Podcast Episodes

True Spies Debriefs - Andy Greenberg on Sandworm

Season 1 Episode 281

WIRED journalist Andy Greenberg has spent years reporting from the murky world of hackers, spies, and cyber warriors. His 2019 book Sandworm tells the true story of the Kremlin-backed cyber criminals…

Published on 12 hours ago

True Spies - Brief Histories: Tradecraft

NEW from True Spies: Brief Histories. From Egyptian codebreaking, to USB sticks with the power to cripple nuclear facilities, this week hear the long evolution of tradecraft. In Brief Histories, the …

Published on 5 days, 12 hours ago

True Spies Classic: The Sociopathic Spy | CIA

Season 1 Episode 280

Jim Lawler is one of the CIA's most successful recruiters of foreign spies. But even he had to start somewhere. In this classic episode of True Spies, Vanessa Kirby joins Jim on his first foreign pos…

Published on 1 week ago

True Spies Debriefs: John Taylor on the Psychology of Spies

Season 1 Episode 279

John Taylor is an author, lecturer and advisor on handling human sources of secret intelligence. He joins True Spies producer Morgan Childs to discuss the psychology of those who play the espionage g…

Published on 2 weeks ago

The Great Illegals, Part 2: The Ambassador

Season 1 Episode 278

In this two-part True Spies story, author and journalist Shaun Walker unmasks the greatest generation of Russian spies - the Great Illegals.

In Part Two, Shaun tells the story of Iosif Grigulevich -…

Published on 3 weeks ago

True Spies - Brief Histories: Information Warfare

Season 1

NEW from True Spies: Brief Histories. From Ancient Roman propaganda apparatus to burgeoning MI6 operations, hear how the very information we consume has throughout history been orchestrated.

In Brief…

Published on 3 weeks, 6 days ago

The Great Illegals, Part One: The Whistler | NKVD

Season 1 Episode 277

In this two-part True Spies story, author and journalist Shaun Walker unmasks the greatest generation of Russian spies - the Great Illegals.

In Part One, Shaun tells the story of Nikolai Khokhlov - …

Published on 4 weeks ago

True Spies Classic: Exit Strategy | CIA

Season 1 Episode 276

In this classic episode of True Spies, CIA analyst Sarah Carlson drops Vanessa Kirby into the pressure-cooker of post-revolutionary Libya.

In 2011, the Arab Spring swept Colonel Gaddafi from office,…

Published on 1 month ago

Introducing... True Spies: Brief Histories

The history of espionage is long and shrouded in mystery...

Hear it chronicled in True Spies: Brief Histories, the new monthly episodes of True Spies.

From the intricacies of Ancient Roman tradecra…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

True Spies Debriefs: Seth Thévoz on Espionage in London's Clubland

Season 1 Episode 275

True Spies producer Morgan Childs joins researcher and author Seth Thévoz to discuss the origins of London's elite gentlemen's clubs - and the movers, shakers and spies who have called them a home-fr…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago