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Season 1
A quick programming note: this weekend’s episode will be out on Sunday, October 18, rather than our usual Saturday release. We’re taking an extra day…
11 hours ago
RAF Fairford, Flydubai, and the FBI | Espresso Martini
Season 11 Episode 6
Chris and Matt start at RAF Fairford, where the arrest of five men outside the US bomber base, their swift release on bail, and a widening inquiry in…
1 week ago
What the Next 10 Years Look Like: China, Russia, Europe and AI | Sam Lichtenstein RANE
Season 11 Episode 5
Sam Lichtenstein, director of analysis at the global risk intelligence firm RANE, returns to walk Chris through RANE's 2025–2035 decade forecast: a m…
2 weeks ago
Russia’s worldview, disinformation, and the politics of influence | Dave Troy
Season 11 Episode 4
Every week, the Security Council of the Russian Federation publishes a digest of world events as Moscow sees them. Investigative journalist Dave Troy…
3 weeks ago
The Stay Behinds: Sweden’s Cold War Guardians | Johan Wennström
Season 11 Episode 3
Beginning in 1949, officially non-aligned Sweden did something it kept secret for half a century: in close cooperation with the CIA and MI6, it built…
4 weeks ago
The Nerd Reich | Gil Durán
Season 11 Episode 2
Journalist Gil Durán spent years in political consulting before returning to reporting, and eventually, to the beat that became the subject of his bo…
1 month ago
Ratcliffe’s Moscow Warning, Iran’s Long Reach, and an Alliance on Edge | Espresso Martini
Season 11 Episode 1
Chris and Matt open season eleven, and Secrets & Spies’ tenth anniversary, with three stories from a busy August. First, CIA Director John Ratcliffe’…
1 month, 1 week ago
A Rebel, a Traitor, and the Birth of the IRA | Rory Carroll
Season 10 Episode 61
Before Bletchley Park, there was Reginald "Blinker" Hall, the Admiralty’s mercurial intelligence chief whose codebreakers read Germany’s wireless tra…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Ortiz’s War: The Most Decorated Marine in the OSS | Nicholas Reynolds & Katie S. Sanders
Season 10 Episode 60
Peter J. Ortiz was the most battle-decorated member of the OSS, America’s wartime forerunner to the CIA, and one of the most decorated Marines of the…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
How GPS Became a Weapon | Katherine Dunn
Season 10 Episode 59
GPS is the rare piece of infrastructure most of us never think about until it fails — and it is failing more often, in more places, by design. In Lit…
2 months ago