Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution
Claire Bellerjeau talked about her book, Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution: The True Story of Robert Townsend and Elizabeth. The Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., hosted this online …
273 viewsClaire Bellerjeau talked about her book, Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution: The True Story of Robert Townsend and Elizabeth. The Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., hosted this online …
273 viewsNazi agents tried infiltrating the U.S. in the years leading up to World War II. We heard the story from Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, author of The Nazi Spy Ring in America: Hitler’s Agents, the F…
450 viewsFormer 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…
1,296 viewsHow did the Cold War affect international relations? International Spy Museum director Chris Costa, historian and curator Andrew Hammond, and Pritzker Military Museum and Library curator Jam…
332 viewsAnn Hagedorn profiled American-born Soviet spy, George Koval, who was able to secure security clearance to the U.S. atomic bomb project and relay confidential information to the Soviet Union…
678 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…
1,247 viewsAmerican History TV visited the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., to tour their exhibit on Cold War Berlin. Lead curator Alexis Albion explained how the city came to be divided a…
1,008 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 …
1,587 viewsH. Keith Melton and Robert Wallace talked about their book their book, Spy Sites of Washington, D.C.: A Guide to the Capital Region’s Secret History, in which they discuss some of the most n…
1,262 viewsDermot Turning, nephew of British codebreaker Alan Turing, talked about his book, X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken. He chronicled how French, British, and Polish spies and m…
1,693 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…
1,316 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…
944 viewsFrom June 26, 1948 to May 12, 1949, the Soviet Union blockaded West Berlin, Germany, preventing shipments of food, heating fuel, and other necessary goods. This program marked the 70th anniv…
792 viewsAntonio Mendez spoke about the Iranian hostage crisis and a secret operation to save Americans in Iran during the turmoil in which he took a role as a Hollywood producer scouting out locatio…
1,670 viewsJonna Mendez, former chief of disguise at the CIA, recalled the many covert intelligence operations that she and her late husband and former CIA operative, Tony Mendez, conducted in Moscow d…
1,504 viewsThe International Spy Museum moved to newly constructed building in Washington, D.C., with the double the space of its previous location. The opening ceremony included remarks by Milton Malt…
455 viewsThe International Spy Museum hosted a conversation with terrorism specialists and a U.S. citizen and former al-Qaeda member, Bryant Neal Vinas. The panelists talked about how terrorist netwo…
435 viewsMichele Rigby Assad talked about her life as a CIA agent working in the Middle East.
1,698 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…
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