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

Here at the spy museum we get the world's most interesting authors,

including journalists, scholars, former spies and intelligence officers,

coming in to 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 authority briefings.

We are joined today by Tom Ryan. He began his career in intelligence after being drafted into the United States Army in 1957, serving three years in the U.S. Army Security Agency, which is in charge of signals intelligence for the Army.

After completing his military service, Tom signed on with the Department of Defense as a civilian

and served in a variety of intelligence-related capacities, including at the analytical,

managerial, and executive levels over the next 35 years.

In retirement, he pursued his interest in the Civil War and traveled extensively visiting

many Civil War sites around the country.

He became a special contributor to the Civil War page of the Washington Times and published over 60 articles in book reviews from 1997 to 2009. From 2003 to 2005, he published a five-part series of articles in Gettysburg magazine

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