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An Assassination in Athens and a CIA Officer’s Legacy
Episode 699
It’s been 50 years since the assassination of the CIA’s former Station Chief in Athens, Richard Welch. At the time, he was the agency’s highest level…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
From the SpyCast Vault: Escaping Tehran with The CIA Pt. 2
Episode 698
We return to November, 1979 when radical Iranian students seized the US Embassy in Tehran and took dozens of Americans hostage.
Mark and Cora Lijek …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
From the SpyCast Vault: Escaping Tehran with The CIA
Episode 697
We'll go back in time to November, 1979 when radical Iranian students seized the US Embassy in Tehran and took dozens of Americans hostage. Six US of…
8 months ago
Catching an Iranian-American Missile Broker
Episode 696
Reza Olangian, a dual US-Iranian citizen, left behind his life in Silicon Valley to spy for Iran in the capital. And by the time DEA special agent Je…
8 months, 1 week ago
Lethal Dissent: Iran’s Spy Games in Turkey
Episode 695
Washington and Tehran have a long and complicated history, with tensions that rise, fall and then rise again. Just this summer, we watched the U.S. …
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Agent 202: New Secrets Emerge on an American Who Spied for Cuba
Episode 694
Codenamed "Agent 202," Kendall Myers went undetected as a spy for Cuba for nearly 30 years. He worked at the State Department’s Foreign Service Insti…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Agent of Chaos: The Austrian Fugitive Running Russia’s Global Spy Networks
Episode 693
Today he’s one of the most wanted men in the world, but before Jan Marsalek fled to Russia, he was the COO of payment-processing firm Wirecard.
Offi…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
From Intel Officer to White House Adviser: A Chat with The Museum’s Executive Director
Episode 692
This week we spoke with the International Spy Museum's Executive Director, Colonel Chris Costa. His decades-long career in the intelligence community…
9 months ago
“America’s Gatekeeper”: A Conversation with DCSA’s Director David Cattler
Episode 691
Born out of a major Chinese cyberattack that stole personal information from millions of federal government employees, the Defense Counterintelligenc…
9 months, 1 week ago
Russia's Fake Identity Assembly Line in Brazil
Episode 690
When a Russian spy was arrested in Brazil in 2022, authorities were shocked to discover that he seemed to have a real birth certificate and authentic…
9 months, 2 weeks ago