Escort Turned Assassin in Crimea Russian authorities have arrested a former escort named Margarita Reut in the killing of a Ukrainian defector in Crimea last week. Robert Shageev (spelled Shahieiev…
Kidnapped in Rome: Mordechai Vanunu and the Mossad A team of Israeli Mossad agents kidnapped Mordechai Vanunu in Rome in September 1986. Vanunu’s Moroccan Jewish family immigrated to Israel when…
The Philosophy of Deception In the world of security, there is a fundamental distinction between protection and concealment. A 1,000-pound steel safe represents protection; it is designed to resist…
https://youtu.be/J0m-dYJIT7M Episode #43 – The Assassins Immortalized On Russia’s Stamps With Mark Pruett Grigori Syroezhkin has been called “The Human Plague”, and is the Soviet agent who in 1925 executed…
One of the questions I get asked most frequently is if I can recommend any good books on espionage. And the answer is yes, I definitely can. I typically read…
https://youtu.be/Q1qmrp1WKGA Episode #42 - A Father Lost in the Invasion of the Bay of Pigs with Janet Ray Alabama National Guard bomber pilot Thomas "Pete" Ray and other members of…
https://youtu.be/w6oEe39jBSQEpisode #41 - Russia's Revenge in Ukraine's Maidan Revolution (Part 2) With Shane PartlowProtests in Kyiv, Ukraine began in earnest in November 2013 after then-President Yanukovych refused to sign a…
https://youtu.be/-XmGGdL1nDcProtests in Kyiv, Ukraine began in earnest in November 2013 after then-President Yanukovych refused to sign a trade agreement with the EU, which the citizenry had counted on for improved…
https://youtu.be/wx1Yf2j-lmAOperation NEPTUNE was a 1964 disinformation operation run by the Czechoslovakian security service known as the Státní bezpečnost, or StB. The intent was to target the West German government and…
https://youtu.be/0E7RSSu2KbcDickie Manson was an 11-year-old Australian boy convicted of espionage by the Imperial Japanese Navy and executed in 1942. Dickie’s stepfather Ted Harvey owned a plantation near Rabaul, Papua New…
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