NASIH Annual Conference 2022 (virtual)

The North American Society for Intelligence History held its second conference online from Monday, July 18 - Tuesday, July 19, 2022. All times are Eastern Time.

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DAY 1:  July 18

8:30 – 8:55 AM: President’s Welcome by Calder Walton

9:00-10:50 AM:  Session 1

Panel 1:  Covert Operations in the Early Cold War: A Roundtable Reassessment

• Chair: Sarah-Jane Corke
• Sarah-Jane Corke, “What a “Little Bird” Can Tell Us about One of America’s First Covert Operations in Communist China.”
• Susan Perlman, “Covert Action in France, 1945-1953.”
• Francesco Cacciatore, “US Covert Action in Italy in the Early Cold War: Interventionism or Cooperation?”
• Stephen Long, “Reappraising the Prototype ‘Rollback Failure’: Anglo-American Covert Action in Albania, 1949-60.”
• James Marchio, “‘Roll Back’ and US Military Planning: Reconsidering the Eisenhower Administration’s Strategy toward Eastern Europe.”

11:00-12:30 PM:  Session 2

Panel 2A:  New Findings on the CPUSA on its Centennial: Julia Stewart Poyntz, George Mink, and Earl Browder

• Chair and Discussant:  Katherine A. S. Sibley
• Denise Lynn, “Missing Spies and Political Murder: The FBI and the Construction of Crime.”
• Vernon L. Pedersen, “The Last Days of George Mink: Spain, Mexico, and the Death of Leon Trotsky.”
• James G. Ryan, “Senator Joe McCarthy Rescues an Unrepentant Stalinist from Probable Prison Time.”

Panel 2B: Anglo-American Intelligence in the European Theater of World War II

• Chair: Mary Kathryn Barbier
• Isabel Campbell, “When the Women Left: An Examination of the Royal Canadian Navy’s Struggles to Perform Operational and Other Intelligence Work in the Early Post-war Period, 1945-1951.”
• Stephen J. Jaskoski, “Intelligence Delivery: The Case of Ultra Distribution to the Army Echelon in Operation Husky.”
• Allison Abra, “Secret Agent Romances in the Special Operation Executive.”

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12:30 – 1:00PM: Break

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1:00 – 2:50 PM: Session 3

Panel 3A: Intelligence Analysis in the Twentieth Century

• Chair: Sarah Miller Beebe
• David Sherman, “An Intelligence Classic that Almost Never Was: Roberta Wohlstetter's Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision.”
• Daniel Salisbury and Alex Bollfrass, “The Role of Procurement Intelligence in All-Source Assessments of Pakistan's Nuclear Program, 1974-1984.”
• Mark Stout, “Intelligence Analysis in the US Army during the World War I Period.”

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Panel 3B:  The Central Intelligence Agency at 75

• Chair: Diana Bolsinger
• Hugh Wilford, “The CIA: An Imperial History.”
• Michael Warner, “Central Intelligence: Dream and Reality.”
• Nicholas Reynolds, “God Bless Bureaucracy: The Post-war American Intelligence Reset.”
• Jeff Rogg, “The CIA and Civil-Intelligence Relations: A New Framework for Interpreting Old Debates.”

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3:00 - 4:20 PM:  Session 4

Panel 4A: Ethics and Experimentation in Intelligence History

• Chair: Jan Goldman
• Eleanor Leah Williams, “Why Is Intelligence Unethical?”
• John Lisle, “The Lessons and Legacy of OSS Truth Drug Trials..”

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Panel 4B:  New Perspectives on Soviet Intelligence

• Chair: Calder Walton
• Filip Kovacevic, “The Teacher: Oleg Gribanov and KGB Counterintelligence.”
• Mark Pruett, “Postage Due: A New Perspective on State Security Intelligence Research.”
• Alexandra Sukalo, “Establishing Political and Social Order: Recruiting Locals to the Soviet Political Police, 1945-1953.”

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4:30 – 5:50 PM: Session 5

Panel 5A:  Intelligence, Terrorism, and Insurrection

• Chair: Mark Stout
• Shannon Nash, “Deception, Concealment, and Patience: Terrorist Training Manuals and al Qaeda Methods in the Lead up to 9/11”
• Cortney Weinbaum, “Intelligence Failures and the January 6th Attack”

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DAY 2: July 19

9:00 -10:20 AM:  Session 6

Panel 6A:  New Beginnings in Signals Intelligence

• Chair: John Ferris
• Agathe Couderc, “Founding French Military Intelligence Anew: Cipher Services in the 1920s.”
• Philip C. Shackelford, “If You Can't Lick 'Em, Join 'Em: The U.S. Air Force Security Service and its Relationship with the National Security Agency during the Early Cold War.”
• Vince Houghton and Rob Simpson, "New Avenues of SIGINT and Cryptologic Research: National Cryptologic Museum 2.0."

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Panel 6B:  Machinery of Government and Intelligence

• Chair: Timothy Sayle
• William Cooney, “The Global Affairs Canada Special Registry Declassification Project.”
• Lucy Towler Slater, “The Role of the Cabinet Secretary in British Intelligence Management, 1943-1968.”

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10:30 AM – 12:00 PM: Session 7

Panel 7:  World War I and its Aftermath

• Chair: Michael Warner
• Danielle Wirsansky, “Desert Queen and The White Mouse: How the Successes of British Women Spies in WWI Paved the Way for Female Agency in WWII.”
• Betsy Rohaly Smoot, “Soldier, Sailor, Codebreaker, Spy: The Short Humint Career of Colonel Parker Hitt.”

12:00 to 1:00 PM: Break

1:00 - 2:20 PM: Session 8

Panel 8A:  Intelligence Liaison in History

• Chair: Sara Castro
• Aviva Guttmann, “Covert Diplomacy to Overcome a Crisis: German and Israeli Intelligence after Munich.”
• Matthew Hefler, “Secret Service Relationships during the Second World War and a Deeper Level of International Diplomacy.”
• Diana Bolsinger, “CIA's Afghan Program and Pakistan's Bargaining Leverage.”

Panel 8B:  Italian and German Intelligence in the Inter-War Period

• Chair: Calder Walton
• Jessi A. J. Gilchrist, “Sharing Empire: Great Britain, Fascist Italy, and (Anti-) Colonial Intelligence Networks in the Palestine Mandate.”
• Nicolas G. Virtue, “Interpreting Revolt: Colonial Assumptions in Italian Military Intelligence.”
• Marcus Faulkner, “Intelligence and the Evolution of the Panzerschiff Programme, 1928-1935.”

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2:30 – 4:00 PM: Session 9

Panel 9A:  New Methods and Best Practices for Teaching Intelligence History and Using Intelligence to Teach History

• Chair: Marion "Molly" Girard Dorsey
• Mary Kathryn Barbier, “Teaching Intelligence History during COVID: A Modified Approach.”
• Sara Castro, “Using Primary Sources to Teach Intelligence History.”
• Melissa Graves, “Going to the Source: Teaching Intelligence History.”

Panel 9B: US Imagery Intelligence: Meeting the Challenges of the Cold War

• Chair: Alexandra Sukalo
• Jack O’Connor, “Feature Recognition Algorithms in the US Intelligence Community.”
• Aaron Bateman, “Mutually Assured Surveillance at Risk: Anti-Satellite Weapons and Cold War Arms Control.”