no one s asked me that before. um. i m tenacious, i m a. ..a bit adventurous. that s how i got into it to begin with. and i think the biggest piece of it was hoping that i had done something worth doing, and that it had made a difference. so the values behind the work were important to you, but on a day to day basis, you were having to deceive and to lie. are you good at that? and protect. she chuckles and i got rather good at it indeed. yes, ican. ican. i can prevaricate with the best of them. let me take you back to the beginning. you ve described entering the cia through a side entrance, by which i think you mean that you weren t sort of formally recruited. that s right. you sort of fell into it because you married a guy who, it turned out, just before your wedding, you learned was in the cia. wasn t there a movie or a book? something titled marrying the mob? there was a similarity, yeah. i didn t realise until shortly before we were getting married that my first husband h
um. i m tenacious, i m a. ..a bit adventurous. that s how i got into it to begin with. and i think the biggest piece of it was hoping that i had done something worth doing, and that it had made a difference. so the values behind the work were important to you, but on a day to day basis, you were having to deceive and to lie. are you good at that? and protect. she chuckles. and i got rather good at it indeed. yes, ican. ican. i can prevaricate with the best of them. let me take you back to the beginning. you ve described entering the cia through a side entrance, by which i think you mean that you weren t sort of formally recruited. that s right. you sort of fell into it because you married a guy who, it turned out, just before your wedding, you learned was in the cia. wasn t there a movie or a book? something titled marrying the mob? there was a similarity, yeah. i didn t realise until shortly before we were getting married that my first husband had an unusualjob. when he told
History tv is robert byer. He is the director of the museum at the cia. Mr. Buyer. Whats the point of having a music film that isnt open to the public . This is the museum for so many different parts. Our agency, its an operation or museum, meaning that we learn from the lessons of our past. So that we can become better in the future, in our operations. Its also to inform guests, people who come to headquarters, our partners, help them understand our history weve done in the past and also on shows like this, helping the American Public understand the role of intelligence in our democracy. Well, the cia is about 75 years old right now is just the point of opening up the newly classified parts of this museum. Not only is this museum coming online just in time for the 75th anniversary of cia, it is also the 50th anniversary, three of cia museum. On the 25th anniversary of cia, we were asked to, create a museum. Not that i was around for that, but thats where the museum started as a way to
Pleasure to introduce caroline, caroline janney, professor of the American Civil War at the university of virginia, where she also served as director of the john l nels the third center for Civil War History where she succeeded her mentor, gary w gallagher. Shes the author or editor of 7 books and is one of the series editors for the university of North Carolina prestigious civil war america series. She has served as president of the society of civil war historians and is here to talk about her new book ends of war the unfinished fight of lees army after appomattox. I am a 30 pages in and it is riveting. It is a wonderful book. I just this morning saw a brandnew review that appeared in todays wall street journal by someone named Harold Holzer and he calls it, immensely readable and utterly convincing. Please join me in welcoming caroline janney. [applause] good morning. So first, a big thanks to john, the entire class gets a quiz. So we can institute that policy right now if that will
Museum at the cia. Mr. Byer, whats the point of having a museum that isnt open to the public . This is the museum for so many different parts of our agency. Its an operational museum, meaning that we learn from the lessons of our past so that we can become better in the future in our operations and its also to inform our guests, people who come to headquarters, our partners, help them understand our history, what weve done in the past and also, on shows like this, helping the American Public understand the role of intelligence in our democracy. Well, the cia is about 75 years old right now. Is this the point of opening up the newly classified parts of this museum . Not only is this museum coming online just in time for the 75th anniversary of cia, it is also the 50th anniversary of cia museum. On the 25th anniversary of cia, we were asked to create a museum. Not that i was around for that, but thats where the museum started as a way to preserve the agencys history and so, its a double