RETIRED MEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GREENWICH, Inc. (RMA)
Invites you to its meeting, November 12, 2025, at 11:00 am at Christ Church, Parish Hall, 254 East Putnam Ave., Greenwich, CT. The program will also be shown on Zoom at https://bit.ly/30IBj21and on local cable channels 24 (Verizon) and 79 (Optimum)
Thomas Maier
“The Invisible Spy: Churchill's Rockefeller Spy Ring and America's First Secret Agent of World War II”
The Invisible Spy is the story of Ernest Cuneo, an ex-NFL player who in 1940 became America’s first spy of WWII. Cuneo worked secretly with Winston Churchill’s spies at Rockefeller Center in New York City, which included Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, who dedicated his novel Thunderball to Cuneo. Thomas Maier will also talk about “Mafia spies,” how the CIA hired two gangsters to assassinate Cuba’s Fidel Castro during the JFK Cold War era and how these cases helped influence today’s intelligence agencies and the debate about the so-called “deep state.”
Thomas Maier is an award-winning author, television producer and former Newsday investigative reporter, columnist, and editorial board member. He worked 40 years for Newsday, from 1984-2024. He is the author and producer of the Emmy-winning Showtime drama series Masters of Sex, adapted from his dual biography of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, and also the author and producer of Mafia Spies, a six-part documentary series which appeared in 2024.
The Invisible Spy is an Amazon Editors’ Best Book in History for April 2025. His other books include All That Glitters: Anna Wintour, Tina Brown, and the Rivalry Inside America’s Richest Empire; When Lions Roar: The Churchills and the Kennedys; The Kennedys: America’s Emerald Kings; and Dr. Spock: An American Life, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
As an investigative reporter at Newsday, Maier twice won the National Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi award. He also won the Daniel Pearl Award from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. His 2009 multi-media project about victims of H-bomb testing in the Pacific won the National Headliners Award. He is a graduate of Fordham University and received his Master’s in 1982 from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Our next presentation, on December 3, will be by Benn Steil, PhD, Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations, on “The World That Wasn’t: Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century.”
The Greenwich Retired Men’s Association offers a free program every Wednesday that is open to the public, both men and women; no reservations are required. Our social break starts at 10:40 am followed promptly by our presentation at 11:00 am. For additional information see www.greenwichrma.org.
