CIA operative during Cold War from Crawfordsville

During the 1950s and '60s, a Hoosier from Crawfordsville could not tell people where he worked. His employer was the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which Benjamin Evans only could reveal beginning in 1970 when he was named executive secretary of the agency and no longer undercover. Before that, his assignments included a post in Cuba during the rise of Fidel Castro. And in the aftermath of World War II, he was based in Japan as a military officer and part of the U.S. occupation force. By then, Evans had been trained in psychological warfare, known as "psywar" and a major focus as the Cold War era began. "Cold War traumas are on many folks' minds (currently)," notes Douglas Wissing, author of Gentleman in the Shadows, a biography of Benjamin Evans. Doug will be Nelson's guest as Hoosier History Live explores the life and CIA career of Evans, who died in 1987.