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Author Debriefing: Disciples: The World War II Missions of the CIA Directors Who Fought for Wild Bill Donovan

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Education, News, History

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2015

⏱️ 51 minutes

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SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with author Doug Waller to discuss his new book Disciples: The World War II Missions of the CIA Directors Who Fought for Wild Bill Donovan. The author of the critically acclaimed bestseller Wild Bill Donovan, Waller tells Houghton the story of four OSS warriors of World War II. All four later led the CIA. They are the most famous and controversial directors the CIA has ever had—Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby, and William Casey. Disciples is the story of these dynamic agents and their daring espionage and sabotage in wartime Europe under OSS Director Bill Donovan.

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hunters. security today. Hi and welcome to an authority briefing from the International Spy Museum. I'm Dr Vince Houghton, the museum's

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historian and curator. Here at the spy museum we get the world's most interesting authors,

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including journalists, scholars, and former spies and intelligence officers coming in to answer questions about their

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latest works dealing with espionage, intelligence, and other national security issues.

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Please join me in listening to another of our selected author briefings.

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We are joined today by Doug Waller, who is a veteran correspondent author and lecturer.

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In almost two decades as a Washington journalist, he covered the Pentagon, Congress, the State Department,

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the White House, and the CIA.

1:41.4

From 1994 to 2007, Waller served in Time Magazine's Washington Bureau,

1:46.0

first as a correspondent and then as a senior correspondent. At time, Doug covered foreign affairs

1:51.8

extensively as a diplomatic correspondent

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traveling through Europe Asia in the Middle East as well as in the Persian Gulf region

1:57.9

he has reported extensively in the past on Middle East peace negotiations

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and the wars in Iraq. He came the time in

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1994 from Newsweek where he reported on major military conflicts from the Gulf

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