Connecting Intelligence Historians since 1993
19 June, Tutzing, Germany: online due to COVID
The 2021 Digital Annual Conference of the International Intelligence History Association (IIHA) focuses on Human Intelligence and presents new findings on German secret service agents and their foreign collaborators before and after 1945. It also discusses research on double agents and moles in the Cold Wars.
Conference Program
SATURDAY (Juni 19, 2021)
09:30 WELCOME GREETINGS
Michel Mayer, Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing
Shlomo Shpiro, Chairman of the IIHA
Michael Wala, Ruhr University Bochum
10:00 PANEL I: The Long Life of Sipo/SD: German Secret Service Agents and their Foreign Collaborators before and after 1945
Chair: Michael Mayer
Christoph Dieckmann, University of Bern: The Cooperation of Sipo/SD and the Lithuanian Police Forces, 1941 to 1944
François Le Goarant De Tromelin Amicale des Anciens des Services Spéciaux de la Défense Nationale, Paris: Former SD Agent Hans Sommer and his Service for the French Secret Service, the Organisation Gehlen and the Stasi
Lutz Heilmann, Ruhr-University Bochum: New Friends? The Impact of Former Members of SS and Wehrmacht on US-Intelligence’s Intelligence Acquisition and Intelligence Processing in the Early Cold War12:00 BREAK
13:00 PANEL II: Double Agents and Moles in the Cold War
CHAIR: Thomas Wegener Friis, Center for Cold War Studies, Fyn, Denmark
Shlomo Shpiro, Bar Ilan University: Blinding the Bear or Being Blin- ded Yourself? The Double Agents Who Put Israel on the Map
Danny Orbach, Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Perils of Exposure – The Expo- sure of Moles and Reckless Deci- sion Making, 1959 to 1962
Yaacov Falkov, Tel Aviv University: “Tried and Trusted Patriots” for the CIA: A Latvian Case Study of the KGB “Operativnaia Igra” Theory14:45 BREAK
15:00 WRAP UP
Shlomo Shpiro, Bar Ilan University
Michael Wala, Ruhr University Bochum15:15 END OF CONFERENCE
15:15 IIHA MEMBERSHIP MEETING (members only)
2020 – No conference due to COVID