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Please join author Patrick Radden Keefe (1999) for a fireside chat with Joseph Gartin - former deputy associate director of the CIA - to discuss his latest podcast "Wind of Change" a podcast investigating espionage and pop music during the Cold War.

It’s 1990. The Berlin Wall just fell. The Soviet Union is on the verge of collapse. And the soundtrack to the revolution is one of the best selling songs of all time, the metal ballad “Wind of Change,” by the Scorpions.

Decades later, journalist Patrick Radden Keefe heard a rumor: the song wasn’t written by the Scorpions. It was written by the CIA. This is his journey to find the truth.

Wind of Change is an Original Series from Pineapple Street Studios, Crooked Media and Spotify.

About the Author

Patrick Radden Keefe (1999) is an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and the author of the New York Times bestseller Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, as well as two other books: The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream, and Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping. Patrick started contributing to The New Yorker in 2006 and has written investigative narrative nonfiction on a range of subjects, from the hunt for the drug lord Chapo Guzman to the tragic personal history of the mass shooter Amy Bishop and the role that the Sackler family and their company Purdue Pharma played in sparking the opioid crisis. He received the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing in 2014, and was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Reporting in 2015 and 2016. Say Nothing received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, as well as the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, and was selected by Entertainment Weekly as one of the “10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade.”

He is also the writer and host of WIND OF CHANGE, an 8-part podcast series from Pineapple Street Studios, Crooked Media and Spotify, which investigates the strange convergence of espionage and pop music during the Cold War.

About the Moderator

Joseph Gartin is a national security professional with more than 30 years of experience in the U.S. Intelligence Community. He recently retired from the CIA as deputy associate director of CIA for talent and chief learning officer, overseeing learning and development programs for its global workforce. His previous assignments include dean of the Sherman Kent School for Intelligence Analysis, vice chairman of the National Intelligence Council and director of the President’s Daily Briefing. He began his intelligence career in 1986 at the predecessor to today’s National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, focusing on East Asian militaries. Gartin is passionate about increasing diversity and inclusion in the national security field and evolving intelligence tradecraft for tomorrow’s challenges. He holds degrees from Georgetown University and Pacific Lutheran University and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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