Was the longest serving spy for the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) really a triple agent? Or was he the victim of Cold War paranoia?
Join International Spy Museum Historian and Curator Dr. Andrew Hammond in conversation with Jesse Fink, author of The Eagle in the Mirror: The Greatest Spy Story Never Told to discuss the mysterious Dick Ellis. Ellis helped set up the Office of Strategic Services as well as the Australian Secret Intelligence Service. At one point in the 1940s he was considered one of the top three secret agents in MI6 and controlled its activities, as one journalist put it “for half the world.” But then in 1965, while under interrogation, Ellis allegedly confessed that he had supplied information to the Nazis before World War II. In the 1970s, he also revealed he was warned of the attack on Pearl Harbor ahead of time and those warnings were relayed to President Roosevelt. So was he a bigger traitor than Kim Philby or Robert Hanssen or were the allegations false? Award-winning, internationally best-selling author Fink and Hammond will explore these questions and this little-known, yet extraordinary figure who played a key role in 20th century Western espionage.
The Eagle in the Mirror will be available for sale and signing after the conversation.
Assistive listening devices will be available for the in-person program.