STS Colloquium -- Monday, September 15th
Seduced by Secrets, Smitten by Technology: Spy-Tech East and Spy-Tech West
Kristie Macrakis, Georgia Institute of Technology
4:00 pm, MIT, E51-095
In this image-rich presentation, Kristie Macrakis will compare and
contrast East Bloc and American espionage technology and styles
during the Cold War. While US large-scale technological systems like
spy satellites, planes and submarines diverged from the East bloc
style of doing espionage, both sides were remarkably similar in their
construction and use of tradecraft in agent operations.
Kristie Macrakis received her Ph.D in the history of science from
Harvard University. She is Professor of History of Science at
Michigan State University and will be moving full-time to the Georgia
Institute of Technology in January 2009. She is the author or editor
of Surviving the Swastika (1993), Science under Socialism(1999) East
German Intelligence (forthcoming,2009), and, most recently Seduced by
Secrets (2008) (www.seducedbysecrets.com) as well as numerous articles.
For a complete schedule of events, please see the STS website:
http://web.mit.edu/sts/calendar/index-css.html
Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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