About the Contributors

Gen. Todor K. Boyadjiev (b. 1939, Bulgaria). President of the Bulgarian EuroAtlantic Intelligence Forum, Adjunct Professor in National Security and Intelligence at the universities of Sofia, Veliko Tarnovo, and Bourges, and Official Senior Consultant to the Bulgarian National Television on national security matters. Studied at the University of Technology, Sofia, and has a Major in Electronics and Telecommunications. From 1967 to 1972, Deputy Commercial Counselor of Bulgaria to the United States. Elected member of IEEE in 1969. Former advisor to the Chairman of the State Committee on Science, Technical Progress, and Higher Education; previously employed at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (UN and Disarmament Department); former Counselor at the Permanent Mission of Bulgaria to the United Nations; former Minister Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In November 1990, by decree of the President of Republic of Bulgaria, received the military rank of General-Major. From February 1990 until June 1992, "Executive Secretary" - Deputy Minister to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Has headed the Information Division, International Department, Public Relations, Press Center, National Central Bureau of the LC.PO. INTERPOL, etc.

Dr. Krešimir Ćosić (b. 1949, Zagreb, Croatia). Holds B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph. D. degrees from University of Zagreb, Croatia. Visiting research fellow in 1990 at Aerospace Department, Ann Arbour, University of Michigan. Presently full professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Since 1993, President of the Military-Technical Council of the Ministry of Defense of Croatia. Also former Deputy Minister of Defense of the Republic of Croatia from 1996-2000. Dr. Ćosić was first director of the Institute for Defense Studies, Research and Development, which was established in 1999. He is married and has two children.

Dr. Stevan Dedijer (b. 1911, Sarajevo). Education: Collegio Internazionale Monte Mario, Rome, 1924 - 1929; Taft School, Watertown, Connecticut USA; BS in Theoretical Physics, Princeton University, USA, 1934; Ph. D. Honoris Cause, Lund University. Professional Experience: Columnist in Competitive Intelligence Review, USA, 1992 - 1994; Instructor of Intelligence and security courses, Lund University, Sweden 1974 - 1993. Consultant to the U.N., European Community, UNESCO, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Sweden, PLO, ex-Yugoslavia, Croatia, and OECD (organized in 1980 for the "Economic Intelligence for Development). Fellow of Institute of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Palo Alto, California, 1969-1970. Studies in Intelligence: Dartmouth College, NSF, EXXON; corporation grants 1972 - 1975. Founder and director of Research Policy Institute, Lund University, Sweden 1966-1978. Studies in research and development policy: Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, and Lund University, Sweden 1961 - 1966. Researcher, nuclear physics, Nuclear Institute of Belgrade, Tait Institute, Edinburgh, and Ruder Boskovic Institute, Zagreb. Director of Nuclear Institute, Belgrade 1952 - 1954. Journalist: Newsweek - New York, Slobodna Rec-Pittsburgh, Borba, Tanjug, Politika - Belgrade, 1936 - 1952. Publications: Has published more than 150 papers and reports in the fields of Intelligence and Security, and Science and Technology policy, including: "Swedish Technical Attaches and Innovation Intelligence", 1994; "Management and Development by Intelligence, Japan, 1860 - 7990", JS and EI, 1992; "Does IBM Know What Business it is in?", 1990, in Social and Economic Intelligence; "Elizabethan Intelligence - The Rainbow Enigma", 1986, Internet Journal of Intelligence; "Chinese Science: Ancient and Modern", cover story in Nature, August, 1975; "Why did Daedalus Leave", Science,1962. Publications in his honour: "The Intelligence Corporation", Jon Sigurdsson, Yael Torneurd, editors, 1992; "From Research Policy to Social Intelligence"; J. Annerstedt, A. Jamison, editors, 1987; "Clio goes Spying - Essays in the History of Intelligence", W. Agrell, C. Hjort, eds. 1983. Founder of Business Intelligence - "Intelligence in the 21st Century", Conference, Priverno, Italy, 2001.

Admiral Davor Domazet-Lošo (b. 1948, Sinj, Croatia). Military education: Navy Military Academy, (1971), Command - Staff Tactics and Operations School (1984), War Strategy School (1991). Ranks: Rear Admiral, (1994), Vice Admiral, (1998), Admiral, (2000). Assignments: Assistant or Commander on several types of ships, Commander of the "Split" Missile Frigate; anti-submarine and anti-missile defence specialist on war ships (1987); Head of Intelligence Analytics Department in the Military Maritime Zone (1991); Chief of the Strategic Research Office (1991); Chief of the Intelligence Department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (GS AF of the Republic of Croatia, 1992); Deputy Chief of GS AF of Croatia (1996); Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Croatia (1998-2000). Admiral Domazet deals primarily with strategic studies, and writes and publishes essays in the fields of general strategy, military strategy, doctrine, and tactics. He also lectures at upper level civilian and military educational institutions.

Mr. Drago Ferš (b. 1943 Maribor, Slovenia). Education: Faculty of Political Science, University of Ljubljana. Retired in 2000 as Director of Slovenian Intelligence and Security Service (SOVA, Slovenia).

Dr. Janos Gömbös (b. 1949, Magyargences, Hungary). Graduted from the Military Academy Lalka Mate in 1968 as a radar technician. Military College "Zrinji Miklos" in 1978. Retired as Colonel in 1993. Doctorate awarded in 1989. Senior fellow for the Center for Security and Defence Studies from 1991. Military Advisor for the Parliamentary Faction of the Hungarian Socialist Party from 1994. Book: Hungary and NATO. Many studies, including: NATO new strategy (1991); Russian foreign policy (1999); Hungarian Defence Industry (1998). Married and has one daughter.

Marijan Gubić formally served as Assistant Presidential Advisor for International Public Affairs in the Office of the President, Zagreb, Croatia, and as a Counsellor for Public Diplomacy at the Croatian Embassy in Washington, D.C. He holds degrees in Law and Political Science (Honours) and also received a Master's Degree in International Affairs. He currently works as a Consultant for Marketing and Business Information Services.

Richard J. Kerr (b. 1935) retired in 1992 as Deputy Director of Central Intelligence. He headed two of the principal directorates and several offices in the CIA over a 32-year-career. Currently serves on several private sector boards and US government panels.

Admiral Pierre Lacoste (b. 1924, Paris) - Admiral in the 2"° General Officers Section of the Navy. Education: Lycee Saint Louis, Paris. Diploma: Engineer, Naval School. Career: Fled France in 1943 to join the French Freedom Forces in Morocco. 42-year career as an Officer in the National Navy, which began in 1943 with World War II in Indochina and Algeria. Held posts on various ships and in the Headquarters, Officer of Transmissions, Sea Commander, Center for High Military Studies. 1976 - Commander of the Superior War Naval School. 1978 - Military Cabinet Chief for the 1st Minister, Raymond Barre. 1980 - Commander of the Mediterranean Fleet. 1982 - General Director of the DGSE (Securite Exterieure) until reaching the age limit in 1985. 1986 - President of the National Defence Studies Foundation. 1989 - President of the Committee for National Liaison "National Army Defence" (DAN) of the Civic Information Center. 1993 - President of the Defence Scientific Studies Center (CESD) at the University of Marne la Vallee. Published Works: "Naval Strategies of Today", 1986; "The Mafia against Democracy", 1992; "An Admiral Bound to Secrecy", 1997; "Intelligence, The French War", 1998. His most recent publication is a report based on a three year-seminar at the University of Marne la Vallee, entitled "Le renseignement a la francaise". Decorations: Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor, Maritime Merit Officer, Evasion Medal, Member of the Naval Academy.

Prof. dr. Klaus Lange - Director od Institute for Transnational Studies, Landshut; Head of Dept. for International Security Politics, Hanns Seidel Foundation, Munich; Honorary member of MCC, London, and member of RUSI, London. Member, International advisory board, Centre for Global and Strategic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences. Co-editor, journal "Sicherheitspolitik", Zurich. Teaching: Hochschule für Politik, Munich; UNISA, Pretoria; International University, Moscow; Regional Areas Studies Centre, University of Peshawar.

Ivo Lučić (b. 1962. Ljubuški, Bosnia-Herzegovina) Law Faculty Assistant at University of Mostar, (Bosnia and Herzegovina); former lecturer at the Intelligence Academy in Zagreb (Republic of Croatia). Has performed various official duties since 1991 in the area of security and intelligence in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Croatia. After the war, awarded rank of Major-General. Elected twice to the Parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he was Deputy President of the Commission of Defense and Security of the House of Representatives of the Parliament of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Federation.

Davor Marijan (b. 1966, Livno, Bosnia-Herzegovina) Holds degrees in history and archaeology from the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Has published works in the area of military history. Author of the monography Battle of Kupres, 1942. (Zagreb: AGM, 1999). Employed in the Military Museum of the Croatian Army in Zagreb.

Miroslav Međimorec (b. 1942 in Zagreb, Croatia). Education: Faculty of Philosophy, Comparative Literature; Academy for Theatre and Film. 1991. Volunteered in the Croatian Army. 1992 - Office of President - Advisor. 1993 - Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs, Assistant Director of HIS. 1999 - Ambassador to Switzerland. Married with two children.

Douglas Smith Graduate of Harvard College. Served for five years as an officer in the U.S. Navy prior to joining the CIA. As CIA operations officer, spent 15 years of his career in Southeastern Europe. He retired in 1997 .

Vladimir Šimović Ph.D. from the Zagreb Faculty of Law, Zagreb, Croatia, 2000, in the field of Information science. Associate Professor at the University of Zagreb; employed full-time at the Police College in Zagreb (Croatia) and part-time at the College for Business and Management in Zapresic (Croatia). Senior researcher and project leader for consulting services and the Official Consultant for the Croatian Custom Directorate (Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Croatia) on relations with the World Bank and Croatian Government Contracts ("Project Trade and Transport Facilitation in Southeast Europe; IBRD Loan No: 4582-HR"). Research interests include: classical and intelligent information systems development problems; aspects (informational and financial, operative and strategic) of various (criminal, competitive or business) intelligence models; modeling aspects in the field of: forensic computing, and digital-payments, and classical and modern statistical systems, especially in field of stochastic simulations, simulation modeling and analysis, and statistical and informational (even artificial intelligence) software tools processes. Has published more than 55 papers and 3 books about information science and modelling aspects (information and financial modelling aspects).

Dr. Miroslav Tudjman (b. 1946, Belgrade) Professor of information science at the Philosophy Faculty of the University of Zagreb. Deputy Director of the Office for National Security (UNS) and the Director of the Croatian Intelligence Service (HIS) from 1993 to 1998, and from 1999 to 2000. Contributed to various scientific projects, and published five books and over a hundred and fifty articles in scientific journals; editor of a dozen proceedings. Active in research, both in the field of information science and national security and intelligence.

Col. Gen. Markus Wolf (b. January 19, 1923 in Hechingen, South-Wurttemberg, Germany) emigrated with his parents to Switzerland and France (1933) and then to the Soviet Union (1934). Received Soviet citizenship in 1936. Attended high school in Moscow (1937-1940) and studied at the Institute for Flight Construction in Alma Ata (1940-1942); 1942-1943 attended the Communist Internationale School in Kuschnarenkowo; Editor, Speaker and Commentator for the German National Radio, Institute 205, in Moscow (1943-1945). In 1945 returned to Germany; 1945-1949 worked with the Berlin Radio (under the pseudonym Michael Storm); 1949 first counselor to the Mission of the GDR in Moscow; 1950. 1951 renounced Soviet citizenship. 1951 employed in the Foreign Intelligence Department (Aussenpolitischen Nachrichtendienst - APN), and in November, 1952, became director of APN; after APN was incorporated into the Ministry of State Security of the GDR, became director of new APN (1953). From 1956 on, Minister of State Security and Head of the Foreign Intelligence Department, rank of Major General. 1980 promoted to Colonel General. Recipient of numerous high civil and military decorations and awards. 1983 requested retirement; left active duty in 1986 and became active as a writer. Summer of 1989, indictment issued in the Federal Republic of Germany against Wolf. Returned to Germany September 24, 1991, and was arrested at the German border and imprisoned. On October 4, 1991 released on bail. 1993 sentenced for treason to six years imprisonment (suspended); 1997 sentenced to two years probation and monetary fine. Publications: Die Troika, Berlin 1989; In My Own Service: Confessions and Insights, Munich 1991; Secrets of the Russian Cuisine, Hamburg 1995; Spy Chief in the Secret War. Reminiscences, Munich, 1997 (and in 15 other countries); The Art of Deception, Berlin 1998. Wolf is married and lives in Berlin.