Joining us from apples last stop. The cold war was an ideological war people said you know that its got clear what system is best what system will prevail. In fact a big star a long time the issue of who was more confident economically 2 years was not totally clear despite and in the west the sputnik shock caused total panic sets half of the proof of. How surprising was that now its us who are showing the west showing the americans what technical progress is to issue from the. Dumb minds god who said im going to get to the military doctrine at the time was mutual assured destruction we were the furthest prepared to talk. Really were. Just going to throw in the 1st 15 minutes of a war germany would have gone up in flames like a tool which. You had we were really scared because it could all kick off any time someone goes crazy and bam were in the. The 2 bonded. In the early 1970 s. The world was largely divided between 2 superpowers and for moscow and washington the fight for supremacy r
Will prevail. In 1959 on in our call for the dont despair to take part in the planning and deployment of Nuclear Weapons. A concept known as nuclear sharing. Does not mean sure i slept was frightened me because by now well be what it happened in hiroshima and nagasaki. And yes even as a we visited various military training areas in the vicinity of hamburg can we believe that we would be able to see from the card whether any Nuclear Weapons were stored there or anything else and then on december 6th there was a headline in the local newspaper on this john missiles tested in bigger hornets and i said right thats where im going even if i have to go a lot of us years you know going to learn to get. The temples staged protests against rearmament culminating in west germany 1st easter peace march in 1960. The organizers faced widespread public anger. The real issue we went in to cure that would still have been harmless we were soundly cussed and of course regarded as communists go back to th
Soldiers. Police used tear gas to break up protesters demanding quicker reform from sudans Transitional Government. European union is opening its doors to visitors from 14 countries but not to the United States amid a resurgence and coronavirus cases that. Now china is imposing a new security law on hong kong 23 years after it took back control and promised a one country 2 systems policy its been signed by a chinese president xi jinping and is now in force critics say the legislation erodes hong kongs freedoms brown reports. It normally takes a year for Chinas Parliament to pass legislation this time it happened in record time just 40 days the new security law completed its passage after a vote by the countrys most powerful political body the Standing Committee of the National Peoples congress in Hong Kong China supporters were also celebrating before the news that even being confirmed. A contentious measure that spits it he divided the city was once more defended by its chief executiv
Lectures in history on cspan3 every saturday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv and lectures in history available as a podcast, find it where you listen to podcasts. Tracy walder is coauthor of the unexpected spy. From the cia to the fbi my secret life taking down some of the most notorious terrorists. Next, she sits down as a special Operations Officer in the immediate aftermath of the 9 11 attacks, and focusing on chinese counterintelligence. The International Spy museum recorded this event in february. Good evening, everyone and thank you for coming out on this gloomy, washington, d. C. , evening to the International Spy museum. Im chris costa. Im the executive director of the International Spy museum. Im really excited to introduce this program with former cia Operations Officer, fbi special agent now author tracy walder. Tracy joined the cia straight out of college and served as a staff Operations Officer at the Counter Terrorism center where she was responsible for trac
Special agent at the l. A. Field office, where she specialized in chinese counterintelligence operations. Tracy lives with her husband and 4 1 2yearold daughter in dallas, texas. This evening tracy will discuss her memory, the unexpected spy, from the cia to the fbi, my secret life taking down some of the worlds most notorious terrorists. Tracy will be interviewed by dr. Vince houghton. After their discussion, they will open the floor to questions and answers. Everyone will have an opportunity to ask questions this evening. Were also going to asked if youre trapped in the middle of a row, put your hand up and well be sure you have a mic to answer your questions, but there will be two mics on each side that you can use to answer your question. If you could get out stay where youre at. If you have a cell phone probably everybody please silence it now. Id lead by example and make sure mine is silenced. Ill kick it over to vincent and tracy. Thank you, chris. The first time we were introdu