SCHEDULE

25 November

Introduction: (09:00-9:30)

The value of history to intelligence agencies by Sir Alex Younger (former Chief of SIS) and Michael Goodman (King’s College London)

Panel I: Intelligence Power (9.30 -11.00)

Chair: Thomas Wegener Friis (University of Southern Denmark):
Gill Bennett (King’s College London): Intelligence and Foreign policymaking
Władysław Bułhak (Institute of National Remembrance): Socially Assisted Intelligence (SOCINT) as sub-category of HUMINT. The Case of Underground Intelligence in Poland and Denmark
Carolina Andrade (Adviser & Researcher at Igarapé Institute): Intelligence Systems in Latin America during the Cold War: A history from declassified archives
Aleksandra Gasztold (University of Warsaw), Przemysław Gasztold (Institute of National Remembrance): Women, Femininity and Intelligence

Coffee break (11.00-11.30)

Panel II: British-American intelligence in post–War World (11.30-13.30)

Chair: Charlotte Yelamos (King’s College London)
Jacek Tebinka (University of Gdańsk): Anglo-Polish cooperation in special operations. From the Second World War to the Cold War
Adrian Hänni (Distance Learning University Switzerland & University of Zurich): From Hot War Hub to Postwar Target: The Transition of U.S. Intelligence in Switzerland, 1945–47
Dieter Bacher (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the Consequences of War): The most active enemy. The British perspective on Czechoslovakian intelligence activities in early Cold War Austria – new perspectives
Rory Cormac (University of Nottingham): UK 'Black' Productions: Forgeries, Fake Groups, and Propaganda, 1951-75

Lunch Break (13.30-14.30)

Panel III: KGB (14.30-16.00)

Chair: Anna Piekarska (Museum of Polish History, Warsaw)
Ivo Juurvee (International Centre for Defense and Security/Estonian Military Academy): Perception of British HUMINT and Covert Action in KGB textbooks from 1930s to 1970s.
Kevin Riehle (National Intelligence University): Post-KGB Lives: Is There Such a Thing as a Former Chekist?
Jakub Tyszkiewicz (University of Wroclaw ): Since National Council Intelligence Directives to the “Entgross” plan - the problem of defectors from the Soviet Bloc in the political consideration of the U.S. in the early years of the Cold War
Simon Graham (University of Sydney): Foreign Policy by Other Means: The Place of Intelligence Collaboration in Soviet Diplomacy toward Central Europe, 1936–54

26 November

Panel IV: Cold War under the Hot Sky (9.00-10.30)

Chair: Sylwia Szyc (Institute of National Remembrance)
Danny Pronk (The Netherlands Institute of International Relations): The Fourth Ally. The Intelligence Legacy of World War II in the 1962 West New Guinea Crisis
Thijs Zaalberg (Leiden University): Brocades the Most Crucial Issue in our Struggle with the Kremlin’: The Intelligence Dimension of the US involvement in the Dutch-Indonesian Conflict, 1945-1949
Evripidis Tantalakis (University of Leicester): Assessing the intelligence capacity of the Greek National Army during the Greek Civil War, 1946-1949
Aleksandar Zivotic (University of Belgrade): Soviet Legacy of World War II, Balkan traditions and "international debt". Yugoslav Military Intelligence and the Origins of the Cold War

Coffee Break (10:30-11:00)

Panel V: SIGINT, Code Breaking, Surveillance, Aerial and Space Reconnaissance (11.00-12.30)

Chair: Karl Kleve (Norwegian Aviation Museum)
Ben Fischer (former CIA Chief historian): Penkovsky, the Spy Who Tried to Destroy the World
Ramos Raphaël (University of Montpellier): A Wasted Legacy? The travails of American signals intelligence in the early Cold War
Jan Stanisław Ciechanowski (University of Warsaw): The Polish Intelligence and breaking of Soviet Codes during World War Two.
Janos Kemeny (Center of Strategic and Defence Studies at the National University of Public Service in Budapest): The early years of the Hungarian Surveillance and Background Department – Case Study Thomas Polgar

Lunch Break (12:30-13:30)

Panel VI: Hidden Hands and Cables: Unacknowledged Interventions and Alliances in the Early Cold War (13.30-15.00)

Chair: Magda Long (King’s College London)
Shlomo Shapiro (Bar-Ilan University): Keep calm and carry on: The impact of WWII intelligence on Israeli covert action
Damien Van Puyvelde (University of Glasgow): State violence and the limits of French paramilitary actions in the post-war era
Daniela Richterova (King’s College London): Training Third World Revolutionaries: Czechoslovakia, Covert Assistance and (im) Plausible Deniability, 1958-1969
David Schaefer (King’s College London): The Origins of the ‘Five Eyes’ in Cold War Asia

Coffee Break (15:00-15:30)

Panel VII: Biographies and case studies (15.30-17.00)

Chair: Michael Goodman (King’s College London)
Robin Libert (Royal Union of Intelligence and Action Services), Robin Liefferinckx (Royal Union of Intelligence and Action Services): Albert Van Buylaere. A Belgian Intelligence Agent in Hot and Cold War
Sławomir Łukasiewicz (Institute of National Remembrance): Postwar Need for Expertise in Central and Eastern Europe: Emigres, Intelligence and Academia in the USA
Katrin Paehler (Illinois State University): Gender Between Hot & Cold War: Hildegard Beetz and the Making and Unmaking of the 'Ideal Spy'
Jesper Jørgensen (The Workers Museum and the Labour Movement’s Library and Archives): Norwegian Labour Intelligence and Trade Union Activism in Denmark 1949-1952

Closing Remarks by Sir John Scarlett (former Chief of SIS) and Michael Goodman (King’s College London) (17.00-17.30)

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