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Intelligence and Conspiracy Theories II
Episode 33
During the Cold War, Soviet intelligence used disinformation to malign the United States, for example, by spreading the rumor that AIDS resulted from…
17 years ago
Intelligence and Conspiracy Theories I
Episode 32
What makes conspiracy theories so appealing, and why have they become so prevalent in this day and age? Do some of them contain a grain of truth? And…
17 years, 1 month ago
Intelligence Lessons from Vietnam
Episode 31
Working for the Saigon Military Mission and the CIA, Rufus Phillips spent ten years in South East Asia during the Vietnam War. Drawing on this experi…
17 years, 2 months ago
Robert De Niro on Intelligence
Episode 30
Today, Peter chats with actor and film producer Robert De Niro. De Niro talks about his long-standing interest in the world of intelligence and discu…
17 years, 2 months ago
U.S. Intelligence in Decline?
Episode 29
A senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, Melvin A. Goodman served many years as an analyst at the CIA and the State Department’s Burea…
17 years, 3 months ago
The CIA and the End of the Cold War
Episode 28
As CIA station chief in Pakistan, Nigeria, Sudan, and Germany in the 1980s and early ‘90s, Milt Bearden observed—and influenced—the end of the Cold W…
17 years, 4 months ago
Woman in Disguise - Jonna Mendez
Episode 27
Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a secretary and ended it as head of the agency’s Office of Technical Services, overseeing the developme…
17 years, 5 months ago
Intelligence and the Presidential Elections II
Episode 26
Judge William H. Webster, the only person who directed both the FBI (1978-87) and the CIA (1987-91), taps into his vast expertise to discuss with Pet…
17 years, 5 months ago
Inspecting the CIA
Episode 25
Peter’s guest today is Frederick Hitz, the CIA’s first inspector general subject to U.S. Senate Confirmation (1990-98) and now a lecturer on intellig…
17 years, 6 months ago
Intelligence and the Presidential Elections I
Episode 24
A former station chief in Moscow and head of the CIA’s Soviet/East Europe division, Burton Gerber now lectures on intelligence and national security …
17 years, 6 months ago