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Welcome to Spycast. My name is Dr. Andrew Hammond, historian and curator

here at the International Spy Museum in Washington DC.

Every week, Spycast explores a world of intelligence and espionage by bringing you in-depth conversations,

spies, spymasters, intelligence officers, and authors.

We explored the stories, secrets, tradecraft and technology of a world that looms beneath the surface of everyday life.

Welcome to this week's episode of Spycast.

I don't think they'll ever have the fun that I had that year at 23 years old.

Going to the White House and the NSC, briefing cabinet members,

I mean, you name it, it was just incredible.

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