Most of us went through school and learned about the revolution. This is quite problematic. If you look at the advantages of they had every advantage. They had a modern professional army that had been bottle battle tested. Had a smalls Continental Army that could not really be counted on. The british of the greatest navy in the world. The americans did not have a navy to speak of. We have privateers. Pirates, essentially, we gave the ability to steal and pillage for their pay. Most americans did not support independence. Less than half of continental support independence. Thousands fought for the british. Others wanted to be left alone. Thats not to mention the british soldiers in the native americans. The british have be worlds greatest economy. We had no central bank. We had a very hard time raising money. So, how did we win . Its not that after he got his masters, he served in the United States marine corps and then joined the cia. Today hes a cia Operations Officer. From 1969 to 20
I think there are a lot of people who represent the same thing. Im very much hoping that one of those people come along soon and, you know, who understands the constitution, who understands freedom, what true freedom is all about, who understands how to empower people, who understands economics and the importance of taking the heavy foot of government off the neck of business and industry, and who understands that this is, in fact, a judeochristian nation with real values. [applause] political pundits have defined you as a conservative, particularly following the prayer breakfast. How would you define yourself, politically . That easy. I consider myself logical. [laughter] you know, as far as im concerned, common sense should be in both parties. Thats why its called common sense. So you know, you look at something that has been politicized, you know, like benghazi. Now, whats the big issue there . A big issue as far as im concerned is that we are telling our troops that if you get into
The ponds skin, put in jail if youre in the private sector. Now bankrupt. Earned income tax credits, fraud written pro grams in history and not saying something. And my favorite, the foodservice, for those of you on the east coast. Its a total monopoly. Trapped on the train. Forgot to get food, you just wait for the announcement. You hope essaying the foodservice cart is open. You can go stand in line for 40 minutes to get a two week old turkey sandwich for 30. Last year amtrak foodservice alone, 72 million. How to use only the government can do that corsica and watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Now from the internationals by museum here in washington d. C. Retired cia operative look said u. S. Intelligence efforts during the revolutionary war and their role in defeating the british. From George Washingtons interest in the use of counterintelligence practices to the copper ring an Espionage Network operated in new york city, this is just under an hour. Good afternoon
Retired cia operative Kenneth Daigler looks at u. S. Intelligence efforts and revolution were and the war in defeating the british. From George Washingtons interest and use of counterintelligence practices, an Espionage Network operate in your city. This is just under one hour. Good afternoon and welcome to the International Spy museum. My name is vince houghton, oms pod museum the story and curator of like to welcome all of you to another author debriefing. Today subject will be the american revolution, and intelligence. Were joined by an exceptional often will introduce momentarily. Before that i watched a couple words about the revolution itself and history about intelligence. This is one subject that is vastly underrepresented in historical literature, the impact of intelligence on the revolution. Most of us when we went through school, even in College Level dont delve into the importance of intelligence operations on the american revolution. Thats quite problematic because if you
I wanted to pick up what larry said, which is communications is special and different and part of it is because it promotes an exchange of ideas and conversation. Weve had a spirited conversation here, but we would now like you to join. So for anyone who has a question, if you just identify yourself and also indicate, i want to get as many questions as possible. Please frame whatever youre going to say as a question rather than a speech or commentary or anything else. And we have a couple of people from brookings who will have microphones. And i will identify the people who will be called on and then well proceed from there. So like jeopardy has to be in a form of a question . You bet. Exactly. Whats in the form of a question, stewart. Okay. First question. Youve answered every oh, there we go. Right over here. Thank you very much for this program, and thank you for the comments so far. My question is sorry. I have been in Cyber Security and telecommunications for all of my professiona