You're going to. 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 have something to do with the world of

intelligence and espionage. I'm sitting here today with an old friend, Thomas

Quiggin, a former military intelligence officer with the

Canadian military who served in the Balkans during the 1990s. That'll be the

topic of our discussion today and after leaving the military

went on to have a career in intelligence war crimes and terrorism though not as a terrorist as far as I know

So Tom Quiggin thanks for sitting down with the

International spy museum. It's fun to be here. Thanks very much Mark. So today we're

going to talk about the war in Bosnia and intelligence in the war in Bosnia and some of your experiences there.

But I rather suspect that many people these days don't really have strong recollections of the war in Bosnia.

Do you want to just give us the 25 cent overview of when that war was and what was going on in Bosnia that was so important?

Well, the war in Bosnia was part of a larger breakup of the former country of Yugoslavia itself and I guess the

direct war sort of ran from 1991 to 1995. In Bosnia not only was the war part of

the breakup of Yugoslavia but it was also fighting between Serbia and

Croatia to determine who would control most of Bosnia and it's not inconsiderable resources.

There is also a lot of history involved in the sense a lot of people were trying to

right the wrongs of World War II or finish the unfinished business of World War II.

A lot of the locals were quite upset with the idea that World War II redrew the boundaries of Europe

with the Germans and Germany, the French and France, etc, etc.

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