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CIA staff historian to lecture at BYU March 30

Nicholas Dujmovic, CIA staff historian, will present a Brigham Young University David M. Kennedy Center lecture, “Can We Know the Truth about CIA History?” Monday, March 30, at 3 p.m. in 238 Herald R. Clark Building.

Dujmovic joined the agency in 1990 as an analyst. He has also served as speechwriter to John Deutch and George J. Tenet, former CIA directors, and as editor of the “President's Daily Brief.”

Prior to his agency career, Dujmovic was a seagoing officer in the U.S. Coast Guard and taught at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.

He received a bachelor’s degree in government from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and a doctorate from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

This lecture will be archived online. For more information on events sponsored by the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies, see the calendar online at kennedy.byu.edu. For more information about this event, contact Lee Simons at 801-422-2652.

Writer: Angela Fischer

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Photo by Jaren S. Wilkey/BYU Photo

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