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...
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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...
The Guru, the Loyalist, and the DNI After Gabbard | Shane Harris
A Washington Post investigation into Tulsi Gabbard and questions surrounding her successor, Bill Pulte, expose a deeper crisis inside US int...
Iran Survived. Now What? | Espresso Martini
On the latest episode of Secrets & Spies, Chris and Matt analyse the U.S.-Iran memorandum signed by President Trump in Versailles, examining...
Full Stack Spies: Cyber Espionage in the Age of US China Competition | 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...
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...