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
Questionsy get some focusing on the current russia. Ties with he has taught extensively, including at the university of of then history u. S. Intelligence, diplomatic oftory, cold war, history science. U. S. Army veteran. Balkans where he assisted in both civilian and military intelligence activities. So were just delighted to have you as our speaker, as the first speaker. Please help me welcome vince houghton. [applause] thank you, peter. Thank all of you for coming here today. To get to talk about the atomic spies and nuclear intelligence, this is my field. This is also my passion. I try to do everything i can to talk about this to anyone who wants to listen. So it is nice to have people to listen. I really fell in love, probably a weird word when you talk about the Nuclear Annihilation of the United States. But i fell in but i fell in love with the intricacies of the weapons system that is the worst the world has ever seen but the same time might be primarily responsible for us not
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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
Research centered on u. S. Scientific and technological intelligence, specifically nuclear, in the Second World War and the cold war which makes him ideally suited to deliver todays talk. He also got his masters degree focusing on the relationship between the u. S. And russia. So you may get some questions focusing on the current difficulties with russia. Hes taught extensively, including at the universityon the diplomatic history, cold war and history of sciences. He is a u. S. Army veteran, served in the balkans where he assisted in both civilian and military intelligence activities. So were just delighted to have you as our speaker, as our first speaker. So please help me welcome vince houghton. Thank you peter. Thank all of you for coming here today. Getting a chance to talk about the atomic spies, about nuclear intelligence, this is my field this is also my passion. I try to do everything i can to talk about this to anyone hop wants to listen. So its nice to actually have people w