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.

I'm Peter Ernest, the Executive Director of the Museum, and I'm delighted to see all of you here this

afternoon it's a great turnout on really a very very nice day so welcome to the

museum I would ask you out of kindness to the speaker to please turn off your PDA's cell phones,

any other electronic gear you're working.

Sometimes interference with the system.

I'm very pleased today to introduce Christina Shelton.

She has written a book that I think is a fitting book in our time.

It's a very straightforward account of a man by the name of Alger Hiss.

And throughout my career in intelligence and in public life,

a sort of secretive form of public life,

the name Alger Hiss was a shibolith.

All you had to do was raise Alger hiss at a dinner party and you

had a good chance, number one, of spoiling the dinner party depending on who you're

with, but at least raising arguments loud and continuous.

So I'm hoping that Christina Shelton's book will be one of those books that helps put an end to loud and

rock as dinner parties.

Christina Shelton's background. loud and rockest dinner parties.

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