SESSION 1:
People in Intelligence – World War Two

The Fellowship Auditorium

• Dr Bryony Norburn
  Dr Bryony Norburn completed her PhD in 2022 on ‘The Role of Female Cryptanalysts from 1914-1946’. Bletchley Park had been a place of interest for Dr Norburn for over 20 years so it was an easy decision to make for the historical home of British signals intelligence to be at the centre of the topic of her PhD.

• Prof Michael Goodman
  Professor Michael S. Goodman is Professor of Intelligence and International Affairs and the Director of the King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence. He is a former Head of the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. He is currently Visiting Professor at the Norwegian Intelligence School and at Sciences Po in Paris, and is a Senior Fellow at RAND. He has published widely in the field of intelligence history, including The Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee, Volume I: From the Approach of the Second World War to the Suez Crisis, which was chosen as one of The Spectator’s books of the year. He is series editor for ‘Intelligence, Surveillance and Secret Warfare’ for Edinburgh University Press; and is a member of the editorial boards for five journals. He has spent many years on secondment to the Cabinet Office, where he has been the Official Historian of the Joint Intelligence Committee: Volume II will be published in 2024. He is a current British army reservist.

• Dr Helen Fry
  Historian Dr Helen Fry has written and edited over 25 books on the social history of the Second World War, intelligence, spies and espionage. Her latest bestselling book Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars is just out in paperback. Her other titles include The Walls Have Ears, Spymaster: The Man who Saved MI6, The London Cage and MI9. She appears frequently in documentaries and podcasts, and is an ambassador for The Military Intelligence Museum; a trustee of the Friends of the Intelligence Corps and a trustee of The Medmenham Collection. In 2022 Helen was honoured as a Woman of Achievement at the Women of the Year Lunch Awards. In 2023 she was awarded The Lifetime Achievement Award in Jewish Military History and Education. She works in London.
  Official website: www.helen-fry.com

SESSION 2A:
People in Intelligence-Significant Individuals

The Fellowship Auditorium

• Dr Vin Athey
  Former TV producer and university lecturer Vin Arthey is the biographer of British born KGB Colonel William Fisher. Vin has been on Fisher’s case for 67 years. Now retired and living in Edinburgh, he continues writing as a biographer and a ghostwriter. Over the last 10 years, he has contributed reviews of espionage and Cold War titles to The Scotsman and articles to the journal of The Scotland-Russia Forum.  
• Dr Melanie Brand
  Dr Melanie Brand is a Lecturer in Intelligence Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. A historian by training, her research interests include intelligence analysis and warning,  oversight and accountability, secrecy, and cultural perspectives on intelligence, espionage and spying. Her research has been published in Intelligence and National Security, Cold War History, Australian Historical Studies and the Conversation. Her most recent research on popular culture and the 1954 Petrov Affair has been accepted for publication within The Journal of Australian Studies and featured in the Conversation. She completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne and is a founding board member of the Women in Intelligence Network and the Macquarie Intelligence Studies Research Group. A detailed list of Dr Brand’s publications and previous presentations can be found here. 

• Brenda McIntire
  Brenda McIntire is a historian at the Center for Cryptologic History, where she specializes in the organizational history of cryptanalysis. She has served in the US federal government since 1985, holding technical, leadership, and liaison positions. Ms. McIntire holds degrees in religious education, music history, and strategic intelligence.

SESSION 2B:
Cold War Unconventional Operations

Room 6

• Dr Eric Bergelin
  Dr Eric Bergelin is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of History, Uppsala University. His dissertation Planneringsforskningens genombrott (2023) concerns early adaptations of operational analysis and system analysis in Swedish defence circles during the Cold War. The dissertation examines, among other things, the cooperation between the American RAND Corporation and Swedish authorities during the 1960s. In his current research project, Bergelin is working on a study of Swedish civil defence and wargaming practices during the Cold War. Bergelin also has a special interest in issues of intelligence analysis. In addition to his position as a researcher in Uppsala, he is active as an instructor of intelligence analysis at the Swedish Defence University in Stockholm. 
• Michal Němeček
  Michal Němeček is a historian and PhD student currently in the Doctoral Study Programme, with additional studies in pedagogy, at the University of Pardubice.
• Chris Pocock
  Chris Pocock (66) is a British writer specializing in aerospace, defence, and intelligence. After graduating from Churchill College, University of Cambridge with a B.A. (Hons) in History and Political Science, he entered the airfreight business. After 11 years with an international freight forwarder and two airlines, he became a self-employed writer. He contributed to various aerospace publications, and edited two international business-to-business journals for the air cargo business. He later specialised in the aerospace/defence business, and was the defence editor of Aviation Online News until he semi-retired in 2018. He continues to contribute to AIN, and other aerospace media. Pocock’s interest in the U-2 spyplane started in the early 1970s with a visit to Davis-Monthan AFB, then the home of the US Air Force wing that flew this unique aircraft. He has written many books on the U-2 spyplane including Dragon Lady – A History of the U-2 Spyplane, The U-2 Spyplane: Toward the Unknown,  50 Years of the U-2, and his latest book, Dragon Lady Today.  He continues to follow the history and current operations of this long-lasting aircraft and was instrumental in ensuring that an original U-2C aircraft was preserved and transferred to the Imperial War Museum, Duxford, UK.  He was invited to fly in the U-2 in 1997 – the first foreign civilian ever to do so. The CIA’s Chief Historian described him as “today’s foremost authority on the U-2 and its development.”
  Pocock has been an Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Brunel Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies (BCISS) and an occasional lecturer there and elsewhere, on airborne and spaceborne intelligence-gathering, both now and during the Cold War. www.dragonladyhistory.com