Putin's Spooks. Inside the FSB, with Dr Kevin Riehle

from SpyMasters · host Paul Burke

Kevin Riehle is the author of The Russian FSB, A Concise History of the Federal Security Service. Dr Riehle spent 30 years working for the US Government in various intelligence roles before switching to academia. The Russian FSB is the first English history book to trace the rise of Putin's Security Service. We talk about Putin, corruption and succession. What place does the FSB have in Russian society? How does it install fear? What continuity is there with its famed and feared predecessor, the KGB? Buy the book here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode metadata supplied by the publisher feed · Published Nov 7, 2024

Embed this episode

Attribution link and audio player

Ready to play

Putin's Spooks. Inside the FSB, with Dr Kevin Riehle

0:00 1:02:09

1×

No transcript for this episode yet

We transcribe on demand. Request one and we'll notify you when it's ready — usually under 10 minutes.

Share this episode

Similar Episodes

No similar episodes found.

Similar Podcasts

Into The Dirt Tortoise Media Listen to all six episodes today. Rob Moore had a successful career in television until one day he ran out of ideas. After a stint as a gardener, a more enticing door was opened for him. He was offered a job in the shadowy world of corporate intelligence - he became a spy.Tasked with working undercover to extract information from an environmental campaign group, Rob Moore says he eventually became sympathetic to the campaigners’ aims. He decided to turn on his employers and support the group he was meant to be infiltrating. Only it wasn’t that straightforward. He never told the campaigners who he really was and he never told his spymasters what he was really doing. Neither side knew the whole truth. That was until 2016, when after years of being in control of these two disparate worlds he was unexpectedly outed. Now, the campaigners see him as a traitor who betrayed their trust. He sees himself as a misunderstood whistleblower.From the tea

Frequently Asked Questions

How long is this episode of SpyMasters?

This episode is 1 hour and 2 minutes long.

When was this SpyMasters episode published?

This episode was published on November 7, 2024.

Can I download this SpyMasters episode?

Yes. Use the download control on the episode player to save the publisher-provided media file.

URL copied to clipboard!