The Ottawa Roundtable on Security and Intelligence

Please join us for a Security and Intelligence Roundtable event, a series of public lectures and discussions organized by the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs of the University of Ottawa, co-sponsored by the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies (CASIS).

Writing the History of the British Secret Intelligence Service

Professor Keith Jeffery
Queen's University of Belfast, and Cabinet Office, UK

Monday, May 26th 2008
12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m.
Desmarais Building, room 3120
55 Laurier Avenue East, Ottawa

Professor Jeffery was appointed in 2005 to write the first-ever official history of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), utilizing access to still classified records. His study covers the first forty years of the modern life of British foreign intelligence, from its founding in 1909, down to the early days of the Cold War, in 1949. His study of scheduled to be published on the centenary of the SIS.

Keith Jeffery is a renowned military and intelligence historian and is Professor of British History at Queen's University Belfast. He is the author or editor of thirteen books including the prize-winning Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson: A Political Soldier (Oxford, 2006).

The Ottawa Roundtable on Security and Intelligence is open to University of Ottawa faculty and students, to CASIS members, government officials, interested members of the public and the media. No registration for these events is required and no fee is charged.

For additional information about the Roundtable, please contact Professor Wesley Wark at wkwark@aol.com