Hauenstein Center to host expert on U.S. intelligence operations

Rogg, the senior research fellow at the Global and National Security Institute at the University of South Florida, said his presentation will examine the relationship between the American people and its intelligence community.

“ Throughout U.S. history, the American people have been consistently inconsistent in their approach to intelligence,” Rogg said. “Why are Americans such willing participants in their own surveillance when they otherwise fear and oppose invasive government intelligence activities?” 

Rogg said it’s fitting to speak at a center named for one of the most influential figures in U.S. military intelligence during World War II. 

As a colonel, Ralph Hauenstein served under Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower as chief of the U.S. Army’s intelligence branch during the European theater of operations. He was among the first Americans to enter liberated Paris and Germany and to witness the devastation of Nazi concentration camps.

“This is such an exciting event for me because of the personal history Col. Hauenstein had with intelligence and the model he offers for civil-intelligence relations as a former intelligence professional who became an engaged and philanthropic citizen,” Rogg said.