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Event Date: 29 April – 1 May 2011
East Midlands Conference Centre
University of Nottingham  
University Park
Nottingham NG7 2RJ

Landscapes of Secrecy: The CIA in History, Fiction and Memory

Antony Field (University of Warwick) – The CIA and counter-terrorism intelligence

The 9/11 and 7/7 terrorist attacks demonstrated that there were some clear deficiencies with the organisation of the West’s counter-terrorism intelligence community. In the aftermath of these attacks, there were moves to develop a more robust ‘counter-terrorism network’ that would facilitate better communication and intelligence sharing. While recent developments are to be welcomed, the reforms have not addressed some of the fundamental cultural, institutional and technological issues at the heart of the problem. The creation of an effective counter-terrorism network demands that information flows more freely through the intelligence community and that institutional boundaries are broken down. Until these obstacles have been overcome, the new counter-terrorism network will continue to be hampered by the same old problems of intelligence sharing.

Antony Field is a Research Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies. In August 2011 he will take up a post at University California San Bernadino. His main research interests lie in the area of intelligence, terrorism studies and security studies. Recent publications include: Tracking terrorist networks: problems of intelligence sharing within the UK intelligence community in Review of International Studies and ‘The “New Terrorism”: Revolution or Evolution?’ in Political Studies Review. His study of intelligence and counter-terrorism is forthcoming with Columbia University Press and will be published in 2012.

Contact details: Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL.

Email: antony.field@warwick.ac.uk

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Event Date: 29 April – 1 May 2011
East Midlands Conference Centre
University of Nottingham  
University Park
Nottingham NG7 2RJ

Landscapes of Secrecy: The CIA in History, Fiction and Memory

Thomas Allcock (University of Cambridge) – Deeper and deeper in trouble on the intervention side’: Lyndon Johnson, Thomas Mann, and the Dominican Republic intervention of 1965

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Event Date: 29 April – 1 May 2011
East Midlands Conference Centre
University of Nottingham  
University Park
Nottingham NG7 2RJ

Landscapes of Secrecy: The CIA in History, Fiction and Memory

Aidan Condron (Aberystwyth University) – Bound to be stillborn’? American-Egyptian post-bellum strategic dialogue and American policy during the fourth Arab-Israeli War, 1973

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Event Date: 29 April – 1 May 2011
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Landscapes of Secrecy: The CIA in History, Fiction and Memory

Ben Offiler (University of Nottingham) – Rethinking America and Iran in the 1960s

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Event Date: 29 April – 1 May 2011
East Midlands Conference Centre
University of Nottingham  
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Nottingham NG7 2RJ

Landscapes of Secrecy: The CIA in History, Fiction and Memory

Wes Ullrich (London School of Economics) -
Same as the Old Boss? US Perceptions of the Soviet Leadership and the “New Course”, 1953

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Event Date:  1 May 2011
East Midlands Conference Centre
University of Nottingham  
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Nottingham NG7 2RJ

Landscapes of Secrecy: The CIA in History, Fiction and Memory

Postgraduate panel A on US foreign relations, sponsored by the Eccles Centre at the British Library

Chair: Professor Matthew Jones (University of Nottingham)

Wes Ullrich (London School of Economics)
Same as the Old Boss?  US Perceptions of the Soviet Leadership and the “New Course”, 1953
(AUDIO HERE)

Ben Offiler (University of Nottingham)
Rethinking America and Iran in the 1960s (AUDIO HERE)

discussion.

Postgraduate panel B on US foreign relations, sponsored by the Eccles Centre at the British Library

Chair: Professor Matthew Jones (University of Nottingham)

Aidan Condron (Aberystwyth University)
‘Bound to be stillborn’? American-Egyptian post-bellum strategic dialogue and American policy during the fourth Arab-Israeli War, 1973 (AUDIO HERE)

Thomas Allcock (University of Cambridge)
‘Deeper and deeper in trouble on the intervention side’: Lyndon Johnson, Thomas Mann, and the Dominican Republic intervention of 1965 (AUDIO HERE)

discussion.

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Event Date: 29 April – 1 May 2011
East Midlands Conference Centre
University of Nottingham  
University Park
Nottingham NG7 2RJ

Landscapes of Secrecy: The CIA in History, Fiction and Memory

Dr David Robarge (CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence) – Recent CIA initiatives in the field

David Robarge is the chief historian of the Central Intelligence Agency and has been a member of the agency’s history staff since 1996. Before that he worked in the C.I.A. Counterterrorism Center and the Directorate of Intelligence as an analyst on the Palestinian and Iraq accounts. He has published a classified biography of Director of Central Intelligence John McCone, and his articles and book reviews have appeared in the C.I.A.’s in-house journal “Studies in Intelligence,” and in “Intelligence and National Security” and the “Journal of Intelligence History.” Dr. Robarge holds a Ph.D. in American history from Columbia University, has taught United States intelligence history at George Mason University and has written a biography of Chief Justice John Marshall.

Contact details: Center for the Study of Intelligence, Washington DC 20005, USA

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Event Date: 29 April – 1 May 2011
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University of Nottingham  
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Nottingham NG7 2RJ

Landscapes of Secrecy: The CIA in History, Fiction and Memory

Dr Philip Davies (Brunel University) – The CIA versus the NIE

One of the most common misunderstandings in intelligence literature is the common view that National Intelligence Estimates are a CIA product, or at least were prior to the 2004 Intelligence Reorganization and Terrorism Prevention Act. In fact NIE’s have been produced formally outside CIA since 1965 and the Agency’s relationship with national assessments has been one of the most persistently troubled aspects of the US intelligence community since the modern system’s inception in the mid-1940s. Not only did the production of NIEs embody and drive interagency divisions and rivalries in what Amy Zegart has evocatively called the ‘intelligence cacophany’ it was also one of a number of increasingly significant wedges steadily driven between the Director of Central Intelligence and CIA by the DCI’s dual role as chief of the Agency as well as head of the intelligence community as a whole. This paper examines three critical steps in the progressive divorce of NIE production from CIA and its transfer to the Office of the DCI in order to try credibly cast the NIE as a ‘community’ rather than ‘agency’ product that culminated in the eventual establishment of the National Intelligence Officers in 1974 and the National Intelligence Council. The three points examined in this paper are the 1949 Dulles-Jackson-Correa review, the 1952 establishment of the Office and Board of National Estimates and finally the 1965 transfer of the ONE/BNE machine from CIA to the ODCI.

Dr. Philip H.J. Davies is Director of the Brunel University Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies (BCISS) which he co-founded in 2003 and then served as then Deputy as its Deputy-Director until 2008. He recently led Brunel’s participation in the production of the UK’s new military Joint Intelligence Doctrine (JDP 2-00) and innovative joint doctrine on Understanding (JDP 04 in partnership with Defence Intelligence and the MoD’s Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre. He has published extensively on the organisation and management of intelligence institutions initially with a study of the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6 and the Machinery of Spying (T&F 2004)) and most recently completed a 2-volume comparative study of national intelligence in Britain and the United States (Intelligence and Government in Britain and the United States (forthcoming in late 2011/early 2012 from Praeger Security International))11. He also developed Brunel’s innovative and highly subscribed MA in Intelligence and Security Studies and is currently heading Brunel’s participation in the EU-funded Leonardo da Vinci consortium on Competitive Intelligence in Trade and Export (CITEX).

Contact information: Brunel Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies, School of Social Sciences, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH, UK.

Email: philip.davies@brunel.ac.uk

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Event Date: 29 April – 1 May 2011
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Landscapes of Secrecy: The CIA in History, Fiction and Memory

Dr Matthew Aid (National Security Archive) – The CIA sigint programme and its relations with the NSA

Even before the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was created in 1947, it has had a contentious, and oftentimes acrimonious relationship with those U.S. military intelligence organizations that were engaged in the collection and processing of Signals Intelligence (SIGINT). Using newly declassified documents, this paper traces the CIA’s SIGINT collection efforts since 1947, which sometimes brought it into conflict with the National Security Agency (NSA), which since its creation in 1952 has been the U.S. intelligence community’s principal SIGINT collection and analytic organization.

Matthew M. Aid is a native of New York City and the author of The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the National Security Agency (NY: Bloomsbury Press, 2009), and a forthcoming history of the U.S. intelligence community during the Obama administration, due to be published in early 2012. He is also the co-editor with Dr. Cees Wiebes of Secrets of Signals Intelligence During the Cold War and Beyond (London: Frank Cass, 2001), and the author of a number of published chapters and articles on intelligence and security matters, focusing primarily on issues relating to the National Security agency and Signals Intelligence (SIGINT).

Contact details: National Security Archive, Suite 701, Gelman Library, The George Washington University, 2130 H Street, NW, Washington, D.C., 20037, USA.

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Event Date: 29 April – 1 May 2011
East Midlands Conference Centre
University of Nottingham  
University Park
Nottingham NG7 2RJ

Landscapes of Secrecy: The CIA in History, Fiction and Memory

Dr Jason Harding (School of Advanced Study, University of London) - The CIA and Encounter magazine

The CIA and Encounter magazine This paper examines the rise and fall of Encounter magazine as the Congress of Cultural Freedom’s flagship periodical during the height of the Cold War. It looks closely at Michael Josselson’s founding of this London-based intellectual review, its covert funding by the CIA, his fractious relationships with successive American and British co-editors, and his response to the public unmasking of the CIA’s role as paymaster. Particular attention will be paid to notable critics of the journal – Dwight MacDonald, William Empson and Conor Cruise O’Brien.

Jason Harding is Reader in English Studies at Durham University and a Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. He is the author of a book on interwar British intellectual journalism The Criterion (OUP, 2002) and is currently researching a book on Encounter magazine and the Cultural Cold War.

Contact information: Department of English Studies, Elvet Riverside, New Elvet Durham DH1 3JT, UK

Email: jason.harding@durham.ac.uk

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