The Ultimate Spycraft and Espionage Reading List
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…
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Episode #39 – Intelligence Agencies of the Soviet Bloc: the Czechoslovakian Secret Police
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…
Episode #37 – A Hollywood Spy: The Story of Borris Moros with Jonathan Gill
https://youtu.be/0esICdNUZ6kHollywood film producer, Soviet spy, and FBI double agent Boris Morros is one of the most unlikely figures in espionage history.Boris was born in Russia to a poor Jewish family…
Episode #36 – Assassination by Poisoning: Russia and the Soviet Union with Justin Black
https://youtu.be/jLh_6cIzM7UPodcast Episode #36 - Assassination by Poisoning: Russia and the Soviet Union with Justin BlackRetired Russian FSB agent Sergei Skripal was arrested at an airport in Russia in 2006. Skripal…
Episode #35 – The Story of a Soviet Defector with Alexandra Costa
https://youtu.be/ezbBLOSmL9cSoviet defector Alexandra Costa sported a blonde wig and sunglasses to disguise herself during an interview with Ted Koppel on Nightline in November 1985.Alexandra’s name in the Soviet Union was…
Episode #34 – Life as a Nicaraguan Contra with Luis Moreno
https://youtu.be/XUnGiCNCF_0Luis Moreno, AKA Commander Mike Lima, was a highly respected Contra officer who fought a guerilla war against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua for most of the 1980s, even after losing…
Episode #33 – The True Story of the Portland Spy Ring with Trevor Barnes
https://youtu.be/QgSuKFenxs4Ethel Gee and her boyfriend Harry Houghton smuggled sensitive information out of a Royal Navy facility in Portland, United Kingdom and provided it to a KGB agent known to them…
Episode #31 – The CIA Men Tortured in Fidel Castro’s Cuba with Justin Black
https://youtu.be/V3XTEspI2JM David Christ, Thornton Anderson, and Walter Szuminski were arrested in Havana when they were caught dead to rights in the middle of installing clandestine audio equipment to monitor the…
Episode #30 – A Counterintelligence Agent Turned Romanov Heir with Tim Tate
https://youtu.be/W_o7P1FyMs4 Michal Goleniewski was a Colonel in the Polish Ministry of Public Security and one of the most valuable spies to ever work for the US. He first contacted the…
Episode #28 – The Complicated Case of James Angleton
https://youtu.be/rV39uztC7MsJames Jesus Angleton was the head of counterintelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency for more than 20 years from the 1950s through the early 1970s. He has been described as…