Podcast Episodes

The Baltic Baron | MI6

Season 1 Episode 274

Author, historian and former British Foreign Office official Tim Willasey-Wilsey tells the incredible story of Wilhelm Von De Ropp - the high-born chameleon who had Hitler's ear in the build-up to WW…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

True Spies Classic: I Was Never Here | CSIS

Season 1 Episode 273

Rediscover a classic from the vaults with Andrew Kirsch - a Special Operations officer with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.

True Spies work in all sorts of far-flung locales - but some a…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

True Spies Debriefs: Douglas Waller on Frank Wisner

Season 1 Episode 272

Content Warning: This episode contains references to suicide.

True Spies producer Morgan Childs sits down with author and journalist Douglas Waller to discuss the complex and controversial legacy at …

Published on 2 months ago

Cover of Darkness | CSIS

Season 1 Episode 271

Former Canadian Security Intelligence Service operative Neil Bisson delivers a compact masterclass in Human Intelligence gathering in this blow-by-blow account of a Mobile Debrief.

Along the way, you…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

MEMBER'S EPISODE - True Spies Debrief: Jane Bradley and Michael Schwirtz on Russia's Brazilian Illegals

Season 1 Episode 270

Investigative New York Times journalists Jane Bradley and Michael Schwirtz speak to True Spies producer Frank Palmer about the discovery of a Russian 'spy factory' in Brazil.

This is a free taster of…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

True Spies Debriefs: Stephen Davis on Flight 149

Season 1 Episode 269

Journalist Stephen Davis has spent 30 years working to uncover the truth behind one of the most secretive chapters of the Gulf War. When British Airways Flight 149 landed in Kuwait on the 2nd of Augu…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Foxtrot in Kandahar, Part 2: Showdown in Takhteh-Pol | CIA

Season 1 Episode 267

In late 2001, veteran CIA Officer Duane Evans deployed to Afghanistan as part of the US response to 9/11. This is his story.

In Part 2, Duane and Team Foxtrot make the perilous journey to Kandahar. …

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

Foxtrot in Kandahar, Part 1: Snakes and Lightning | CIA

Season 1 Episode 267

In late 2001, veteran CIA Officer Duane Evans deployed to Afghanistan as part of the US response to 9/11. This is his story.

In Part 1, we find Duane as he swears vengeance against Al Qaeda - and mo…

Published on 3 months ago

True Spies Classic: The Ritchie Boys | WW2

Season 1 Episode 266

In this True Spies Classic, you'll revisit the story of a true American hero.

It's 1944 - 3 days after D-Day. 22-year old Guy Stern lands in Normandy. Unlike many of his comrades in the US Army, it's…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

True Spies Debriefs: Alexis Papahelas on Greece and the CIA

Season 1 Episode 265

Veteran Greek journalist Alexis Papahelas tells Morgan Childs about the CIA's role in aiding Greece's military junta, which ruled between 1967 and 1974.

From SPYSCAPE, the HQ of secrets. A Cup And N…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago