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September 12, 2019 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

North American Society for Intelligence History 2019 Conference

I will be the Discussant for a counterintelligence panel  at the 2019 North American Society for Intelligence History conference which will be held at the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC on October 20-21, 2019.

The Panel 5A: Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism will be on Monday, October 21 from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm in the Temporary Exhibit Space at the museum. The panel membes and their speaking topics include:

  • Tony Craig, Staffordshire University, “Operation Calaba: Sir Dick White, Intelligence, Enhanced Interrogation and the UK Government’s Role in Introducing Internment to Northern Ireland, 1971”
  • Wesley Wark, University of Ottawa, “Canadian Counterintelligence Cases”
  • John Fox, Federal Bureau of Investigation, “Gray Reflections from the Mirror: The Hanssen Case and American Counterintelligence”

David Robarge, historian at the Central Intelligence Agency, will be the chair of the panel.

Conference Program

The cost to attend the conference is $100; after October 1 it is $125 and onsite registration is $150. Students pay $50. Register here.

Conference Program (pdf)

Other panels at the two-day conference include:

Sunday, October 20, 2019

Panel #1: Spies and Espionage
10:30 AM – 12: 00 PM

Chair: Calder Walton, Harvard University

  • Katherine Gruber, The Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, “James Lafayette: Invisible Spy”
  • Amanda Ohlke, International Spy Museum, “Ripe for Recruitment: Mata Hari as a Plausible Intelligence Asset”
  • John Lisle, University of Texas, “Stealing Scientific Secrets: The Quest to Use Scientists as Spies Abroad”
  • John Earl Haynes, independent scholar, and Harvey Klehr, Emory University, “Protecting FBI Informants: The Case of Morris and Jack Childs”

Discussant: Steve Usdin, Independent Scholar

PANEL 2: DISINFORMATION AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE
1:30 – 3:00 PM

Chair: Nicholas Dujmovic, Catholic University of America

  • Ralph Sawyer, independent scholar, “ Disinformation Theory and Practice in Historic China”
  • Mallory E. Needleman, American University, “Codename, Tirralira: The Story of the Lithuanian Émigré and HisTransformation from Nazi Collaborator, to Cold War-Era Informant for Western Intelligence Communities, to American Citizen”
  • Thomas Boghardt, “The AIDS Disinformation Campaign: Soviet Active Measures and Lessons for Today”
  • Gill Bennett, Royal United Services Institute, “ Counter-Disinformation and the Tools of the Intelligence Trade: An Historical Perspective”

Discussant: Ken Osgood, Colorado School of Mines

PANEL 2A: INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS
1:30 – 3:00 PM

Chair: Sarah-Jane Corke, University of New Brunswick

  • Mary Barton, Office of the Secretary of Defense, “Allies, Adversaries, and the Origins of Five Eyes”
  • Michael Goodman, King’s College London, “Revelations from Britain’s Closed Intelligence Archives”
  • Silke Zoller, Dartmouth College, “The CIA’s Conceptualization of ‘International Terrorism’ in the 1970s”
  • Cynthia Storer, Johns Hopkins University, “Finding Bin Ladin: Intelligence Work Left of Boom”

Discussant: James Marchio, National Intelligence University

PANEL 3: INTELLIGENCE AND POPULAR CULTURE
4:00 – 5:30 PM

Chair: Jonna Mendez, CIA, retired

  • Kathryn Olmsted, University of California, Davis, “Deep State Conspiracy Theories”
  • Katherine Sibley, Saint Joseph’s University, “‘Her Position of Power Makes Her Gullibility the More Dangerous:’ Popular Perceptions of Eleanor Roosevelt’s Communist Ties during World War II”
  • Jonathan Nashel, Indiana University, South Bend, “The Bonding of the CIA”
  • Tricia Jenkins, Texas Christian University, “The CIA, Africa, and Black Panther: A ‘Marvelous’ Historical Reimagining”

Discussant: Stephen Marrin, James Madison University

PANEL 3A: SOVIET AND RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE
4:00 – 5:30 PM

Chair: Mark Stout, Johns Hopkins University

  • Emil Draitser, Hunter College, “Stalin’s Romeo Spy: Dmitri Bystrolyotov”
  • Regina Kazyulina, Northeastern University, “Gender, Sexuality, and Soviet Intelligence Behind the Eastern Front”
  • Kevin P. Riehle, National Intelligence University, “The Russian Soldier Fights on ‘Till Death: Soviet Intelligence and State Security Officers as German Prisoners of War”
  • Filip Kovacevic, University of San Francisco, “The Shield, the Sword, and the Book: Publishing Books on Intelligence in Putin’s Russia”

Discussant: Mircea Munteanu, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State

Monday, October 21, 2019

PANEL 4: SIGNALS AND CYBER INTELLIGENCE
9:00 – 10:30 AM

Chair: Michael Warner, United States Cyber Command

  • David Sherman, independent scholar, “The Making of a Codebreaker: The Case of Ann Caracristi”
  • Sarah Mainwaring, Warwick University, “SIGINT: An Unlikely Marriage of Economics and Defence”
  • David Schaefer, King’s College London, “Concealing Colossus: Signals Intelligence, Modern Computing, and British Secrecy in the 1970s”
  • J.D. Work, Marine Corps University, “Of Stolen Silicon and COMBLOC Clones: Early Assessments of Proliferation in Weaponized Compute during the Cold War”

Discussant: John Ferris, University of Calgary

PANEL 4A: INTELLECTUAL AND CULTURAL APPROACHES TO INTELLIGENCE HISTORY
9:00 – 10:30 AM

Chair: Susan Perlman, National Intelligence University

  • Ivan Greenberg, independent scholar, “Liberalism and Surveillance”
  • Jonathan Edward Best, Queens’ University Belfast, “Britain’s Enemies during the Cold War: The British Spy Novel and British Intelligence, 1945-1964”
  • Hugh Wilford, California State University, Long Beach, “Covert Empire: The CIA and the Third World in the Global Cold War”
  • Charlotte Yelamos, King’s College London, “The Archaeology of Cold War Intelligence: Material and Landscape Studies of the BRIXMIS ‘Intelligence Culture’”

Discussant: Wesley Wark, University of Ottawa

PANEL 5: IMAGERY AND AERIAL RECONNAISSANCE
11:00 – 12:30 AM

Chair: Vincent Houghton, International Spy Museum

  • James Green, NASA, “The Role of Civil War Balloons in Union Military Intelligence”
  • Greg Elder, Orlando Pacheco, Defense Intelligence Agency, “DIA’s Untold Imagery Role in the Cuban Missile Crisis”
  • Jack O’Connor, Johns Hopkins University, “ The Genesis of Geospatial Intelligence”

Discussant: Vincent Houghton, International Spy Museum

PANEL 5A: COUNTERINTELLIGENCE AND TERRORISM
11:00 – 12:30 AM

Chair: David Robarge, Central Intelligence Agency

  • Tony Craig, Staffordshire University, “Operation Calaba: Sir Dick White, Intelligence, Enhanced Interrogation and the UK Government’s Role in Introducing Internment to Northern Ireland, 1971”
  • Wesley Wark, University of Ottawa, “Canadian Counterintelligence Cases”
  • John Fox, Federal Bureau of Investigation, “Gray Reflections from the Mirror: The Hanssen Case and American Counterintelligence”

Discussant: Raymond Batvinis, Independent Scholar

PANEL 6: COVERT OPERATIONS AND CLANDESTINE DIPLOMACY
2:30 – 4:00 PM

Chair: John Sano, Johns Hopkins University

  • Rose Mary Sheldon, Virginia Military Institute, “Covert Action in the Early Roman Empire: Augustus and the Parthians”
  • John Prados, National Security Archive, “Project MONGOOSE and After”
  • Carl W. Forsberg, University of Texas at Austin, “Spies or Diplomats? Clandestine Channels in Henry Kissinger’s Shuttle Diplomacy”
  • Cees Wiebes, University of Leiden, “Size Does Not Always Matter: The Joint Dutch-CIA Clandestine Rogue Operations in Rumania, 1948-1956”

Discussant: Magda Long, King’s College London

PANEL 6A: INTELLIGENCE IN WARTIME
2:30 – 4:00 PM

Chair: Alexis Albion, International Spy Museum

  • Nicholas Reynolds, independent scholar, “The Unheralded Victory of the OSS XX System”
  • Sara Bush Castro, United States Air Force Academy, “Nascent Norms for Covert Action: U.S. Intelligence Operations in Communist-held China during World War II”
  • Travis Weinger, King’s College London, “Intelligence Failure and the Third Anglo-Afghan War”
  • Mary Kathryn Barbier, Mississippi State University, “Too Great a Risk to Obtain Possible Actionable Intelligence? The Wartime Images of Spy and Double Agent Lily Sergueiew”

Discussant: Greg Elder, Defense Intelligence Agency

Register for the conference here.

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