Quarters and the field station where the new asset was. We went back to basic toes communicate. It wasnt the stone age, but it was pretty close we said. We did have a technical something that was sort of out of this world at the time. We have our new asset. He is okay. We are keeping this one alive. Enter my coauthor who is on assignment in garbone as our chief of stations. She returns home and she is trapped with trying to determine what in the heck happened. She has a Small Task Force of people who begin this effort. At the same time jean and her people are looking at our losses, the fbi has also established a task force. They suffered similar problems with their soviet cases during the same time period as we. All right. Now we are going to have to fast forward. It is early 1991, a little over five and a half years later and we still dont have a clue as to what happened. That is not to say there were not plenty of explanations and leads. There were lots. Each was fully investigated a
Came which is to upset the russians. The more they can do the more likely it is russia comes to the bargaining table. The russia of love spee and now they thought that could go on forever. It was brilliant. That gives the enormous amount of leeway to mao for public support and nixon says he could not have done this and he says they always tell you what they are thinking. That is extraordinary. But of all the people with meticulous manipulation the tiniest of details and everyone was bamboozled. That really means the whole world has changed in the greatest irony is it all started with montagu only to real gloves in his life. Pingpong and the soviet union will of the chinese and americans had gone their own way in an end to where are they today . Thank you. [applause] this microphone does not project but it is important for the internet. Please raise your hand to come up to you. What inspired your research to even look get this story . Yet was a mixture. Going to beijing to wonder why on
East vienna austria, the hotbed of spying . And had sales we were going along is probably like a Police Investigation if youre looking for a murder suspect. You are trying to eliminate rick as your suspect. Every piece of information. You dont want to get the wrong guy. What did you determine what his motivations for spying . Simple greed. It was money. Now, money the web, again, a little bit of a twist. Jeanne and i are absolutely convinced that it had not been for rosario, rick never wouldve committed treason. The material things were not important to him. But in early 1985, he was facing a divorce, although he hadnt told his current wife that he needed a divorce, because he had promised rosario, who was now in the states that they were getting married in august. And rick community had to divide up his and countries assets. There were a lot. Basically it was 20,000. Thats really all he needed. And he certainly could have common to the agency. We help our employees. And he chose not t
Book called mercury rising, which is the story of John Glenn John kennedy and the space race in the context of the cold war. Jeff comes to us from the west wing riders group, which he founded as a speech writing business along with a strategic operation and this comes from his experience as a speechwriter for president clinton, and he did a number of landmark speeches for the 42nd president. He also has a background in history from Brown University and was a Rhodes Scholar and so has a masters degree in history from oxford. His previous books are on fascinating. X in and of themselves one on Franklin Roosevelt and his tussle with the us supreme court. The other is speaking of tussles on the conflict between Robert Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and so we were just talking before we went on camera. Jeff is just so good at developing dramatic tension and i would say about this book, which i thoroughly enjoyed and i think i may have mentioned to him. I certainly did others that when im getti
The president ial Oral History Program. Its great to have you with us today to join us for what i know will be a fascinating conversation with our guest jeffsell, and this is about his book called mercury rising, which is the story of John Glenn John kennedy and the space race in the context of the cold war. Jeff comes to us from the west wing riders group, which he founded as a speech writing business along with a strategic operation and this comes from his experience as a speechwriter for president clinton, and he did a number of landmark speeches for the 42nd president. He also has a background in history from Brown University and was a Rhodes Scholar and so has a masters degree in history from oxford. His previous books are on fascinating. X in and of themselves one on Franklin Roosevelt and his tussle with the us supreme court. The other is speaking of tussles on the conflict between Robert Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and so we were just talking before we went on camera. Jeff is j