Influence, blood money, body of lies and most recently, the quantum spy. This is part of our 2018 special fiction addition of indepth. Host David Ignatius, whats the premise of the quantum spy. Guest the us is locked in a new Manhattan Project race to build a piece of technology that is world changing, that is the quantum computer and our principal rival in that race is china. I told you as far as simply the facts, the the quantum spy is a novel that imagines characters who involve intelligencebattles , and other secrets about this world changingtechnology. Principally its the story of my hero orest chang. An officer who is asked to penetrate the Chinese Intelligence Service and in the process learned things about himself, things about the cia, they do not how the world works that shake him to his foundation and we also see in this novel how the Chinese Intelligence Services , not so familiar to readers as five fiction. We all feel weve been in Moscow Center with carla and the russian
Our principal rival in that race is china. As far as simply the facts, the quantum spy is a novel that imagines the characters involved, the battle to see who can steal the other secrets about world changing technology, principally the story of my hero, american of chinese descent who was a cia officer, asked to penetrate the Chinese Intelligence Service and in the process learns about himself and the cia and how the world works shake him to his foundations and we see in this novel how the Chinese Intelligence Service not so familiar to readers of spy fiction, we have been with carla, the russians by world is your to us so one of the pleasures for me if it takes us into the world of state security, very secretive Chinese Intelligence Agency that is the principal antagonist in this book. Host how much of it is true . I always say in the prefaces to my books they exist in an imagined world, if you take any book i write and think it is a recipe for how to bake a cake you are going to end
In the Ural Mountains when it came down near the village of argunovo shortly after first taking off. Sarah rainsford reports. The remains of flight 703 are scattered in the snow in fields just outside moscow, the fragments of a plane that plunged to the ground minutes after take off. Everyone on board has been killed. The aircraft was an antonov148 operated by the regional saratov airlines. It says the plane itself, shown here, was just eight years old and the pilot was experienced. The flight took off from moscow, heading for orsk in southern russia. It disappeared from radars moments later. There was no emergency call from the crew. In orsk tonight, there is despair. Relatives of the 71 passengers and crew have been gathering but they have been told theres no hope of any survivors. Medics have been sent to help calm and comfort them. At the crash site outside moscow, the debris is spread over a wide area. It was mid afternoon and people in nearby villages say they saw the plane fall
Tech giants in the us today pushed back against the idea that their platforms were used by russia to meddle in the brexit referendum. In the first ever hearing of a Parliamentary Select Committee outside the uk, british mps grilled the us companies about outside interference in the Brexit Campaign. The Tech Companies said they did have evidence of interference in the us 2016 president ial election but very little in the uks referendum on europe. The chair of the the digital, culture, media and sport committee, damien collins, has struggled to get information from the companies which is why they came to washington. Heres what the Committee Refers to as interference. Would you be prepared to conduct the same analysis which he did in the United States for the uk looking at potential russian interference in about the referendum 7 we are willing to cooperate into the investigation into whether there was any interference in the elections in the uk. We have conducted a thorough investigation
We are videoing tonight and videoing ourselves and for our Youtube Channel and cspan booktv is here and leslie at the end before you come to get your book signed please fold up your chairs that you are sitting in and leaned them against something that looks like it wont topple over. We are very pleased to have Robert Grenier here with us this evening to talk about his new book 88 days to kandahar. All up spent 27 years with the cia as station chief in islamabad during what turned out to be a very critical time before and immediately after the 9 11 attacks. He was very much involved in the u. S. Efforts to oust the taliban from afghanistan and bring hamid karzai to power in the books title refers to the period twain september 11 and december 2001 when karsay made his return to afghanistan from pakistan. Other books of horse have reported extensively on the war in afghanistan including some by other former cia officials but rob offers a fresh details about the role of both the cia and th