Posts Tagged ‘spying’

Scribblings: Shane Harris

‘Watch The Watcher’
courtesy of ‘kevinspencer’
Tomorrow at noon, the International Spy Museum is having a lunchtime discussion with journalist Shane Harris on his new book, The Watchers: The Rise of America’s Surveillance State. In his new book, Harris tracks the government’s elusive quest to build a computer system that can sift huge amounts of electronic data [...]

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Scribblings: Haynes & Klehr

‘Soviet Unterzoegersdorf’
courtesy of ‘boklm’
In 1993, former KGB officer Alexander Vassiliev was permitted unique access to Stalin-era records of Soviet intelligence operations against the United States. Vassiliev subsequently shared the notes he took with Library of Congress historian John Earl Haynes and Emory University professor Harvey Klehr. Together they have written an extraordinarily detailed and shocking [...]

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Amateur Spies (Like Us)

WLDC Stealth, courtesy of Don Whiteside
Unless this is your first time here you’re well aware that we’ve become a little obsessive over Jack Bauer’s tour through our city. We’ve got 15 17 hours worth of 24 recaps under our belt and fully intend to laugh (in order to fight off the tears) through the remaining [...]

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