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SPYCRAFT 101 — 266 episodes

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262. France's Secret Weapon Against the Nazis with Nicholas Reynolds

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261. Inside the Minds of Soviet Defectors with Kevin Riehle

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260. Al Qaeda's Second Wave Plot: A Deep Dive into Post-9/11 Investigations with Michael Lebowitz

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259. Superbills: The Secret Service's Global Counterfeiting Odyssey with William Gage

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258. Lawless Agent Running: Britains Biggest Informants in Northern Ireland with John Ware

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257. [ARCHIVE] Solving the Murder of a CIA Case Officer with Michael Pullara

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256. The Operational Life of a SEAL from Vietnam to Central America with Michael Walsh

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255. CIA Case Officer to Tesla's Security Innovator with Charles Finfrock

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254. Code Name Puritan: The Legacy of Norman Holmes Pearson with Dr. Greg Barnhisel

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253. The Plot Against Trotsky with Josh Ireland

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252. Unearthing War Crimes and Mass Graves Through Geospatial Intelligence with Sam McKnight

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251. Unveiling Gladio: Cold War Secrets and Italian Intelligence with Niccolò Petrelli

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250. CIA and MI6 in Post-War Albania with Dr. Stephen Long

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249. From the Brazilian Navy to Strategic Intelligence with Luis Fernando Baptistella

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248. The Secrets of British Black Propaganda with Rory Cormac

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247. Captured by Russians in Ukraine with Kirillo Alexandrov

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246. The Ottoman Empire’s Cloak and Dagger with Dr. Emrah Safa Gürkan

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245. Tales of A Cuban Exile: The Story of Angel Benitez with Eduardo Barreto

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244. Fighting Russian Intelligence with Sean Wiswesser

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243. From Radicalization to Redemption: Undercover in the Toronto 18 with Mubin Shaikh

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242. Inside France's Spy World with Dr. Damien Van Puyvelde

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241. From Russia with Secrets: The Defection of an FSB Officer with Janosh Neumann

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240. A Czech Spy Turned Little League Coach with Zach Dorfman

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239. Cyberwarfare: How Nations Hack and Spy in the Digital Age with Allie Mellen @hackerxbella

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238. [ARCHIVE] An International CIA Pilot with Lee Gossett

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237. [ARCHIVE] From Forest Fires to CIA Resuppliers with Lee Gossett

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236. Imprisoned in China: The Hainan Island Incident with Shane Osborn

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235. Secrets of a Spy Master: Your Guide to Influence with Jules Fisher

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234. The Swedish "Assassin" and the Killer Cop with Paula May

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233. From Cracking Watergate to Revolutionizing Private Intelligence with Michael Hershman

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232. My Uncle D.B. Cooper with Lisa Story

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231. Decoding Battlefield Intelligence with Tim Scherrer

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230. Tortured and Held Hostage in Venezuela with Matthew John Heath

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229. In the Shadows: US Naval Intelligence in the Indo-Pacific with Dr. Brian J. Ellison

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228. Data, Privacy, and Power: How Commercial Information Became the Next Frontier of Global Intelligence with Mike Yeagley

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227. My Husband the Cuban Spy with Ana Margarita Martinez

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226. Biologics, Guns, and Secrets: A Deep Dive into the Larry Ford Case with Sheldon Fung

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225. How the FBI Caught China's Most Prolific Spy Family with James Gaylord

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224. Secrets, Scandals, and Salvation: Spying for China with Gregg Bergersen

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223. A Former Marine Held Hostage in Yemen with Sam Farran

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222. Russian Sabotage: Inside The Wagner Trial with Trevor Barnes

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221. Japan's Intelligence Journey in the Modern Era with Dr. Brad Williams

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220. Real Life Narcos: Toppling the Cali Cartel with Chris Feistl

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219. Digital Intelligence, Phishing Scams, and North Korea with Aidan Raney

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218. Who Was Agent 355? A Revolutionary Spy Story with Peggy Wirgau

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217. Journalists Imprisoned Behind the Iron Curtain with Kati Marton

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216. A Canadian Teen Recruited to Spy For Russia with Laken Pavan

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215. From World War II Radio Operator to the OG Drug Kingpin with Dr. David Tuch

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214. The MI6 Spy at the Heart of the Nazi Regime with Tim Willasey-Wilsey

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213. Beyond the Leak: Life, Justice, and Redemption with Reality Winner

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212. Operation Gideon: Inside the Failed Venezuelan Coup with Jen Gatien

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211. The Mysterious Death of Double Agent Ralph Sigler

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210. From Hollywood to Corporate Espionage with Robert Kerbeck

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209. Europe, Mossad, and Operation Wrath of God with Dr. Aviva Guttmann

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208. From Cold War Counterintelligence to Project Star Gate with Bill Ray

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207. Russia's Sleeper Agents Infiltrating the West with Shaun Walker

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206. Behind the Lines from Belfast to Sierra Leone with Tim Spicer

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205. The CIA, The United Fruit Company, and Communism in Guatemala with Dr. Luca Trenta

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204. Behind the Atomic Curtain: 80 Years into the Nuclear Age with Dr. Frank Close

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203. A Diplomat’s Journey in Cold War Romania with Ernest Latham

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202. Britain's SOE Jungle Warrior in Burma with Dr. Richard Duckett

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201. Psychic Spying: The Truth about Remote Viewing with Dr. Paul H. Smith

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200. From Biffy to Bond: The Real Spy Who Inspired "From Russia, with Love" with Tim Spicer

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199. [ARCHIVE] Flying for the CIA: A Continental Air Services Contractor with Toby Scott

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198. Project Mind Control: The Dark Secrets of MK Ultra with John Lisle

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197. The Hidden History of Nazi POW Camps on US Soil with William Geroux

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196. Housewife Assassin: The Sara Jane Moore Story with Geri Spieler

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195. Nuclear Physicist or Soviet Spy? The Enigma of Bruno Pontecorvo with Dr. Frank Close

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194. The Secret War: A Medic in Laos with Steven Schofield

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193. Cairo Cold Case: Solving the Murder of David Holden with Emanuele Midolo

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192. Inside the Bulgarian Spy Ring with Trevor Barnes

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191. Espionage in the NFL with Kevin Bryant

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190. Churchill's Spy Ring in Rockefeller Center with Thomas Maier

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189. Marguerite Harrison: Socialite, Reporter, and Military Intelligence Operative with Janet Wallach

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188. Cuban Exiles vs. Guevara's Forces in the Congo with Frank Villafana

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187. The Wagner Group: Rise and Fall of a Russian Mercenary Collective with John Lechner

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186. Defeating Noriega: Inside Operation Just Cause with Rick Yell

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185. The Invisible Battlefield: Subversion in the Age of Information with Andreas Krieg

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184. How to Deliver a Ransom with Rob Phayre

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183. My Life As a Canadian Spy with Andrew Kirsch

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182. The Most Damaging Espionage Case in History with Joe Navarro

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181. From Anthropology to Espionage and Authorship with Kit Turner

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180. Evolution of Drone Warfare From Vietnam to the War on Terror with David Axe

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179. Who Was D. B. Cooper? with Pat Boland

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178. Czechoslovakia's Cold War Liaisons with the Palestinian Liberation Organization with Dr. Daniela Richterova

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177. Traitor or CIA Double Agent? The Richard Craig Smith Story

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176. First to Afghanistan: The Earliest Days of the War on Terror with David Tyson

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[BONUS] Espionage in TV: The Sandbaggers

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175. The Real Miss Moneypenny: Forgotten Women of the British Secret Service with Dr. Claire Hubbard-Hall

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174. A German Spy Ring on Staten Island with Robert Weingartner

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173. The Real Secrets of Area 51 with Peter Merlin

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[ARCHIVE] The Green Beret Defector with Greg Walker

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172. Secrets of the Spycatcher Affair with Tim Tate

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171. Out of the Shadows and Into the Boardroom: Intelligence in the Private Sector with Dr. Lewis Sage-Passant

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170. The Secret History of the Civil War with Patrick K. O'Donnell

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169. MKUltra and the Real Mind-Altering Potential of Psychedelics with Norman Ohler

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168. Unveiling the October Surprise: The Treason That Put Reagan in the White House with Craig Unger

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167. The Real Guns of 007 with Caleb Daniels @CommandoBond

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166. My Father Defected to Russia for Love with Vladimir McMillin

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165. Secrets of the Subcontinent: Post-Colonial Intelligence in India with Dr. Paul McGarr

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164. An OSS Memoir Reborn with Jacek Waliszewski

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163. Covert Captures: Bringing Spies Back Alive

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162. The Foundations of American Intelligence with Dr. Mark Stout

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161. The Self-Proclaimed Spy Who Went Broke with Constance Huff

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160. How the FBI Sabotaged Soviet Tech Spies with Zach Dorfman

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159. Inside North Korea: Recovering American Remains with Bill Boik

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158. Unraveling the Octopus: Espionage, Conspiracy, and Murder with Christian Hansen

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157. How to Rebuild a Life: Burned by Spanish Intelligence in Syria with Luis Munar Duran

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156. From Incarceration to Exoneration: The Kevin Barry Artt Story with Dan Lawton

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155. The Hunt for the Assassin Who Killed Sweden's Prime Minister with Jan Stocklassa

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154. The Truth Behind Operation Eagle Claw with James Stejskal

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153. The Year of Four Emperors with Rose Mary Sheldon

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152. The Spy Erased from History with Raymond Batvinis

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151. How The Allies Cracked Germany's Codes with Charles Lachman

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150. The President's Kill List with Dr. Luca Trenta

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149. The Triads, the CIA, and the Nugan Hand Bank with Peter Butt

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148. Japan's British Spy on American Soil with Ronald Drabkin

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147. A Mother at War: Shannon Kent's Duty, Sacrifice, and Humanity with Joe Kent

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146. Civil War Special Operations Units with Patrick K. O'Donnell

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145. Capturing Lothar Witzke: German Spy, Saboteur, and Assassin with Bill Mills

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144. How Cuba and The Cold War Made Miami with Vince Houghton and Eric Driggs

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143. British Military Intelligence in the Falklands with Nick van der Bijl

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142. The Cover Up of the Tragic USS Liberty Incident with Phillip F. Tourney

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141. Benedict Arnold: America's Most Famous Traitor with Aaron Stark

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140. An Atomic Soviet Spy with Ann Hagedorn

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139. Freddie Scappaticci: IRA Turncoat with Richard O'Rawe

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138. The Defection of a Communist Spy Queen with Kathryn Olmsted

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137. The Hitman, the Dissident, and the Detective with Ray Martinez

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136. A Vietnamese Agent Hidden for 20 Years with Dr. Larry Berman

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135. General James Wilkinson: American Traitor with Howard Cox

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134. North Vietnamese and Viet Cong Intelligence with Dr. David Strachan-Morris

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133. A Double Agent in the Canadian Mounted Police with Justin Ling

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132. Noel Field: Stalin's Last American Spy with Kati Marton

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131. A Bombing in Sheridan Circle with Alan McPherson

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130. Nuking the Moon with Vincent Houghton

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129. The Cambridge Five with Dr. Paul Winter

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128. A POW Spy Ring in Vietnam with Jim Stockdale

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127. Modern Espionage Tales with The Gunfighter Project

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126. The Arab Section: Israel's First Spies with Matti Friedman

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125. From the SAS to the World of Private Intelligence with Robert Lancaster

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124. Double Agent: How I Caught a Russian Spy with Naveed Jamali

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123. The Unsung Icarus of the French Resistance with Peter Dowding

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122. How Polish Counterintelligence Officers Penetrated Foreign Embassies with Tomasz Awlasewicz

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121. How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World with Alex Joske

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120. A Life in State Department Counterintelligence with Robert Booth

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119. Rampant Assassination in the Roman Empire with Colonel Rose Mary Sheldon

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118. World War II's Serial Killer: The Crimes of Marcel Petiot

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117. The Lumumba Plot with Stuart Reid

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116. The Air Force Office of Special Investigations in West Germany with Michael Honegger

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115. Protecting International Defectors with Joe Augustyn

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114. Death and the Dangers of Clandestine Work Part II

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113. Spies in Uniform: The Military Liaison Missions in Berlin

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112. Mark of the Maker with Mark Stheiner, Tom Krein, and Sean Kendrick

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111. The Priest Who Funneled Weapons from Gaddafi to the IRA with Jennifer O'Leary

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110. The Mysterious Death of an Anti-Communist Danish Diplomat

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109. Spy Hunter: How I Caught Robert Hanssen with Eric O'Neill

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108. The Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi

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107. British Covert Action with Rory Cormac

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106. Fighting for the Truth: A Green Beret's Death with Michelle Black

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105. Thrive Unafraid with Kelly Sayre and Doug Patteson

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104. The Bill Buckley Story: Kidnapped by Hezbollah in Lebanon with Fred Burton

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103. Smuggling Weapons for the IRA with John Crawley

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102. The Rise of American Intelligence with Nicholas Reynolds

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101. Episode 101 - Looking Back and Looking Forward

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100. The Disappearance of Bob Levinson with Barry Meier

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99. Industrial Espionage: The Downfall of a Great American Company with Aaron Stark

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98. Special Forces Detachment A in Berlin with James Stejskal

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97. Defecting from the USSR with Olga Sheymov

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96. Tradecraft in Private Investigations with Jon and Alex of Fenrir Group

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95. Spying to Fight Apartheid in South Africa with Sue Dobson

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94. The Tip of the Spear in the War on Terror with Erick Miyares

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93. A Murder Plot Gone Wrong: Secret Experiments, Biological Weapons, and Apartheid

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92. MI6 Ensnared in German Counterespionage with Norman Ridley

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91. North Korean Espionage

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90. An OSS Rescue Operation in Northern Italy with Jack Chappell

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89. Strife in Northern Ireland: The IRA and South Armagh with Toby Harnden

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88. World War I Terrorism on American Soil with Chad Millman

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87. Rescuing North Korea: The Story of Adrian Hong with Bradley Hope

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86. Hemingway and the NKVD with Dr. Frederick H. White

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85. Answering More of Your Espionage Questions

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84. POWs Left Behind in Vietnam

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83. The Murder of an OSS Officer with Pate McMichael

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82. America's Most Damaging Female Spy with Jim Popkin

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81. Espionage In Ancient Rome with Colonel Rose Mary Sheldon

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80. The President, The Prosecutor, and The Spy with Justin Webster

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79. An NSA Spy Unknown for Decades with John Whiteside

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78. The Spy Who Divided the CIA with Howard Blum

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77. Answering More of Your Espionage Questions

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76. Death and the Dangers of Clandestine Work

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75. An International CIA Pilot with Lee Gossett

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74. The Most Dangerous Year on Earth with Brian Morra

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73. The Truth about Snowden with Anonymous

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72. An Activist Escaping Panama with Kimberly Muse

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71. Tracking Down an Iraqi Bioweapons Expert with Stephen Monteiro

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70. Demoralize and Deceive: OSS Psychological Warfare with Ann Todd

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69. A Scottish Civilian Up Against a Nazi Spy Ring with Dr. Andrew Jeffrey

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68. A CIA Traitor's Last Asset with Bryan Denson

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67. TRIGON: The Hero Who Betrayed the Soviet Union with Alejandra Suárez Ogorodnik

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66. The Early Days of FBI Counterintelligence with Raymond Batvinis

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65. Killing Castro: The Unlikely Alliance between the CIA and the Mob with Thomas Maier

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64. The OSS, Uranium in the Congo, and the Atom Bomb with Kathryn Hogue

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63. Thwarting Lenin's Global Communist Plot with Giles Milton

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62. The Pinkterons: Notorious Thugs, Detectives, and Spies with Dr. Paul O'Hara

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61. Solving the Murder of a CIA Case Officer with Michael Pullara

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60. Flying for the CIA: a Continental Air Services Contractor with Toby Scott

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An Important Spycraft 101 Announcement

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59. Honey Traps: Seduction as Espionage with Henry Schlesinger

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58. Spies In the Space Race

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57. The American Comandante Liberating Cuba with Michael Sallah

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56. The Last Cold War Mole with Robert Baer

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55. Answering Your Questions

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54. Hunting Che Guevara with Felix Rodriguez (Part Two)

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53. Hunting Che Guevara with Felix Rodriguez (Part One)

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52. Capturing a Japanese War Criminal with Chris Carola

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51. The Youngest Green Beret in Vietnam with Terry McIntosh

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50. Espionage in Nazi-Occupied Czechoslovakia with George Bearfield

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49. The Life of a Cuban-Born CIA Shadow Warrior with Ric Prado

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48. The Halyard Mission: Rescuing American Airmen in Serbia with John Capello

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47. The Story of Spycraft 101

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46. Finding Che Guevara: Clandestine in the Congo with Jim Hawes

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45. The Women of Britain's Special Operations Executive with Dr. Kate Vigurs

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44. A Secret US Intelligence Organization: Mysteries of the Pond with Dr. Mark Stout

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43. The Assassins Immortalized on Russia's Stamps with Mark Pruett

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42. A Father Lost in the Invasion of the Bay of Pigs with Janet Ray

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41. Russia's Revenge in Ukraine's Maidan Revolution with Shane Partlow (Part II)

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40. Russia's Revenge in Ukraine's Maidan Revolution with Shane Partlow (Part I)

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39. Intelligence Agencies of the Soviet Bloc: The Czechoslovakian Secret Police

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38. An 11-Year-Old Convicted and Executed as a Spy with Ian Townsend

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37. A Hollywood Spy: The Story of Boris Morros with Jonathan Gill

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36. Assassination by Poisoning: Russia & The Soviet Union

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35. The Story of a Soviet Defector with Alexandra Costa

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34. Life as a Nicaraguan Contra with Luis Moreno

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33. The True Story of the Portland Spy Ring with Trevor Barnes

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32. Espionage in Academia and Higher Education with Daniel Golden

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31. The CIA Men Tortured in Fidel Castro's Cuba

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30. A Counterintelligence Agent Turned Romanov Heir with Tim Tate

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29. Communist Indoctrination of American POWs with Brian D. McKnight

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28. The Complicated Case of James Angleton with Jefferson Morley

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27. The Unlikely Alliance between the CIA and Ex-Communist Polish Intelligence with John Pomfret

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26. The Green Beret Defector with Greg Walker

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25. An Amoral Intelligence Superstar in Korea with Blaine Harden

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24. The Incredible Military Feat of Operation Jaque

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23. Secrets of the Cold War from 1947 to 1990 with Aden Magee

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22. Aerial Experiences in Cold War Reconnaissance with Robert Hopkins III

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21. Highly Unusual Friendship: The Bond between a CIA Case Officer and a KGB Agent with Eric Dezenhall

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20. The True Story of the Poison Gun and the KGB Defector with Dr. Serhii Plokhy

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19. Licensed to Kill: The Couple that Inspired James Bond with Dr. Richard Wooldridge

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18. KGB Agent to US Informant: Nikolai Khokhlov

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17. 9/11 and Beyond with Toby Harnden

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16. An NSA Agent Abroad with Dr. Eric Haseltine

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15. Shadows of the Cold War: A Murder Investigation with Fred Burton

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14. The Despondent Rise and Joyful Fall of the Berlin Wall with Helena Merriman

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13. From Forest Fires to CIA Resuppliers with Lee Gossett

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12. Life in FBI Counterintelligence with James Gaylord

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11. The Sacrifices of Adolf Tolkachev: A Soviet CIA Asset with David E. Hoffman

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10. An Ex-KGB Spy in America with Jack Barsky and Chelsea Dittrich

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9. The Butcher of Lyon: The Crimes of Klaus Barbie

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8. Counterterrorism and Special Forces with Steven Emerson

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7. The CIA and the Shah with Tim Tyler

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6. The Inventions and Espionage of Leon Theremin with Dr. Albert Glinsky

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5. Flying for the CIA's Secret Airline with Neil Hansen

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4. Cyanide Pills and Glowing Foxes with John Lisle

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3. The Man in Moscow with Michael D. Sellers

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2. The Reality of Life in the CIA with Doug Patteson

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1. The Life and Lies of Fritz Joubert Duquesne with Andrew Blasco

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