1. Spies in Fact and Fiction Debriefing 092506-1830

2. For Consideration: Week 2: “Beware the law of unintended consequences.”

3. Names We Know U2 Pilot Gary Powers (Shot down over China) – 1960 Captured rather than commit suicide. International incident for Ike.

4. Names We Know ‘super spy?’ Col. Rudolf Abel (Soviet spy, convicted in US Court. Traded for Powers 17 months later.

5. Timeline 1960 1961 1962 1963 1959: Castro aligns with USSR. Repressive measures drive exiles to Miami. Dec: Authorizes 16,000 for Saigon May 1: US U-2 shot down over Russia April: Space Race begins Kennedy defeats Nixon April: Bay of Pigs ‘Invasion’ August: Confrontation in Berlin; the Wall CIA recruits ‘La Brigada’ June: Summit October 15: The Cuban Missile Crisis “13 days in which the world held its breath.”

6. Brinkmanship “We were eyeball to eyeball, and the other guy just blinked.” -Sec. of State Dean Rusk, on the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis

7. Non-Fiction Robert Kennedy

8. Fiction Leon Uris

9. Timeline 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 Kennedy Assassinated Oct: Khrushchev deposed. Coup in Vietnam, Diem killed Jan 23: U.S.S. Pueblo captured Gulf of Tonkin May: Marines enter Vietnam Jan 30: Tet Offensive

10. Cold War turns Hot “I was told if I voted for Goldwater, we’d be at war in six months.” (Pause) “I did – and we were.” - satirical joke from 1965

11. Fiction Morris West

12. Fiction Ian Fleming

13. Fiction Ian Fleming Books to consider: Goldfinger1960 Thunderball1961 You Only Live Twice 1963

14. Fiction Alistair MacLean

15. Fiction Alistair MacLean Books to consider: Black Shrike 1961 The Satan Bug1962 The Golden Rendezvous1962 Ice Station Zebra1963 When Eight Bells Toll1966 Where Eagles Dare1967 Puppet on a Chain1969 Caravan to Vaccares1970

16. Fiction Donald Hamilton

17. Fiction Donald Hamilton Books to consider: Death of a Citizen1959 The Ambushers1962 The Poisoners1965

18. Fiction Len Deighton

19. Fiction Len Deighton Books to consider: The Ipcress File1962 Funeral In Berlin1964 The Spy Game1977 Yesterday’s Spy1975

20. Fiction John le Carre

21. Fiction John le Carre Books to consider: Spy Who Came in from the Cold1965 Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy 1975

22. Fiction Fredrick Forsyth

23. Fiction Robert Ludlum

24. Non-Fiction Neil Sheehan

25. Next Week Spies, 1976-1990 Spy Game in the Reagan Years: Iran-Contra and Shredded Confidences

26. Created by: Russell Gifford Spectacular Voyage: Lewis and Clark in Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota (2002) Learning the Great Battles of the American Civil War (CD Rom learning series, 2005) Mass Media and Big Government (Multi-media lecture series, 2006)

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