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Hello. 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 a 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. World of Intelligence and Espionage.

Our guest today is an extraordinary figure.

He served in World War II, at which time he was a bomber crew member and survived 66 bombing missions over Europe.

After the end of the war, he joined the agency in 1948.

Keeping in mind it was only formed in 1947.

And he was one of the founders of what was then known

as the National Photographic Interpretation Center.

These were the folks who looked at the overhead photographs that were taken by aircraft

flying around the Soviet Union and other areas of the world.

And Dino, as he's known among his friends, really lived through that

period when overhead photography came to a very, very fine science, which we all know today as the overhead satellites.

But in those days we didn't have that.

One of the early developments was of course the U2, the S.R 71, and eventually the satellites.

Do you know when you were in World War II, were you in fact even at that time, a photographic analyst?

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