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That's spycloud.com slash cyberwire and we thank spy cloud for sponsoring our show. 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 and other

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 briefings.

Today's subject will be the American Revolution and Intelligence,

and we're joined by an exceptional author who I will introduce momentarily.

But before that I say a couple words about the revolution itself

and history about intelligence.

This is one subject that is vastly underrepresented in historical literature, the impact of intelligence

on the revolution.

Most of us when we went through school, learn about the revolution, even in college level,

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