A series of Hunter Biden laptop deniers are running the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC
The museum, which touts itself as “lifting the veil of secrecy on the hidden world of intelligence, exploring its successes and failures, challenges, and controversies,” has a number of ex-intelligence officials on its board who signed a letter saying the laptop “had all the classic earmarks of a Russian disinformation operation.”
Jeremy Bash, who was once a chief of staff at the CIA and the Pentagon, is a board member at the museum. He was also picked by President Joe Biden to be part of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board last month. “This looks like Russian intelligence. This walks like Russian intelligence. This talks like Russian intelligence,” Bash said on MSNBC on Oct. 19, 2020.
BIDEN PICKS HUNTER LAPTOP DENIER FOR INTEL ADVISORY BOARD
President Joe Biden gives a thumbs-up as he boards Air Force One with his son Hunter Biden (right) at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on Aug. 10, 2022.
(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Gen. Michael Hayden is a letter signer and a special adviser on the museum’s board. He was the director of the National Security Agency during the end of the Clinton administration and into 2005 during the George W. Bush administration, and he also led the CIA from 2006 to early 2009 during the start of the Obama administration.
Jonna Hiestand Mendez, another signatory, is on the museum advisory board and is listed as a founding board member. Mendez worked at the CIA from 1966 to 1993 and is the former chief of disguise in the CIA’s Office of Technical Service and is featured in the museum’s introduction video (accompanied by narration by actor Morgan Freeman), and she has her own mini-display in the museum touting her achievements.
Malcolm Nance, a former member of Navy intelligence, is also on the advisory board. He did not sign the letter, though he shared the article on it on Twitter.
“BAD SPYCRAFT ALERT: The ‘laptop’ (briefcase, safe, harddrive, purse, wallet, jacket pocket) full of accidentally abandoned “secrets” is an OLD KGB/FSB TECHNIQUE of PLANTING data to be ‘suddenly discovered’ just for a gullible news media,” Nance also tweeted the day New York Post wrote about the laptop emails on Oct. 14, 2020. He also called them “Giuliani/Russian Intelligence generated fake emails” in another tweet that month.
The museum’s honorary board also includes laptop letter signers.
Mike Morell, a former acting CIA director under Obama, is featured in the museum’s introduction video, as well as in the exhibit on America’s successful raid against Osama bin Laden. Marc Polymeropoulos, a former senior operations officer at the CIA who signed the letter but is not on the board, told National Review in 2020 that he and Morell helped put the letter together.
James Clapper, another honorary board member, was Obama’s former director of national intelligence and told the New York Post earlier this year that “sounding such a cautionary note AT THE TIME was appropriate.”
John McLaughlin was a former deputy director of the CIA from 2000 at the end of the Clinton administration into 2004 during the George W. Bush administration and was also briefly acting director of the agency. And Doug Wise was a former deputy director of the Defense Intelligence Agency under Obama and spent 29 years in the CIA.
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
The International Spy Museum, which opened its doors in 2002 and moved to the district’s L’Enfant Plaza in 2019, touts itself as holding “the largest collection of international espionage artifacts on public display.”
The spy museum did not respond to a request for comment.
.