You're Hello and welcome to SpyCast from the Secret Files of the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.

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 U.S. Intelligence

Committee. 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 Major General Mike Ennis, retired from the United States Marine Corps.

General Ennis is a graduate of Concordia College with BA degrees in French and international relations

and got his master's degree in government and

national security studies from Georgetown.

He was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Marine Corps in 1972, served in a variety of assignments and then in 1978 did something which I

think was pivotal for his career perhaps we'll talk about it for a minute or two and

he entered something called the Foreign Area Officer Program studying Russian at Madre California and in

Garms, Germany a very nice place I understand.

A few years later he found himself as a translator on the Moscow Washington

hotline, the so-called Moline, and then in 1986 and this will be the main topic of

our conversation today, he served in something

called the United States Military Liaison Mission in Germany very successfully.

He had some very interesting, did some very interesting work there.

Later on, Rose Through the Ranks, served as Director of the Intelligence Division at

Headquarters Marine Corps, other positions capped off finally in government by being head of defense

humans, that's a position at DIA, and then finally as deputy director of the

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