On Monday April 3, 2017 at noon, David P. Hunt, a 32 year veteran of the CIA’s Clandestine Service will be the speaker for the Brown Bag Lunch at the St. Michaels branch of the Talbot County Free Library – Intelligence in Flux: From the Cold War to the Present. Mr. Hunt will discuss select operations from his experiences overseas to illustrate the cases faced during the Cold War, including a major 30 year program directed against the United States and American businesses. He will also discuss the motivations that operations officers contend with, greed, deception, revenge, resentment, courage, and risk taking. Finally, he will discuss current issues including a profession in flux, the growing complexity of technological and cyber capabilities, and take questions on any aspect of intelligence.
Mr. Hunt retired in 1995 as a senior officer after six field tours, including Italy, Vietnam, Somalia, Norway, France and New York City. He served twice as Deputy Chief of Station (Norway and France) and twice as Chief of Station, (Somalia and New York City). Mr. Hunt is an expert in Soviet operations, European affairs and counterintelligence. Mr. Hunt holds the Donovan Award for Excellence as well as the CIA’s Distinguished Intelligence Medal, its highest award. Mr. Hunt is a graduate of St. Paul’s School and holds a B.A.in History/Government from Colby College in Maine. He attended school in Switzerland. He also served in the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps and spent a year in Korea. The Brown Bag Lunch is sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Bring a lunch and enjoy coffee and desert provided by the library. For more information you can call (410) 745-5877.
Saturday, April 8, 2017 at noon, David Klevan, History Unfolded: Our Local Newspapers and the Holocaust.
David Klevan is the Education Outreach Specialist in the Levine Institute for Holocaust Education at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, where he develops educational resources and programs for a diverse group of audiences, and specializes in experiential learning in online and digital learning environments, the most recent of which is History Unfolded: US Newspapers and the Holocaust. Through this project, educators, students, and history buffs across America are helping the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum discover how local newspapers covered the Nazi threat in the 1930s and 1940s, how Americans reacted, and what that means for us today. During this presentation, the Museum’s education outreach specialist will discuss the role this project is playing in a multi-year Museum initiative to engage the public in critical thinking about Americans and the Holocaust. History Unfolded will continue to accept new research through at least the summer of 2018. During this presentation, information will be provided on how you can participate using historical newspapers in the local library system as well as online.
During his 20+ year tenure at the Museum, Mr. Klevan has been responsible for production of the Museum’s first mobile app, supervised the Museum’s social media outreach; and coordinated the Museum’s flagship partnership with Washington, DC area schools. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his master’s degree in Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Information is available by calling (410) 745-5877.
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