Rhea Seehorn

But we were civilian and the counterintelligence unit, you know, would be like we moved.

I was born in Norfolk, Virginia, and then we immediately moved or Norfolk if you're from there.

Yeah.

Immediately moved to Japan, then Arizona, and then we moved back to Virginia to catch the Walker spy family, which was a big case in the 80s.

That he worked on, yeah.

That was a joint investigation with NIS, FBI, and CIA about two brothers.

I think they were Navy and CIA that both had decided to turn secrets to become moles for the KGB.

So it's counterintelligence meaning our people.

You're investigating our own who have decided to work for the other.

I hear from other people that he – when he was a deep in the field agent, even –

pre the fall of the iron wall and all of that stuff before my sister and I were around or at least conscious of his stuff.

I hear there were disguises and things like that way back then.

But after that, it felt, we understood that he was investigating people and we understood that he went to an office and that it involved government and military officials and stuff, or maybe just government officials.

And when we'd move, we'd sometimes live on a base for,

short while while they found us uh residential housing um but I wasn't I knew he was investigating things and I knew that they were secretive but I didn't have a lot more details than that and I am loathe to say that my head was too far up my butt as a teenager to actually be interested in what my parents actually do um and then he died when I was 18 so I didn't get to ask a lot of the questions that I wish I had asked

Probably not.

And my dad's favorite answer to everything was, what do you write in a book?

If you even just said, like, where are you going?

What do you write in a book?

And I thought I was so brilliant when I was 15 that I finally had a comeback.