Space for them so that they can open up well dr thomas are we appreciate you taking the time to try to help us understand this is valuable insights tonight into a very difficult subject dr Thomas Albert thank you yeah thank you for your interest. And finally the brazilian president has raised some french follicles if you will after he reportedly skipped a meeting with frances foreign minister to you guessed it get a haircut so your bull sonata was due to meet with the French Foreign minister but he cancelled last minute only to be seen a little later why and streaming on facebook from the barbershop its all being seen in france as a deliberate snub by the hardline brazilian leader who was at odds with paris and many other nations over Climate Policy theyre calling it the blow dryer blow well. All right the days almost done the conversation continues online or find us on twitter and you can follow me at brant off t. V. Dont forget to use our hash tag the day every member whatever happen
Of how the book subject went from being an idealistic harvard graduate to hardcore columnist to the lessons we can draw from that as we grapple with modern form of fanaticism. Its its a brilliant book that to quote the New York Times window of delusion and narcism that fill the radicalized of any era. Theres another reason that we are particularly delighted to be hosting tonights event at the library and thats long distinguished career as journalist and human rights advocate, you can read about in your program researched and wrote much of this book right here down the hall from where we are sitting in the libraries fredrik and alan room. The alan room are several special places at the library that offer actions to our collection and quiet contemplating place for writers to think and be inspired. Its always a source of pride when we are able to celebrate publications made at the Public Library at the public event as we are doing this evening. Tonight we are proud because our moderateor
As she continued on the track. It isnt likely they get a lot from paris to london to rome. But the exciting work is when it comes from places people have to look on a map to find. Said this is the cutting edge American Foreign policy so lets conclude one on this note but where the turnover of the depth of expertise has left the field i wish as some point the next industry show would consider pulling somebody from the ranks for putting somebody in the leadership role from that. Will put this up at this time it is awful and any student of Foreign Policy and practitioner is not only informative but it is fascinating. But what ive learned from the book thank you so much for your contribution. [inaudible conversations] and. I am the Vice President of the program here it is my great pleasure to welcome you to deny its author talk who will be discussing the just published book true believer. As you will soon hear there are aspects from the tragic and compelling story cow this subject went fro
Germany. He received a great deal of the money that german ambassador had to spread, and tom tunney had to follow him around. Ultimately, he gets the information on him and he discovers, he goes up to his apartment up by columbia university, and he has a secret diary where hes recorded in german and in english meticulous prussian fashion, how he superintends hspends his day, everyone he meets with, all the things he wants to do, that hes going to stop smoking, stop drinking, and by the way, im also going to place a bomb on this ship on such and such a date. His key operative are he gives code names to d1, d2, d3. Part of the story that i tell in dark invasion is how tunney and his men track down these various operatives once they have this code book and how they, too, have to break this code and find these people. Yeah, fdr was undersecretary of the navy. He had his own private force of enforcement and investigators. I know that he was basically tracking down the immorality of the Amer
Counterintelligence and also mentioned in the companion on the legacy of the wilsonian in the 1920s. Hes also been involved in an exhibit on the fbi in the museum since june of 2008 and appeared on many documentaries on cspan, cbs sunday news, cnn, and turner classic movies. Please join me in welcoming our first speaker, David Chambers. Good afternoon. My name is indeed David Chambers and i confess here and now that i am a grandchild of Whittaker Chambers, the subject of my paper. Due to time constraints, ill jump straight in and start by laying to rest that the case is a sideshow. When compared to chambers earlier spy work for two chief reasons. First, no proof exists that any of the groups ten former federal members in the later 1930s stole major secrets or effected major shifts in u. S. Policy. Second, i argue today that washingtons Representative Side branch of the Global Network of soviet intelligence in which chambers own role was small, but which as a network was more crit cool