You're listening to the CyberWireriefing from the International Spy Museum.

I'm Mark Stout, the Museum's historian.

Here at the museum we get the most interesting authors including journalists, scholars,

former spies, and intelligence officers coming in to speak with our visitors

and answer questions about their latest works dealing with espionage, intelligence, and other national

security issues.

Please join me in listening to another of our selected hour-long author debriefings.

Well, why don't we get started?

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for coming to the International Spy Museum today for what I hope will be an interesting, informative, and I'm quite sure entertaining discussion. My name is Mark Stout, I'm the historian here for those of you I haven't met.

And we are very fortunate today, can I grab the book here?

We are very fortunate today to have with this Stephen Talty.

He's a widely published journalist who's contributed to the New York Times magazine, GQ, Men's Journal, and many other magazines.

But also, he's a New York Times best-selling author of, well, a number of fun books in history.

Empire of Blue Water, which is a book about the Pirate Captain Henry Morgan, Mulatto America at the crossroads of black and white culture,

the illustrious dead, the terrifying story of how typhus killed Napoleon's Greatest Army, which

I think is a fabulous book title title and I congratulate you on that.

And of course his latest book which is the reason we're here today is Agent Garboe, the

brilliant eccentric secret agent who tricked Hitler and saved D-Day.

So Stephen, welcome to the National Spy Museum.

Great to be here.

Thank you.

So who was Garbo?

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