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W s to stay ahead of the curve. You're going to be. And the Hello and welcome to Spycast from the Secret Files of the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.

I'm Mark Stout historian in the museum. I'm a PhD author and historian who served for 13 years

as an analyst in the U.S. 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.

We're joined today by Mark Henshaw, author of the new novel Red Cell, which is just out May 1st, I think you said.

Mark is a graduate of Brigham Young University, got his master's degree in International Relations and also his MBA there in 1999

and then went straight away to the CIA where he began his career in the Office of Transnational

issues and then later became a founding member of the CIA's

Information Center in 2001 where he is presently as a military analyst.

In 2005 however he took a three-year hiatus and undertook

rotation in the CIA's Red Cell, after which the book is titled, we'll talk about the Red Cell here in a minute.

Mark has received many awards for his work at CIA

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