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Need to Know IV

Den 4. konference i serien Need to Know afholdes pĂ„Ìę iÌęBelgien d. 23.-24. oktober 2014.

Nedenfor kan hentes Call for Papers, som har deadline 30. april 2014

Call for Papers Need to Know IVÌę(797 KB)

Conference FormÌę(33 KB)

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Annual International Conference

Need to Know IV

What We Now Know about Secret Services in the Cold War.

A State of Affairs 25 Years after 1989

Ìę23–24 October, 2014

Place: University of Leuven (KU Leuven)

Coorganizers:

Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation, University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Center for Cold War Studies of the University of Southern Denmark

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PROGRAM

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23 October, 2014

9.00–9.30 – Welcome coffee

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9.30–10.00 – Opening of the conference

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10.00–12.00 – Session I – Successes

Chair: Prof. Idesbald Goddeeris (University of Leuven, Belgium)

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  • Prof. Mark Kramer (Harvard University, USA) – Soviet foreign intelligence tradecraft and operation, 1941–1991: what have we learned?
  • Prof. Andrzej Paczkowski (Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Science, Poland) – Fifteen years of research into intelligence: personal experience, major trends and first conclusions
  • Dr. Gordan Akrap (Croatia) – Communist intelligence community and violence: case of Yugoslavia
  • Dr Shlomo Shpiro (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) - Between eupforia and security realism: Post Cold War intelligence researchÌę
  • Discussion

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12.00–13.30 – Lunch break

13.30–15.30 – Session II –Ìę Failure

Chair: Sir Rodric Quentin Braithwaite (United Kingdom)

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  • Prof. Idesbald Goddeeris (University of Leuven, Belgium) – The Polish rezydentura in Brussels: a prime example of amateurism
  • Dr WƂadysƂaw BuƂhak (Institute of National Remembrance, Poland) – The fabricator from Zagreb. Ìę“Alessandro” and the case of fake transcripts of political discussions of Paul VI
  • Dr Bernd Schaefer (Woodrow Wilson International Center, USA) – “RYAN”: the Soviet warning system before a “surprise nuclear missile attack” in the 1980s
  • Dr Petre Opris (C.S. Nicolăescu-PlopƟor Institute for Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities, Romania) – “Unexpected” challenges for intelligence officers of Romania in the United States, France, Turkey and Italy (1960–1964)
  • Discussion

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15.30–16.00 – Coffee break

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16.00–18.00Ìę – Session III – ÌęThe East European intelligence and security services: The European experience

Chair: Associate Prof. Thomas Wegener Friis (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)

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  • Dr Anna Kaminsky (Federal Foundation for the Study of Communist Dictatorship, Germany)
  • Dr Ɓukasz KamiƄski (Institute of National Remembrance, Poland)
  • Nikita Petrov (Memorial Society, Russia)
  • Anders B. Werp ()

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Ìę19.00 – Dinner

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24 October, 2014

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9.00–11.00 – Session IV – Ìę1989

Chair: Associate Prof. Svend Gottschalk Rasmussen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)

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  • Daniel Belousek (Ministry of Defence, Czech Republic) – In the shadow of the Velvet Revolution – shredding of operative files within the Czechoslovak Ministry of Interior after 17 November 1989
  • Dr Nadia Boyadjieva (University of Plodviv “Paisii Hilendarski”, Bulgaria) – Todor Zhivkov’s regime, civil movements, and the state security organs in Bulgaria in the late 1980s
  • PrzemysƂaw Gasztold-SeƄ (Institute of National Remembrance, Poland) – “Brotherly” concerns. The Soviet bloc countries’ official and secret pressure on Polish intelligence services in 1980s
  • Prof. Wanda Jarząbek (Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Science, Poland) – Something old, something new: Polish Communist intelligence during the German reunification
  • Discussion

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11.00–11.30 – Coffee break

11.30–13.30 – Session V – Western Intelligence

Chair: TBC

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  • Michael Fredholm (Stockholm International Program for Central Asian Studies, Sweden) – Trust, but verify: the verification role of signals intelligence. Then for decision-makers, now for historians
  • Miriam Matejova (University of British Columbia, Canada) / Don Muton (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan) – Intelligence from Southeast Asia and its impact on the Cold War: the allies and the superpowers
  • Prof. Jacek Tebinka (GdaƄsk University, Poland) – British intelligence and the Polish revolution 1980–1982
  • Guenther K. Weisse (International Intelligence History Association, Germany) – NATO-SIGINT:Ìę1985–1989
  • Discussion

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13.30–15.00 – Lunch break

15.00–17.00 – Session VI – Culture

Chair: Dr Krzysztof Persak (Institute of National Remembrance, Poland)

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  • Dr Franciszek Dąbrowski (Institute of National Remembrance, Poland) – The system of electronic intelligence information processing of the 1st Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the People’s Republic of Poland: The impact of the Ìętechnological progress and the change of information exchange culture
  • Dr Patryk Pleskot (Institute of National Remembrance, Poland) – Dangerous foundation. Australian-Polish Polcul Foundation and the secret services of communist Poland (1980–1984)
  • Dr Douglas Selvage (Office of the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Archives, Germany) – The limits of repression: the East German Ministry for State Security, relative economic decline and the East’s opening to the West, 1972–1989
  • Mihaela Toader (Institute for Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of Romanian Exile, Romania) – The RomanianÌę Library of Freiburg: advanced outpost of the Romanian culture in the West in attention of the foreign intelligence services
  • Prof. Joanna Wojdon (University of WrocƂaw, Poland) – Polish American cultural activities from the perspective of the secretÌę services of the Comunist Poland
  • Discussion

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17.00–17.15 – Conclusion of the conference

17.30–18.30 – Guided tour of Leuven

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19.00 – Reception

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