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Tutzing 2010

 

International Intelligence History Association

16th Annual Conference 2010

 

 

“Intelligence and Society”

 

in cooperation with the Akademie für Politische Bildung, to be held at Tutzing (near Munich/Germany), on 23-25 April 2010

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Conference program:

  Friday, 23 April 2010
14.00 Arrival, Registration, Coffee and Tea in the Main Lobby
15.00

Welcome
Wolfgang Krieger, Universität Marburg
Saskia Hieber, Akademie Tutzing

Panel 1, chair: Shlomo Shpiro

Florian Altenhöner (Berlin)
The Venlo Incident – German Propaganda and the British Secret Service in 1939

Christian Rossé (Neuchâtel)
The International Intelligence Community in French-Speaking Switzerland during World War II

Peter Becker (München)
The Eyes and Ears of the Dragon: Chinese Intelligence Services Since 1911/1949

18.30 Dinner
19.30 Keynote Address:
Henning Crome (Pullach)
German Postwar Society and the BND: Rembering the Special Investigation of 'Org. 85'
Saturday, 24 April 2010
8.15 Breakfast
9.00

Panel 2, chair: Sigurd Hess

Richard H. Cummings (Düsseldorf)
The CIA, Crusade for Freedom, and Radio Free Asia

Matitiahu Mayzel (Tel-Aviv University)
Secrecy for the Sake of Publicity: Khrushchev's 1956 Secret Speech and Destalinisation

Jerca Vodusek Staric (University of Maribor)
Reality or Myth? Enemies of the People , Western Spies and Total Control of Society

Ephraim Lapid (Tel Aviv)
Soviet Military Involvement in the Middle East as Societal and Intelligence Challenge to Israel

12.30 Lunch
14.00

Panel 3 chair: Michael Wala

Lauren Angie Hutton (Pretoria)
Intelligence and Socio-Political Transitions in South Africa
 

John M. Nomikos (Athens)
Reforming the Greek Intelligence Service

Ulf Walther (Berlin)
From KGB to FSB in the Context of Political and Social Transformation in Russia
 

Clayton D. Laurie (Washington DC)
Popular Views on Intelligence and the CIA in Film and Literature: Entertainment and Reality

18.30 Dinner
20.00 AGN/IIHA membership meeting (members only)
Sunday, 25 April 2010
8.15 Breakfast
9.00

Panel 4 chair: Gerhard Schmid 

Helmut Müller-Enbergs (Berlin)
Der Kurras-Komplex: A very special case of Stasi subversion in West Germany
 

Saskia Hieber (Tutzing)
John Peet's Long Engagement: “Der Spion der keiner war” (The Spy Who Wasn't)

Jutta Braun (Potsdam)
Coming to Terms with the Stasi legacy in German Sports

12.00 Lunch, end of conference
 
 

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