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CRAIG GRAHAM MCKAY is the author of From Information to Intrigue, Studies in Secret Service based on the Swedish Experience 1939-1945 (1993) and (with Bengt Beckman) Swedish Signal Intelligence, 1900-1945 (2003), both published in the Cass Studies in Intelligence series. He contributed a chapter on Swedish code and cypher breaking to the book Colossus, The Secret of Bletchley Park’s Codebreaking Computers, edited by Jack Copeland and published by OUP in 2006. He is the author of numerous articles and reviews dealing with the history of secret intelligence in international learned journals. Currently he is engaged in scrutinizing certain intelligence related material in connection with an examination of the case of Raoul Wallenberg, with the support of funds made available for independent research on Wallenberg by the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

ROGER PFISTER obtained his Ph.D. (2003) in International Studies from Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, with a study on South Africa’s foreign relations with African states beyond southern Africa from 1961 to 1994. Having previously worked with the then Center for International Studies in Zurich, Switzerland, he is at present the Adjunct to the Vice-Rector for Research at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland and, concurrently, a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International and Comparative Politics at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. He has widely published on South Africa’s foreign policy and on Africa’s international relations.

DAVID ROBARGE received his Ph.D. in American History from Columbia University. After teaching at Columbia and working for banker David Rockefeller and at the Gannett Center for Media Studies at Columbia, he joined CIA in 1989 and became a political and leadership analyst on the Middle East. He moved to the CIA History Staff in 1996 and was appointed Chief Historian of the CIA in 2005. Robarge published a classified biography of Director of Central Intelligence John McCone and unclassified monographs on the CIA’s supersonic A-12 reconnaissance aircraft and intelligence in the American Revolution. His articles and book reviews on CIA leaders, counterintelligence, covert action, and technical collection have appeared in Studies in Intelligence, Intelligence and National Security, and The Journal of Intelligence History. He has taught intelligence history at George Mason University in Virginia and also has written a biography of Chief Justice John Marshall.