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HENNING CROME was born in Königsberg in 1931. He entered the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) in 1956 and served inter alia in New York, Bern, and Madrid. In 1987, he graduated from the Nato Defense College in Rome and retired from active duty in 1996.

PANAGIOTIS DIMITRAKIS is an independent military analyst and historian based in Athens, Greece. He completed his PhD in War Studies at King’s College London where he has previously earned an MA in International Peace and Security. He is the author of Secret Operations in Asia Minor: The Secret War of Greek and British Intelligence Services for Anatolia, 1919-1923 (Athens, 2005; title translated from the original Greek); Greek Military Intelligence and the Crescent – Estimating the Turkish Threat: Crises, Leadership and Strategic Analyses, 1974-1996 (University of Plymouth Press, 2008); German Secret Services in Greece: Espionage and Intelligence Analysis, 1937-1945 (Athens, 2008; title translated from the original Greek). His latest book, Greece and the English – British Diplomacy and the Kings of Greece, will be published by IB Tauris, London in 2009.

ANTHONY GLEES is the director of Brunel University’s Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies. A historian by training, in 1987 he published The Secrets of the Service: British Intelligence and Communist Subversion, a treatment of early Cold War Soviet penetration of the UK intelligence and security services. His recent The Stasi Files: East Germany's Secret Operations Against Britain (2003) is a detailed historical analysis of East German intelligence operations in the UK based on the archives of the East German secret service.

JENS WEGENER is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Bochum where he attained his M.A. in History and American Studies in 2007. He has been the executive director of the International Intelligence History Association since 2006. His first book, on the Gehlen Organization and American intelligence, will soon be published in the “Studies in Intelligence History” series at Lit Verlag.