Course Details
The Quiet New Zealander: Intelligence and Security in New Zealand since 1941
22 Jan 2014
Personal Interest
Other
Victoria University Community Continuing Education
This course is only offered in Wellington
More Than 1 Week
5 weeks, Wednesdays 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
5 weeks, Wednesdays 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
$130.00
Early Bird Discount available until 2 weeks prior to the course start date $117.00 incl GST
Early Bird Discount available until 2 weeks prior to the course start date $117.00 incl GST
Overview:
Traditionally, the New Zealand public has viewed the country’s security and intelligence services with deep suspicion. The belief that these agencies are a tool of external interests cannot be lightly dismissed. Arguably, since 9/11, security changes have seen New Zealand absorbed into a transnational intelligence and security system. This course presents a critical history of intelligence gathering in New Zealand from the creation of the Special Intelligence Bureau in 1941 to the present day, and will generate debate about the historical and future roles of intelligence activity in New Zealand.
Target audience:
This course is for anyone interested in the history and current state of New Zealand’s intelligence and security services.
Learning objectives:
By the end of this course, students will have:
•evaluated the role of the intelligence and security services in present-day New Zealand
•gained a good historical understanding of the development of intelligence activity in New Zealand over 75 years
•gained an appreciation of intelligence trade craft and its application to New Zealand security
•discussed the aims and objectives of intelligence in a democratic state
•debated parliamentary oversight of intelligence agencies in modern democracies – ‘Who watches the watchers?’.
Course outline:
The following topics are covered.
•The Security Intelligence Bureau and the origins of the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service, 1941–1955
•Overview: New Zealand’s strategic role during the early Cold War
•The Malayan communist insurgency, Kayforce and the defence of Korea
•The 1951 Waterfront Dispute and the Petrov Affair
•The ‘New Zealand Three’: Patrick Costello, Ian Milner and Bill Sutch
•The intelligence services and popular protest: The Vietnam War, Māori radicalism, protest movements in the 1960s and the 1981 South African rugby tour of New Zealand
•The anti-nuclear protest movement and the Rainbow Warrior affair
•ECHELON: New Zealand’s role in the international signals intelligence network
•Footsteps up the hall: The New Zealand intelligence community and civil liberties
•Redefining New Zealand’s strategic role: ‘The War on Terror’, combating serious transnational crime and maintaining cyber security
Traditionally, the New Zealand public has viewed the country’s security and intelligence services with deep suspicion. The belief that these agencies are a tool of external interests cannot be lightly dismissed. Arguably, since 9/11, security changes have seen New Zealand absorbed into a transnational intelligence and security system. This course presents a critical history of intelligence gathering in New Zealand from the creation of the Special Intelligence Bureau in 1941 to the present day, and will generate debate about the historical and future roles of intelligence activity in New Zealand.
Target audience:
This course is for anyone interested in the history and current state of New Zealand’s intelligence and security services.
Learning objectives:
By the end of this course, students will have:
•evaluated the role of the intelligence and security services in present-day New Zealand
•gained a good historical understanding of the development of intelligence activity in New Zealand over 75 years
•gained an appreciation of intelligence trade craft and its application to New Zealand security
•discussed the aims and objectives of intelligence in a democratic state
•debated parliamentary oversight of intelligence agencies in modern democracies – ‘Who watches the watchers?’.
Course outline:
The following topics are covered.
•The Security Intelligence Bureau and the origins of the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service, 1941–1955
•Overview: New Zealand’s strategic role during the early Cold War
•The Malayan communist insurgency, Kayforce and the defence of Korea
•The 1951 Waterfront Dispute and the Petrov Affair
•The ‘New Zealand Three’: Patrick Costello, Ian Milner and Bill Sutch
•The intelligence services and popular protest: The Vietnam War, Māori radicalism, protest movements in the 1960s and the 1981 South African rugby tour of New Zealand
•The anti-nuclear protest movement and the Rainbow Warrior affair
•ECHELON: New Zealand’s role in the international signals intelligence network
•Footsteps up the hall: The New Zealand intelligence community and civil liberties
•Redefining New Zealand’s strategic role: ‘The War on Terror’, combating serious transnational crime and maintaining cyber security
Teacher:
David Burke is a Resident Scholar at the Stout Research Centre at Victoria University where he is researching a book on the New Zealand intelligence and security services. As a member of the University of Cambridge’s Intelligence Research Seminar, Dr Burke has worked on intelligence history since 1999. His book on the atomic bomb spy Melita Norwood, The Spy who Came in from the Co-op: The Ending of Cold War Espionage in Britain (2008), was based on in-depth interviews with Norwood. These interviews gave Burke a unique insight into the world of Soviet espionage in war time and Cold War Britain. He has been researching New Zealand intelligence history for three years.
David Burke is a Resident Scholar at the Stout Research Centre at Victoria University where he is researching a book on the New Zealand intelligence and security services. As a member of the University of Cambridge’s Intelligence Research Seminar, Dr Burke has worked on intelligence history since 1999. His book on the atomic bomb spy Melita Norwood, The Spy who Came in from the Co-op: The Ending of Cold War Espionage in Britain (2008), was based on in-depth interviews with Norwood. These interviews gave Burke a unique insight into the world of Soviet espionage in war time and Cold War Britain. He has been researching New Zealand intelligence history for three years.