Katharine Uhre Gregorio will speak about her book The Double Life of Katharine Clark: The Untold Story of the Fearless Journalist Who Risked Her Life for Truth and Justice. Ms. Gregorio, the daughter of DC Dame Lea Uhre, was inspired to write this gripping book when she uncovered a family secret about her great-aunt, Katharine Clark, who worked as a foreign correspondent in Europe during the height of the Cold War, but that was the tip of the iceberg. Ms. Clark’s unlikely adventures began in 1955 when she befriended Milovan Djilas, a high-ranking Communist leader in Yugoslavia, who was questioning the ideology he had helped to establish. Their collaboration resulted in Ms. Clark smuggling Mr. Djilas’s manifesto out of Yugoslavia and into the hands of American publishers, where it became a New York Times bestseller, was translated into sixty languages, and was used by the CIA in its covert book program.