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The Hunt for China’s Spy Family
Episode 709
For decades, California-based engineer Chi Mak quietly stole secrets on war-fighting technologies. He and his family members shared the intelligence …
5 months ago
A Family of Spies and a Bloodline of Secrets
Episode 708
No other American has a family history quite like Christine Kuehn. Through years of doing painstaking interviews, hunting down letters, and pouring t…
5 months, 1 week ago
From the SpyCast Vault: The Lumumba Plot and The Station Chief's Story
Episode 707
In our last episode, author Stuart Reid peeled back the curtain on 'The Lumumba Plot,' the CIA’s plan to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, the first democ…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Lumumba Plot: Cold War in the Congo
Episode 706
The Congo was just gaining its independence from Belgium in 1960 when its first democratically elected leader, Patrice Lumumba, faced an existential …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Russian Sabotage Operations and NATO’s Complex Alliance
Episode 705
Russian drones and warplanes have been increasingly breaching the airspace of NATO countries. Admiral Joachim Rühle, (ret.) is the former Chief of St…
6 months ago
Opening the Foreign Influence Toolkit
Episode 704
Jessica Brandt knows a lot about influence. She was the director of the Foreign Malign Influence Center, which served as intermediary between the U.S…
6 months, 1 week ago
From the SpyCast Vault: An Assassination in Mexico
Episode 703
Keith Melton is a historian who’s been an advisor to the US Intelligence Community for decades. An avid collector and board member at The Internation…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
The Dark Web Broker
Episode 702
Vinny Troia is at home on the Dark Web. The veteran hacker has developed relationships with cyberactors who have quietly stolen sensitive data from t…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
To Catch a Drug Cartel
Episode 701
Keith Bulfin was a banker, not a spy. But then came a special client–a supposed coffee importer who was actually a banker for Mexican and Colombian d…
7 months ago
Retracing the Hunt for Bin Laden
Episode 700
This Thursday marks the 24th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, which spawned a decade-long search for the man behind them – Osama …
7 months, 1 week ago