True Lies/True Lives: Famous Spies of the 20th Century

True Lies/True Lives: Famous Spies of the 20th Century Wednesdays in February and the first Wednesday in March; 10:15 am Location: International Spy Museum In this eye-opening series, a distinguished group of current and former senior intelligence officers and scholars share their personal and expert perspectives on the most significant spies of our times. Discover what motivated these spies to share information. Was it patriotism or money? Ego or anger? Justice or spite? And find out the impact of their espionage—for good or ill. Aldrich Ames: High Pay for High Crimes Wednesday, 3 February; 10:15 am Before Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Officer Aldrich “Rick” Ames betrayed his country to spy for Soviet intelligence, Peter Earnest was one of his supervisors. The founding executive director of the International Spy Museum and a 35-year-veteran of the CIA’s Clandestine Service, Earnest provides a unique perspective on Ames and the legacy of his betrayals. Driven by greed and a desire for the high life, Ames volunteered to spy for the Soviet KGB in 1985. Over the next nine years, he gave the KGB the name of every CIA source the Agency operated within the Soviet Union and compromised many other CIA covert operations in Eastern Europe; at least ten Soviets working covertly for the CIA were executed as a result of his betrayal. John Walker: The Ring Leader Wednesday, 10 February; 10:15 am KGB Major General Oleg Kalugin (ret.) was on the other side when cash-strapped warrant officer John Walker volunteered U.S. Naval secrets to the Soviets in 1967. As the deputy resident and acting chief of the KGB Residency at the Soviet Embassy in Washington, Kalugin handled Walker, the leader of one of the most notorious and damaging spy rings in U.S. history. Walker, a communications specialist, recruited his brother, his son, and his friend and colleague Jerry Whitworth to supply the Soviet Union with Naval decoding keys to more than one million top secret messages. Oleg Penkovsky: The Heroic Spy Wednesday, 17 February; 10:15 am In 1960, Oleg Penkovsky, a colonel in Soviet military intelligence, was determined to share the truth about Soviet missile power and war capability with the West. But no one would listen! When he finally connected with the CIA and British intelligence, his handlers debriefed him for over 50 hours gleaning everything from gossip to 10,000 pages of military manuals and documents. Thomas Boghardt, International Spy Museum historian and Cold War-era intelligence expert, explores Penkovsky’s revelations and how this information kept us from war with the USSR over the Cuban Missile Crisis. He will also discuss Penkovsky’s complex motivations for spying, how the KGB eventually caught up with him, and what his case can teach intelligence and counterintelligence officials today. Robert Hanssen: The Anonymous Spy Wednesday, 24 February; 10:15 am David G. Major worked with Robert Hanssen at the FBI for 14 years and was his chain-of-command supervisor for three years. In 1979, special agent Hanssen volunteered to spy for the Soviet Military Intelligence Agency (GRU). The counterintelligence expert shared U.S. intelligence community secrets, the identities of dozens of secret intelligence agents working for the U.S. around the world, and leaked the existence of an FBI eavesdropping tunnel dug under the Russian Embassy in D.C. Hanssen remained anonymous to his Soviet handlers and to the U.S. government for over 20 years. The damage done by this traitor is incalculable. Major, a retired FBI supervisory special agent, founder of the Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies, and International Spy Museum board member, will provide a rare glimpse into the personality and psychology of Hanssen. Ana Montes: Cuba’s American Mole Wednesday, 3 March; 10:15 am Scott W. Carmichael, the Defense Intelligence Agency’s senior counterintelligence investigator, and his colleagues became suspicious of Ana Montes, the intelligence community’s top Cuban analyst. As it turns out, their concerns were warranted: throughout her 16-year career, Montes was sending Castro closely guarded American secrets and using her position to influence U.S. strategic thinking on Cuba. Carmichael, author of True Believer: Inside the Investigation and Capture of Ana Montes, Cuba’s Master Spy, reveals the details of the spy hunt that ended her espionage career less than 24 hours before she would have learned specifics of the U.S. plan to invade Afghanistan in the wake of September 11th. Carmichael will also comment on parallels between the Montes case and more recent Cuban spy cases. In collaboration with the Smithsonian Resident Associate Program. Tickets: $115 (must be purchased through the Smithsonian) Members of The Spy Ring® (Join Today!) and Smithsonian Resident Members: $80, Smithsonian Resident Senior Members: $70 To register: (via phone) 202.633.3030. Spy Ring Members should identify themselves. (online) http://residentassociates.org. Internet Quick Tix code for the program: 1M2-486. Spy Ring Members promotional code: 181824. 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