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Author Debrief: Castro's Secrets: The CIA and Cuba's Intelligence Machine
Episode 103
In Castro’s Secrets, Brian Latell, former National Intelligence Officer for Latin America and long-time Cuba analyst, offers a strikingly original im…
13 years, 5 months ago
Author Debriefing: The Art of Intelligence: Lessons from a Life in the CIA’s Clandestine Service
Episode 102
In the days after 9/11, the CIA directed Henry Crumpton to organize and lead its covert action campaign in Afghanistan. In less than 90 days Al Qaeda…
13 years, 6 months ago
The Red Cell: Fact and Fiction
Episode 101
The surprise of September 11 2001 was, in part, a failure of imagination and CIA Director George Tenet did not want that to happen again. On Septembe…
13 years, 7 months ago
Agent Garbo: How a Brilliant & Eccentric Double Agent Tricked the Nazis & Saved D-Day
Episode 100
Juan Pujol was the Walter Mitty of World War II, a nobody who at one doomed venture after another while dreaming of doing something interesting with …
13 years, 8 months ago
Our Man in the Middle East (Part 3)
Episode 99
Peter concludes his conversation with longtime CIA officer George Cave with a brief discussion of some of the funny and unusual events that took plac…
13 years, 8 months ago
Spies Against Armageddon: Inside Israel's Secret Wars
Episode 98
The history of Israel’s intelligence community—led by the feared and famous Mossad—includes stunning successes and embarrassing failures with importa…
13 years, 8 months ago
Spies and Commissars: The Early Years of the Russian Revolution
Episode 97
Russia was a chaotic hotspot after the Revolution of 1917 and an extraordinary collection of spies, adventurers, and opportunists poured into the roi…
13 years, 9 months ago
Our Man in the Middle East (Part 2)
Episode 96
Peter continues his discussion with career CIA officer George Cave. They cover Cave’s time in Saudi Arabia—from which he was expelled when a candid c…
13 years, 9 months ago
Our Man in the Middle East (Part 1)
Episode 95
George Cave is a legend in the CIA’s Clandestine Service. He was recruited into the CIA in 1956 as a fluent Farsi speaker and was pulled out of his e…
13 years, 10 months ago
Dick Holm: the Perils and Rewards of a Life in the CIA, Part 2
Episode 94
Peter continues his discussion with legendary case officer Dick Holm, the author of The Craft We Chose: My Life in the CIA. Holm discusses several hi…
13 years, 10 months ago