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ANJA BECKER studied at Harvard University (sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD), at the Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III; Sokrates/ Erasmus exchange), and, with a special scholarship of the European Commission, attended the CIFE summer school on international relations in Austria. She is currently finishing her master’s degree in American and French civilization at Leipzig University, Germany. Her interests are in national identity as a factor in international relations.

GILBERT BLOCH is living in Paris. He has worked as an international civil servant, as economic statistician at OECD from 1948 to 1983. Retired, he studied various problems related to the history of encipherment and decryption during World War II. His essay was first presented at the 6th Annual Meeting of the International Intelligence History Study Group on "Intelligence Process and Information Technologies in Historical Perspective", 23-25 June 2000, in Paderborn/Germany.

DAVID KAHN is the author of The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing (second edition, 1996), of Hitler’s Spies: German Military Intelligence in World War II, and of other books and articles on intelligence. An independent scholar, he holds the D. Phil. From Oxford University. He has just completed a biography of Herbert O. Yeadley, the first American cryptanalyst.

HERBERT ROMERSTEIN retired in 1989 from the United States Information Agency where he had served since 1983 as head of the Office to Counter Soviet Active Measures and Disinformation. From 1965 to 1983, Romerstein served as a staff member for the United States House of Representatives where he was an investigator for the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities, Minority Chief Investigator for the House Committee on Internal Security, and Professional Staff member for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He is the co-author with the late Eric Breindel of the book The Venona Secrets – The Soviet Union’s World War II.

SHLOMO SHPIRO is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Studies, Bar-Ilan University in Israel. His fields of research are communication and security, with emphasis on intelligence and democracy. He has previously held the position of Research Co-ordinator at the Knesset and worked at leading universities in Britain and Germany. Among his recent publications are The House on Garibaldi Street by Isser Harel (edited and with an introduction by Shlomo Shpiro, London, 1997), Guarding the Guards: Parliamentary Control of the Intelligence Services in Germany and Britain (Bonn, 1997), and "Biting or Barking? Media and Parliamentary Investigation of Right-Wing Radicalism in the Bundeswehr" (2000).

HEINZ ULBRICHT, after retiring from education in 1986, has worked on PC-simulations of decrypting Enigma enciphered messages. His essay was first presented as a paper at the 6th Annual Meeting of the International Intelligence History Study Group on "Intelligence Process and Information Technologies in Historical Perspective", 23-25 June 2000, in Paderborn/Germany.