Gerhard Conrad – The man who negotiated with Hamas and Hezbollah.
The Israeli secret services are among the best in the world. And yet Hamas managed to take Israel completely by surprise with its deadly terror on October 7, 2023. But did the brutal attack really come out of nowhere? Hardly anyone can answer that better than Gerhard Conrad. The doctor of Islamic Studies was an intelligence officer in the region for many years and knows Hamas and Hizballah from negotiations on behalf of the UN and personal conversations.
In his breathtaking lectures, Gerhard Conrad describes who must have known what and how intelligence services must work in order to provide political leaders with the necessary knowledge and reliable decision-making aids.
October 7, 2023 will forever be inscribed in the history of the Middle East: Hamas took Israel by surprise with an unprecedented attack, killing well over a thousand people within 48 hours and abducting hundreds of hostages to Gaza. Did the intelligence services fail to recognize the impending catastrophe, at what level did they or the political decision-makers fail?
In times of fake news and hybrid warfare, it is more difficult than ever to obtain reliable information and brief decision-makers well so that they can react appropriately. Hardly anyone knows this better than intelligence expert Dr. Gerhard Conrad.
The Islamic scholar, who was also Chief of Staff at the BND and Head of the Intelligence Analysis Center (EU INTCEN) in Brussels, has discreetly mediated “face to face” between Hamas, Hezbollah, Israel, Egypt, Qatar, Turkey and Iran on humanitarian issues.
In his lectures, he meticulously demonstrates the methods used by intelligence services to gain a picture of the situation, what information they provide to the military and politicians – and what decisions can be derived from this.
Gerhard Conrad shows how urgently information gathering by intelligence services is needed in these times. Not knowing can have deadly consequences.
Gerhard Conrad’s findings are significant far beyond the individual case. Anyone who wants to understand what is happening in the Middle East and why, how he analyzes and sees the global security situation and what this means for us, must book Gerhard Conrad for a lecture.
Gerhard Conrad studied international law and political science and earned a doctorate in Islamic studies before he began his service in military intelligence in the Bundeswehr and later with the BND. Since 1990 analyst, later agent with a focus on the Middle East, from 2009 to 2012 head of the presidential staff, then representative of the service in London and from 2016 to 2019 director in the European External Action Service (EU-INTCEN) in Brussels.
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About the book – (in German) Nichtwissen ist tödlich: Der Nahe Osten und die Rolle der Geheimdienste