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Writer and contributing editor SpyTalk @talk_spy and podcast #UnconventionalThreat. Former editor/reporter WashPost, Newsday, AP. over to Threads @peisner27
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A Good Washington Thriller for This 4th of July

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By Peter Eisner
| SpyTalk Verified
Robert B. McCaw’s decades with an elite Washington, DC law firm lends “Traitors” an authoritative voice. (Author photo) The best spy novelists are deceptively crafty. They are able to step back from the chaotic noise of our daily headlines to remind us that, at least in fiction, honesty and goodwill can still outmaneuver the worst aspects of humanity. In his gripping new page-turner, Traitors, the veteran mystery writer Robert B. McCaw gives us exactly that kind of hero for this cynical age.
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The Spies and Professors Who Saved Ancient Athens from Nazi Plunder

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By Peter Eisner
| SpyTalk Verified
Nazi troops hoist a war flag over the Acropolis in 1941. (Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-165-0419-19A Photo: Bauer) Beyond a thirst for global domination, ambitious strongmen share a desperate need to manipulate history to bolster their legitimacy. This obsession with the past is at the heart of Stephan Talty’s compelling new book, The American School of Spies, The Archaeologists Who Fought the Nazis and Saved the Treasures of Ancient Greece.
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The KGB Clerk Who Kept the Receipts

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By Peter Eisner
| SpyTalk Verified
Rarely are intelligence agencies presented with a tantalizing possibility that could change history. This was the prospect that two British MI6 operatives encountered when a scruffy, elderly man walked into the newly created British embassy in Vilnius, Lithuania, in the spring of 1992—barely three months after the official collapse of the Soviet Union.
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