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That's spycloud.com slash cyberwire and we thank spy cloud for sponsoring our show. 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.

This is our first bypass, and 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.

And my guest today, a distinguished member of the board of the museum here is former

Major General Oleg Kalugin of the KGB which as most of you know was the

civilian intelligence agency of the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

He served two tours in the United States.

He was undercover as a graduate student at the Columbia School of Journalism in New York,

and shortly after that served as a correspondent for Soviet radio and television in New York and then later he returned in the

70s to the Soviet embassy in Washington, D.C. as the press secretary, and of course during that period he was undercover because he was truly a KGB intelligence officer.. In fact he was the deputy chief of the Soviet office there.

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