Moscow’s Endgame in Its Long War with Washington, American Overthrow | Keir Giles
Keir Giles has spent his career explaining why Russia does what it does, as an adviser to governments and a senior fellow in Chatham House’s...
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The Pentagon's Deep-Cover Plans, Israel's Deadlock, and China's Spaceplane | Espresso Martini
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The Human Side of Counterintelligence | Pete A. Turner former US Army Intelligence
Former U.S. Army counterintelligence special agent Pete Turner joins Chris for a conversation about what human intelligence actually looks l...
Carlos the Jackal and the Return of Terror for Hire | Joby Warrick
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Joby Warrick covered national security for the Washington Post for nearly three decades. In his new book, The...
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RAF Fairford, Flydubai, and the FBI | Espresso Martini
Chris and Matt break down the week's biggest intelligence and geopolitical stories: what really happened at RAF Fairford, the intelligence f...
What the Next 10 Years Look Like: China, Russia, Europe and AI | Sam Lichtenstein RANE
Sam Lichtenstein, director of analysis at the global risk intelligence firm RANE, returns to walk Chris through RANE's 2025–2035 decade fore...
Russia’s worldview, disinformation, and the politics of influence | Dave Troy
Every week, Russia’s Security Council publishes a digest of world events that, journalist Dave Troy argues, reveals more about the Kremlin’s...
The Stay Behinds: Sweden’s Cold War Guardians | Johan Wennström
Beginning in 1949, officially non-aligned Sweden did something it kept secret for half a century: in close cooperation with the CIA and MI6,...
The Nerd Reich | Gil Durán
Journalist Gil Durán spent years in political consulting before returning to reporting, and eventually, to the beat that became the subject...
Ratcliffe’s Moscow Warning, Iran’s Long Reach, and an Alliance on Edge | Espresso Martini
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A Rebel, a Traitor, and the Birth of the IRA | Rory Carroll
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Ortiz’s War: The Most Decorated Marine in the OSS | Nicholas Reynolds & Katie S. Sanders
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How GPS Became a Weapon | Katherine Dunn
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Meir Dagan, Mossad, and the Art of Intelligence | Samuel M. Katz
Samuel M. Katz, New York Times bestselling author of *The Architect of Espionage*, joins *Secrets & Spies* to explore the remarkable life of...
Inside the Imperial War Museums’ Spies, Lies and Deception Exhibition | Amanda Mason
Amanda Mason, Senior Curator of Contemporary Conflict at the Imperial War Museums, joins Chris to discuss *Spies, Lies and Deception*, the I...
Political Violence on the Rise and Israel's Plot to Install Ahmadinejad | Espresso Martini
Mossad spent years grooming a former Iranian president to topple the regime from within — until he lost his nerve. Chris and Matt on the Ahm...
Putin’s Survival Machine | Sean Wiswesser
Every few months, a rumor or prediction suggests Vladimir Putin is finally cornered — a purge, a battlefield setback, a grim Victory Day par...
Germany Rewrites the Rules for its Spies | Florian Flade
For most of its history, Germany's foreign intelligence service was built to watch, not to act — a constraint rooted in the country's experi...
Britain's Next PM, AI's Counterintelligence Problem, and Ukraine's Warrior-Witches | Espresso Martini
Chris and Matt examine the political fallout from Keir Starmer's departure as Prime Minister, the prospect of Andy Burnham taking over, and...