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RALPH ERSKINE is a retired barrister in Northern Ireland who has written extensively on codebreaking and signals intelligence. He edited (with Michael Smith) Action This Day: Bletchley Park from the Breaking of the Enigma Code to the Birth of the Modern Computer (2001). His recent work includes articles on Bletchley Park codebreakers, including Hugh Alexander and Oliver Strachey, in the New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

SIGURD HESS served in the Federal German Navy as rear admiral until his retirement in 1998. His staff assignments included the German MOD, the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) and chief of staff/deputy commander of the NATO-Headquarters Baltic Approaches (BALTAP). He is the president of the German Navy Institute and of the German Society for Maritime and Naval History. His areas of research include political science, military and intelligence history, electronic warfare, and information technology.

JOHN M. NOMIKOS is the director of the Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS), based in Athens, Greece. He specializes in Greek intelligence studies, transatlantic intelligence relations, national security architectures, and Greek-Israeli affairs. He graduated from universities in the USA and the UK and he has done research in various institutions in Norway, Finland, Israel, and Germany. His book Across the Atlantic and Beyond the Borders: A Study of Two Crises: Yugoslav and Gulf (Authorsonline Press, UK) is forthcoming.

DONAL O’SULLIVAN is visiting assistant professor of history at Claremont McKenna College and associate director of the European Union Center of California (EUCC), Claremont. He is currently writing a study on “Allied Intelligence Co-Operation during World War Two.” His latest monograph is Stalins Cordon Sanitaire. Die sowjetische Osteuropapolitik und die Reaktionen des Westens 1939-1949 (Paderborn: Schoeningh 2003).