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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.

Hi good afternoon, welcome to the International Spy Museum.

I'm the one of our author debriefing series. My name is Vince Houghton.

I'm the historian and curator here at Spy.

And today we are incredibly pleased to welcome David Hoffman,

who is a contributing editor at the Washington

Post and also a correspondent for PBS's flagship investigative series frontline.

For the post, he's done numerous different jobs.

He covered the White House under the Presidencies of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush

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