Mission, Officers, Sponsors & Advisors

MISSION STATEMENT OF INTELLIGENCE FORUM

Intelligence Forum is a private, not-for-profit organization which maintains a free electronic mailing list (intelforum@his.com) dedicated to the scholarly discussion of intelligence.

Intelligence Forum has three primary goals :

THE OFFICERS OF INTELLIGENCE FORUM

An Advisory Board provides the Director of Intelligence Forum with guidance on policies, procedures, and long-range planning.  The Chair of the I.F. Advisory Board is Wesley Wark.  The members of the Advisory Board are listed below.  The daily operations of Intelligence Forum are managed by its Director, Michael Dravis, Research Associate with the Center for International Development and Conflict Management at the University of Maryland.  Richard Moore serves as Technical Advisor to the Director.

SPONSORSHIP OF INTELLIGENCE FORUM

Intelligence Forum is sponsored by its membership drawn from around the world.

ADVISORY BOARD

Wesley Wark, Chairman of Advisory Board
Wesley K. Wark is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto and Fellow of Trinity College.  He has been writing on intelligence issues since 1984 and has published numerous articles, books and edited collections in the field.  He is editor of the journal "Intelligence and National Security".  He was President of the Canadian Association of Security and Intelligence Studies from 1998-2000 and organized the CASIS 2000 conference in Ottawa on "The Future of Intelligence".  He is currently working on an official history of the Canadian intelligence community in the Cold War.

David Alvarez
David Alvarez has published articles on diplomatic and intelligence history in edited volumes and various journals, including "Diplomatic History," "Intelligence And National Security," "The International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence," and "Cryptologia." He is the author of Bureaucracy and Cold War Diplomacy : The United States and Turkey, 1943-1946 (1980) and Secret Messages : Codebreaking and American Diplomacy, 1930-1945 (2000).  He is the co-author (with Robert Graham) of Nothing Sacred : Nazi Espionage Against The Vatican (1997) and the editor of Allied and Axis Signals Intelligence In World War II (1999).  A former scholar-in-residence at the National Security Agency's Center for Cryptologic History, he has taught at universities in Italy and France and is presently a professor at Saint Mary's College of California.

Sarah-Jane Corke
Sarah-Jane Corke, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia.  Her research and teaching interests include the 20th century United States and Intelligence. 

Betty Dessants
Betty Dessants recieved her PhD from UC Berkeley in 1995 and is Assistant Professor of History at Florida State University.  Her research interests are twentieth-century US history, particularly the Cold War, intelligence, and American society.

Ralph Erskine
Ralph Erskine is a retired lawyer in Northern Ireland.  His main research interests relate to signals intelligence, on which he has published numerous articles in "Intelligence and National Security" and other journals.

Loch Johnson
Loch K. Johnson is Regents Professor of Political Science at the University of Georgia and author of several books on U.S. national security and American politics.  He has won the Certficate of Distinction from the National Intelligence Study Center and the V.O. Key Prize from the Southern Political Science Association.  He has served as secretary of the American Political Science Association and president of the International Studies Association, South.  He was special assistant to the chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in 1975-76, staff director of the House Subcommittee on Intelligence Oversight in 1977-79, and special assistant to the chair of the Aspin-Brown Commission on Intelligence in 1995-96.  Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Professor Johnson received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Riverside.

Timothy Naftali
No biography is currently available.

Martin Rudner
Martin Rudner is Professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, Ottawa, and Director of the Centre for Security and Defence Studies.  He was born in Montreal, Canada, and educated at McGill University, the University of Oxford and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he received his PhD.  He has published over fifty books and scholarly articles, including a study of Canada's Communications Security Establishment.  His research interests include intelligence alliances, comparative studies of intelligence and strategy, and Southeast Asian Studies.  Martin Rudner is currently President of the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies.

Cees Wiebes
Dr. Cees Wiebes is senior lecturer at the Department of International Relations and International Public Law at the University of Amsterdam.  His main lecturing duties are teaching doctoral students in the field of U.S. national security policy; foreign and defense policy of the major and smaller European powers; Dutch national security policy since 1940; global security and also the relationship between intelligence and foreign policy making & execution.  Dr. Wiebes has authored 18 books (three on intelligence) and more than 40 contributions to books and academic journals.  From 1991 through 1999, he was Honorary Secretary of the Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association (NISA) .  Dr. Wiebes is a member of the Archival Committee of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a member of the Editorial Board of "Global Intelligence Monthly" and a member of the Editorial Board of the "Journal of Intelligence History."

DIRECTOR

Michael Dravis