SPYCRAFT 101
By Justin Black
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Episodes: 208
Brian Boru
Jul 17, 2023
Great podcast .... warning ... you will think everyone is a spy from now on !
Sony
Dec 7, 2021
love this podcast! love how he's able to speak to these former spies or authors and how informative he is
Nick S
Jun 12, 2021
Absolutely loving this podcast, cool information from people who have done it!
Description
Welcome to your clandestine classroom.
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204. Behind the Atomic Curtain: 80 Years into the Nuclear Age with Dr. Frank Close
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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203. A Diplomat’s Journey in Cold War Romania with Ernest Latham
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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202. Britain's SOE Jungle Warrior in Burma with Dr. Richard Duckett
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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201. Psychic Spying: The Truth about Remote Viewing with Dr. Paul H. Smith
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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200. From Biffy to Bond: The Real Spy Who Inspired "From Russia, with Love" with Tim Spicer
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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199. [ARCHIVE] Flying for the CIA: A Continental Air Services Contractor with Toby Scott
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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198. Project Mind Control: The Dark Secrets of MK Ultra with John Lisle
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May 26, 2025 |
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197. The Hidden History of Nazi POW Camps on US Soil with William Geroux
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May 19, 2025 |
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196. Housewife Assassin: The Sara Jane Moore Story with Geri Spieler
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May 12, 2025 |
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195. Nuclear Physicist or Soviet Spy? The Enigma of Bruno Pontecorvo with Dr. Frank Close
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May 05, 2025 |
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194. The Secret War: A Medic in Laos with Steven Schofield
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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193. Cairo Cold Case: Solving the Murder of David Holden with Emanuele Midolo
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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192. Inside the Bulgarian Spy Ring with Trevor Barnes
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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191. Espionage in the NFL with Kevin Bryant
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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190. Churchill's Spy Ring in Rockefeller Center with Thomas Maier
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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189. Marguerite Harrison: Socialite, Reporter, and Military Intelligence Operative with Janet Wallach
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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188. Cuban Exiles vs. Guevara's Forces in the Congo with Frank Villafana
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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187. The Wagner Group: Rise and Fall of a Russian Mercenary Collective with John Lechner
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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186. Defeating Noriega: Inside Operation Just Cause with Rick Yell
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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185. The Invisible Battlefield: Subversion in the Age of Information with Andreas Krieg
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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184. How to Deliver a Ransom with Rob Phayre
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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183. My Life As a Canadian Spy with Andrew Kirsch
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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182. The Most Damaging Espionage Case in History with Joe Navarro
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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181. From Anthropology to Espionage and Authorship with Kit Turner
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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180. Evolution of Drone Warfare From Vietnam to the War on Terror with David Axe
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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179. Who Was D. B. Cooper? with Pat Boland
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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178. Czechoslovakia's Cold War Liaisons with the Palestinian Liberation Organization with Dr. Daniela Richterova
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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177. Traitor or CIA Double Agent? The Richard Craig Smith Story
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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176. First to Afghanistan: The Earliest Days of the War on Terror with David Tyson
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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[BONUS] Espionage in TV: The Sandbaggers
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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175. The Real Miss Moneypenny: Forgotten Women of the British Secret Service with Dr. Claire Hubbard-Hall
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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174. A German Spy Ring on Staten Island with Robert Weingartner
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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173. The Real Secrets of Area 51 with Peter Merlin
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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[ARCHIVE] The Green Beret Defector with Greg Walker
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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172. Secrets of the Spycatcher Affair with Tim Tate
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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171. Out of the Shadows and Into the Boardroom: Intelligence in the Private Sector with Dr. Lewis Sage-Passant
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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170. The Secret History of the Civil War with Patrick K. O'Donnell
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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169. MKUltra and the Real Mind-Altering Potential of Psychedelics with Norman Ohler
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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168. Unveiling the October Surprise: The Treason That Put Reagan in the White House with Craig Unger
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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167. The Real Guns of 007 with Caleb Daniels @CommandoBond
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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166. My Father Defected to Russia for Love with Vladimir McMillin
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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165. Secrets of the Subcontinent: Post-Colonial Intelligence in India with Dr. Paul McGarr
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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164. An OSS Memoir Reborn with Jacek Waliszewski
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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163. Covert Captures: Bringing Spies Back Alive
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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162. The Foundations of American Intelligence with Dr. Mark Stout
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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161. The Self-Proclaimed Spy Who Went Broke with Constance Huff
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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160. How the FBI Sabotaged Soviet Tech Spies with Zach Dorfman
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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159. Inside North Korea: Recovering American Remains with Bill Boik
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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158. Unraveling the Octopus: Espionage, Conspiracy, and Murder with Christian Hansen
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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157. How to Rebuild a Life: Burned by Spanish Intelligence in Syria with Luis Munar Duran
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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156. From Incarceration to Exoneration: The Kevin Barry Artt Story with Dan Lawton
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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155. The Hunt for the Assassin Who Killed Sweden's Prime Minister with Jan Stocklassa
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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154. The Truth Behind Operation Eagle Claw with James Stejskal
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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153. The Year of Four Emperors with Rose Mary Sheldon
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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152. The Spy Erased from History with Raymond Batvinis
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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151. How The Allies Cracked Germany's Codes with Charles Lachman
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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150. The President's Kill List with Dr. Luca Trenta
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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149. The Triads, the CIA, and the Nugan Hand Bank with Peter Butt
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May 27, 2024 |
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148. Japan's British Spy on American Soil with Ronald Drabkin
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May 20, 2024 |
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147. A Mother at War: Shannon Kent's Duty, Sacrifice, and Humanity with Joe Kent
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May 13, 2024 |
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146. Civil War Special Operations Units with Patrick K. O'Donnell
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May 06, 2024 |
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145. Capturing Lothar Witzke: German Spy, Saboteur, and Assassin with Bill Mills
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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144. How Cuba and The Cold War Made Miami with Vince Houghton and Eric Driggs
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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143. British Military Intelligence in the Falklands with Nick van der Bijl
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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142. The Cover Up of the Tragic USS Liberty Incident with Phillip F. Tourney
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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141. Benedict Arnold: America's Most Famous Traitor with Aaron Stark
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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140. An Atomic Soviet Spy with Ann Hagedorn
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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139. Freddie Scappaticci: IRA Turncoat with Richard O'Rawe
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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138. The Defection of a Communist Spy Queen with Kathryn Olmsted
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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137. The Hitman, the Dissident, and the Detective with Ray Martinez
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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136. A Vietnamese Agent Hidden for 20 Years with Dr. Larry Berman
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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135. General James Wilkinson: American Traitor with Howard Cox
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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134. North Vietnamese and Viet Cong Intelligence with Dr. David Strachan-Morris
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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133. A Double Agent in the Canadian Mounted Police with Justin Ling
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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132. Noel Field: Stalin's Last American Spy with Kati Marton
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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131. A Bombing in Sheridan Circle with Alan McPherson
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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130. Nuking the Moon with Vincent Houghton
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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129. The Cambridge Five with Dr. Paul Winter
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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128. A POW Spy Ring in Vietnam with Jim Stockdale
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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127. Modern Espionage Tales with The Gunfighter Project
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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126. The Arab Section: Israel's First Spies with Matti Friedman
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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125. From the SAS to the World of Private Intelligence with Robert Lancaster
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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124. Double Agent: How I Caught a Russian Spy with Naveed Jamali
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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123. The Unsung Icarus of the French Resistance with Peter Dowding
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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122. How Polish Counterintelligence Officers Penetrated Foreign Embassies with Tomasz Awlasewicz
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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121. How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World with Alex Joske
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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120. A Life in State Department Counterintelligence with Robert Booth
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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119. Rampant Assassination in the Roman Empire with Colonel Rose Mary Sheldon
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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118. World War II's Serial Killer: The Crimes of Marcel Petiot
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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117. The Lumumba Plot with Stuart Reid
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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116. The Air Force Office of Special Investigations in West Germany with Michael Honegger
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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115. Protecting International Defectors with Joe Augustyn
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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114. Death and the Dangers of Clandestine Work Part II
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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113. Spies in Uniform: The Military Liaison Missions in Berlin
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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112. Mark of the Maker with Mark Stheiner, Tom Krein, and Sean Kendrick
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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111. The Priest Who Funneled Weapons from Gaddafi to the IRA with Jennifer O'Leary
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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110. The Mysterious Death of an Anti-Communist Danish Diplomat
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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109. Spy Hunter: How I Caught Robert Hanssen with Eric O'Neill
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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108. The Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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107. British Covert Action with Rory Cormac
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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106. Fighting for the Truth: A Green Beret's Death with Michelle Black
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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105. Thrive Unafraid with Kelly Sayre and Doug Patteson
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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104. The Bill Buckley Story: Kidnapped by Hezbollah in Lebanon with Fred Burton
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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103. Smuggling Weapons for the IRA with John Crawley
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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102. The Rise of American Intelligence with Nicholas Reynolds
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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101. Episode 101 - Looking Back and Looking Forward
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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100. The Disappearance of Bob Levinson with Barry Meier
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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99. Industrial Espionage: The Downfall of a Great American Company with Aaron Stark
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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98. Special Forces Detachment A in Berlin with James Stejskal
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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97. Defecting from the USSR with Olga Sheymov
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May 29, 2023 |
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96. Tradecraft in Private Investigations with Jon and Alex of Fenrir Group
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May 22, 2023 |
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95. Spying to Fight Apartheid in South Africa with Sue Dobson
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May 15, 2023 |
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94. The Tip of the Spear in the War on Terror with Erick Miyares
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May 08, 2023 |
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93. A Murder Plot Gone Wrong: Secret Experiments, Biological Weapons, and Apartheid
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May 01, 2023 |
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92. MI6 Ensnared in German Counterespionage with Norman Ridley
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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91. North Korean Espionage
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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90. An OSS Rescue Operation in Northern Italy with Jack Chappell
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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89. Strife in Northern Ireland: The IRA and South Armagh with Toby Harnden
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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88. World War I Terrorism on American Soil with Chad Millman
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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87. Rescuing North Korea: The Story of Adrian Hong with Bradley Hope
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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86. Hemingway and the NKVD with Dr. Frederick H. White
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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85. Answering More of Your Espionage Questions
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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84. POWs Left Behind in Vietnam
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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83. The Murder of an OSS Officer with Pate McMichael
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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82. America's Most Damaging Female Spy with Jim Popkin
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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81. Espionage In Ancient Rome with Colonel Rose Mary Sheldon
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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80. The President, The Prosecutor, and The Spy with Justin Webster
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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79. An NSA Spy Unknown for Decades with John Whiteside
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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78. The Spy Who Divided the CIA with Howard Blum
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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77. Answering More of Your Espionage Questions
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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76. Death and the Dangers of Clandestine Work
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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75. An International CIA Pilot with Lee Gossett
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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74. The Most Dangerous Year on Earth with Brian Morra
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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73. The Truth about Snowden with Anonymous
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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72. An Activist Escaping Panama with Kimberly Muse
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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71. Tracking Down an Iraqi Bioweapons Expert with Stephen Monteiro
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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70. Demoralize and Deceive: OSS Psychological Warfare with Ann Todd
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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69. A Scottish Civilian Up Against a Nazi Spy Ring with Dr. Andrew Jeffrey
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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68. A CIA Traitor's Last Asset with Bryan Denson
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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67. TRIGON: The Hero Who Betrayed the Soviet Union with Alejandra Suárez Ogorodnik
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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66. The Early Days of FBI Counterintelligence with Raymond Batvinis
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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65. Killing Castro: The Unlikely Alliance between the CIA and the Mob with Thomas Maier
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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64. The OSS, Uranium in the Congo, and the Atom Bomb with Kathryn Hogue
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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63. Thwarting Lenin's Global Communist Plot with Giles Milton
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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62. The Pinkterons: Notorious Thugs, Detectives, and Spies with Dr. Paul O'Hara
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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61. Solving the Murder of a CIA Case Officer with Michael Pullara
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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60. Flying for the CIA: a Continental Air Services Contractor with Toby Scott
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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An Important Spycraft 101 Announcement
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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59. Honey Traps: Seduction as Espionage with Henry Schlesinger
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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58. Spies In the Space Race
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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57. The American Comandante Liberating Cuba with Michael Sallah
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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56. The Last Cold War Mole with Robert Baer
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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55. Answering Your Questions
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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54. Hunting Che Guevara with Felix Rodriguez (Part Two)
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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53. Hunting Che Guevara with Felix Rodriguez (Part One)
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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52. Capturing a Japanese War Criminal with Chris Carola
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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51. The Youngest Green Beret in Vietnam with Terry McIntosh
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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50. Espionage in Nazi-Occupied Czechoslovakia with George Bearfield
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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49. The Life of a Cuban-Born CIA Shadow Warrior with Ric Prado
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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48. The Halyard Mission: Rescuing American Airmen in Serbia with John Capello
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May 30, 2022 |
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47. The Story of Spycraft 101
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May 23, 2022 |
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46. Finding Che Guevara: Clandestine in the Congo with Jim Hawes
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May 16, 2022 |
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45. The Women of Britain's Special Operations Executive with Dr. Kate Vigurs
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May 09, 2022 |
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44. A Secret US Intelligence Organization: Mysteries of the Pond with Dr. Mark Stout
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May 02, 2022 |
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43. The Assassins Immortalized on Russia's Stamps with Mark Pruett
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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42. A Father Lost in the Invasion of the Bay of Pigs with Janet Ray
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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41. Russia's Revenge in Ukraine's Maidan Revolution with Shane Partlow (Part II)
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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40. Russia's Revenge in Ukraine's Maidan Revolution with Shane Partlow (Part I)
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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39. Intelligence Agencies of the Soviet Bloc: The Czechoslovakian Secret Police
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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38. An 11-Year-Old Convicted and Executed as a Spy with Ian Townsend
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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37. A Hollywood Spy: The Story of Boris Morros with Jonathan Gill
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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36. Assassination by Poisoning: Russia & The Soviet Union
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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35. The Story of a Soviet Defector with Alexandra Costa
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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34. Life as a Nicaraguan Contra with Luis Moreno
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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33. The True Story of the Portland Spy Ring with Trevor Barnes
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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32. Espionage in Academia and Higher Education with Daniel Golden
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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31. The CIA Men Tortured in Fidel Castro's Cuba
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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30. A Counterintelligence Agent Turned Romanov Heir with Tim Tate
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Dec 27, 2021 |
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29. Communist Indoctrination of American POWs with Brian D. McKnight
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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28. The Complicated Case of James Angleton with Jefferson Morley
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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27. The Unlikely Alliance between the CIA and Ex-Communist Polish Intelligence with John Pomfret
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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26. The Green Beret Defector with Greg Walker
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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25. An Amoral Intelligence Superstar in Korea with Blaine Harden
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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24. The Incredible Military Feat of Operation Jaque
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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23. Secrets of the Cold War from 1947 to 1990 with Aden Magee
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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22. Aerial Experiences in Cold War Reconnaissance with Robert Hopkins III
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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21. Highly Unusual Friendship: The Bond between a CIA Case Officer and a KGB Agent with Eric Dezenhall
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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20. The True Story of the Poison Gun and the KGB Defector with Dr. Serhii Plokhy
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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19. Licensed to Kill: The Couple that Inspired James Bond with Dr. Richard Wooldridge
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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18. KGB Agent to US Informant: Nikolai Khokhlov
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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17. 9/11 and Beyond with Toby Harnden
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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16. An NSA Agent Abroad with Dr. Eric Haseltine
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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15. Shadows of the Cold War: A Murder Investigation with Fred Burton
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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14. The Despondent Rise and Joyful Fall of the Berlin Wall with Helena Merriman
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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13. From Forest Fires to CIA Resuppliers with Lee Gossett
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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12. Life in FBI Counterintelligence with James Gaylord
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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11. The Sacrifices of Adolf Tolkachev: A Soviet CIA Asset with David E. Hoffman
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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10. An Ex-KGB Spy in America with Jack Barsky and Chelsea Dittrich
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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9. The Butcher of Lyon: The Crimes of Klaus Barbie
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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8. Counterterrorism and Special Forces with Steven Emerson
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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7. The CIA and the Shah with Tim Tyler
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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6. The Inventions and Espionage of Leon Theremin with Dr. Albert Glinsky
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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5. Flying for the CIA's Secret Airline with Neil Hansen
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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4. Cyanide Pills and Glowing Foxes with John Lisle
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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3. The Man in Moscow with Michael D. Sellers
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May 31, 2021 |
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2. The Reality of Life in the CIA with Doug Patteson
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May 24, 2021 |
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1. The Life and Lies of Fritz Joubert Duquesne with Andrew Blasco
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May 24, 2021 |
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SPYCRAFT 101 INTRO
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May 12, 2021 |