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That's spycloud.com slash cyberwire and we thank spy cloud for sponsoring our show. Hello and welcome to an author debriefing from the International Spy Museum.

I'm Mark Stout, the Museum's historian.

Here at the museum we get the most interesting authors including journalists, scholars, former spies, and intelligence officers

coming in to speak with our visitors and answer questions about their latest works dealing with

espionage, intelligence, and other national security issues.

Please join me in listening to another of our selected hour-long author debriefings.

Well, why don't we get started?

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for coming to the International Spy Museum today

for what I hope will be an interesting, informative,

and I'm quite sure entertaining discussion.

My name is Mark Souda, and the historian here,

for those of you I haven't met.

And we are very fortunate today, can I grab the book here?

We are very fortunate today to have with this Stephen Talty.

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