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Cold War Myths: Why Deep-Cover Spies Never Fought Like Hollywood
In this episode, we separate the gripping fiction of The Americans from the gritty operational realities of the Cold War. While television depicts un…
22 hours ago
The Polonium Trail: Inside the Litvinenko Assassination
When former Russian security officer Alexander Litvinenko fell mysteriously ill in London, doctors couldn't explain what was happening to him — until…
5 days, 16 hours ago
The Approach Comes Through Your Phone: Reading the CHOSEN BRICK Advisory
Britain's NCSC, the FBI, and the Dutch AIVD have jointly warned about spyware they attribute to Iranian state-linked actors, including Iran's Ministr…
1 week ago
Germany Charges German-Ukrainian Woman With Spying for Russia via Berlin Embassy Contact
On Sept. 14, 2026, German federal prosecutors charged a German-Ukrainian woman identified as Ilona W. with spying for Russia. She is accused of maint…
1 week, 4 days ago
Building a Legend: How Spies Create Fake Lives- the paper soul
A legend is not a costume. It is a second biography, assembled brick by brick so that a man may walk through another country’s streets and answer its…
1 week, 6 days ago
The Shanghai Ledger: How a Marketing Man Fell Into the Wilderness of Mirrors
In Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court, marketing executive Alexander Csergo has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison for reckless f…
2 weeks ago
How Do You Catch a Mole?
A mole does not confess. He blends, he performs loyalty better than the loyal, and he waits inside an institution built entirely on the assumption th…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
Poland's Drone Drill: NATO Learns Ukraine's Hardest Lesson
In late August, U.S. Green Berets put Polish special forces through a first-of-its-kind NATO exercise: crossing a simulated front line, covering roug…
3 weeks ago
They Didn’t Just Hack Agencies. They Tried to Rent Your Router.
On August 26 the Justice Department said it had seized the domains behind two Chinese state-linked hacking platforms, QScan and QTRouter, used since …
3 weeks, 3 days ago
The Spy Who Betrayed MI6 from the Inside
Kim Philby was a high-ranking British intelligence officer who spent decades secretly working for the Soviet Union. As a member of the "Cambridge Fiv…
3 weeks, 6 days ago