You're listening to be. Hello and welcome to Spycast from the Secret Files of the International Spy Museum in

Washington DC. I'm Mark Stout historian of the museum. I'm a PhD author and historian who served for 13 years as an analyst in the U.S. Intelligence Community.

Every month, the museum brings you interesting talks with authors,

scholars, and practitioners who has something to do with the world of

intelligence and espionage.

Today we're going to talk about intelligence and espionage in America's

forgotten war, the Korean War. You'll recall that in June 1950 the Korean

War started when communist North Korean forces stormed across the border into the South.

The United States and the United Nations soon joined in helping to defend the South.

Later China entered the war, almost hurling American forces right off the Korean

peninsula. The war actually went on until July 1953 when the armistice was

signed, though technically there hasn't been a peace treaty, so technically a state of war continues on the Korean

peninsula to this day.

Today we have two really distinguished visitors here who can talk about that war and more

importantly for our purposes about intelligence and espionage in it. We have Colonel Douglas

Dillard and Mr James M. H Lee. Colonel Dillard is a career U.S. Army

Intelligence Officer, had many assignments around the US Army.

He was a young lieutenant in Operation Dragoon, the invasion of southern France in 1944

in World War II, where he had then occasioned to work with the French resistance in the Maritime

Alps. Subsequently served in the Maritime Alps,

subsequently served in the Korean War,

later on in the Vietnam War,

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