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Spooks and Nukes: An Interview with Dr. James Acton
Episode 253
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with James Acton, co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program and a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for I…
9 years, 2 months ago
CIA’s Secret War in Laos: An Interview with Josh Kurlantzick
Episode 252
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Josh Kurlantzick of the Council on Foreign Relations to discuss his new book A Great Place to Have a War: …
9 years, 2 months ago
“Historian” Roundtable: 2016 Revisited
Episode 251
SPY Historians Vince Houghton sat down to rehash the year that was 2016. He was joined by former SPY Historian Mark Stout, former CIA briefer David P…
9 years, 2 months ago
John Nixon - Debriefing the President
Episode 250
SPY Historian Vince Houghton is joined by John Nixon, who shares what he learned as the first man to conduct a prolonged interrogation of the capture…
9 years, 2 months ago
Bioweapons Containment: An Interview with Dr. Hank Parker
Episode 249
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with bioterrorism expert Hank Parker to discuss current threats and Parker's new book Containment.
9 years, 3 months ago
Cyber Special Forces: An Interview with Dmitri Alperovitch
Episode 248
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Dmitri Alperovitch, the CTO and co-founder of CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm that detected the hack o…
9 years, 3 months ago
From the Vault: The Tony and Jonna Mendez Edition, Part 1
Episode 245
The Secret History of Disguises (November 1, 2006) Peter talks with Tony Mendez, former Chief of Disguise for the CIA. Peter and Tony discuss the int…
9 years, 3 months ago
From the Vault: The Tony and Jonna Mendez Edition, Part 2
Episode 246
Woman in Disguise - Jonna Mendez (November 18, 2008) Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a secretary and ended it as head of the agency’s O…
9 years, 3 months ago
From the Vault: The Tony and Jonna Mendez Edition, Part 3
Episode 247
The Iranian Hostage Crisis (September 1, 2008) In November 1979, radical Iranian students overran the U.S. embassy in Tehran, capturing most of the e…
9 years, 3 months ago
From the Vault: Russians Behaving Badly Edition, Part 1
Episode 242
The Litvinenko Murder and Other Riddles from Moscow (December 4, 2006) Peter sits down with former CIA officer Bob Rayle and Oleg Kalugin to talk Rus…
9 years, 3 months ago