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The Changing Face of Al Qaeda
Episode 43
How has the sustained U.S. effort to destroy Al Qaeda affected the terrorist organization, and how important is the current struggle against the Tali…
16 years, 6 months ago
Intelligence and 9/11 with Amy Zegart
Episode 42
Could intelligence have prevented the terrorist attacks of 9/11, and has the Intelligence Community been sufficiently reformed to deal with current a…
16 years, 7 months ago
Sexpionage
Episode 41
Since biblical times, spies and intelligence services have used sexual entrapment and emotional blackmail to recruit agents and gather secret informa…
16 years, 7 months ago
The Cambridge Five
Episode 40
In the 1930s, five young Cambridge University students were recruited by Soviet intelligence to penetrate the British intelligence community. In the …
16 years, 8 months ago
Cold War Radio
Episode 39
Richard H. Cummings served for fifteen years as Director of Security for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). He reviews the propaganda activiti…
16 years, 8 months ago
Intelligence on Pakistan
Episode 38
"Pakistan is the most dangerous country in the world today," asserts Bruce Riedel, a 30-year CIA veteran and currently a senior fellow at the Saban C…
16 years, 9 months ago
Intelligence in Cyberspace
Episode 37
Cyber threats, information warfare, and internet espionage are growing challenges for business companies, private individuals, and the intelligence c…
16 years, 10 months ago
Inside the National Security Agency
Episode 36
The National Security Agency (NSA), America’s premier cryptanalytic organization, is the largest and most secretive member of the American intelligen…
16 years, 10 months ago
U.S. Military Intelligence—Past and Present
Episode 35
A West Point graduate, Brian G. Shellum was U.S. Army attaché in Germany, served in the armed forces during the first Gulf War, and worked for over a…
16 years, 11 months ago
U.S. Naval Intelligence in World War II
Episode 34
Rear-Admiral Donald Mac Showers joined the U.S. Navy’s codebreakers at Pearl Harbor in 1942 and went on to serve three decades in the American intell…
17 years ago