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The United States Military Liaison Mission in East Germany
Episode 113
Major General Michael Ennis was one of the rare Marine officers admitted to the Foreign Area Officer program where he became a specialist on the Sovi…
13 years ago
American Communism and Soviet Espionage: A Look Back with John Earl Haynes
Episode 112
In the 1970s, historian John Earl Haynes was researching the American labor movement when he discovered interesting connections to the Communist part…
13 years ago
Intelligence in Support of UN Peacekeeping in Bosnia during the 1990s
Episode 110
The United Nations thinks “intelligence” is a dirty word but it still needs intelligence to conduct peacekeeping operations. The result is a euphemis…
13 years, 2 months ago
Born Under an Assumed Name
Episode 111
Looking back on her childhood, Sarah Taber remembers that “my identity was problematic because of moving from country to country and the overall atmo…
13 years, 2 months ago
From Nazi Germany to the OSS to the CIA (Part 2)
Episode 109
In this Spycast Peter finishes his conversation with Peter Sichel. Listen to this insider talking about CIA operations in Germany after World War II,…
13 years, 2 months ago
Canada’s Security Intelligence Service in the Post-Cold War World
Episode 108
Canada’s Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) operates on a very different model from the American CIA, being neither strictly a foreign intelligence…
13 years, 3 months ago
The Zimmermann Telegram: Intelligence, Diplomacy, and America's Entry into World War I
Episode 107
In January 1917, British naval intelligence intercepted what became the most important telegram in all of American history. It was a daring propositi…
13 years, 3 months ago
From Nazi Germany to the OSS to the CIA (Part 1)
Episode 106
Today Peter begins a conversation with the remarkable Peter Sichel, OSS veteran, senior CIA official of the 1950s, and onetime head of Blue Nun wines…
13 years, 4 months ago
The Evolution of Spy Fiction: Bond and His Brethren
Episode 105
The modern spy novel was born in early twentieth century Britain with writers such as Erskine Childers and William LeQueux whose one-dimensional hero…
13 years, 5 months ago
Author Debriefing: The Twilight War: The Secret History of America’s Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran
Episode 104
The United States and Iran have been at daggers drawn for more than thirty years. While this rivalry has never erupted into open war, it has been an …
13 years, 5 months ago