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SpyCast
SpyCast, the official podcast of the International Spy Museum, is a journey into the shadows of international espionage. Each week, host Sasha Ingber brings you the latest insights and intriguing tales from spies, secret agents, and covert communicators, with a focus on how this secret world reaches...
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The Flip That Broke the Cali Cartel
Now that drug cartels can be labeled foreign terrorist organizations, how do you dismantle one? As part of his 26 years at the Drug Enforcement Admini...
The Weather Report that Changed History
"If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone." This is the end of the announcement Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight David E...
From Cartels to Terrorists, the CIA, FBI, and White House: The Vast Career of Karen Schaefer
Karen Schaefer retired from the CIA in 2019, after 26 years of service. She started out in Latin America and ended with a stint at the FBI. In between...
From Ivory Tower to Iron Curtain: The Academics Who Reshaped the CIA
In 1947, a new civilian intelligence agency was established: the CIA. But a series of intelligence failures undermined its credibility. The White Hous...
The Civil War Spies and Saboteurs Across the Canadian Border
It’s 1864, and against the backdrop of the US Civil War- a war the Confederacy is losing- a group of spies and saboteurs have set up a base in Montrea...
How Far the US Went to Rescue Hostage Bowe Bergdahl
In 2009, Bowe Bergdahl walked away from his Army post in eastern Afghanistan, only to be abducted and held hostage until 2014. He was captured by the...
From the Kaiser to the Führer: Inside the World of Lothar Witzke
One of the more notorious German spies of the 20th century, Lothar Witzke lived a life of intrigue: from escaping the death penalty in the First World...
The Hunt for American Turncoats in World War II Europe
It’s a story that journalist and veteran Stephen Harding uncovered: a secret component of the FBI’s “European Operation,” whereby agents traveled abro...
The Story Isn't Over: Inside Havana Syndrome and the CIA’s Response
Confusion and controversy are growing around the intelligence community’s handling of Havana Syndrome. This is what the government refers to as Anomal...
Palmer Luckey on the Next Generation of Intelligence
He may dress like he’s on a vacation in Hawaii, but Palmer Luckey has been busy designing weapons for the Pentagon. He founded California-based defens...
Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin: Lies, Spies, and Hitler
Half-truths. Lies. Distrust. And spying. These were part and parcel of the tenuous relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and...
Fake Shahs and Exfiltrations: Memories from CIA's Former Disguise Chief
Jonna Mendez knows how to blend in and when to stand out. Starting out as a secretary at the CIA, she left as its Chief of Disguise. Her career took h...
When the CIA Lost a Nuclear Device in India
In the 1960s, the CIA lost a plutonium-fueled generator on top of a mountain in India. The generator was supposed to power an unmanned listening stati...
The Role of AI in Intelligence
When you’re sitting alone, and you want company or advice, have you ever turned to Artificial Intelligence? Chip Usher, who spent 32 years in the CIA,...
Roald Dahl: The Spy Behind the Storyteller
Children grew up reading Roald Dahl’s tales of giant peaches and chocolate factories. Adults know about the controversy surrounding the antisemitic st...
In Bed With Beijing: The Double Agent Who Seduced Her FBI Handler
Katrina Leung, code name Parlor Maid, received nearly two million dollars from the FBI for being their top China informant. But little did the Bureau...
Exfiltrating María Corina Machado from Venezuela
Before Delta Force captured Nicolás Maduro, Bryan Stern went on a secret mission in Venezuela. The veteran and Purple Heart recipient was there to ext...
Hezbollah’s Long Game in Latin America
A 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Argentina opened the world’s eyes to Hezbollah’s presence in Latin America. But the Iranian proxy, a US...
Building the US’s First Known Gang Intelligence Database in Latin America
As an agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) who later embedded with the CIA, Wes Tabor worked to dismantle criminal networks in Central...
Looking Back on the US Invasion of Panama
This January marks the anniversary of the conclusion of Operation Just Cause, which began days before Christmas, on December 20th, 1989, when about 27...
Directing The Night Manager
When The Night Manager aired in 2016, it was an instant success. Based on the 1993 John le Carré novel of the same name, the series centered on former...
Inside the CIA’s Most Covert and Dangerous Branch: The Special Activities Center
For SpyCast’s 20th year, we’re kicking off the season with Brian Carbaugh. After serving in the CIA for over two decades, he retired as Director of th...
The Man Behind John le Carré
John le Carré, born David Cornwell in 1931, was a British novelist renowned for his morally complex spy fiction. Writing under a pen name gave him the...
Inside Operation Odyssey Lightning in Libya
From August to December 2016, then Marine Special Operations Officer Ivan Ingraham lived on an assault ship off the coast of Sirte, a city in northern...
Auctioning Off the Key to Kryptos
At the CIA headquarters in Langley, you will find Kryptos, a large curved copper panel that holds the letters to four encrypted messages. The first th...
An Interview with the CIA’s Former “Q”
Bob Wallace was appointed Deputy Director of the CIA’s Office of Technical Service in 1995 and became its director three years later. In other words,...
Inside the CIA’s Book Club Designed to Bring Down Communism
The CIA’s book club, known by the codename QRHELPFUL, was a secret 35-year program born of the fear that communism would dominate the globe. About 10...
The Hunt for China’s Spy Family
For decades, California-based engineer Chi Mak quietly stole secrets on war-fighting technologies. He and his family members shared the intelligence w...
A Family of Spies and a Bloodline of Secrets
No other American has a family history quite like Christine Kuehn. Through years of doing painstaking interviews, hunting down letters, and pouring th...
From the SpyCast Vault: The Lumumba Plot and The Operative Behind It
In our last episode, author Stuart Reid peeled back the curtain on 'The Lumumba Plot,' the CIA’s plan to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, the first democr...
The Lumumba Plot: Cold War in the Congo
The Congo was just gaining its independence from Belgium in 1960 when its first democratically elected leader, Patrice Lumumba, faced an existential c...
Russian Sabotage Operations and NATO’s Complex Alliance
Russian drones and warplanes have been increasingly breaching the airspace of NATO countries. Admiral Joachim Rühle, (ret.) is the former Chief of Sta...
Opening the Foreign Influence Toolkit
Jessica Brandt knows a lot about influence. She was the director of the Foreign Malign Influence Center, which served as intermediary between the U.S....
From the SpyCast Vault: An Assassination in Mexico
Keith Melton is a historian who’s been an advisor to the US Intelligence Community for decades. An avid collector and board member at The Internationa...
The Dark Web Broker
Vinny Troia is at home on the Dark Web. The veteran hacker has developed relationships with cyberactors who have quietly stolen sensitive data from th...
To Catch a Drug Cartel
Keith Bulfin was a banker, not a spy. But then came a special client–a supposed coffee importer who was actually a banker for Mexican and Colombian dr...
Retracing the Hunt for Bin Laden
This Thursday marks the 24th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, which spawned a decade-long search for the man behind them – Osama B...
An Assassination in Athens and a CIA Officer’s Legacy
It’s been 50 years since the assassination of the CIA’s former Station Chief in Athens, Richard Welch. At the time, he was the agency’s highest level...
From the SpyCast Vault: : Escaping Tehran with The CIA Pt. 2
We return to November, 1979 when radical Iranian students seized the US Embassy in Tehran and took dozens of Americans hostage.
Mark and...
From the SpyCast Vault: Escaping Tehran with The CIA
We'll go back in time to November, 1979 when radical Iranian students seized the US Embassy in Tehran and took dozens of Americans hostage. Six US off...