You're listening to the CyberWire Network, powered by N2K. Hello, I'm 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. world of Intelligence and Espionage.

I am absolutely delighted today to have as our guest Christopher Andrew, Professor

Christopher Andrew, he is Great Britain's leading historian of intelligence and is a

frequent presenter on BBC documentaries on that subject and has been a visiting

professor at Harvard. on that

subject and has been a visiting professor at Harvard.

Recently he has completed defend the realm

the authorized history of MI5.

For this purpose, Christopher Andrew was made a member of MI5, the only man so

identified along with the director publicly, and this is the first such authorized history by any leading

intelligence of security agents in the world so we're delighted to have you

here today Christopher.

Thank you Peter. Thank you Peter. I'm going to throw a word at you and we'll just see what you have to say.

You're a serious student of this history.

I want to make the, of intelligence history, want to make the most of this interview,

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