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Episodes

Total: 703

In Castro’s Secrets, Brian Latell, former National Intelligence Officer for Latin America and long-t

In the days after 9/11, the CIA directed Henry Crumpton to organize and lead its covert action campa

The surprise of September 11 2001 was, in part, a failure of imagination and CIA Director George Ten

Juan Pujol was the Walter Mitty of World War II, a nobody who at one doomed venture after another wh

Peter concludes his conversation with longtime CIA officer George Cave with a brief discussion of so

The history of Israel’s intelligence community—led by the feared and famous Mossad—includes stunning

Russia was a chaotic hotspot after the Revolution of 1917 and an extraordinary collection of spies,

Peter continues his discussion with career CIA officer George Cave. They cover Cave’s time in Saudi

George Cave is a legend in the CIA’s Clandestine Service. He was recruited into the CIA in 1956 as a

Peter continues his discussion with legendary case officer Dick Holm, the author of The Craft We Cho

In 1948, when Whittaker Chambers accused Ivy League-educated senior diplomat Alger Hiss of spying fo

Josh Meyer, co-author with Terry McDermott of The Hunt for KSM, visits the International Spy Museum

Today Peter starts a conversation with Dick Holm, a legendary CIA operations officer, who has served

Intelligence officers and investigative journalists both depend on clandestine sources to divulge se

During the Vietnam War, perhaps the US Army’s most secretive unit was the Studies and Observations G

SPY Historian Mark Stout explores the importance of signals intelligence (SIGINT) to the Vietnam War

With the ever increasing global connectivity, more and more information is available merely for the

In the early James Bond novels, the hero battled the villainous forces of Smersh, a shadowy Soviet i

Researching spy history is a difficult business. Spies carefully cover their tracks and intelligence

Since 9/11, the United States Intelligence Community has expanded into an $80 billion behemoth and t