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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 th…
5 months, 3 weeks 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…
6 months 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…
6 months 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 discus…
6 months, 1 week 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…
6 months, 2 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 …
6 months, 3 weeks 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…
6 months, 3 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, …
7 months 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 Spie…
7 months 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…
7 months ago