foundation, Germany): “The Fighting Group against Inhumanity: Spying and Destabilizing the GDR”
Nicholas J. SCHLOSSER (US Army Center of Military History, USA): “The East German Campaign against Radio in the American Sector (RIAS) Berlin, 1953-1961”

19:00 Keynote Address (to be announced)

20:00 Dinner

FRIDAY, 31 March 2016 (Woodrow Wilson Center)

9:00 – 10:30 Young Researchers’ Forum I

Chair: Charlotte BACKERRA, (University of Stuttgart, Germany)

Susan PERLMAN (American University Washington DC, USA): “Franco-American Intelligence Cooperation and the Beginning of the Global Cold War”
Constant HIJZEN (Leiden University, The Netherlands): “Our American friends: The Genesis of the Dutch-American Intelligence Liaison”
Emily HAIRE (Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland): “The First Special Relationship? Anglo-French Intelligence Liaison and its Influence on Anglo-American Intelligence Cooperation”

9:00 – 10:30 Young Researchers’ Forum II

Chair: Anna ABELMANN (Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany)

Christopher KIRCHBERG (Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany): “The Computerization of the German Intelligence Service: Starting Point for a New Level of Transatlantic Intelligence Partnership“
Tobias SCHMITT (University of Freiburg, Germany): “U.S. Intelligence and the Nascent Transatlantic Security Architecture of the Cold War: The Case of the Gesellschaft für Wehrkunde”
Daniel PRONK (Netherlands Ministry of Defense, The Netherlands): “Sharing the Burden, Sharing the Secrets. The Fulcrum of Transatlantic Intelligence Cooperation”

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 – 11:45 Panel IV: Transatlantic Intelligence and the Two Germanys

Chair: Richard BREITMAN (American University, USA) (tentative)

Kevin Conley RUFFNER (CIA, USA): “’Our Work in the Soviet Zone of Germany has been nothing but Interminable Delays, Restrictions, Bargaining and Suspicion’: U.S. Army Graves Registration Operations in East Germany 1945-1956”
Kristie MACRAKIS (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA): “The Hazards of Intelligence Cooperation: The Case of the Berlin Tunnel & George Blake”

12:00-13:00 Panel V: Perceptions of US-German Intelligence Relations

Chair: Tim NAFTALI (New York University, USA)

Dorle HELLMUTH (Catholic University of America, USA): “German-U.S. Intelligence Cooperation: Reliable Allies despite Differences”
Bodo HECHELHAMMER (BND Historian, Germany): “[…] to give the Germans a broad picture of the US […]“: The Secret US Training and Visiting Program by the CIA

13:00-14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 – 16:00 Panel VI: Anglo-American Signals Intelligence Relationship: Evolution and Lessons

Chair: John FERRIS (University of Calgary, Canada)

David J. SHERMAN (National Security Agency, USA): “From Improvisation to Permanence: British and American Signals Intelligence, 1941-1955: An American Perspective”
Tony COMER (Government Communications Headquarters, UK): “From Improvisation to Permanence: British and American Signals Intelligence, 1941-1955 – A British Perspective”
Michael WARNER (US Department of Defense, USA): “Transformation and Intelligence Liaison”

16:00-16:15 Coffee Break

16:15-17:45 Panel VII: UK-USA Intelligence: Past, Present, Future

Chair: Bernd SCHAEFER (Woodrow Wilson Center, USA)

Richard ALDRICH, Chris MORAN (University of Warwick, UK): “Anglo-American Co-operation and the Future of Intelligence”
David GIOE (US Military Academy at West Point, USA): “The 1946 UK-USA Agreement: The Mustard Seed of Transatlantic Cyber Operations?”
Calder WALTON (Harvard University, USA): “For your Eyes only: The UK-US ‘Special’ Intelligence Relationship and Changing Strategic Threats in the Twentieth Century”

18:00-19:00 Looking Beyond the Obvious:

Shlomo SHPIRO (Bar Ilan University, Israel, Chairman of the IIHA): “Cooperation Beyond the Transatlantic”
Bodo W. BECKER (Federal Institution for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany): “Protecting the Economy” (tentative title)

20:00 Dinner

SATURDAY, 1 April, 2016 (German Historical Institute)

9:00-9:30 Welcome by GHI Director Simone LÄSSIG

9:30-11:30: Panel VIII: German Integration in the Transatlantic Intelligence Community

Chair: Simone LÄSSIG (Director German Historical Institute, USA)

Wolfgang KRIEGER (University of Marburg, Germany): “The BND as a Western Intelligence Partner, 1948-1968”
Michael WALA (Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany): “Hunting the ‘Red Orchestra’ after 1945 and the Creation of a Transatlantic Intelligence Community”
Thomas BOGHARDT (U.S. Army Center of Military History, USA): “Semper Vigilis: The U.S. Army Security Agency Europe in Early Cold War Germany”
Eva JOBS (University of Marburg, Germany): “Trust, Lies, and Science: The Polygraph as a Transatlantic Intelligence Challenge”

11:30-11:45 Coffee Break

11:45 – 12:45 Keynote Address

Joseph WIPPL (former CIA Chief of Europe Division/Boston University, USA): “Unilateral v. Multilateral Liaison: The Future of Transatlantic Intelligence”

12:45-13:00 Closing Remarks

13:00 Lunch at German Historical Institute