skirchweger.bsky.social (@skirchweger.bsky.social)

What does it mean to do intelligence but to call it refugee aid? Happy to share my first paper exploring the complex roles of intelligence agencies in interstate relations, looking at post-war Austria and nascent Israel from a US perspective. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Intelligence for state-making: US refugee handling and postwar (Re)construction in Austria and Israel between 1945 and 1956 In postwar Europe, US intelligence increasingly targeted Soviet-orbit refugees for Cold War intelligence needs. Austria became a key arena as a country of first asylum for Soviet-orbit refugees, ma... https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08850607.2026.2618631