Draft program 8 October 2015 10: 00-10: 15 Opening of the Conference

In the Shadow of the Cold War. Domestic and International Terrorism in the Former Communist Countries

(draft program)
8 October 2015
10:00-10:15 - Opening of the Conference
10:15-10:45 - Terrorism in the files of the INR Archives (Office for the Preservation and Dissemination of the Archival Records)
10:45-11:00 – Coffee break
11:00-13:00 Session I - Eastern Europe and Terrorism

Chair: Andrzej Paczkowski (Institute of Political Studies – Polish Academy of Science, INR Council, Poland)

Michael Fredholm (Stockholm International Program for Central Asian Studies, Sweden),

The First Jihadists. State Support to, and Suppression of, Muslim

Domestic Extremists and Terrorists in the Soviet Union

Jordan Baev (G. S. Rakovski National Defense College, Sofia, Bulgaria), Bulgarian Foreign

Intelligence Files on International Terrorism

Liviu Tofan (Romanian Institute for Recent History, Bucharest, Romania), Carlos the Jackal

and the Romanian Securitate: it takes two to „Tango”

Daniela Richterova, (University of Warwick, UK), Strange Bedfellows: Intelligence

Cooperation between States and Terrorist Organizations

13:00-14:30 – Lunch break

14:30-16:30 Session II - Yugoslavia and Terrorism

Chair: Bernhard Blumenau (University of St Andrews, UK)

Gordan Akrap (University of Zagreb, Croatia), State Security Service and international

terrorism – German RAF and Yugoslavia

Mate Nikola Tokić (Imre Kertesz Kolleg, Jena, Germany), Socialist Yugoslavia and Cold War

Era Separatist Terrorism.

Miso Dokmanović (Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia), Communist

Yugoslavia under attack: Understanding the Reasons and Reactions to

the Attacks Against Yugoslav Interests in the United States during the

Cold War

Nikola Baković (Regional Historical Archives of Čačak, Serbia), Between the Two Diasporas. Yugoslav State Propaganda for Economic Emigrants in the 1970s as Anti-Terrorist Policy
16:30-17:00 – Coffee Break
17:00-18:30 Session III - Terrorism, Air Piracy or Escape?

Chair: TBA
Erik Scott (University of Kansas, USA), Hijacking in the Cold War

Bondo Kupatadze (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia), „Guys from the

Airplane” (Soviet Myth and reality)

Przemysław Gasztold-Seń (INR, Poland), Endangered flights. Aircraft Hijackings in Poland,

1945-1990

9 October 2015
9:30-11:00 Session IV - Terrorism and the West

Chair: Gunnar Ekberg (former IB agent, Sweden)

Thomas Wegener Friis (University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark), The history

of the PFLP money mules in Denmark

Lena Breitner (Independent Journalist, Sweden), Caring Doctor in Palestine. Refugee camps

or sly terrorist? Tracking Saima Jönsson and Marwan El Fahoum through

Ancestry

Cees Wiebes (Senior Analyst ret., National Coordinator for Counter-Terrorism,

Netherlands), Terrorism and Counter-terrorism in the Netherlands during the Cold War

11:00-11:30 – Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Session V - Terrorist Attacks and Counterterrorism

Chair: Władysław Bułhak (INR)

Bernd Schaefer (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars/George Washington

University, USA), North Korea's “Terrorism” and “Counterterrorism” in the late 1980s

Tomasz Kozłowski (INR, Poland), Polish Embassy in Bern under siege 1982

Patryk Pleskot (INR, Poland), Real threat or propaganda? “Terrorist attacks” on Polish

diplomatic posts in the 70’s and the 80’s

13:00-14:30 – Lunch break
14:30-15:30 Session VI – Counterterrorism (II)

Chair: Malcolm Byrne (National Security Archive/George Washington University, USA)

Bernhard Blumenau (University of St Andrews, UK), Multilateral Antiterrorism Cooperation

during the Cold War

Aleksandra Zięba (Warsaw University, Poland), Strategies against International Terrorism

in Germany and USA

15:30-15:45 Coffee break
15:45-16:45 Session VII - The Perception of Terrorism

Chair: Yonah Alexander (Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, Washington DC, USA)

Alexander Zhidchenko (Omsk State University, Russia), The Transformation of Perceptions

of Terrorism in the Mass Consciousness of Citizens in the Soviet Union in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century

Jakub Szumski (Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences,

Poland), Who's a Terrorist, and Who's not? Polish Answers 1970-1981

16:45-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-18:30 Roundtable discussion: Cold War Terrorism

Chair: Przemysław Gasztold-Seń (INR, Poland)

Malcolm Byrne (National Security Archive/George Washington University, USA)

Thomas Wegener Friis (University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark)

Bernhard Blumenau (University of St Andrews, UK)