You're listening to the CyberWire Network, powered by N2K. Hello and welcome to Spycaste from the Secret Files of the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.

I'm Peter Ernest, the Executive Director of the Museum. I served for some

36 years in the Central Intelligence Agency, largely as what is called an Operations Officer

or a case officer.

Every month will be bringing you interesting talks

with visitors, with authors, with others

who have something to do with the world of intelligence

and espionage.

Today, our guest is Miss Melissa Malie.

Melissa Malie is a 14-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency, all that time spent in what is called the clandestine service, and most of that time, interestingly enough, overseas. She became a senior operations officer in CIA

with a specialty in the Middle East. She is an Arabist, an Arab speaker, and has majored in that area, and continues after leaving

the agency to consult in it.

Also today with this is Dr. Thomas Bogart. He is the museum historian. He's been at the museum

some three years now and has begun publishing. You can see his byline

occasionally in Intelligence Journals and a book he did when he

came here called the Kaiser Spies. You look for that. And Thomas let me just ask you

before we start the interview with Melissa.

I know one of the things you've been doing is coordinating the spy cast and looking at the feedback from our listeners.

Is there anything you would like to highlight at this time?

Yeah, thanks Peter. Now we've gotten some some pretty amazing feedback.

One issue that popped up again and again related to our last two spy casts on the movie

Breach and the Robert Hansen spy case, we had David Major and Eric O'Neill both formerly with the FBI comment on Hansen and people

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