Former CIA officer Duane Evans talked about his book Foxtrot in Kandahar, in which he recounts his tour of duty in southern Afghanistan shortly after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack…
1,299 viewsVince Houghton talked about attempts by the U.S. government to overthrow or assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro. He spoke about the Bay of Pigs invasion as well as lesser-known plans invol…
1,250 viewsKenneth Daigler talked about his book, Spies, Patriots, and Traitors: American Intelligence in the Revolutionary War, in which he looks at U.S. intelligence during the Revolutionary War and …
1,588 viewsTracy Walder is co-author of The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World’s Most Notorious Terrorists. She sat down for an interview about her ti…
1,317 viewsRichard Schroeder is a former CIA officer and author of The Foundation of the CIA: Harry Truman, the Missouri Gang, and the Origins of the Cold War. He talked about the history of U.S. intel…
952 viewsA panel at the annual Politicon in Los Angeles discussed Russian influence of the United States. Speakers included Weekly Standard founder Bill Kristol, filmmaker Jack Bryan, plus authors Vi…
958 viewsMichele Rigby Assad talked about her life as a CIA agent working in the Middle East.
1,700 viewsNew York Times investigative reporters and editors and a former CIA officer participated in a discussion on the investigations into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.
926 viewsJack Barsky talked about his book, Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America, about his life as a KGB spy operating in the U.S. during the late 1970s an…
3,279 viewsPanelists talked about how intelligence services throughout North America and Western Europe evolved and cooperated for better security. They also spoke about how technological advancements …
479 viewsKatherine Egner Gruber talked about slave and Revolutionary War spy James Lafayette. Working for French General Marquis de Lafayette, enslaved volunteer James Lafayette posed as an escaped s…
2,699 viewsAnnie Jacobsen talked about her book The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America’s Top-Secret Military Research Agency, in which she provides a history of the Pentagon’s De…
2,562 viewsVince Houghton talked about Soviet spies who infiltrated U.S. atomic bomb research and how this may have led to the development of the Soviet atomic bomb. The International Spy Museum and…
2,359 viewsKai Bird talked about his book, The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames, in which he chronicles the life and career of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative Robert Ames. In his…
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