Political Studies Department
Last updated: 19.7.2015
Intelligence in the Cold War
71-095-01
Dr. Thomas Wegener- Friis
MA Course
Class day and hours: Tuesday 10:00-12:00 (First semester only)
Office Hours:
Email: twfriis@sdu.dk
Course Aims and Structure
The course aims to provide an overview of intelligence services, activities and policies in Europe
during the Cold War. It focuses especially on Central and Northern Europe, and present new
research as well as methodological questions. The course will examine intelligence policies and
activities on a national and regional levels and will acquaint students with intelligence terminology,
tradecraft and political roles.
Learning Outcomes
The students should be able to analyze intelligence aims, operations and outcome in an specific
historical context. Furthermore they should be able to discuss the research situation as well as
relevant operational questions.
Course Tasks
The course enable the student to understand intelligence during the Cold War era, its objectives,
the operational methodologies and the use of intelligence analysis. Each student will make a class
presentation relevant to the overall topic of intelligence during the Cold War. An exam will be held
at the end of the semester.
Composition of Final Grade
Class Presentation: 20%
Exam:
80%
Course Bibliography
Lesson 1: Introduction to the course and to the Cold War
Richard H. Cummings: Cold War Radio: the dangerous history of American Broadcasting in
Europe 1959-1989. Jefferson 2009. Pp. 5-33.
unavailable
Lesson 2: Introduction to intelligence
Michael Herman: Intelligence Power in Peace and War. Pp. 36-57.
Reserved: under HER (403288)
Helmut Müller-Enbergs: Why Espionage? Odense 2009.
http://www.langelandsfortet.dk/forskningen_foredrag_sdu_uk.htm
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Lesson 3: Researching Cold War Intelligence
Wladyslaw Bulhak: Similar but not the same. In Search of a methodology in the Cold War
communist intelligence studies. In: Wladyslaw Bulhak, Thomas Wegener Friis (ed.): Need to
Know. Eastern and Western Perspectives. Odense 2014. Pp. 19.-44.
Reserved: under NEE (2412774)
NKVD/KGB Activities and its cooperation with other Secret Services in Central and Eastern
Europe. 1945-1989. Bratislava 2007. Pp. 21-52.
Accesible via google:
www.upn.gov.sk/publikacie_web/zbornik-nkvd-EN.pdf
Lesson 4: The East German Ministry of State Security, KGB -daughter at the
heart of the Cold War (part 1)
Jens Gieseke: The GDR state security: shield and sword of the party. Berlin 2006. [120 p]
unavailable
Lesson 5: The East German Ministry of State Security, KGB -daughter at the
heart of the Cold War (part 2)
Jens Gieseke: The GDR state security: shield and sword of the party. Berlin 2006. [120 p]
unavailable
Lesson 6: GDR Foreign intelligence.
Helmut Müller-Enbergs: The hour zero of the official - Information Training in the German
Democratic Republic from a dissonance- theoretical point of view. In: Sven Max Litzcke, Helmut
Müller-Enbergs (ed.): Intelligence service psychology. Frankfurt 2008. Pp. 25-43.
unavailable
Helmut Müller-Enbergs: Politiical intelligence: foci and sources 1969-1989. In: Mackrakis, MüllerEnbergs (red.): East German Foreign Intelligence: myth, reality and controversy. London 2009. Pp.
91-112.
Reserved under EAS (2412742)
Lesson 7: The difficulty of writing GDR Foreign intelligence history
Thomas Wegener Friis, Helmut Müller-Enbergs: The Rosenholz archives – Myth and reality. In:
Baltic Worlds, 2012, vol. 1. Pp 25-31.
Accesible via google:
http://balticworlds.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/BW-1-2012.pdf
Kimmo Elo: A spider spinning its web. East German HUMINT Networks on Nordic Affairs. In:
Wladyslaw Bulhak, Thomas Wegener Friis (ed.): Need to Know. Eastern and Western
Perspectives. Odense 2014. Pp. 61-80.
Reserved: under NEE (2412774)
Robert Gerald Livingstone: Rosenholz: Mischa’s files, CIA’s booty. In: Mackrakis, Müller-Enbergs
(ed.): East German Foreign Intelligence: Myth, reality and controversy. London 2009. Pp. 70-88.
Reserved under EAS (2412742)
Lesson 8: East German Foreign Intelligence and HUMINT
Helmut Müller-Enbergs: Motivation of intelligence service work, the German Democratic republic
state security. In: Sven Max Litzcke, Helmut Müller-Enbergs (ed.): Intelligence service psychology.
Frankfurt 2008. Pp. 45-59.
unavailable
Helmut Müller-Enbergs: How successful was the Stasi in the West after all?. In: Wladyslaw Bulhak,
Thomas Wegener Friis (ed.): Need to Know. Eastern and Western Perspectives. Odense 2014.
Pp. 45-60
Reserved: under NEE (2412774)
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Lesson 9: Guest lecture.
Lesson 10: Poland and Czechoslovakia
Slawomir Lukasiewicz: Spying on Europe. Polish communist intelligence against European
institutions during the Cold War. In: Wladyslaw Bulhak, Thomas Wegener Friis (ed.): Need to
Know. Eastern and Western Perspectives. Odense 2014. Pp. 163-174.
Reserved: under NEE (2412774)
Matej Medvecky: Czechoslovak Foreign intelligence service and Great Britain at the Beginning if
the Cold War. In: Wladyslaw Bulhak, Thomas Wegener Friis (ed.): Need to Know. Eastern and
Western Perspectives. Odense 2014. Pp. 191-206.
Reserved: under NEE (2412774)
Lesson 11: Intelligence in Denmark
Thomas Wegener Friis: East German espionage in Denmark. In: Friis, Mackrakis, Müller-Enbergs
(ed.): East German Foreign Intelligence Myth, reality and controversy. London 2009. Pp. 146-161.
Reserved under EAS (2412742)
Thomas Wegener Friis: Intelligence and counterintelligence in Denmark. In: Wladyslaw Bulhak,
Thomas Wegener Friis (ed.): Need to know. Eastern and Western perspectives. Odense 2014. Pp.
245-268.
Reserved: under NEE (2412774)
Lesson 12: Intelligence and Terror in the Cold War.
Thomas Wegener Friis: The PFLP cell in Copenhagen. Warsaw 2015.
Unavailable
Przemyslaw Gazold Sen: Between geopolitics and National security. Polish intelligence and
international terrorism during the Cold War. In: Wladyslaw Bulhak, Thomas Wegener Friis (ed.):
Need to know. Eastern and Western perspectives. Odense 2014. Pp. 137-162.
Reserved: under NEE (2412774)
Lesson13: Intelligence in Israel during the Cold War
British intelligence on the Arab-Israeli military balance, 1965. Exploring intelligence archives
Enquiries into the secret state. New York 2008. Pp. 213-243.
327.12 EXP 2008 (1103497)- In the History library
Lesson14: Intelligence in Israel during the Cold War
Shpiro Shlomo, “Cold War Radar Intelligence: Operation Cerberus”, Journal of Intelligence History,
.Vol. 6 No. 2, Winter 2006, pp. 61-74
E- Journal (2404505)
Shpiro Shlomo, “KGB Human Intelligence Operations in Israel, 1948-1973”, Intelligence & National
Security, Vol. 26 No. 6, 2011, pp. 864-885
E- Journal )031051(
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