Spies and unHoly Lies: How American Missionaries-Turned-Covert-Agents Helped Win World War II and Shape the Future of US Intelligence

On Thursday, September 13, 2018, the Intelligence Studies Project and the Clements Center for National Security hosted Matthew Sutton, the Edward R. Meyer Distinguished Professor of History at Washington State University, for a public talk on “Spies and unHoly Lies: How American Missionaries-Turned-Covert-Agents Helped Win World War II and Shape the Future of US Intelligence.” Select event photographs are found HERE. 

BIOGRAPHY

Matthew Sutton is the Edward R. Meyer Distinguished Professor of History at Washington State University. He is the author of American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism (Belknap Press of Harvard Press, 2014), Jerry Falwell and the Rise of the Religious Right: A Brief History with Documents (Belford/St. Martin’s, 2012), and Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America (Harvard University Press, 2007). He has published articles in diverse venues ranging from the Journal of American History to The New York Times and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the US Fulbright Commission, and the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation. In 2016, he was appointed a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow.