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A Plan to Be Captured: How Three American Commandos Deceived Their Nazi Captors Before D-Day

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Inside Sweden's Cold War Stay-Behind Operation

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How the CIA Captured Carlos the Jackal

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A House Divided: The CIA, State, and a Coup in South Vietnam

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25 Years After 9/11: The CIA's First Moments Behind Enemy Lines in Afghanistan

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Japanese Surveillance, Enslavement, and Experimentation in Wartime China

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Peter Ortiz: The WWII Marine Who Foreshadowed Modern-Day Special Forces

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What It Takes to Run the CIA's Southeast Asia Department

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Cuba's Spies, Defectors, and the Ex-FBI Agent Who Met Them All

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Smears, Fakes & Phantoms: Cold War Britain's Secret Propaganda Department

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Murder in Mexico City: The Assassination of Leon Trotsky

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The Triumphs and Failures of France's Foreign Intel Service

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Inside China's Cyber Espionage Business

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The Navy Spy who Sold Secrets for $377 a Year

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Closer than Cuba: the Able Archer Nuclear Crisis of 1983

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Putin’s Paramilitary 2.0

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Tricked and Extradited: Inside the First FBI Operation to Lure a Chinese Spy to the US

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The Flip That Broke the Cali Cartel

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The Weather Report that Changed History

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From Cartels to Terrorists, the CIA, FBI, and White House: The Vast Career of Karen Schaefer

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From Ivory Tower to Iron Curtain: The Academics Who Reshaped the CIA

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The Civil War Spies and Saboteurs Across the Canadian Border

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How Far the US Went to Rescue Hostage Bowe Bergdahl

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From the Kaiser to the Führer: Inside the World of Lothar Witzke

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The Hunt for American Turncoats in World War II Europe

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The Story Isn't Over: Inside Havana Syndrome and the CIA’s Response

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Palmer Luckey on the Next Generation of Intelligence

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Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin: Lies, Spies, and Hitler

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Fake Shahs and Exfiltrations: Memories from CIA's Former Disguise Chief

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When the CIA Lost a Nuclear Device in India

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AI Companions May Be China's Next Recruitment Tool

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Roald Dahl: The Spy Behind the Storyteller

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In Bed With Beijing: The Double Agent Who Seduced Her FBI Handler

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Exfiltrating María Corina Machado from Venezuela

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Hezbollah’s Long Game in Latin America

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Building the US’s First Known Gang Intelligence Database in Latin America

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Looking Back on the US Invasion of Panama

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Directing The Night Manager

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Inside the CIA’s Most Covert and Dangerous Branch: The Special Activities Center

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The Man Behind John le Carré

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Inside Operation Odyssey Lightning in Libya

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Auctioning Off the Key to Kryptos

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An Interview with the CIA’s Former “Q”

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Inside the CIA’s Book Club Designed to Bring Down Communism

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The Hunt for China’s Spy Family

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A Family of Spies and a Bloodline of Secrets

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From the SpyCast Vault: The Lumumba Plot and The Station Chief's Story

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The Lumumba Plot: Cold War in the Congo

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Russian Sabotage Operations and NATO’s Complex Alliance

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Opening the Foreign Influence Toolkit

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From the SpyCast Vault: An Assassination in Mexico

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The Dark Web Broker

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To Catch a Drug Cartel

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Retracing the Hunt for Bin Laden

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An Assassination in Athens and a CIA Officer’s Legacy

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From the SpyCast Vault: Escaping Tehran with The CIA Pt. 2

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From the SpyCast Vault: Escaping Tehran with The CIA

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Catching an Iranian-American Missile Broker

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Lethal Dissent: Iran’s Spy Games in Turkey

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Agent 202: New Secrets Emerge on an American Who Spied for Cuba

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Agent of Chaos: The Austrian Fugitive Running Russia’s Global Spy Networks

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From Intel Officer to White House Adviser: A Chat with The Museum’s Executive Director

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“America’s Gatekeeper”: A Conversation with DCSA’s Director David Cattler

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Russia's Fake Identity Assembly Line in Brazil

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Breaking the Silence: Coming Out in the CIA

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A Conversation with House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman

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Ghost Stories: The Hunt for Russian Spies in the US

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The Secret Navy and Their Hunt for a Nazi Sub

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How Are Shifting Priorities Impacting National Security in America?

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Sharing Intelligence: Challenges between US and Ukraine

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Stories From the President's Daily Brief

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The Minions: Putin's Expendable Spies

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Escalation: Tracking the US-Ukraine Relationship

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Where the ‘West V. Russia’ Plot Begins

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DOGE Layoffs and the Counterintelligence Threats They Pose

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Taiwan: China’s Testing Ground for Intelligence Operations

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Introducing Targeted

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Understanding Chinese Espionage Through 900 Cases

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Remembering The CIA’s Mind Games

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From Covert to Overt: Valerie Plame on political retaliation

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Eyes on The Ground: The National Resistance Front in Afghanistan

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From NFL to Espionage: The Story of Ernest Cuneo

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Debriefing from the Ukrainian Front

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How did Harriet Tubman operate as a spy?

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What's next for Kim Jong Un?

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Campus Cloak-and-Dagger: Spies Targeting American Universities

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Agent Zo: The woman who defied the Nazis and Communists

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How will President Trump handle intelligence in his second term?

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How do you fool Russian Intelligence?

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Introducing the New Host: Sasha Ingber

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From the Vault: “The 75th Anniversary of the CIA” – with former Director Robert Gates

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“An Imperial History of the CIA” – with Hugh Wilford

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“The Battlefield Tour Guide” with Bob Shaw

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“Two Decades at the International Spy Museum” – with Anna Slafer

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Leadership & The United States Pacific Command with Ret. Lieutenant General Anthony Crutchfield

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“Applying Intelligence to Business Strategy” with Jonathan B. Smith

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“The Skinny on Cuban Intelligence” – with Counterintelligence expert Ean Forsythe

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Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People with Eliot Higgins

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The Cyber Behavioral Profiler with Cameron Malin

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The FBI Hostage Negotiator - with Chris Voss