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Meir Dagan, Mossad, and the Art of Intelligence | Samuel M. Katz
Season 10 Episode 58
Samuel M. Katz is a New York Times bestselling author and one of the foremost chroniclers of Middle Eastern conflict, special operations, and intelli…
2 months, 1 week ago
Inside the Imperial War Museums’ Spies, Lies and Deception Exhibition | Amanda Mason
Season 10 Episode 57
Amanda Mason is a senior curator of contemporary conflict at the Imperial War Museums, where she previously worked on the museum's acclaimed Secret W…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Political Violence on the Rise and Israel's Plot to Install Ahmadinejad | Espresso Martini
Season 10 Episode 56
For years, according to a New York Times report, Mossad quietly cultivated former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Holocaust denier who onc…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Putin’s Survival Machine | Sean Wiswesser
Season 1 Episode 55
Every few months, a rumor or prediction suggests Vladimir Putin is finally cornered — a purge, a battlefield setback, a grim Victory Day parade. Form…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Germany Rewrites the Rules for its Spies | Florian Flade
Season 1 Episode 54
For most of its history, Germany's foreign intelligence service was built to watch, not to act — a constraint rooted in the country's experience of t…
3 months ago
Britain's Next PM, AI's Counterintelligence Problem, and Ukraine's Warrior-Witches | Espresso Martini
Season 10 Episode 53
Britain is changing prime ministers again: Keir Starmer is out after two years, with Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham the favourite to replace h…
3 months, 1 week ago
The Guru, the Loyalist, and the DNI After Gabbard | Shane Harris
Season 10 Episode 52
For most of her career, Tulsi Gabbard may have been taking direction from a reclusive Hawaii guru — the allegation at the center of a Washington Post…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Iran Survived. Now What? | Espresso Martini
Season 10 Episode 51
Chris and Matt dig into the fine print of the U.S.-Iran memorandum signed this week by President Trump in Versailles, separating what Tehran banks im…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Full Stack Spies: Cyber Espionage in the Age of US China Competition | Ahana Datta Fasel
Season 10 Episode 50
Ahana Datta Fasel began as an ethical hacker for the British government before becoming cyber chief at the Financial Times, where nation-state actors…
4 months ago
Iran, China, and the New Middle East | Ahmed Aboudouh from Chatham House
Season 10 Episode 49
Ahmed Aboudouh — associate fellow at Chatham House's Middle East and North Africa Programme and head of the China Studies Unit at the Emirates Policy…
4 months ago