Author Debriefing: Queen of Spies: Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War Spy Master

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🗓️ 29 March 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Paddy Hayes to discuss his book Queen of Spies: Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War Spy Master. Hayes recounts the fascinating story of the evolution of the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) from World War II to the Cold War through the eyes of Daphne Park, one of its outstanding and most unusual operatives. He gives one of the most intimate narratives yet of how the modern SIS actually went about its business whether in Moscow, Hanoi, or the Congo, and shows how Park was able to rise through the ranks of a field that had been comprised almost entirely of men. Queen of Spies captures all the paranoia, isolation, deception of Cold War intelligence work, and combines it with the personal story of one extraordinary woman trying to navigate this secretive world.

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0:46.5	hunters. security today. Hi and welcome to Spycast. From the secret files of the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.
1:05.0	I'm Dr. Vince Hodin, the Museum's historian and curator.
1:09.0	Every week, the museum brings you interesting conversations with authors,
1:13.2	scholars, and practitioners who live in the world of global espionage.
1:18.7	Join us as we take a closer look at the secret world of intelligence.
1:27.0	We are joined today by Patty Hayes, who has spent the last five decades researching the world
1:32.4	of intelligence.
1:33.7	The result is his book, Queen of Spies.
1:36.2	Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War Spy Master.
1:39.3	Thank you, Patty, for taking the time to talk to us at the National Spy Museum.
1:42.2	Thank you.
1:43.2	So one of the things I always want to ask authors is what was their inspiration for writing their
1:48.1	book?
1:49.1	This is, as you say, the first biography of a Cold War SIS career officer in 30 years.
1:54.2	And really one of only of the two or three ever published,
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