Were going to be discussing this book from warsaw with love in the subtitle of it will give the title itself may not convey the substance of the book but the subtitle polish spies the cia and the forging of an Unlikely Alliance does the book is an unusual one in that it the origin or impetus for it was landmark article published by the author of this book john palm fred hamel introduced in a second, but that article appeared in the Washington Post in 1995 and it traced what was an extraordinary story of the polish Intelligence Services cooperation with the cia to rescue. Us intelligence agents who had been trapped behind their rocky lines in 1991 when after iraq invaded kuwait and the the story of how those agents were rescued plus other extremely interesting information about the polish Intelligence Services cooperation was told in that article and has been expanded here, but this book also covers a much wider swath of history. It looks at the intelligence dimension of us polish relat
Reality. Because that mediacom we are built to keep you ahead. Mediacom, along with these television companies, supports cspan2 as a public service. Thank you. Let me welcome everyone here today to cold war studies seminar here at the data center of Harvard University. Today were going to be discussing this book from warsaw with love and the subtitle of it will give the title itself may not convey the substance of thece book but the subtitle, polish spies, the cia and the forging of an Unlikely Alliance does. The book is an unusual one in that the origin or impetus for it was landmark article published by the author of this book, john pomfret tool introduced in the second but that article appeared in the Washington Post in 1995, and it traced what wasas an extraordinary story of the polish Intelligence Services cooperation witha the cia to rescue u. S. Intelligence agents who had been trapped behind the rocky blind in 19901991 when1991 when, after iraq invadedry kuwait. And the story o