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Annual Conference 1998, 24-26 April, Tutzing

Intelligence Services and the Significance of Espionage in World War I

24-26 April 1998
Akademie fuer Politische Bildung – Tutzing/Germany

Conference Program

Friday, 24 April 1998
13.00 check-in begins
15.00 Introduction
Jürgen WEBER (Tutzing)
Wolfgang KRIEGER (Marburg)

Britain:
John FERRIS (Calgary): British Codebreaking in 1914
David STAFFORD (Edinburgh): Churchill and Intelligence: World War I and Beyond
France:
Pierre JARDIN (Paris): French Military Intelligence, 1914-1918

20.00 Keynote Address:
Olaf RISTE (Oslo): Writing an Official Intelligence History: Norway during the Cold War

Saturday, 25 April 1998
9.00 Austria-Hungary
Peter JUNG (Vienna), Albert PETHÖ (Vienna), Josef BORUS (Budapest): Militärische Nachrichtendienste in Österreich-Ungarn

Russia:
Matitiahu MAYZEL (Tel-Aviv): Russian Intelligence and Strategy

14.30 Middle East:
Yigal SHEFFY (Tel Aviv):  British Counter-Intelligence in Palestine, 1914-1918
Tilman LÜDKE (Oxford): German and British Intelligence in the Middle East during World War I
Mark JACOBSEN (Quantico): The Malleson Mission to Meshed, Persia, 1918-1920

Sources and Methods:
Paul MARSDEN (Ottawa): Military Intelligence Records in the National Archive of Canada with particular Emphasis on the Great War Records
Dieter K. BUSE (Laurentian University): Comparing Domestic Intelligence: Labor Movements and Military Leaderships, 1914-1918

20.00 Mitgliederversammlung des “Arbeitskreises Geschichte der
Nachrichtendienste e.V.”

Sunday, 26 April 1998
9.00 Germany:
Jan G. HEITMANN (Hamburg): Deutsche Agenten in den USA im Ersten Weltkrieg
Burkhardt JÄHNICKE (Hamburg): Die Arbeit der Mixed Claims Commission unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Sabotage Claims
Michael VAN DER MEULEN (Krefeld): German Code and Cipher Systems
Paul B. BROWN (Edwardsville): Wilhelm Krichbaum and his Geheime Feldpolizei: A Career in Counterintelligence, 1915-1957

IIHA 1998 Conference Report