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Race and Intelligence: A Conversation with Darrell Blocker, Cassi Chandler, Mel Gamble, and Malcolm Nance

SpyCast

SpyCast

History, Education, News

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with an extraordinary panel to have a candid discussion about racial issues in the intelligence community.

Transcript

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You're listening to the CyberWire Network, powered by N2K.

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Hi and

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welcome to SpyCast from the Secret Files of the International Spy Museum in

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Washington, D.C.

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I'm Dr. Vint Houghton, the Museum's historian and curator.

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Every week, Spycast brings you interesting conversation. Hottin, the Museum's Historian and Curator.

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Every week, Spycast brings you interesting conversations

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with authors, scholars, and practitioners

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who live in the world of global espionage.

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0:57.2

Welcome back to Curators Corner.

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We're talking today and hopefully a very frank and candid way about race in the intelligence field.

1:04.8

And the four panelists that we have are people that rose from the bottom to the very top of their

1:10.6

prospective fields and so they have a lot to talk about a lot to tell us about how this relationship

1:16.9

between their race and their peers race and the broader intelligence community so let me introduce them to you now.

1:23.5

Darrell Blocker is our space friend.

1:27.0

Instead of the last three plus decades

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