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Author Debriefing: Alger Hiss - Why He Chose Treason
Episode 93
In 1948, when Whittaker Chambers accused Ivy League-educated senior diplomat Alger Hiss of spying for the Soviets, few Americans were willing to beli…
13 years, 10 months ago
The Hunt for KSM: Inside the Pursuit and Takedown of the Real 9/11 Mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Episode 92
Josh Meyer, co-author with Terry McDermott of The Hunt for KSM, visits the International Spy Museum to talk about the decade-long FBI and CIA effort …
13 years, 11 months ago
Dick Holm: the Perils and Rewards of a Life in the CIA, Part 1
Episode 91
Today Peter starts a conversation with Dick Holm, a legendary CIA operations officer, who has served all over the world. Dick, the author of The Cra…
13 years, 11 months ago
Leak: Why Mark Felt became Deep Throat
Episode 90
Intelligence officers and investigative journalists both depend on clandestine sources to divulge secrets. But why do people betray a trust? Peter in…
13 years, 11 months ago
Author Debriefing: Shadow Commander: The Epic Story of Donald D. Blackburn-Guerrilla Leader and Special Forces Hero
Episode 89
During the Vietnam War, perhaps the US Army’s most secretive unit was the Studies and Observations Group (SOG). This unit conducted reconnaissance mi…
14 years ago
Eavesdropping in Vietnam: One Man’s Experience
Episode 88
SPY Historian Mark Stout explores the importance of signals intelligence (SIGINT) to the Vietnam War with retired National Security Agency cryptanaly…
14 years ago
The Power of Open Source Intelligence
Episode 87
With the ever increasing global connectivity, more and more information is available merely for the asking. This has led to a flourishing of the dis…
14 years, 1 month ago
Author Debriefing: Smersh: Stalin's Secret Weapon: Soviet Military Counterintelligence in WWII
Episode 86
In the early James Bond novels, the hero battled the villainous forces of Smersh, a shadowy Soviet intelligence organization. Bond was fictional, but…
14 years, 2 months ago
Investigating Historical Spies
Episode 85
Researching spy history is a difficult business. Spies carefully cover their tracks and intelligence agencies classify everything and release their r…
14 years, 2 months ago
The Intelligence War Against Terrorism
Episode 84
Since 9/11, the United States Intelligence Community has expanded into an $80 billion behemoth and taken on many new tasks, for instance spying on te…
14 years, 3 months ago