Fourth evening with authors event. Its so nice to have you all here. Im jared anderson, im a member of the board of trustees with Thurber House. Ive been instructed to dutifully tell you to please silence your cell phones at this point. But feel free to brag about us on social media, quietly. [laughter] at Thurber House, wed like to say a special thank you to the museum of art for hosting us tonight. Wed like to thank wosu public media and the book loft for their continued support. Tonights raffle winner will receive a copy of writer, sailor, soldier, spy and two tickets to the evening of authors event of their choice. For more information, you can visit the Thurber House web site or many of our social media venues. After the reading, please stay. Please stay and join us you are for punch, for cookies out in the lobby under the stairs. And nicklaus will be sign nicholas will be signing. Just enter to the left of the stage here, and you can exit to the right. If you have trouble with th
It is hosted by the Woodrow Wilson center in washington dc. Welcome to the panel exchanging intelligence, exchanging data. Todaye three panelists who will give a paper. We start to my left with john fox. This paper will examine the role of the fbi and the formative years of the Transatlantic Partnership and focusing on the first decade of the cold war. That will try to give a Historical Perspective on recent discussions around the. Sa post9 11 activities , a paper that would look at the partnership or conversation within the context of intelligence organizations and organizational degree and look at it within the idea of intelligent studies and what it tells us about cooperation of the nsa and its partners. I and the curator of the International Spy museum here in washington dc. John, and right to fbi historian. His articles have appeared everywhere. He has a lot of pieces on the fbis website. Contributed chapters in several books and you can see him on the news, and he was a key playe
Colleague Steve Birkenau teaches at the Army War College in fort leavenworth. He welcomed me to cal state northridge in 2000 and pretty much taught me how to be a professor. I appreciate that. The other person i really appreciate is my ophthalmologist. If you buy the book, you know the book is dedicated to my ophthalmologist. Terrible series of eye surgeries a few years ago and he literally saved my vision and my life as i want to live it so a shout out to him. Look him up. He is the best there is. I think i will talk specifically tonight not on all of the different aspects of the Wallace Campaign but to give you a sliver in particular on wallaces tour through the south in august and september of 1948. Openingways, it was an for what became the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Theres plenty of time for questions at the end and i would any things onwer american communists which is a big part of the book and Foreign Policy and the cold war. Tonight, my focus will be primarily on the s
Germany. He received a great deal of the money that german ambassador had to spread, and tom tunney had to follow him around. Ultimately, he gets the information on him and he discovers, he goes up to his apartment up by columbia university, and he has a secret diary where hes recorded in german and in english meticulous prussian fashion, how he superintends hspends his day, everyone he meets with, all the things he wants to do, that hes going to stop smoking, stop drinking, and by the way, im also going to place a bomb on this ship on such and such a date. His key operative are he gives code names to d1, d2, d3. Part of the story that i tell in dark invasion is how tunney and his men track down these various operatives once they have this code book and how they, too, have to break this code and find these people. Yeah, fdr was undersecretary of the navy. He had his own private force of enforcement and investigators. I know that he was basically tracking down the immorality of the Amer
Counterintelligence and also mentioned in the companion on the legacy of the wilsonian in the 1920s. Hes also been involved in an exhibit on the fbi in the museum since june of 2008 and appeared on many documentaries on cspan, cbs sunday news, cnn, and turner classic movies. Please join me in welcoming our first speaker, David Chambers. Good afternoon. My name is indeed David Chambers and i confess here and now that i am a grandchild of Whittaker Chambers, the subject of my paper. Due to time constraints, ill jump straight in and start by laying to rest that the case is a sideshow. When compared to chambers earlier spy work for two chief reasons. First, no proof exists that any of the groups ten former federal members in the later 1930s stole major secrets or effected major shifts in u. S. Policy. Second, i argue today that washingtons Representative Side branch of the Global Network of soviet intelligence in which chambers own role was small, but which as a network was more crit cool