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I'm Dr. Vince Houghton, the Museum's historian and curator.

Every week, the museum brings you interesting conversations with authors,

scholars, and practitioners who live in the world of global espionage.

Join us as we take a closer look at the secret world of intelligence. So we are joined today by Mark Mazzetti who is a correspondent for the New York Times where

he has covered National Security and Intelligence from the newspapers Washington Bureau

since April of 2006.

After he earned his master's degree in modern history from Oxford University in 1997, and good

choice in topics, Mazzetti worked as a correspondent for the Economist, based in Washington, D.C. in Austin, Texas from 1998 until 2001.

While with the economist, he covered national politics, including the candidacy of George W. Bush, as well as business, General News, and Cultural Stories in the Southwest.

From 2001 through 2004, he was a Pentagon correspondent for US News and World Report covering

Defence and National Security.

During the war in Iraq in 2003 2003 he spent two months embedded with the

first marine expeditionary force as a reporter in Baghdad.

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