About the Program
Thomas Schoonover recalls the life of Heinz August Luning, a Nazi spy who posed as a Jewish refugee for the Third Reich in Cuba at the beginning of World War II. Sent to Cuba to collect information on the United States and the Allies, Heinz Luning was according to the author highly incompetent and was the only spy executed in Latin America during WWII. He would later become the inspiration for Graham Greene's "Our Man in Havana." This event was hosted by the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC.