COLD WAR
MUSEUM HOSTS SEPT. 13 LECTURE BY RUSSIAN EXPERT ON HOW RONALD REAGAN AND
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV NEGOTIATED THE FIRST-EVER TREATY TO ELIMINATE AN ENTIRE CLASS
OF NUCLEAR MISSILES
EVENT: The
public and media are invited to attend a lecture at the Cold War Museum, 7172
Lineweaver Road in Vint Hill, VA, on Sunday,
Sept. 13 at 7 p.m. by a noted expert
on the historic and unprecedented
nuclear arms reduction treaty negotiated by President Ronald Reagan and
the head of the then-Soviet Union Gorbachev in 1987. That agreement, the
Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), eliminated an entire class of nuclear
weapons from the nuclear forces of the two nations. The event is a fundraiser for the museum, so
a donation of $20/person is requested.
SPEAKER: Justin Lifflander is an American citizen who has lived in Russia for the
past 28 years. He was employed by the U.S. Embassy in Moscow in the late 1980s,
working as an inspector at the treaty-compliance monitoring facility
established at a Russian missile production factory. He later married a Soviet
woman who, under the terms of the treaty, accompanied the U.S. observers when
they conducted their inspections.
He then
worked as an executive at Hewlett-Packer Russia for nearly 20 years, and was an
editor at The Moscow Times from 2010
to 2014. He holds American and Russian citizenship and lives in Moscow with his
wife.
Note to Media: Mr. Lifflander will be available for
media interviews following his presentation. If you are interested but cannot
attend, it may be possible to arrange a telephone interview. Please contact Jason Hall, Executive Director, at 703-283-4124.
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The Cold War Museum® is a 501(c)(3)
charitable organization dedicated to education, preservation, and research on
the global, ideological, and political confrontations between East and West
from the end of World War II to the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Location
and Directions:
The Museum is located at Vint Hill, the former Top Secret signals
intelligence base just outside Gainesville, VA, in one of the original Vint
Hill Farm Station buildings used during the Cold War by the US Army, the
National Security Agency, and the Central Intelligence Agency to intercept and
interpret coded messages. Our Street
Address is 7172 Lineweaver Road, Vint Hill, VA 20187 (next to the Vint Hill
Craft Winery).
Our collections are particularly
strong on signals intelligence, image intelligence, aerial surveillance, civil
defense, Berlin, the East German secret police (STASI), the Cuban Missile
Crisis, and events such as the Pueblo and Liberty incidents. The Museum shares
a campus with The Inn at Vint Hill, Vintage Hill (an antiques/crafts shop), the
Vint Hill Craft Winery, the Covert Café, and Old Bust Head Brewing Company.
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