Conference program
17 November 2016
10.00–10.15 – Opening of the conference
10.15–12.15 – Panel I: INTELLIGENCE AND MIGRATIONS
Chair: Erik Kulavig (Center for Cold War Studies of the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
- Thomas Wegener Friis (Center for Cold War Studies of the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark): Migration and Intelligence
- Mark Kramer (Harvard University, USA): Forced Migration in East Central Europe through the Prism of Soviet and US Intelligence, 1944–1947
- Władysław Bułhak (Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw, Poland): Migration and Double Lives of Polish Communist “Illegals” in Sweden, Germany and Austria
- Kurt Jensen (Carleton University, Canada): Security Vetting of Indochinese Refugees, 1975–1980
12.15–13.15 – Lunch break
13.15–15.15 – Panel II: BALTIC AND MARITIME
Chair: Andreas Linderoth (Swedish Naval Museum, Sweden)
- Meelis Saueauk (Estonian Institute of Historical Memory, Estonia): Estonians in the Service at the Finnish Military Intelligence During the World War II
- Steven Czak (United States Air Force Academy, USA): AEBASIN/AEROOT: CIA Human Intelligence Operations in Estonia, 1950s
- Przemysław Gasztold-Seń (Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw, Poland) – Polish Intelligence in Sweden
- Michael Fredholm (Ippeki Research Institute, Sweden): Migrants in Uniform as Intelligence Assets. Polish and Soviet Naval Aviation and Air Force Defectors to Sweden during the Cold War
15.15–15.45 – Coffee break
15.45–18.00 – Panel III: STASI AND BND
Chair: Łukasz Kamiński (University of Wrocław, Poland)
- Bernd Schaefer (George Washington University / Woodrow Wilson International Center, USA): A Common Anti-Communist Front? Western Intelligence Services and Eastern European Emigration: The Case of the CIA
- Wolfgang Krieger (University of Marburg, Germany): The German-American Disputes over the Debriefing of Refugees and Deserters from the Soviet-Dominated Parts of Europe
- Andreas Hilger (German Historical Institute, Moscow, Russia) – A common Anti-Communist Front? Western Intelligence Services and Eastern European Emigration: The Case of the BND
- Paul Maddrell (Loughborough University, United Kingdom): Migration as Blessing and Curse: the Stasi and Migration from and to the German Democratic Republic (GDR), 1950–1989
- Douglas Selvage (Stasi Records Agency, Germany) – Emigration and Infiltration: The Stasi and “Enemy” Human-Rights Organizations in West Germany
18 November 2016
10.00–12.15 – Panel IV: POLITICAL EMIGRATION
Chair: Thomas Wegener Friis (Center for Cold War Studies of the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
- Florian Altenhöner (Independent Historian, Germany): Russian Refugees and Intelligence in Berlin, 1918/1919–1933
- Sławomir Łukasiewicz (Institute of National Remembrance, Lublin / John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland): Intelligence Activities Conducted by Polish Cold War Émigrés of the 1940s and 1950s: Reconnaissance
- Joanna Wojdon (University of Wroclaw, Poland) – The New York City, the People’s Poland Intelligence Activities and the Polish Americans
- Daniela Richterova (University of Warwick, United Kingdom): Spying on Terror: The Use of Migrants by Czechoslovak State Security in the Late Cold War
- Daniel Belousek (Ministry of Defense of the Czech Republic, Department of Veterans Affairs, Czech Republic): Czechoslovak Security Apparatus in the Fight Against Exile: The Operation Code Named “Delta“ in 1981
12.15–13.15 – Lunch break
13.15–15.15 – Panel V: POLITICAL AND HUMAN CRISIS
Chair: Rafał Leśkiewicz (Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw, Poland)
- Michael Andregg (University of St. Thomas, USA): Intelligence and Migration: Cases from North America
- Dieter Bacher (Ludwig Boltzmann, Institute for the Research on Consequences of Cold War, Austria): Threat and Opportunity: American and British Handling of the Refugee Crisis in the Post-War Austria 1954–1955 from the Intelligence's Point of View
- Magdolna Barath (Historical Archives of the Hungarian State Security, Hungary): Hungarian Refugees in Austria 1945–1950
- Nadia Boyadjieva (Harvard University, USA / Plovdiv University, Bulgaria): The Expulsion of Bulgarian Turks and the Changing Contours of the Cold War in the 1980s
15.15–15.45 – Coffee break
15.45–17.45 – Panel VI: INTELLIGENCE SECRETS, technology & methodology
Chair: Michael Fredholm (Ippeki Research Institute, Sweden)
- Egemen Bezci (Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies, Sweden): Using Immigrants: Turkish Intelligence and Covert Ops
- Mirosław Sikora (Institute of National Remembrance, Katowice, Poland): Passport for Technology. Taking Advantage of Job-Migrations and Scholarship-Programs by the Polish Intelligence During the Cold War
- Paweł Sowiński (Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Science, Poland): Transnational Anticommunism: Intelligence and Eastern European Publishing Diaspora, 1956-1990
- Michaela Toader (Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of Romanian Exile, Romania): Historical Testimonies about the Migration Phenomenon in Romania on the Danube