The former correspondent for newsweek rent times. He has authored six books on the military. The critically exclaimed. James mcpherson. In the eastern theater. It is my honor to be here today. Its a pleasure to welcome back someone who spent countless hours if not months researching in our vast holdings especially when it culminates with such a good narrative as this one. The big bibliography and note section. Our testament to their research. You will find numerous citations. Im slightly biased so that favorite part of the book is found in the acknowledgment. The narrative opened with chapters each to his for union agents. With the final chapter culminating culminated in the post ward experience. Before we hear from mister moeller. I would like to let you know about another program coming out next week up next week on tuesday august 13 at noon they will present a lecture. In the post 911 world. In which he will discuss. They transformed into a war fighting Intelligent Service to help h
National archives. Find the chief Service Branch which is a fancy way of saying i run the public side of the buildings. And to provide the welcoming remarks today. Im pleased you could join us in the room were participating on facebook or youtube and also those of you joining us on cspan today. Allan pinkerton, elizabeth and baker. The correspondent for newsweek and he has authored six books on military and intelligence including bestsellers into the commandos and critically acclaimed question of loyalty. James mcpherson described the book as a fast paced narrative of union intelligence operations in Eastern Theater with the fabrications that grew up. It is my honor to be here today and a pleasure to welcome back someone who spent countless hours if not months researching the holdings especially when it culminates with such a good narrative as this one. The section is a testament to the research conducted. You will find numerous. This narrative opens with chapters devoted to the agents
84 degrees at 11 00 this morning. Afternoon. See most of the showers and thunderstorms develop. Few yesterday. Little more widespread this afternoon. New jersey, suburbs, philadelphia, and into delaware or even the Lehigh Valley are likely to get showers and thunderstorms later today. Mostly going to be dry at the shore. Have some clouds right now with cape may marina. Skies become mostly sunny this afternoon. Break it down hour by hour and show you when the storms are more likely in your nabld when im back in ten minutes. First see how traffic is moving. Jessica boyington has update for first alert traffic center. Bill to start. Schuylkill right around the roosevelt boulevard. Thats what camera were looking at here. Westbound, just a second ago seeing traffic at complete stand still approaching the scene. Moving Construction Equipment dealing with that construction work on the schuylkill from city line avenue to the blue route in both directions. Watching that right now. Looks like it
But we should stay dry today. Ill go through each of the forecasts hour by hour to show how quickly the temperatures warm up when i come back in ten minutes. Things are running pretty smoothly on the roads. Well start out with 95 in delaware. If youre headed northbound on 95 between 295 and 495, that drive will just take you about ten minutes. Southbound pretty of the same thing. Average speeds to both those stretch this is in the mid60s. So looking good on delaware roads. Moving in to new jersey, this is 295 at route 70, where you can see no major issues to report. So lets move into pennsylvania and see how some of majors are fairing there. 76 at montgomery drive, this is well lit and it shows us in were encountering backup. And right now were not seeing that. So 76 is looking really good and were going for check out some drive times on 76. So eastbound as we were saying headed into Center City Philadelphia between the blue route and vine, that will be about a 12 minute drive. Same th
He is a historian with the Central Intelligence agency. He joined the u. S. Government in 1986 as a staff historian at the army center of military history, where he served for 14 years before he joined the cia. During his time with the agency he also served in rotational assignments as deputy and chief historian at the National Reconnaissance office and at the office of director of National Intelligence. Dr. Laurie has taught at the American University and university of maryland at baltimore county. He specializes at the history of intelligence. He is the author of 40 articles on both military and intelligence history from the 19th century to the present. Please join me give you a warm welcome to dr. Clayton laurie. [applause] dr. Laurie i would like to thank you all for coming here tonight and i would like to thank the smithsonian associates. Can you hear me in the back there . I wanted to point out as part of the introduction i am born and raised in iowa, so i come from a northern st