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Paderborn 2000

 

6th ANNUAL MEETING -- 2000

 
"Intelligence Process and Information Technologies
in Historical Perspective"

 

23-25 June 2000
Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum – Paderborn/Germany

 

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Conference Program:
  Friday, 23 June 2000
14.00-16.45
 Welcome and Introduction
Wolfgang Krieger, Universität Marburg

Panel I
Historical Development of Cryptology and its Application in Intelligence
Chair: Friedrich L. Bauer, Technische Universität München

Gilbert Bloch (Paris)
The Polish Reconstitution of the German Military Enigma and the First Decryption of Its Messages

Ralph Erskine (Belfast)
Naval ULTRA in the Pacific

Arne Fransén (Stockholm)
On some Swedish Successes in Cryptoanalysis in World War II

Heinz Ulbricht (Braunschweig)
Uncle Dick and the Horrors of the Enigma
17.00-18.30
 Work in Progress in Paderborn
Norbert Ryska, Director, Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum: Plans for a Specials Exhibition on the History of Cryptology

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20.00
 Keynote Lecture:
David Kahn (New York)
Cryptology as the Driver for Modern Intelligence
Saturday, 24 June 2000
9.30-12.00

Panel II
Case Studies in Intelligence Collection
Chair: NN

Jürgen Schmidt (Oranienburg)
Der russische militärische Nachrichtendienst im russisch-japanischen Krieg 1904-1905

Jan Kapera (Jagiellonian University)
Polish Intelligence in 1939

Kristie Macrakis (Minnesota State University)
East-German Scientific Intelligence Gathering

Chung-young Chang (Central Police University, Taiwan)
Intelligence Warfare across the Taiwan Straits, 1949-1999

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14.00-16.30

Panel III
Evaluating, Processing, and Using Intelligence
Chair: NN

Shlomo Shpiro (Bar-Ilan University)
Intelligence and the Media -- the Release of Intelligence Secrets to the Press

Yigal Sheffy (Tel-Aviv University)
The Early Warning Factor: Intelligence and the Israeli National Security Concept, 1948-1973

Mattitahu Maizel (Tel-Aviv University)
From Tactical Intelligence to Strategic Decision: the Case of the Syrian Front in June 1967
16.30-18.00
 Walking Tour -- Paderborn

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20.00
 IIHSG Annual Membership Meeting
(Mitgliederversammlung des Arbeitskreises Geschichte der Nachrichtendienste e.V.)

<All are welcome but only members may vote!>
Sunday, 25 June 2000
9.30-10.30

Panel IV
Intelligence in Special Warfare
Chair: NN

Harold Scott (University of Pittsburgh):
Covert Action in Iran

Filippo Sinagra (Università di Venezia):
Coded Communication in Italian Resistance Warfare 1945
10.40-11.30 Summing Up / Food for Thought

Michael Herman (Oxford University):
Intelligence Process and Ethics
11.30-13.00
 Guided Tour of the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum
 
 

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