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Welcome to Spycast.

My name is Dr. Andrew Harmon, a historian and curator here at the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.

Every week, Spycast explores a world of intelligence and espionage by bringing you in-depth conversations, spies, spy masters, intelligence officers and authors.

We explore the stories, secrets, tradecraft and technology of a world that looms beneath the surface of everyday life.

Welcome to this week's episode of Spycast.

Turning the tide in the Pacific at the Battle of Midway, establishing secure communications on the beaches during D.D.

Staving off nuclear armageddon.

Because what the cryptology ever have to do with anything, right?

To discuss these big themes, and to celebrate our partnership on the pop-up exhibit,

codes, ciphers and mysteries, we brought back you know who?

Executive director of the National Cryptologic Museum and former Spycast host Vince Houghton.

Through the end of September 2021, you can see some of the National Cryptologic Museum's superstar artifacts here at the International Spy Museum.

These include the only existing B-series and Nigma in the world.

The purple analog machine number one, which was used to crack the Japanese diplomatic code and the run-up to Pearl Harbor.

And I command you code book.

Shhh, though, no such museum.

It's probably a waste of time introducing you.

I'm sure all the Spycast listeners know who you are.

So how has it been since you left the Spy Museum?

No, I mean, it's always there's always nostalgia for for what you left.

I mean, there's I mean, I spent six and a half years at the Spy Museum.

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