13th ANNUAL MEETING -- 2007

 
"Intelligence Clash: East vs West During the Cold War"

20-22 April 2007
Hotel Thüringen – Weimar/Germany

Conference Organizers: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Krieger (Marburg) / Prof. Dr. Dr. Heiner Timmermann (Akademie Rosenhof/Weimar)

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Conference Program:

Welcome and Introduction
Wolfgang Krieger
Heiner Timmermann

Black Actions: Yugoslav Intelligence and Terrorism, 1945-1990
John Schindler (US Naval War College)

The Secret War between the Soviet bloc and Tito’s Yugoslavia, 1948-1954
László Ritter (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

American and British Reconnaissance Flights over the Soviet Union and China, 1950-1956
Horst Boog (MGFA, ret.)

Intelligence Clash in the Baltic during the Cold War
Sigurd Hess (Bundesmarine, ret.)

Technological Innovation to Avoid Intelligence Clashes: the A-12 Supersonic Reconnaissance Aircraft
David Robarge (CIA Chief Historian)

In his defector he trusted: How the CIA Counterintelligence Staff broke the Western intelligence community for ten years, 1962-1973
Gérald ARBOIT (U Strasbourg)

The KGB View of the West As Found in the Writings of Its Officers after 1991
Ben De Jong (Amsterdam University)

Intelligence Clash Unabated: North Korea vs. South Korea
Jung Suk Bae (INSS)

Bears and Stars of David: Soviet Espionage in Israel
Shlomo Shpiro (Bar-Ilan University / Tel-Aviv)

Two cases of Soviet intelligence intervention in Middle East military conflicts, 1967 and 1973
Matitiahu Mayzel (University of Tel-Aviv)

Round Table and Concluding Remarks
Opening statements by Lt. Gen. (ret.) André Ranson (former Director of Military Intelligence, France) and Dr. Gerhard Schmid (former Vice President of the European Parliament)