the kgb colonel who was working in london as head of the kgb in london, but also working for them by six, he warned his british paymasters, if you like, that the nato exercise about to take place was being seen as possibly more than an exercise, possibly the start of a preemptive strike against the soviet union. so that exercise was altered in order to reassure the soviet union that it could be anything but an exercise. reagan i think was important in relation to the changes in russia and the changes at the end of the cold war. but important in another way. he wanted to be remembered as a peacemaker, not a warmonger. and nagy reagan was even more concerned that he should be remembered in that way. man's book emphasizes just how much in his second term reagan alarmed his conservative and how critical the so-called realists were of him. because he was very seriously interested in engaging with the soviet union at that time. and concrete policy terms, no one was more important than john schulz, the secretary of state. and it is critical that reagan took his advice. most surprising of al

include the mitrokhin papers which is perhaps the major source of the secret history of the soviet kgb. i am very pleased to say he is a member emeritus of the founding board of this museum and another member the first woman to serve as director general of mi5 so we are just delighted to have you here. please welcome christopher andrew. [applause] >> well, this is the most self-serving photographs-- can people hear me? anyway, people can hear me. the most self-serving photograph i am likely to see. in the birth of the television series, that is a bit of bassler in the united states so i am happy to say in the united states it is called mi5 juarez i noticed in the small print the mi5, not 95 or the small print at the bottom, mi5, not 95. they search for truth and the rest is a lie. this is the only authorized photograph indeed the only photographs ever taken of anybody entering the headquarters of mi5. you may wonder why that strange expression is on my face. it is going to be a difficult day. i am having to decide what shelley look at today, should it be more of the 50 volumes of antho

that this was a kgb plot to get us to lower our guard. he thought gorbachev meant what he said. and surprisingly, reagan meant what he said. for the simple, he said that the united states would share star wars technology with the soviet union. everybody dismissed that as ridiculous. gorbachev's military people did come and for that reason extraordinary opportunity was missed on the whole, reagan's contribution to the end of the cold war was not to do anything rather than to let things unfold as they did on fold. i know that it is now an article of faith among conservatives that tear down this wall that speech led to the wall being torn down. there's certainly no causal relationship there. but, there is a relationship -- but have read in stock to the richard perle neoconservative vision and he could have torpedoed gorbachev, could have probably could have caused the cold war to continue for a number of years. he didn't do that. and at reykjavik when he met with gorbachev in this extraordinary summit meeting, he violated all of the pieties of the neo conservatism by offering total