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 #38 – An 11-Year-Old Convicted & Executed as a Spy with Ian Townsend
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…
Spies in Uniform: The US Military Liaison Mission in East Germany
Spies in Uniform: The US Military Liaison Mission in East Germany Beginning in 1947, a fascinating and little-known chapter of the Cold War opened in West Berlin with the establishment…
Episode #20 – The True Story of the Poison Gun and the KGB Defector with Dr. Serhii Plokhy
https://youtu.be/C5ibix1ZsEY An unwilling Soviet assassin killed two Ukrainian expatriates in West Germany before his own dramatic escape and defection. Bogdan Stashynsky was recruited by the Soviet NKVD at the age…
Episode #19 – Licensed to Kill: The Couple that Inspired James Bond
https://youtu.be/WbQVOqcDZ1c Peter Mason and his wife Prudence Mason served Britain’s MI-6 from the earliest days of the Cold War through the 1970s. Peter was a member of the Special Operations…
The Flying Dragon of the OSS
The SAC-46 Flying Dragon Officially designated the SAC-46 Gun, Dart, Carbon Dioxide Propelled, the Flying Dragon was designed and prototyped beginning in 1943 but was not a high-priority project for…
Episode #9 – The Butcher of Lyon: The Crimes of Klaus Barbie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CycnUItHZPwThe Butcher of Lyon: The Crimes of Klaus Barbie Infamous Nazi SS officer Klaus Barbie, known as the Butcher of Lyon, became a US Army intelligence asset after World War…
Episode #4 – Cyanide Pills and Glowing Foxes with Dr. John Lisle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH2rMzqnSPQ Podcast Episode #4 - Cyanide Pills and Glowing Foxes with Dr. John Lisle Researchers, engineers, and scientists with the Office of Strategic Services were given carte blanche to come…
Episode #1 – The Life and Lies of Fritz Joubert Duquesne with Andrew Blasco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG2YNHiHJzkEpisode #1 - The Life and Lies of Fritz Joubert Duquesne with Andrew Blasco. Born in South Africa in 1877, Fritz Duquesne fought in the Second Boer War of…
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The Assassin Who Came In from the Cold
Introduction Nikolai Evgenievich Khokhlov was a Soviet war hero and capable MVD agent when he was selected for a dangerous mission outside of the USSR: find and kill a Russian…