10th ANNUAL MEETING -- 2004

 
"The Eastern Dimension. Major Intelligence Issues in Central and Southeastern Europe since 1900 "

4-6 June 2004
Bildungshaus Mariatrost – Graz, Austria

Conference Organizer:
Prof. Dr. Siegfried Beer
(Karl-Franzens-Universitaet Graz)

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Conference Program:

Panel I: "Germanic Matters" - Austria, Germany and South Tyrol
Chair: Siegfried Beer (Graz)

Martin Moll (Graz)
Knowing your Future Enemy: Austro-Hungarian Counter-Intelligence Activities prior to World War I. Unknown and Astonishing Insights at the Local Level

Oliver Hemmerle (Mannheim, Germany)
Unchanging Allegiance. The Case of Dr. Wilhelm Höttl

William A. Stivers (Washington, D.C., USA)
US Intelligence Perceptions of Internal Developments in the Soviet Zone of Occupation in Germany

Panel I cont'd
Chair: Robert D. Billinger, Jr. (Wingate University)

Gerald Steinacher (Bolzano, Italy)
Nazi Loop Hole South Tyrol. Intelligence Experts and War Criminals Recycled?

Michaela Koller (Munich, Germany),
[STASI Interests and Activities in the South Tyrol in the 1980s] (in German)

Kevin C. Ruffner (Washington, D.C., USA)
The Waldheim Affair Revisited: An Intelligence Failure?

Panel II: From World War I to World War II

Matitiahu Mayzel (Tel-Aviv)
Russian/Soviet Intelligence and Balkan Strategy in the two World Wars

Herbert Romerstein (Washington, DC)
Some New Insights into World War II History in the Light of the ISCOT Radio Intercepts

Maria Matusu (Prague)
SOE and Special Group D. Preparing Special Operations into the Protectorate, 1941.1945

John M. Nomikos (Athens)
"Greek Intelligence Services 1926-2003. Past, Present, Future"

Ljuba Dornik-Subelj (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence in Former Yugoslavia, 1941-1946

Jerca Vodusek-Staric (Maribor, Slovenia)
The Concurrence of Allied (British) and Yugoslav (Slovene) Intelligence Aims and Activities, 1938-1950

Josip Mocnik (Bowling Green, OH, USA)
US-Yugoslav Relations and the Role of Intelligence in the Policy towards Yugoslavia

Pavel Zacek (Prague, Czechoslovakia)
The Origins and Development of the Czechoslovak Interior Ministry First Directorate. Communist Espionage in the 1950s. A Case Study

György Gyarmati (Budapest, Hungary)
[The Secret Police in Hungary during the Rákosi Era, 1945-1956] (in German)

Panel IV: At the Height of the Cold War
Chair: Wolfgang Krieger (Marburg)

Yuri Totrov (Moscow)
Western Intelligence Operations in Eastern Europe, 1945-1956

Richard Cummings (Düsseldorf)
The Ether War: Hostile Intelligence Activities Directed Against Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty

Donald Steury (Washington, DC)
Forearmed is not Forewarned: The CIA and the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968

Miroslav Lehky (Bratislava)
Father Premysl Coufal. The Death of a Catholic Priest in the Focus of the Secret Police in 1981

Panel V: Late Cold War and Beyond
Chair: Michael Wala (Munich University)

Jordan Baev (Sofia)
Bulgarian Secret Services' Role in the Southern Flank of Bi-polar Confrontion in Europe, 1945-1989

Kostadin Grozev (Sofia)
Regarding the Helsinki Final Act's Third Basket: State Security Committee's Actions against Intellectuals and Academics in Bulgaria, 1975-1989

Ben de Jong (Amsterdam)
The KGB in Eastern Europe during the Cold War: some exploratory remarks

Cees Wiebes (Amsterdam)
The Sigint War in Bosnia, 1992-1995

Panel VI: The EU enlarged - New Challenges for the European Intelligence Community
Chair: Sigurd Hess, Rear Admiral, German Navy, retired

Opening Statement: John M. Nomikos, RIEAS, Athens

Panelists:
Gert-René Polli, Austrian Internal Security Service (BVT, Austria)
Franz Berndorfer, Brigardier, Austrian Military Intelligence (HNaA)
Marco Giaconi, Italian Defence Ministry (Rome, Italy)
Miroslav Tudjman (Zagreb, Croatia)
Marian Gula, Institute of National Memory (Bratislava, Slovakia)
Todor Bojadjiev, General; Member of Bulgarian Parliament (Sofia, Bulgaria)
Cees Wiebes, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Robert D. Steele, OSS.NET (Oakton,VA, USA)