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Museum andtional spy Smithsonian Associates cohosted this 90 minute event. We are delighted to have our own historian. Dr. Vince houghton. He is the historian and curator of the museum. He holds a phd in military history from the university of maryland, where his Research Centered on u. S. Scientific and technological intelligence in the Second World War and the cold war. It makes them ideally suited to deliver todays talk. He also got his masters degree focusing on the relationship. Etween the u. S. And russia you may get some questions focusing on our current difficulties with russia. On thetalked extensively history of u. S. Intelligence, diplomatic history, the cold war. He is a u. S. Army veteran, serving in the balkans where he assisted in civilian and military intelligence activities. We are delighted to have you as our speaker. Please help me welcome vince houghton. [applause] thank you, peter. Thank you for coming here today. Any chance to talk about the atomic spies, Nuclear
Lot have been looking at a of the treaties over the last five years and i found quite a few inequities on the part of the federal government to live up to treaties. I guess all of us are aware that this. Are days in here, roald burley was talking about a treaty made by the u. S. Government with his greatgrandfather. I believe you mentioned that the lands in oklahoma are actually in over ship of the tribes with certain restrictions. But i have a question that i would like to ask all of you and i would like to give the spec to you too. If individual families on these lands and have deeds to these lands, and over the years there have been Oil Companies drilling on these lands and they never received one penny of revenue from all of this drilling, then what is the next step to get this rectified. If they are on their land and they just took the land without considering the familys what is it that can be done . What do you recommend . For a quickime response. Get a lawyer. [laughter] i grad
Senior case officer. This is the person who will be running the spies on a day to day basis. His real name was yaxsov came to the United States under the pretense that he was the general counsel of the soviet union in new york city. Pretended he was a lawyer. This is really his cover for his activities as nkcbd senior case officer for this spy network. What makes him interesting and very important in this case is that his specialty was scientific and technological intelligence. You dont want to just send anybody if youre going to run an atomic spy ring. Atomic weapons are very complicated, especially in the 1940s when very few people understood what was going on with nuclear fission. You wanted somebody that understood scientific and technological intelligence which made him the perfect person. Then then alexander feklisov. He was the resident in the 1960s and where a lot of people may know his name is that he was the back channel for the cuban missile crisis. He was the man who Robert