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The Beginnings of US Overhead Reconnaissance
Episode 133
The development of overhead reconnaissance technology is one of the most important – if not the most important – advances in the history of intellige…
11 years, 9 months ago
Spy in the Sky - The KH-9 Hexagon
Episode 132
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sits down with engineer Phil Pressel to discuss his role in developing the KH-9 Hexagon spy satellite. The Hexagon, whic…
11 years, 10 months ago
Peter Earnest: My Life in the CIA
Episode 131
Former SPY Historian Mark Stout sat down with SPY Executive Director Peter Earnest to discuss Peter’s CIA career. After his recruitment and espionage…
11 years, 11 months ago
The Future of Intelligence
Episode 130
The world sends 3 million emails every second. How do Western intelligence agencies cope with such massive amounts of data? The Spy Museum's Executiv…
11 years, 11 months ago
Putin’s End Game in Ukraine
Episode 129
Peter and SPY Historian Vince Houghton are joined by retired KGB Major General Oleg Kalugin. They discuss the current confrontation between Russia an…
12 years, 1 month ago
America's Great Game: The CIA's Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East
Episode 128
Intelligence historian Hugh Wilford reveals the surprising history of the CIA’s pro-Arab operations in the 1940s and 50s by tracing the work of the a…
12 years, 1 month ago
Author Debriefing: Cyber War Will Not Take Place
Episode 127
Is cyber war really coming? Renowned scholar Thomas Rid of the Department of War Studies at Kings College London argues that the focus on war distra…
12 years, 4 months ago
Enemies Within: Inside the NYPD's Secret Spying Unit and bin Laden’s Final Plot Against America
Episode 126
Six months after the 9/11 attacks, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly initiated a straightforward, yet audacious, antiterrorist plan to be implem…
12 years, 4 months ago
Shadow Warrior: William Egan Colby and the CIA
Episode 125
Historian Randall B. Woods of the University of Arkansas discusses his new biography of one of the most fascinating and controversial figures of the …
12 years, 5 months ago
The Life of a Military Attaché: Moscow, Almaty, and Warsaw in the 1990s (Part 2)
Episode 123
In this continuation of the discussion with US Army Colonel James Cox, we hear about the day-to-day work of US military attachés: being military dipl…
12 years, 5 months ago