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Restricting Knowledge: Channeling Security Information in Recent History

Date & Time

Friday
Dec. 9, 2016
10:00am – 6:00pm ET

Location

4th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center
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Overview

10:00 am – 12:00 pm       Introduction

Christian Ostermann (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)

 

                                      Session I:   Archives

Chair: Kathryn Olesko (Georgetown University)

 

Oxana Kosenko (Saxon Academy of Sciences)

 

Kristie Macrakis (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Archives and Cultures of State Secrecy in Transnational Perspective

Douglas Selvage (Office of the Federal Commissioner for Stasi Records)

Compartmentalization and Circulation of Intelligence Information: The Case of the East German Stasi, 1972-1989

                                     

Commentator: Astrid M. Eckert (Emory University)

 

 

12:00 – 1:00 pm     Lunch Break

 

 

1:00 – 3:00 pm      Session II:  POW Camps

Chair: Tim Nenninger (National Archives and Records Administration)

                             Eva Jobs (University of Marburg)

The State of Trust - Limits and Chances of Transatlantic Intelligence Liaison in Postwar Germany

Derek Mallett (US Army Command and General Staff College)

PO Box 1142: Fort Hunt, Virginia, and the American Interrogation of World War II Prisoners of War

Jean-Michel Turcotte (L'Université Laval)

“Was wollen Sie wissen?”The Western Allied Collaboration and Exchanges of Intelligence Information on German POWs during the Second World War.

Commentator: Sönke Neitzel (University of Potsdam)

3:00 – 3:30 pm      Coffee Break

3:30 – 5:30 pm      Session III:          States

Chair: Heidi Tworek (The University of British Columbia)

Florian Altenhöner (University Berlin)

Secret Germany: Secrecy, the Abwehr and the Weimar’s Republic Intelligence Culture

Patrick Roberts (Virginia Tech, Alexandria) and Robert Saldin (University of Montana)

On a Need Not to Know Basis: Why Presidents Sometimes Do Not Use Intelligence Information.”

Dominik Rigoll (Center for Contemporary History, Potsdam) Geheimschutz. Classifying Information in the West German Ministry of the Interior.

Commentator: Rebecca Lemov (Harvard University)

5:30 pm                 Wrap-Up Discussion

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History and Public Policy Program

The History and Public Policy Program makes public the primary source record of 20th and 21st century international history from repositories around the world, facilitates scholarship based on those records, and uses these materials to provide context for classroom, public, and policy debates on global affairs.  Read more

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