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Museum in Washington, D.C. I'm Dr. Vinshote, the museum's historian and curator.

Every month, the museum brings you interesting talks

with authors, scholars, and practitioners who live in the world of global espionage.

Join us as we take a closer look at the secret world of intelligence. So we are joined today by Andrew Plaman who is a career US Foreign Service officer.

His service with the State Department has included assignments to Peru, Panama,

Kazakhstan, and Brazil, as well as Washington assignments with the Bureau of European and

Eurasian Affairs and the Economics Energy and Business Affairs Bureau.

Mr Plaman is a 1990 graduate of Cornell College in Iowa. Economics Energy and Business Affairs Bureau.

Mr Plaman is a 1990 graduate of Cornell College in Iowa,

where he earned a bachelor's degree in history

and international relations,

and he obtained a master's of arts

from the International Policy Program

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