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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 US 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.

Welcome to the second and final part of our interview with retired U.S. Army Colonel Jim Cox.

This time we will talk about Colonel Cox's experiences as a military

attache after the 1991 coup in Moscow. Now now after the coup was resolved the

work of the attache's office changed a good bit bit I think can you can you talk a little bit about that yes

I'd be happy to the I tell people that I was assigned to the Soviet Union but I came home from Russia,

which is really true. And what happened was immediately after the coup, we realized that

we didn't know what the future would bring.

I mean, there was a lot of concern about what would happen

as the Soviet Union was falling apart.

What would happen in Russia, questions about nuclear weapons,

control of nuclear weapons, questions about

regions perhaps splitting off civil war,

questions about economic collapse, people starving,

there was a lot of big questions and concerns out there.

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