On October 29^th, Hoover Library & Archives marked the opening of its new exhibition, Double Exposure: Russia’s Secret Police under the Last Tsars with a keynote address by journalist and intelligence expert Shane Harris. Harris, the prize-winning author of The Watchers: The Rise of America’s Surveillance State and @War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex has worked as a senior correspondent on national and cyber security issues for The Daily Beast and Foreign Policy magazine. Harris’ talk, entitled “The Internet is a Battlefield,” outlined the modern hacking and data mining apparati used by both state and insurgent entities. The topic of Harris’ talk provided a contemporary look at issues of surveillance and espionage introduced in Double Exposure, an exhibition which provides the first ever full-scale display of the documents, photographs, intelligence reports, and memorandums kept by the famed Russian Imperial secret police, known as the Okhrana.
 

On September 26-27 and October 3-4, the Kultura Channel in Ukraine aired an interview with Anatol Shmelev, Hoover fellow and curator of Russian and Eurasian collections at Hoover Library & Archives. Shmelev discussed how Hoover Library & Archives inform and support the extensive amount of research conducted at the institution.