Communicators on cspan 2. Announcer 2 november 7 marks the centennial of the birth of the soviet union in 1917 when bolshevik revolutionaries seized power from a provisional government that had been in place since the overthrow of the wash the russian monarchy earlier this year. Wall,962, the road to the narrated by actor james cagney. This army film prevents presents a criminal critical history beginning with the bolshevik revolution up to the construction of the berlin wall. This halfhour film was nominated for a 1963 short subject documentary for academy award. Narrator the roads and, roads end, the wall. These are the people who live along the road. Some walk. Some ride. , some areell shod barefoot. Some are so young, they must be carried. Some are so old. Of the hundreds of millions who take this road, some do so willingly. Others hope that the road leads to bread for the hungry, peace for the weary, land for the landless. Some protest. It does not matter. Some are born on the roa
Narrator at the roads end, the wall. These are the people who live along the road. Some walk. Some ride. Some are well shod, some are barefoot. Some are so young, they must be carried. Or so old. Of the hundreds of millions who take this road, some do so willingly. Others hope that the road leads to bread for the hungry, peace for the weary, land for the landless. Some protest openly. It does not matter. Some are born on the road. Many will die along the way. Havana, cuba, january, 1959. This road leads to this wall. Red china, september 1960. This road, this wall. Berlin, december 1961. This road, this wall. Narrator in the beginning, the road exists in the mind of a 19th century philosopher, karl marx, who maintained only there a system he calls communism can the worker and farmer avoid starvation and exportation. We declare openly, marx writes, that our ends can only be attained with the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Thus the road begins. Many who walk the ro
Some ride. Some are wellshod, some are barefoot. Some are so young, they must be carried. Or so old. Of the hundreds of millions who take this road, some do so willingly. Others hope that the road leads to bread for the hungry, peace for the weary, land for the landless. Some protest openly. It does not matter. Some are born on the road. Many will die along the way. Havana, cuba, january, 1959. This road leads to this wall. Red china, september 1960. This road, this wall. Berlin, december 1961. This road, this wall. In the beginning, the road exists in the mind of a 19th century philosopher and scholar, karl marx, who maintained only through a system of communism can the worker and farmer avoid starvation and exportation. We declare openly, marx writes, that our ends can only be attained with the forcible seizure and overthrow of social conditions. Thus the road begins. Many who walk the road know its origins well. Many do not. Some must be taught by those who do not travel it. This is
And he was. With albert spier and others in paris six weeks almost to the day in june of 1940. This gentleman here is one of americas first spies. Before the Second World War there was no foreign intelligence service, the americans you guys didnt have a foreign intelligence service. That was the job of people who worked for the state department donald costar was a princeton graduate in 1929, a volunteer ambulanceman working in normandy during the blitzkrieg and he wrote a detailed story about the blitzkrieg for Readers Digest and he wrote about a terrifying. He was working for the americans and recording the impact and the ferocity of the blitzkrieg and he found his way to paris in early july of 1940, was dropped off at the Hotel Bristol by none other than george canon who became a Great American statesman and then found his way to the American Hospital of paris where he went to the office of dr. Summer in jackson and said to dr. Sumner jackson i need to hide for a while. And the theor
But when the cold war ended and particularly when the war in terror began, it moved so drastically away from focus on russia that i think it lost its ability to conduct operations even in conducting basic analytical work about it. There is still very good people there who deal with russian and who are experts in russia. But its drastically shrunk from what it was. And i think now that russia is seen as much more of a threat over the last couple of years, particularly because of its activity military activities in ukraine, is that there will be some respectificati firectif thereby more effort and more personnel devoted to trying to understand russia. Did you have something . Just really quickly, you know it takes time and as mark said, if you focus on it now, it takes years to develop expertise and if you are talking about human intelligence penetrating russia and putins inner circle so it will take a while. Even if theyre doing it now. Thank you very much, thank you for coming. Please