A Spy’s Guide to Cold War Berlin | James Stejskal
In today’s episode, former Special Forces Detachment A operator James Stejskal shares his extraordinary insights into Berlin's role as the epicenter of Cold War espionage. From his personal experience...
29 Apr 1h 5min
Able Archer: The Nuclear War Game That Almost Ended the World | Brian J. Morra
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 almost anyone in Washington understood at the time. B...
26 Apr 1h 1min
What Hollywood Gets Wrong About the CIA | John Sipher & Jerry O’Shea
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 and Chris about what Hollywood gets wrong about espi...
18 Apr 1h 18min
Tradecraft, Tactics, and Dirty Tricks | Sean Wiswesser
Sean Wiswesser spent three decades in the U.S. intelligence community, much of it running operations against Russia for the CIA. His new book, Tradecraft, Tactics, and Dirty Tricks, dissects of how th...
11 Apr 1h 1min
Inside the New Apostolic Reformation: Faith, Power, and American Politics | Pastor Louis Florio
Pastor Louis Florio—Lutheran pastor, former military intelligence officer, and police chaplain in Virginia—joins Chris to explain the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR): what it actually is, where it cam...
4 Apr 1h 40min
Boots in Iran, Putin's War Plans, and China in Orbit | Espresso Martini
Chris and Matt are back for Espresso Martini. Nearly a month into Operation Epic Fury, Washington appears to be laying the groundwork for potential ground operations inside Iran—but the two options on...
28 Mar 1h 6min
Inside the Bulgarian Spy Ring Trial | Trevor Barnes
Chris speaks with intelligence historian and journalist Trevor Barnes about the Bulgarian spy ring trial at the Old Bailey, one of the most significant espionage cases in the UK since the Cold War. Ba...
18 Mar 1h 24min
How China Steals America’s Secrets | David Shedd & Andrew Badger
David Shedd served as acting director of the Defense Intelligence Agency; Andrew Badger is a former DIA case officer now teaching state-sponsored espionage at Oxford. Together they've written The Grea...
14 Mar 1h
