Be born in 1917, he beyond her years old. He was a gale educated spy. And one of really the founding personalities of the cia, one of the most powerful man in the cia from its founding in 1947 until his forced retirement in 1974 really a founding father of us counterintelligence. What type of issues and areas that he work in . Singleton use his position as chief of counterintelligence to create a kind of eia within the cia. Go eat out everywhere. It very influential in us policy toward israel. Created programs of surveillance, opening the mail of americans. Involved in the domestic surveillance schemes of the Nixon White House for example. Involved in the early days of mk ultra mind experiment program. A story i tell him, this was a man who made his influence felt everywhere. Very involved in us politics toward cuba. Disposition, a lot of ca officers right through a geographical Directory Division within the cia. Angleton had his fingers in many things. Was he a wellknown personality d
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Good evening everyone and welcome to the New York Historical society. I am Louise Mirrer the ceo and im thrilled to welcome all of you two are beautiful auditorium. This Evenings Program is presented in conjunction with our exhibition vietnam war in 1945 to 1975 which i hope you had a chance to say but if not it is on view through april 22, so i hope you will return during regular museum hours to see it. Our program Edward Lansdale and the american tragedy in vietnam is the petraeus lecture on leadership. We created the series five years ago as a permanent way to honor two great americans roger hertog and David Petraeus who both won our history maker awarded 2013 that like to thank mr. Hertog for his incredible leadership and support and now as chair and marriages of New York Historical and general petraeus for his leadership and for his generous participation over the past four years and this illustrious lecture series. Thanks so much to both of you. [applause] i would like to thank a
Was at the society for historians of American Foreign relations annual meeting in virginia. We spoke with professors and graduate students about research. This interview is about 20 minutes. Steven scully david hadley, a graduate and candidate at the university of columbus. Lets talk about times like these. In researching this, what did you learn . David hadley what i really learned is that the cia and the press have a at times riedentious and very va relationship between the two of them and it was really founded early on in this common understanding of cold war the of the United States is facing this new threat after world war ii in the soviet union. And there is, in the early days, there is a really strong sense that they had to Work Together in advance american interests. Overtime that really declined. Over time that really declined. Starts as ans institution pushing back against the cia, that is when the cia got into trouble for the first time in the United States. Steven scully ho
Can i get everybodys attention please westmark all right. Welcome to the met club, thank you for coming out on this rainy evening and theres a lot of scrap and everything so we appreciate you coming here. Were delighted, im not doing the introduction yet but were delighted to have vic martin here tonight, vic, welcome to the club. Were also glad to have our friends from cspan here so thats pretty cool. Thanks to the guys at cspan. Just a couple of quick announcements, our next event here at the club will be first thursday. He loves them too. Our next event is first thursday, october 5 and that will be our Farewell Party to our county chairwoman and l malthus who, she and her husband moved to washington, her husband david was a noted economist is part of the, easy undersecretary of the treasury or International Monetary affairs been confirmed as undersecretary so they moved, and he apparently is going to be here that night so i think its a great opportunity for us to celebrate them and