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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.

Good afternoon and welcome to the International Spy Museum.

My name is Vince Houghton. I'm the historian at the Spy Museum

and it's my great pleasure to bring to you today a prolific author, a biographer,

Kai Bird, who I have been following on a personal note for the length of my short

academic career. It seemed to have gone parallel in many respects.

We did plan this, of course.

I started studying U.S. foreign policy, so Kai's earliest two books on the Bundy Brothers and on

John McCloy were required reading for me as I went through grad school. As I narrowed

my focus I started studying nuclear

intelligence and nuclear history and conveniently in the mid 2000s this book was

published American Prometheus I'm co-authored with Martin Sherwin, Pulitzer Prize winning.

Once you're done with The Good Spy, I highly recommend you take a look at American Prometheus.

And then now, of course, I work at the Spy Museum and you write a book about spies.

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