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Annual Conference 1999, 18-20 June, Tutzing

Germany and Intelligence Organizations:
The Last Fifty Years in Review

(Deutschland und die Rolle der Nachrichtendienste:
Rückblick auf ein halbes Jahrhundert)

18-20 June 1999
Akademie fuer Politische Bildung – Tutzing/Germany

Conference Program

Friday, 18 June 1999
14.00 Anreise/Arrival und Kaffee/Coffee

14.15 Begrüßung/Opening
Jürgen WEBER (Tutzing)
Reinhard R. DOERRIES (Nürnberg)

14.30 Leitung/Chair: Reinhard R. Doerries (Nürnberg)
Michael SALTER (Lancaster): Correcting the record: The role of Franz Neumann’s section of OSS within the preparation for prosecutions in the Nuremberg war crimes trials as revealed by recently declassified archival material
Hilmar-D. BRÜCKNER (München): Plus ça change … The Bundesnachrichtendienst and the German Approach to Secret Intelligence
Alaric SEARLE (München): The Gehlen Organisation and former Wehrmacht officers, 1949-1955: the role of military thinking and personnel issues in the pre-history of Federal German Intelligence

17.00 Kaffeepause/Coffee break

17.15 Leitung/Chair: Bernd Lippmann (Berlin)
Michael VAN DER MEULEN (Krefeld): Cryptologic Services of the Federal Republic after 1945
Ralph ERSKINE (Belfast): Anglo-American Cryptological Co-operation in World War II

18.30 Abendessen/Supper

20.00 Festvortrag/Keynote Address
Leitung/Chair: Jürgen ROHWER (Weinstadt)
Joachim LAMPE (Karlsruhe): Spionagebekämpfung nach der Wende

Saturday, 19 June 1999
8.00 Frühstück/Breakfast

9.00 Leitung/Chair: Hermann-J. RUPIEPER (Halle)
Walter RICHTER (Siegburg): Die Chefs des Militärischen Nachrichtendienstes der NVA der DDR von 1952 bis 1990
Wolfgang WOLF (Berlin): Das Melde- und Berichtswesen des Militärischen Nachrichtendienstes der NVA der DDR

10.00 Kaffeepause/Coffee break

10.30 Leitung/Chair: Burkhard JÄHNICKE (Hamburg)
Hermann-J. RUPIEPER Rupieper (Halle): Feindobjekt Spinne: Surveillance of West German Excursions to the GDR
Willi EISELE (Wolfratshausen): “ist durchgängig unter operativer Kontrolle zu halten”: “Politisch-ideologische Diversion” unter “subversivem Mißbrauch der Einreise in die DDR”

12.30 Mittagessen/ Lunch

14.00 Leitung/Chair: Jürgen HEIDEKING (Köln)
Richard CUMMINGS (Düsseldorf): Attacks from the East against Radio Free Europe
Herbert ROMERSTEIN (Clinton, MD): Disinformation as a KGB Weapon in the Cold War
Bertil HÄGGMAN (Helsingborg): East German Influence Operations in Sweden during the Cold War

16.30 Kaffeepause/Coffee break

16.45 Leitung/Chair: Wolfgang KRIEGER (Marburg)

William LEARY (Athens, GA): George Blake and the Berlin Tunnel: Success or Failure?
Richard ALDRICH (Nottingham): British Intelligence, Germany, and the Cold War
David STAFFORD (Edinburgh): The British Foreign Office and the Intelligence Struggle in Germany during the 1960s: A Personal Perspective

18.30 Abendessen/Supper

20.00 Leitung: Vorstand
Mitgliederversammlung des Arbeitskreises Geschichte der Nachrichtendienste e.V. / Members’ General Meeting

Sunday, 20 June 1999
8.00 Frühstück/Breakfast

9.00 Leitung/Chair: Michael WALA (Nürnberg)
Anna NELSON (Washington, D.C.): Opening the Door to Intelligence History: The Example of the Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board
Wolfgang KRIEGER (Marburg): The Harvard Project on Intelligence Studies: A Brief Review

10.15 Kaffeepause/Coffee break

10.30 Leitung/Chair: Jan HEITMANN (Hamburg)
Shlomo SHPIRO (Ramat Gan): From Fürstenfeldbruck to Mogadishu: German-Israeli Intelligence, Media, and Anti-Terror Co-operation, 1971-1982
Cees WIEBES (Amsterdam): Dutch Intelligence and Germany: The Work of De Inlichtingendienst Buitenland
Gregory MARTIN (Recklinghausen): Aspects of the South African Intelligence Services Operations in Germany and Western Europe, 1948-1993

12.30 Mittagessen/Lunch

Ende der Tagung/End of Conference

IIHA 1999 Conference Report