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Hello. Hello and welcome to an author debriefing from the International Spy Museum.

I'm Dr. Vince Houghton, the Museum's historian and curator. 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.

So good afternoon, welcome to the National Spy Museum.

My name is Vince Houghton. I'm the historian and curator here at Spy.

I'd like to welcome you to another one of our author debriefing programs where we bring the top

authors and intelligence and national security to talk about their new works.

If you've been here before, you might notice a bit of a format change.

I do see some familiar faces.

We have now shifted from having an author talk at you

to having more of a conversation to where he and I, in this case, will talk about his newest book and then of course we will open it up to you to ask any questions at the end that you may have about today's topic.

So our guest today is Malcolm Byrne, who is the Deputy Director and Director of

Research at the National Security Archives, which is located down the street at George

Washington University. He currently directs the Openness in Russia and Eastern Europe project and the US-Iran relations project,

both of which promote multinational and multi-arcival approaches to the study of recent controversial historical events.

Previously he served as the co-director of the Iran-Contra documentation project and coordinated

the Archives Project on U.S. Soviet relations during the Cold War.

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