I was recently on a panel at the International Spy Museum that focused on the James Harper espionage case. Description: Silicon Valley is an innovation incubator, but not just for tech — hand in hand with its growth have been efforts to steal enticing secrets. Spy Valley: An Engineer’s Nuclear Betrayal, a new podcast series […]
This is a sad story but, in its own way, a truly American one. It focuses on what we refer to today as an “undocumented immigrant” victimized by a nation suddenly, and, unexpectedly, caught up in the grip of irrational fear. My role in the saga began last fall with an email message from a […]
I was interviewed on a new British documentary called “Spying on the Royals” about a secret government plot to eavesdrop on Edward VIII. I’m shown above with editor Chris Roots during the filming of my segment. Here is the trailer for the show: More information How MI5 spied on the KING: An explosive new documentary […]
I spoke at the Marechal Ferdinand Foch Auditorium on the grounds of the Ecole Militaire in Paris for a conference before an audience of seven hundred on the evening of June 23, 2016. In connection with the upcoming fifteenth anniversary of 9/11, I reviewed some of the historical and institutional factors which contributed to the Intelligence Community’s […]
A new video that tells the history of the Chicago FBI Field Office: CHICAGO FBI HISTORY from tim morris on Vimeo.
A photo taken at Flannigan’s Restaurant in Lake Ronkonkoma, New York. The occasion was a joint presentation on June 4 at the Sachem Library in Sachem, New York on the role Lake Ronkonkoma, New York played in the Duquesne espionage investigation. I’m on the left next to Evelyn Volkgraff, the Director of Lake Ronkonkoma Historical Society […]
I would like to share with you this video produced for the Society of Former Agents of the FBI by James Hoyer Law Firm and Media Productions. It’s a video in memory of FBI Special Agents Jack Coler and Ron Williams, who were killed in the line of duty on the Oglala Sioux Indian Reservation in Pine […]
My lecture at Cercle K2, a Paris based think-tank that seeks solutions to the social, political and economic problems facing the world today. I am proud to acknowledge that I am a founding member. The lecture was held at the beautiful Ferdinand Foch Auditorium on the grounds of Ecole Militaire in Paris, France on June 24, 2015 before an […]
Christopher Boyce was a young TRW employee in California with a CIA security clearance who began spying for the Soviet KGB with his friend, Daulton Lee in 1975. He was caught and arrested in 1977 and sentenced to 40 years in prison. In April 1985, Boyce testified at hearings before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on […]
On April 21, 2015, LTC Charmaine E. Betty-Singleton (USAR), a US Army War College Fellow at The Institute of World Politics and I gave a lecture on the topic of “Civil Liberties and National Security: Did Hoover Get it Right?” This presentation was the result of research conducted by LTC Betty-Singleton for her IWP-USAWC Fellowship. […]
Roger Hollis Revisited On Friday, April 10, 2015, I had the pleasure of serving on a six member panel in front of a packed audience at the Institute of World Politics (IWP) in Washington, DC. The title of the program was British Patriot or Soviet Spy? Clarifying a Major Cold War Mystery. Our mission was to […]
More than four decades ago, under the cover of night, a group of eight individuals infiltrated an FBI office outside of Philadelphia and walked out with more than 1,000 documents, revealing closely guarded secrets—many about the FBI’s extensive surveillance programs. News of the burglary made the front page of The Washington Post, and although the […]
(CSPAN) Peter Duffy talked about his book, Double Agent: The First Hero of World War II and How the FBI Outwitted and Destroyed a Nazi Spy Ring, in which he recounts the life of William Sebold, the first double agent in FBI history, who infiltrated a ring of Nazi spies in New York City. In his book, […]
On September 11, 2014, I had the honoring of speaking about my book, “Hoover’s Secret Wars Against Axis Spies: FBI Counterintelligence During World War II,”at the Ralph J. Bunch Library at the US State Department in Washington, DC. I talk about why I wrote the book, what is in it, the unique sources I tapped into and, because of […]
I will be part of a panel examining the Richard Hollis case: British Patriot or Soviet Spy? Clarifying a Cold War Mystery A demonstration of new analytic techniques to examine the controversial case of whether Britain’s former MI5 Director General, Roger Hollis, was or was not a Soviet agent. Friday, October 17, 2014 4:00-6:30 PM The […]
The Institute of World Politics videotaped the lecture I recently gave about my new book, Hoover’s Secret War against Axis Spies: FBI Counterespionage During World War II.
The FBI has recently released two videos about the Glenn Shriver espionage case to alert other college students who are studying abroad to the possibility of being targeted for recruitment by a foreign intelligence service or entity. (FBI) Glenn Duffie Shriver seemed like an average college student—majoring in international relations at a college in Michigan […]
Christopher Boyce’s 1985 testimony to Congress about security at government contractors and effectiveness of security awareness programs. This three-part video is from 1998 episodes of CI-TV with host David Major, retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent. Christopher Boyce had been an employee of a government contractor with a top secret security clearance and worked in a […]
John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr talked about the book they wrote with Alexander Vassiliev, Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America (Yale University Press; May 26, 2009). Alexander Vassiliev, a former KGB officer, was given unprecedented access to Stalin-era KBG records that allowed him and his co-authors to present an unprecedented […]
From a joint conference of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Georgetown University Center for Peace and Security Studies. Extracts from a November 1976 interview with James Angleton who retired in 1975 as the head of counterintelligence at the CIA.
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