Full Stack Spies: Cyber Espionage in the age of US China Competition with Ahana Datta Fasel
Ahana Datta Fasel joins Chris to explore how cyber espionage reflects the psychology, culture, and strategic priorities of the states that c...
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Iran, China, and the New Middle East with Ahmed Aboudouh from Chatham House
Ahmed Aboudouh from Chatham House joins Chris to assess the shifting power dynamics of the Middle East, arguing that China has no coherent r...
S10 Ep48: Think Like a Spy: What Intelligence Work Really Teaches About People | Julian Fisher
Julian Fisher spent his career as a British intelligence operative before distilling what he learned into the Think Like a Spy: Strategic Re...
S10 Ep47: A Rich Harvest of Bitter Fruit : CIA, MI6, and Covert Action in Cold War Albania with Stephen Long
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, CIA and MI6 launched an audacious series of clandestine operations to infiltrate and destabilize Communis...
S10 Ep46: Espresso Martini | Gabbard Resigns, Trump Meets Xi, and China's Capitol Hill Spy Pitch
Chris and Matt break down a packed few weeks in intelligence and geopolitics, opening with the resignation of Tulsi Gabbard as Director of N...
S10 Ep45: America’s War Powers Crisis with Brian Finucane
The U.S. Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war. Congress hasn't formally done so since 1942. Brian Finucane, a former State D...
S10 Ep44: A Spy at War with Charles Beaumont
Charles Beaumont spent years as an MI6 officer running human sources before turning to fiction—and his second novel, A Spy at War , carries...
No show on Saturday 9th May. We will return on 16th May. Chris has some episode recommendations from our back catalogue
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 recommendation...
S10 Ep43: Espresso Martini | Iran Stalemate, the End of Orbán, and the CIA in Mexico
Two months into Operation Epic Fury, the US and Iran remain locked in an uncomfortable limbo: a ceasefire is technically holding, the Strait...
S10 Ep42: A Spy’s Guide to Cold War Berlin with James Stejskal
In today’s episode, former Special Forces Detachment A operator James Stejskal shares his extraordinary insights into Berlin's role as the e...
S10 Ep41: Able Archer: The Nuclear War Game That Almost Ended the World with 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 catastroph...
S10 Ep40: What Hollywood Gets Wrong About the CIA with 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 wi...
S10 Ep39: Tradecraft, Tactics, and Dirty Tricks with 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 boo...
S10 Ep38: Inside the New Apostolic Reformation: Faith, Power, and American Politics with Pastor Louis Florio
Pastor Louis Florio—Lutheran pastor, former military intelligence officer, and police chaplain in Virginia—joins Chris to explain the New Ap...
S10 Ep37: Espresso Martini | Boots in Iran, Putin's War Plans, and China in Orbit
Chris and Matt are back for Espresso Martini. Nearly a month into Operation Epic Fury, Washington appears to be laying the groundwork for po...
S10 Ep36: Inside the Bulgarian Spy Ring Trial with 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...
S10 Ep35: How China Steals America’s Secrets with 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-spon...
S10 Ep34: Iran After Khamenei with Phillip Smyth
Israel has killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The IRGC's senior leadership is decimated. The CIA is reportedly arming Kurdish opposition forces...
S10 Ep33: Plotters: The UK Terrorists Who Failed with Lizzie Dearden
In this conversation, Lizzie Dearden, a journalist specializing in terrorism reporting, shares her journey into the field, the writing of he...
S10 Ep32: Ukraine’s Struggle, Four Years On with Ben Wittes
Benjamin Wittes, editor-in-chief of Lawfare , joins Matt and Chris after spending two weeks traveling across Ukraine—from Kyiv to Kharkiv an...