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The program will feature the following guest speakers:
Jonna Mendez, former CIA Chief of Disguise, co-author of "The Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War"
and
Vince Houghton PhD, Spy Museum Historian, discussing his just released "The Nuclear Spies: America's Atomic Intelligence Operation against Hitler and Stalin."

Jonna Mendez's presentation starts at 11 a.m. Mendez (Spy Dust: Two Masters of Disguise Reveal the Tools and Operations That Helped Win the Cold War), will share (with late husband Tony Mendez) their experiences as spies in Moscow during the height of the Cold War in the mid-1980s. The authors begin with the initial list of "The Moscow Rules," and continue to discuss briefly the current state of affairs in Russia under Vladimir Putin, and how they interfered with the 2016 U.S. election.

Vince Houghton PhD, historian and curator of the International Spy Museum, makes his presentation at 1 p.m. on "The Nuclear Spies: America's Atomic Intelligence Operation against Hitler and Stalin." He asks why did the US intelligence services fail so spectacularly to know about the Soviet Union's nuclear capabilities following WWII? The Manhattan Project's intelligence team had penetrated the Third Reich and knew every detail of the Nazi 's plan for an atomic bomb. What changed and what went wrong?