The immediate aftermath of the 9 11 terrorist attacks. She also discusses her decision to leave the cia to become an fbi special agent focusing on chinese counterintelligence. The International Spy museum recorded this event in february. Good evening, everyone and thank you for coming out on this gloo gloomy washington, d. C. Museum. Im chris costa, director of the International Spy museum. Im excited to introduce this program with former cia Operations Officer, fbi special agent, now author tracy walder. Tracy joins the cia straight out of colonel and served as a staff Operations Officer at the Counterterrorism Center where she was charged with charging down masters at the l. A. Field office where she specialized in chinese counterintelligence operations. Tracy lives with her husband and four and a halfyearold daughter in dallas, texas. This evening tracy will discuss her memoir, the unexpected spy, from the cia to the fbi. My secret life taking down some of the worlds most notorious
Reactors i got so what . Well two big so whats. One big so what you cant get them to give up reprocessing if they have gas graphite reactors because processing that spent fuel is integral to that fuel cycle. You cant leave water forever. Them giving it up gave us a basis for which to continue to insist that there be no reprocessing on the peninsula. So if you knew a little bit, it was a real break through and then, of course, the reactors were plutonium production reactors in ways water reactors are not. Water reactors do produce plutonium and we can talk about that if you want but its safer and more proliferation resistant. The deal with the North Koreans was complicated. Not as complicated as the irans deal. We had the North Koreans doing thing we wanted them to do. Compared to not doing a deal and looking at maybe 30 weapons a year production for the North Koreans, compare that with no production this looked pretty good. Now a couple of little asterisks here. One asterisk is right i
Plan of action with iran. And japan was obviously important as a key element in the overall regional structure. And then ultimately, as a state, it was going to be vital to implementing the agreement, especially the light water reactors. It is less obvious in the issue with Irans Nuclear program, but japan and iran have had a longstanding and uniquely positive relationship that existed prior to the uranium revolution, but also existed after the revolution, so japan is an especially important country in irans practice, and there are also a number of business and commercial relationships to be had between japan and iran, so japan is an important country both from the standpoint of the u. S. , but also the standpoint of iran going forward, so its another reason to have this discussion today and to think about incentives for maintaining compliance. We are honored to have many distinguished presenters and panelists today. Jim will introduce the first panel, but i would like to make a specia
Law. With so money issues on his plate we want to hear from you about what you believe is the most important issue facing the president. What should his top priority be right now . Phone lines, our are open. Republicans can call at we want to take you to this front page story. Ma returns to tough agenda comments are already coming in on her Facebook Page on this issue. We ask you what is your priority with the president s agenda right now . A few comments coming in. Darrell writes in it doesnt matter what the public wants, we will be taking your calls and comments on the subject. We want to go a bit over the president s schedule this week. Deputyjoined by the white house editor for politico. Start us off with this bus to or in this bus tour. Educationis on higher issues but he will be talking about other issues as well . Republicans are coming up now very quickly. This particular spring is going to be focused on colleges. Hes going to take care of upstate new york. He is going to be st