Larry Loftis on The Princess Spy, the WWII Spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Interview of Tuesday, 2 February 2021 of Larry Loftis, a corporate attorney and adjunct professor of law, on his latest book "The Princess Spy: The True Story of World War II Spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones." Interviewer - Host: James Hughes, AFIO President, a former CIA Operations Officer.
TOPIC: Larry Loftis and Jim Hughes discuss a U.S. citizen, Aline Griffith, who volunteered to assist the OSS abroad, had three weeks of training, and was launched into a life of glamour, glitz, and mysterious characters. She spied for OSS...and possibly did a number of favors for its successor, CIA. She remained in Europe, becoming a Spanish Countess.
The interview runs 37 minutes which includes several Q&As.
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LARRY LOFTIS is the author of two best-selling nonfiction spy thrillers. His newest being released this week is "The Princess Spy: The True Story of World War II Spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones" (Atria Books, 2021). His prior bestsellers were "Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy" (Gallery Books, 2019) and "Into the Lion's Mouth: The True Story of Dusko Popov: World War II Spy, Patriot, and the Real-Life Inspiration for James Bond" (Dutton, 2016 ). Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Mr. Loftis was a corporate attorney and adjunct professor of law.
He holds a B.A. (Political Science) and J.D. (Law) from the University of Florida, where he served on the Law Review as the Senior Executive Editor and Senior Articles Editor. An AV-rated lawyer, he has published scholarly legal articles in the National Law Journal, Florida Bar Journal, Florida Banking, and the Law Reviews of the University of Florida, University of Georgia, and Suffolk University. He can be found on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and at LarryLoftis.com.
JAMES R. HUGHES currently serves as the 17th President of AFIO. His service began January 2015. He had a career of US Government service spanning 37 years in numerous foreign countries with a particular focus in the Middle East. He started in U.S. Military Intelligence in the late 1960s and then joined the CIA’s Clandestine Service. He served overseas as a Chief of Station several times, and at CIA Headquarters in a number of senior management positions, including as Chief of the Near East and South Asia Division, in the Directorate of Operations [today’s National Clandestine Service]. He was also named the Associate Deputy Director of Operations (ADDO) at the National Security Agency, 1998-99. Following his retirement from the government in 2005, he joined EDS in Herndon, Virginia, as the Client Industry Executive for the U.S. Intelligence Community. After the HP acquisition of EDS, he continued to serve in a similar capacity until his retirement in 2012. His parents were missionaries in Turkey in the 1950s, where Jim spent his formative years. He is fluent in Arabic.
His enthusiasm really IS contagious! What an interesting interview. I'm definitely going to read the book. Thank you for the information!
I read all Aline's novels. Can't wait to read this.
Aline Griffith was my grandmother's cousin and grew up with her and Ailene's mother in Pearl River. We have letters from Aline's mother to my grandmother, Mary Jefferson Southworth, relaying of her assignment to Spain during WWII with the OSS, and life there becoming the Countess.
Does he know that names I taken by another female who went into Germany lines and intercepted radio transmissions for England
I liked the interview, spycraft insights and historical content.