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His brother carried out a secret mission for the CIA in 1981 to exfiltrate Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski from Poland. His father was a spy for the Polish government in exile in Poland during WWII, and his grandfather was a spy for the second Polish Department in Lwow/Lviv in the 1930s. Alex Storozynski has spies in his blood! Storozynski is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, award-winning author, and filmmaker. In 1987, his journalistic work caused him to be declared an enemy of the state and banned from Communist Poland. How much of this fight against oppression was innate? To explore this question, Storozynski turned his investigative talents towards his own family. He found three generations of intelligence operatives and uncovered untold stories of the atrocities of WWII and the Cold War. This evening he’ll reveal what he discovered and how he brought it to light in his book Spies In My Blood: Secrets of a Polish Family’s Fight Against Nazis and Communists. Spies in My Blood will be available for sale and signing after the event. This program is in collaboration with the Embassy of the Republic of Poland and The Kosciuszko Foundation, Washington, DC. Visit www.spymuseum.org.