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
Please welcome lily koppel. [applause] good morning. So nice to be here. I heard there was a vicious rumor going around and i didnt make it out of new york city because of the weathers so i am so glad volunteers believe this is actually me and im here sharing the story with you this morning. I love Great American stories and i love beehives. And a combination of those two sayings as you will learn lead me to tell this amazing but looked over american story of our original astronauts wives. I want to bring you back to 1959. April 9th there is a press conference in washington d. C. And the whole country is riveted and waiting for the announcement of the mercury 7 astronauts. Is the height of the cold war and we are looking to lease seven men, gus grissom, john glenn, allen sheppard, among them, as our cold war warriors, these silver suited spaceman who are going to take us to the stars and beyond. So you have these macho test pilots sitting up on this stage and something peculiar start h
Only at full speed. Always shining. Luck but always on the move. Played mostly today and in the future. Drive it on t w. The people of the world for information they provide the opinions they want to express t. W. On facebook and twitter up to date and in touch follow us. Canaveral florida july 1990. 3 men set off on one of the greatest adventures in Human History their goal to move. Back the back of the global hundreds of thousands were there to watch. Big. League. The cold war was in full swing and the competition between the u. S. And the soviet Union Extended even to space. On july 20th 1069. 00 astronaut Neil Armstrong became the 1st human to set foot on earth spoke only permanent satellite. Live log file. This event would bring armstrong fame that he had
never sought and it would also change his life forever. Strong became a Living Legend in the history of space travel like a 20th century christopher columbus. But at the height of his popularity he voluntarily withdrew from publi