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at CS.JhU. edu slash MSSI. 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 we'll be bringing you interesting talks with visitors, with authors, with others who have something to do with the world of intelligence and espionage.

Our guest today is Nigel West.

The true name is Rupert Allison. One of the best known

British historians and authors on Intelligence Books. He has written some 25 books. He's

a former conservative member of Parliament, some 10 books. He's a former conservative member of parliament some 10 years and he

still regularly teaches both here and in Europe and even on cruises from time to time. He's the European Editor of the World Intelligence

Review, based here in Washington, and European Editor of the International Journal of Intelligence

and Counterintelligence. He has been called the experts, experts by some in terms

of intelligence and many believe that his revelations are so precise it is almost as if he worked for intelligence but

he doesn't so Nigel welcome thank you and I think what might be fascinating to our readers

is the frequent references in spy literature

certainly here at the museum to the Cambridge Five. You probably have know that case as well and have written as much as anyone.

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