'Espionage in World War II: The FBI and OSS' with Bradley W. Hart
Event description
- Academic events
- Free
- Open to the public
This lecture on the development of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during WWII will highlight key missions, successes and controversies and trace its lasting legacy in the post-war world. We will also consider the question of how the American public has historically viewed intelligence gathering and present the question of how those debates have shifted since the war.
About the speaker
Bradley W. Hart is the Senior Historian at the Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy. Hart received his PhD in history from Churchill College, Cambridge, and is the author of two books, including ‘Hitler’s American Friends: The Third Reich’s Supporters in the United States’ (2018), and more than 20 academic articles and book chapters. Before joining the Institute, Hart taught at California State University- Fresno and worked as an international affairs fellow in Washington DC.
He has made numerous television, radio, podcast and documentary appearances. Hart is the host of the Museum’s podcast series Secret WWII: Spies & Special Ops and his current research focuses on intelligence, espionage and information warfare in World War II.
