The birthplace of western civilization, the Mediterranean region has seen the rise and fall of empires, numerous conflicts and wars, and over three thousand years of intelligence operations. Today the Mediterranean and Balkan regions are undergoing profound regional transformations, in the aftermaths of the 1990s Balkan wars and the more recent "Arab Spring" revolutions. Recent events in Libya, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Turkey, as well as older conflicts such as the Arab-Israeli and Turkish-Greek-Cypriot conflicts, highlight the strategic importance of the Mediterranean, on the one hand, and the fragility of its current regional order, on the other. The 2013 IIHA annual conference aims to explore past, current and future roles of intelligence in these regions. ------------------------------------------------------------

General Information:

Conference venue: The Titania Hotel, Athens, Greece

Accommodation: Participants arrange their own accommodation and travel. We have negotiated a reduced room rate at the Titania Hotel for conference participants, for single or dou-ble rooms, with or without lunch. A room booking form is attached separately. We recommend that you book your room as soon as possible since rooms will be as-signed on a 'first come first served' basis.

Registration and Participation Fee: Registration for the conference is to be done by email to the IIHA Executive Director at exec_director@intelligence-history.org or a_abelmann@yahoo.com. The conference participation fee is €80 for IIHA members, €50 for students (members and non-members) and €120 for non-members. This includes dinners on Friday and Saturday evenings as well as coffee breaks, but does not include accommodation or travel.  Please note that for security reasons participants must register in advance for the conference until 14 June 2013. The participation fee is to be paid in cash at the conference registration desk at the Titania Hotel conference center at the start of the conference. Please note that we have no facilities for processing credit card payments, please make sure you have the right amount in cash in Euros for your participation fee.

Name Badges: For security reasons please make sure to display your participant name badge (tag) at all times. Access to the conference or the official meals will not be permitted without a name badge. You will receive your name badge at registration after payment of the participation fee.

Meals: Conference dinners are by invitation only to conference speakers and registered conference participants. To enable informal networking and socializing, Saturday and Sunday lunches will not be served as part of the conference, participants are free to make their own arrangements at the Titania Hotel restaurants or the numerous restaurants nearby at the city center and Syntagma Square.

How to arrive from Athens:

International Airport to the Titania Hotel?

1. By Metro (map: http://www.ametro.gr/page/default.asp?id=48&la=2) Take the Blue Line (Line 3 - direction ‘Egaleo’) and get off at Syntagma station. From Syntagma station you can (a) either take the Red Metro Line (Line 2 - direction ‘Aghios Antonios’) and get off at Panepistimiou station (Exit: National Library) and from Panepistimiou station, walk to Titania Hotel or (b) walk from Syntagma Square to Titania Hotel.

2. By Bus (map: http://www.oasa.gr/pdf/en/maps/keypoint/kentro-athina-2008.pdf) From the Airport take Bus Line X95 ‘Syntagma – Athens Airport Express’ (Orange Line). From Syntagma Square you can either take the Metro or walk to Titania Ho-tel. You can also take a bus (most of them are passing by in front of the hotel, while some stop right in front of the hotel).

3. By Taxi Flat fare: 35 Euros. 4. By Car (36 KM, 35-40 minutes) Via Attiki Odos, route 6/Ε94, 31,6 klm, 35 min Via Mesogeion Avenue, 20,8 klm, 34 min Via Route 64, 26 klm, 34 min

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Programme:

Friday, 21 June 2013

12:30-13:30 Registration

13:30-14:00 Welcome and Greetings

Shlomo Shpiro, Chairman of the IIHA

John Nomikos, Director of RIEAS

14:00-16:00 Panel I - Early History to World War I

Chair: Ioannis Anastasakis, Hellenic Airforce (ret.)

Rose Mary Sheldon, Virginia Military Institute, USA - Ambush in Greek Warfare

Eirini Christinaki, Athens, Greece - "Divine" Intelligence in Byzantium: The Metaphysical Information and its Interpretation within the Extracts of Histories ("Epitome Historian") of Ioannis Zonaras

Tilman Luedke, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute, Germany - A difficult Alliance: German Intelligence, the Ottoman Home Front and beyond, 1914-1918

Yigal Sheffy, Tel Aviv University, Israel - Intelligence and Peace Negotiations: the British-Ottoman Experience in WWI

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-18:30 Panel II - World War II

Chair: Wolfgang Krieger, Marburg University

Diego Navarro Bonilla, University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain - Not only Mare Nostrum: By Sea, Land and Sky: Italian Intelligence Operations during the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

Erwin Schmidl, Innsbruck University, Austria - The Life and Work of a German Agent in Istanbul based on the recollections of Dr. Wilhelm Hamburger (Hendricks)

Valentin Filip, Bucharest, Romania - Intelligence Transformation in the Past - The Case of Romania's Special Intelligence Service during World War II

Maria Robson, University of Calgary, Canada - Signals in the Sea: The Value of Ultra Intelligence in the Mediterranean during World War II

19:00-21:00 Conference Dinner and Keynote Speech

Award Ceremony of the Minas Nomikos Award for Security Research Excellence

Saturday, 22 June 2013

9:00-10:30 Panel III - World War II (cont.)

Chair: Anna Daun, University of Cologne

Katrin Paehler, Illinois State University, USA - Nazi Foreign Intelligence, Italy, and Gender: Reevaluating Hildegard Beetz’ Role in the Ciano Affair

Daniela Wellnitz, Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany - Silence is Golden – The Servizio Informazioni Militare and the Culture of Intelligence during Italian Fascism

Nickolaos Mavromates, RIEAS, Greece - The role of Greek Diaspora in intelligence operation during WW II - The case if Helias Dondulakis

10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

10:45-12:45 Panel IV - The Cold War

Chair: Yu Chin Cheng, Charles University Prague

Thomas Wegener Friis, University of Southern Denmark - East German Intelligence against Greece and Cyprus

Wesley Johnson, Athens - The Odyssey of Ali Hassan Salameh from Black September terrorist to CIA collaborator

Egemen Bezci and Ali Balci, University of Istanbul, Turkey - An Intelligence-Cum Enemy?: The Depiction of the Soviets in Turkish Intelligence Reports in the 1950s

Helmuth Müller-Engbergs, University of Southern Denmark - East German State Security and Albania

12:45-14:00 Lunch break (individual arrangements)

14:00-15:30 Panel V - Intelligence in the Mediterranean

Chair: Gerhard Schmid, Germany

Peter Gill, University of Liverpool, UK - Transition from authoritarian/conflict intelligence agencies to democratic control and oversight: the problem of parallel organisations

Julian Richards, University of Buckingham, UK - Terrorism in North Africa: Intelligence perspectives past and present

John Galatas, Hellenic Army (ret.) - 'Olympic Intelligence: CBRN Preparations for the Athens Olympic Games'

Chikara Hashimoto, University of Aberystwyth, UK - International Intelligence Cooperation under 'The Unknown alliance': intelligence liaison, counter-subversion and the question of the Kurds under Central Treaty Organisation

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 Panel VI - Intelligence in the Balkans

Chair: Anna Abelmann, Bochum University

Gordon Akrap, University of Zagreb, Croatia - Southeast Europe – Intelligence and Security Services battlefield?

Dejan Miletic, Center for Globalization Studies (CGS), Serbia - Back to the future of the Serbian Intelligence Community

Ioannis Konstantopoulos, University of Piraeus, Greece - Intelligence and Democracy: The Case of Romania

Darja Koturovic, University of Sheffield, UK - Regional security challenges in South East Europe: coping with criminal networks in Serbia

17:30-18:45 Panel VII - Intelligence Histories - Writing History and Learning from History

Chair: Michael Herman, Nuffield College Oxford, United Kingdom

Michael Wala, Bochum University, Germany - The Official History Project of the German Security Service BfV 

Wolfgang Krieger, Marburg University, Germany - The Official History Project of the German Intelligence Service BND

Shlomo Shpiro, Bar-Ilan University, Israel - Israeli Intelligence-Operational Lessons from Historical Analysis and the Preservation of Service Heritage

John Nomikos, RIEAS, Greece - The History of the Greek Intelligence Service

19:00-20:00  IIHA 2013 Members Annual Meeting (IIHA members only)

20:00 Conference Dinner

Sunday, 23 June 2013

09:00-10:45 Panel VIII - 40 Years after the October 1973 Yom Kippur War

Chair: Michael Wala, Bochum University

Efraim Lapid, IDF (ret.), Israel - Israeli Intelligence between Victory and Surprise 1967-1973

Glen Segall, IINS, Israel - Intelligence Lessons from the 1973 Yom Kippur War

Adi Frimark, Bar-Ilan University, Israel - Israeli Intelligence and the POWs and MIAs of the 1973 Yom Kippur War

Hayim Iserovich, Maariv, Israel - British Intelligence and Libyan Support to the IRA 1973-1987

10:45-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-13:00 Panel IX - Between Arab Spring and European Debt Crisis: Contemporary Intelligence and Security Issues in the Region

Chair: Grigoris Balakos (ret.), Hellenic Police

Alexander Bligh, Ariel University, Israel - Encountering regional terror though an "honest broker" in light of the new political realities in the Middle East

Antonia Dimou, Center for Strategic Studies, Jordan - Jordan and the Security Challenges of the Arab Spring

Andrew Liaropoulos, Univesity of Piraeus, Greece - Intelligence in the Age of Social Media: The implications of the Arab Spring for the Intelligence Community 

Vlatko Cvrtila and Anita Peresin, University of Zagreb, Croatia – Croatian Democratization and Intelligence Reforms

13:00-14:00 Lunch break (individual arrangements)

14:00-16:00 Panel X - Future Challenges for Intelligence in the Mediterranean and the Balkans

Chair: Andre Ranson, French Armed Forces (ret.)

Michael Herman, Nuffield College Oxford, UK - Parallels between Government Intelligence and Statistics

Yu Chin Cheng, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic - Intelligence cooperation framework: Turkey's access to The SCO

Ron Schleifer, Ariel University, Israel - Intelligence for PSYOP (psychological operations) - The Mediterranean Cultural Context

Thalia Tzanetti, RIEAS, Greece - When Intelligence Meets Civil Society Online

Tamir Libel, University College Dublin, Ireland - Looking for a Meaning: Lessons from Mossad’s failed adaption to the post-Cold War Era, 1991-2011

16:00-16:15 Closing words: John Nomikos and Shlomo Shpiro

End of conference

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Contact:

Anna Abelmann, M.A.

Ruhr-Universität Bochum

E-mail: exec_director@intelligence-history.org