"I've discovered a neglected, shadowy dimension of history in intelligence records at the National Archives. I want to make history come alive like historian Peter Fleming..." [Ian's brother]
As a child during the Cold War, Jamie Bisher cultivated penpals in Russia, finagled visits to the Soviet Embassy in Washington and saved his meager earnings from after-school jobs to trek to the May Day parade in communist East Berlin. His rich job experiences--7/11 clerk on the 11pm-7am "robbery shift," leafleteer for a liberal congressman, chauffeur for the Lebanese Embassy, desk clerk at the more...
