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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 and Please join me in listening to another of our selected hour-long author debriefings.

Hi, good afternoon and welcome to the International Spy Museum.

My name is Vince Houghton. I'm a museum's historian and And today we welcome Peter Finn,

who is a national security correspondent

for the Washington Post.

He spent over 10 years reporting for the Washington Post

as a Bureau Chief and several major capitals including Warsaw, Berlin, and then finally Moscow.

He's also reported on several significant historical events, most notably the bombing of Kosovo in 1999, the invasion of Iraq in 2003,

and then the invasion of Georgia by Russia in 2008. He is here because he is the author of a new book, the

Javago Affair, the Kremlin, the CIA, and the battle over a forbidden book. Dr. J Javago, the book itself is one of the most celebrated books of the last 100 years.

One, Boris Pasternak, its author, the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature.

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