International Intelligence History Association

To all Polish speaking friends 🇵🇱

Our friends from the Institute of National Remembrance are organizing the conference:
"In Foreign Service. Agent activity of citizens of the People's Republic of Poland for the intelligence services of Western countries in the years 1945–1990"
in Warsaw, 18 November 2026 🥸

https://ipn.gov.pl/pl/kkaplon-testy/237201,CALL-FOR-PAPERS-Konferencja-naukowa-W-obcej-sluzbie-Dzialalnosc-agenturalna-obyw.html

Deadline for papers April 30 ☝️

Dear Friends and Members of the IIHA.

Did you check out the latest issue of the Journal for Intelligence Studies? 📚

The Journal should already have arrived in your mailbox - if it did not - something is wrong and you should write us 🪶

The current issue has six articles, and half of them are even available open access:
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjih20/current

James Stone:
International Espionage as a Family Business: The Schluga Brothers and Austrian Military Intelligence, 1866–1880

Deborah Bauer:
Countering Espionage: The Expansion of Domestic Surveillance as Means of National Defense in Fin-de-Siècle France
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/16161262.2025.2512301

Dr. Lukas Grawe:
Espionage, Sabotage, Propaganda. German Military Attachés in Neutral Countries and Their Organisation and Tasks During the First World War
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/16161262.2024.2387982

Stephen Long:
Anglo-American Covert Action in Albania: Seven Critiques of the Orthodox Historiography of Operation BGFiend/Valuable

Yaacov Falkov:
‘The Main Attack Will Be Directed Against Army Group North Ukraine’: Did Soviet Intelligence Successfully Implement Strategic Deception Plan During Operation Bagration in the Summer of 1944?
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/16161262.2025.2535174

Nicola Guerra :
The Far Right and Israeli Intelligence, a Collaborative Relationship in Italy in the 1970s

A huge thank you the authors, the editor, and not least the many reviewers.

Journal of Intelligence History Volume 24, Issue 3 of Journal of Intelligence History

Our German Colleague Helmut Müller-Enbergs has a new book out on the Berlin Spy Tunnel 🕳️ In German and English

Official publication date is March 31:
https://www.bebraverlag.de/verzeichnis/titel/operation-gold.html

Så er den der næste! Forfatteren, centerets Helmut Müller-Enbergs, har i hvert fald modtaget sit eksemplar af den nye bog "Operation Gold. The Berlin Story" 📚📚Historien om spiontunnelen mellem Vest og Østberlin, hvor britiske og amerikanske tjenester gravede sig ind i Berlins sovjetiske sektor, for at være med på en lytter på de østtyske telefoner ☎️

Den 31. Marts rammer den så også verdensmarkedet 🌍 Stort tillykke til Helmut 🎊

Bogen kan også snart blive din, og på forlaget BeBras hjemmeside er også en læseprøve:
https://www.bebraverlag.de/verzeichnis/titel/operation-gold.html

An intelligence perspective on nuclear history? Should be possible 🏆

https://www.shafr.org/burr-prize