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cold warconversations.com. Welcome to the Cold War Conversations 2018 Roundup and thank you to all our listeners and guests who've stuck with us and made the podcast what it is.

If you're new or old to the podcast, I hope this episode will make you dip into episodes you might have missed or you thought were not your cup of tea.

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support the podcast menu option. If you'd like to support us with a few quid, dollars or

rubles, click on the support the podcast menu option as well at Cold Warconversations.com. It's been quite a year for me. I started this

project in March 2018 and had no idea where it would go. I have been astounded by the response

and a range of guests we've had on and I've been privileged to speak to the son of a former Soviet

Premier. I've sat chatting over coffee in the kitchen of a former East German army officer

in Liverpool and boarded a Soviet submarine in Kent. Now that would make quite a bucket

list on its own. Anyway, you don't want to listen to my ramblings. Here's a whistle-stop tour of Cold War

Conversations 2018. Enjoy. The first episode we started with Proper was with Michael K. Ferris,

who told us about his life in Berlin as the child of Air Force personnel and how he subsequently joined

the US Air Force himself and worked in Signals Intelligence in the 1980s. Not the best sound

quality I've ever had on the show, but I've learned a lot since then. Here is an excerpt from that interview.

In 1960, he was assigned to West Berlin, to the six-town security school. My mother and I were

supposed to follow up quickly to join him, but I think what happened was because of the political

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