You're listening to the CyberWire Network, powered by N2K. Hello and welcome to Spycast 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 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.

My guest today is Scott Carmichael.

Scott Carmichael has been in counterintelligence and security work for some 22 years and many more years than that in law enforcement

and he's currently senior security and counterintelligence investigator with the Defense Intelligence Agency.

And the purpose of Scott's coming today is to talk about a book that he has written and

recently came out on Anna Bellin-M Montez and that may be a name not familiar to many of you and

it really should be.

Anna Montez is perhaps one of the most important spies who's been caught if you will

convicted and is now in jail in the last number of years and yet the news of

her being caught and of what she had done sort of slipped below the radar of the media.

There's a good reason why that might have happened.

She was arrested just 10 days after 9-11.

And so the country's preoccupation with 9-11 and all the events surrounding that clearly

crowded out events like the arrest of Anna-Mantez and any descriptions of what she'd done.

So since the case was so important and so significant for intelligence animals, we invited

Scott to come here today to talk about his book and about the case.

He was the lead investigator in the Defense Intelligence Agency and therefore one of those

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