to be here amongst all our attend eaees and speakers for t wonderful day and the whole weekend we ve got line up for you. as master of ceremonies, it s my responsibility to introduce our speakers and to keep you informed of our schedule and any updates or additions as the day progresses. most of you in the audience are you seasoned veterans who have attended our programs before. but i do want to stress that due to the tight schedule of great programming, we will stick to the itinerary and timings as closely as we can so as to ensure that everyone gets enough time for their presentations and so that our question and answer sessions provide you all with enough opportunity to ask the speakers specifically what you want to know. i do want to point out that the speakers biographies are in the back of your official programs so please refer to that for more personal details. the opening lecture for our espionage symposium is raymond e. mason jr. distinguished lecture on world war i
american citizen who became a mole to expose nazi spies who had infiltrated the united states to. present on his book double agent, the first hero of world war ii and how the fbi outwitted and destroyed a nazi spy ring. please join me in welcoming peter duffy. thank you very much. this is quite an stroosextraord facility with some amazing equipment in front of us. i hope it holds while i m up here and in fact one of our b 17 will be an issue that i ll touch on because the german spies were interested in a famous piece from that great airplane. i m here to tell an interesting and unforgotten hero, the american character of world war ii, a quizzical character named wilhelm gotlieb segal and i ll note by saying that in early 1939 before this war war started mr. sebold living in new york boarded the ss deutchland on the west side piers of manhattan, and he sailed for nazi germany which was preparing for war. he was carrying a single suitcase and a package and left his wife
americans i suspect you know, left it to the japanese to announce yamamoto s death. the americans announced that a couple of japanese aircraft had chopped down and were given away by a whimper that they knew yamamoto was in one of them. they waited until the japanese had the big funeral in tokyo and so on and so forth whereas conversely there could have been a disit isary after midway where clever newspapers were tipping off, reporting the midway success was the result of code-breaking successes, and it is scary what that sort of stuff can do. i mean, we interest to say, if the guys on the other side were paying attention, the west was the western allied nations were fantastically lucky to get away with what they did with the code-breaking. time for one quick question and quick answer. alex, could you please stand. a few months ago i went to college park to the smithsonian institution to hear james bond, i went over there, 165 people in the museum were there, sold out.
risk. it s controllable. and the german legend michael schumacher remains in critical condition after suffering head injuries in a skiing accident in france. doctors are due to give an update on his health in an hour. announcer: you re watching worldwide exchange. hope you had a good christmas break. if you re joining us this morning or this evening in asia. e-mail us worldwide@cnbc.com. a second explosion in the russian city of volgograd killed 14 people. a male suicide bomber carried out the attack on a trolly bus. on sunday afternoon another suicide bomb killed another 16 penal at t people at the train station. vladimir putin has vowed to tighten security across the country. seven time world champion michael schumacher is in critical condition after injuring his head in the swiss alps. he was in a coma and he underwent surgery. he was wearing a helmet when he hit his head on a rock. doctors are due to give an update on his condition at 10:00 gmt. 2013 was anoth
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