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Think Like a Spy: What Intelligence Work Really Teaches About People | Julian Fisher
Season 10 Episode 48
Julian Fisher spent his career as a British intelligence operative before distilling what he learned into the Think Like a Spy: Strategic Relations W…
4 months, 1 week ago
A Rich Harvest of Bitter Fruit: CIA, MI6, and Covert Action in Cold War Albania | Stephen Long
Season 10 Episode 47
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, CIA and MI6 launched an audacious series of clandestine operations to infiltrate and destabilize Communist Albania…
4 months, 1 week ago
Gabbard Resigns, Trump Meets Xi, and China's Capitol Hill Spy Pitch | Espresso Martini
Season 10 Episode 46
Chris and Matt break down a packed few weeks in intelligence and geopolitics, opening with the resignation of Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National I…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
America’s War Powers Crisis | Brian Finucane
Season 10 Episode 45
The U.S. Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war. Congress hasn't formally done so since 1942. Brian Finucane, a former State Department…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
A Spy at War | Charles Beaumont
Season 10 Episode 44
Charles Beaumont spent years as an MI6 officer running human sources before turning to fiction—and his second novel, A Spy at War, carries the author…
5 months ago
No show on Saturday 9th May. We will return on 16th May. Chris has some episode recommendations from our back catalogue
Season 1 Episode 326
There will be no show on Saturday 9th May as we are on a production break. We will return on Saturday 16th May
Chris has some recommendations from our…
5 months, 1 week ago
Iran Stalemate, the End of Orbán, and the CIA in Mexico | Espresso Martini
Season 10 Episode 43
Two months into Operation Epic Fury, the US and Iran remain locked in an uncomfortable limbo: a ceasefire is technically holding, the Strait of Hormu…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
A Spy’s Guide to Cold War Berlin | James Stejskal
Season 10 Episode 42
In today’s episode, former Special Forces Detachment A operator James Stejskal shares his extraordinary insights into Berlin's role as the epicenter …
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Able Archer: The Nuclear War Game That Almost Ended the World | Brian J. Morra
Season 10 Episode 41
In the fall of 1983, NATO's annual nuclear war exercise, Able Archer 83, brought the United States and the Soviet Union closer to catastrophe than al…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
What Hollywood Gets Wrong About the CIA | John Sipher & Jerry O’Shea
Season 10 Episode 40
John Sipher and Jerry O'Shea, former senior CIA officers and co-founders of Spycraft Entertainment, return to the show for a conversation with Matt a…
5 months, 4 weeks ago