2026
In partnership with the International Intelligence History Association (IIHA)
Wednesday, September 30
Copley Formal Lounge, Copley Hall, Georgetown University, 3700 O St NW, Washington, DC 20057
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Arrival and Registration
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Greetings and Opening
Thomas Wegener Friis, Director of Center for Cold War Studies, SDU
Thomas Boghardt, Washington
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Panel 1
Chair: Gordan Akrap, Franjo Tuđman Defense and Security University
Anna Mazurkiewicz, University of Gdansk
Making Friends: Ethnic Networks and the Social History of U.S. Intelligence in Poland, 1917–1989
Władysław Bułhak, IPN/University of Warsaw
The conspiracy to murder Polish doctors in the United States?
Christopher Gunn, Coastal Carolina University
Stay Behind or Roll Back: U.S. Covert Operations in Austria and Hungary, 1945–1948
Dieter Bacher, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the Remembrance of War
The United States and the Establishment of Austrian civilian intelligence
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Lunch Break
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
IIHA Membership Meeting
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Panel II
Chair: Mark Jacobson, International Spy Museum
Susan M. Perlman, Holocaust Museum & Georgetown University
Letters from Vichy: US Intelligence and France’s Collaborationist Regime
Ljuba Dornik Šubelj, Ljubljana
Missions Halyard and Ranger: the role of George Kraigher in World War II
Nicholas Reynolds, Washington
No Straight Line: How American Intelligence Grew and Formed Alliances in World War II
Kevin C. Ruffner, Washington
A War Crime without a Body: How a U.S. Army War Crimes Investigation Unfolded in Early Cold War Berlin
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Coffee Break
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Fireside Chat
Michael P. Dempsey, former acting Director of National Intelligence
Thursday, October 1
Copley Formal Lounge, Copley Hall, Georgetown University, 3700 O St NW, Washington, DC 20057
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Arrival and Registration
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Panel III
Chair: Thomas Boghardt, Washington
Stephen Long, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Just One Strand in the Whole Fabric: Demystifying Kim Philby’s Role in Undermining Anglo-American Covert Action in Albania
Marek Hańderek, IPN/University of Krakow
Jack Bjoze and the Polish Military Intelligence Spy Network in the New York Area in the Late 1940s and Early 1950s
John Heynes, Santa Fe
‘Friday’ and the Soviet Espionage
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Coffee Break
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Panel IV
Chair: Alexis Albion
Charlotte Backerra, University of Klagenfurt
Imperial-American Intelligence Relations in the Age of Revolution
Jokin de Carlos-Sola, Leiden
Intelligence and Espionage in Europe after the 1830 Revolution
Mark Stout, International Spy Museum
American Intelligence Liaison with European Services during World War I
Michael Wala, Ruhr University
Friendly Visits and Espionage: Reichswehr Covert Operations in the United States, 1922–1935
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch Break
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Panel V
Chair: Susan Perlman, US Holocaust Memorial Museum & Georgetown University
Tomasz Kozłowski, Institute of National Remembrance
From Adversaries to Partners: The CIA and the Transformation of Polish Intelligence, 1988–1995
Ronan Mainprize, Stockholm School of Economics
Lobbies, Whips, and Turkeys: American-Israeli Intelligence Diplomacy in 1967
Irina Tsukerman, The Washington Outsider
Reassessing Trust: Saudi–Russian Intelligence Ties and the Fragility of Transatlantic Assumptions
4:00 PM
Final Remarks
4:00 PM
Career Fair (Exclusively for Georgetown University Students)
Location: Social Room, Healey Family Student Center (HFSC), Georgetown University, 3700 O St NW, Washington, DC 20057)