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The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and Medics Behind Nazi Lines
Episode 124
When 26 Army nurses and medics boarded a transport plane in November, 1943, they never anticipated the crash landing in Nazi-occupied Albania that wo…
12 years, 5 months ago
The CIA Analyst and the Polish Colonel
Episode 122
During the 1970s, Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski was a rising star in the Polish General Staff during the Cold War. He was also a spy for the CIA. Colon…
12 years, 7 months ago
The Life of a Military Attaché: Moscow During the Coup (Part 1)
Episode 121
In the summer of 1991, US Army Colonel James Cox arrived in Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union, to serve as Assistant Army Attaché. Little did …
12 years, 7 months ago
Espionage in Traditional China
Episode 120
Sun Tzu’s 2500 year old book The Art of War contains a famous chapter on spies. However, Master Sun was not the only Chinese author to address this …
12 years, 8 months ago
The OSS in Burma: Jungle War Against the Japanese
Episode 119
“One could not choose a worse place for fighting the Japanese,” said Winston Churchill of northern Burma, but it was there that the fledgling Office …
12 years, 9 months ago
Deceiving the Iraqis in Operation Desert Storm
Episode 118
Military deception was an important part of Operation Desert Storm, the 1991 coalition effort to eject the Iraqi Army from Kuwait. The man in charge…
12 years, 9 months ago
A Legal Perspective on the Snowden Case
Episode 117
Mark Zaid is one of the nation’s top national security lawyers and has defended many alleged whistleblowers and leakers. SPY Historian, Mark Stout, …
12 years, 9 months ago
A Western Spy among Terrorists in Yemen
Episode 116
Morten Storm was a Danish convert to Islam who became a close associate of Anwar al-Awlaki, the American imam who was a senior member of Al Qaeda in …
12 years, 10 months ago
The Rice Paddy Navy: U.S. Sailors Undercover in China
Episode 115
After the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the US Navy knew it would need vital information from the Pacific. Captain Milton ‘Mar…
12 years, 11 months ago
Spying in America: Espionage from the Revolutionary War to the Dawn of the Cold War
Episode 114
Can you keep a secret? Maybe you can, but the United States government can’t. Since the birth of our country, nations from Russia and China to Ghana…
12 years, 11 months ago