blum talks howard about the life of betty pack, a washington, dc debutante who worked as a spy for the british and americans during world war ii. howard blum describes her ability to seduce diplomats and officials in order to learn secrets and provide information to her handlers. this talk is part of a multi-day conference at the world war ii museum in new orleans. it is about 45 minutes. >> our next speaker is howard , who brought the story you are about to hear to our local audience earlier this year while he was on his book tour. we thought so much of it and of howard that we wanted to bring him back for you all here today. one of his previous books that i'm sure you all know of is the brigade: