Intelligence in the Early Republic: An Interview with Ken Daigler

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Education, News, History

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🗓️ 17 February 2015

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The history of American intelligence in the Revolution and Civil War has been extensively covered by both professional and amateur historians. But what about the time in between the wars? SPY historian Vince Houghton sat down with retired career CIA operations officer and historian Ken Daigler to discuss American espionage during the earliest period of United States history. Who were the first foreign agents sent to collect HUMINT? Can we look at the Lewis and Clark expedition as an intelligence operation? How well did American intelligence function during the War of 1812? The Mexican-American War? Daigler, author of Spies, Patriots, and Traitors: American Intelligence in the Revolutionary War and two seminal articles on early American intelligence for the CIA’s Studies in Intelligence, provides the answers.

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0:46.5	hunters. security today. Hello and welcome to SpyCast from the secret files of the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.
1:05.0	I'm Dr. Vince Hote, the Museum's historian and curator.
1:09.0	Every month, the museum brings you interesting talks with authors, scholars, and practitioners who live in the world of global espionage.
1:16.0	Join us as we take a closer look at the secret world of Intelligence. We are joined today by Ken Dager, a retired career CIA operations Officer.
1:32.5	Like me, he is also a student of history.
1:35.0	He has his bachelor's degree from the Center College of Kentucky and his master's degree
1:39.2	from Syracuse University.
1:41.2	He has written articles about intelligence for CIA's historical division,
1:45.0	Journal Studies and Intelligence, also for the Association of Former Intelligence Officers
1:49.7	Journal Intelligencer, and other publications. Under the pseudonym
1:54.3	P.K. Rose, he is the author of founding fathers of intelligence and black
1:58.9	dispatches, black American contributions of Union Intelligence during the Civil War.
2:03.8	If you're interested in these, both are available on CIA.gov.
2:07.6	He is also the author of a book, Spies, Patriots, and Traders, American Intelligence
2:12.8	of the Revolutionary War, which really brings
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