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144. How Cuba and The Cold War Made Miami with Vince Houghton and Eric Driggs
April 22, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBThis week Justin interviews Vince Houghton and Eric Driggs. Vince grew up in Miami, Florida, and is a veteran of the U. S. Army, where he served in The Balkans. He went on to receive a master's degree and PhD in Diplomatic and Military History from the University of Maryland. He spent more than six years as the historian and curator for the International Spy Museum in Washington, D. C., and is now the director of the National Cryptologic Museum, located on the National Security Agency campus...
143. British Military Intelligence in the Falklands with Nick van der Bijl
April 15, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour - 51.1 MBToday just chats with Nick van der Bijl. Nick served for 24 years as a regular in the British Army in military intelligence, security, and later as an infantry officer in the Territorial Army. He saw active service in Northern Ireland, Belize, and with the 3 Commando Brigade during the Falklands Conflict. Since leaving the service, Nick has published 23 books on military history, covering several different conflicts and eras. This week he discusses his experiences during the Falklands war be...
143. Friendly Intelligence in the Falklands with Nick van der Bijl
April 15, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour - 51.1 MBToday just chats with Nick van der Bijl. Nick served for 24 years as a regular in the British Army in military intelligence, security, and later as an infantry officer in the Territorial Army. He saw active service in Northern Ireland, Belize, and with the 3 Commando Brigade during the Falklands Conflict. Since leaving the service, Nick has published 23 books on military history, covering several different conflicts and eras. This week he discusses his experiences during the Falklands war be...
142. The Cover Up of the Tragic USS Liberty Incident with Phillip F. Tourney
April 08, 2024 04:00 - 58 minutes - 40.3 MBThis week Justin sits down with Phillip Tourney. Phil enlisted in the U. S. Navy in February 1964. He served two tours on the USS Mauna Kea in the waters off Vietnam, then transferred to the USS Liberty, where he served three more tours. In June 1967, he was aboard the Liberty as a petty officer third class when the ship came under attack by Israeli aircraft and torpedo boats in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. For his actions that day, he received a Bronze Star with "V" Device and a Purple He...
141. Benedict Arnold: America's Most Famous Traitor with Aaron Stark
April 01, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour - 42.2 MBThis week Justin talks with returning guest Aaron Stark. Aaron served in the U S army as an Apache helicopter pilot, including on two tours in Afghanistan. He finished his term of service teaching at his alma mater West Point Military Academy as an assistant professor of economics after completing his master's in business administration at Harvard University. Today he discusses Benedict Arnold, the most famous traitor in American history. Arnold served as a general in the Continental Army du...
140. An Atomic Soviet Spy with Ann Hagedorn
March 25, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour - 45.5 MBThis week Justin talks with Ann Hagedorn. Ann is a former staff writer for the Wall Street Journal and an award winning author of six narrative nonfiction books ranging in topics from thoroughbred horse racing to international kidnapping to unsung heroes of America's anti slavery movement and to the high drama of the tumultuous year 1919. She's a graduate of Denison University and holds a master's degree from the University of Michigan and Columbia University, plus an honorable honorary doc...
139. Freddie Scappaticci: IRA Turncoat with Richard O'Rawe
March 18, 2024 04:00 - 58 minutes - 40.4 MBThis week Justin talks with Richard "Ricky" O'Rawe, a former member of the Irish Republican Army. Since leaving the IRA, Ricky has worked as a peace advocate and has written several nonfiction books as well as two novels about The Troubles. Today Ricky shares the story of Britain's greatest intelligence coup during The Troubles: the recruitment of Freddie Scappaticci, the man who ran the IRA's internal security unit. He vetted all the IRA recruits and hunted down informants within the ranks...
138. The Defection of a Communist Spy Queen with Kathryn Olmsted
March 11, 2024 04:00 - 50 minutes - 34.5 MBThis week Justin sits down with Dr. Kathryn Olmsted. Kathryn is a professor of history at the University of California, Davis, where she has taught since 2001. She's published five books and many journal articles focusing on the political and cultural history of the United States since World War I. Today she discusses the story of Elizabeth Bentley, a spy and agent handler for the Communist Party of the United States and for the Soviet Union from the late 1930s through World War II. But in...
137. The Hitman, the Dissident, and the Detective with Ray Martinez
March 04, 2024 05:00 - 58 minutes - 40.5 MBThis week, Justin sits down with Ray Martinez. Ray served three consecutive terms as mayor of the city of Fort Collins, Colorado between 1999 and 2005. He was later elected to the Fort Collins City Council, serving a term from 2015 through 2019. Ray is an active member of several local advisory boards in the Fort Collins area. He's also the author of 15 books and he is the founder of RM Consulting Inc., where he provides consulting services in many different areas, including writing and pub...
136. A Vietnamese Agent Hidden for 20 Years with Dr. Larry Berman
February 26, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour - 48.3 MBToday Justin talks with Dr. Larry Berman. Larry is a professor emeritus at the University of California, Davis. He has published four books dealing with the history of America's involvement in the Vietnam War. His work has also been featured on C-SPAN, The History Channel, and Vietnam: A Television History. Today Larry discusses the incredible double life of Phạm Xuân Ẩn, Time Magazine reporter and Vietnamese communist agent. It's the story of a spy in South Vietnam who went undiscovered f...
135. General James Wilkinson: American Traitor with Howard Cox
February 19, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour - 51.3 MBToday Justin talks with Howard W. Cox. Howard is a former federal prosecutor, criminal investigator, and senior intelligence service officer. After graduating from Georgetown University Law Center, he served as a trial attorney for the U. S. Army's Judge Advocate General's Corps, followed by many other investigative and prosecutorial assignments throughout The federal government, his final position before retiring from federal service was as the assistant inspector general for investigations...
134. North Vietnamese and Viet Cong Intelligence with Dr. David Strachan-Morris
February 12, 2024 05:00 - 43 minutes - 29.7 MBThis week, Justin sits down with Dr. David Strachan-Morris. David is a lecturer in intelligence and security at the University of Leicester, where he runs the M. A . in Intelligence and Security program, as well as being Director of Distance Learning for the School of History, Politics, and International Relations. Before embarking on an academic career, he served in the Intelligence Corps in the British Army and worked at intelligence management roles in the private security industry in Ira...
133. A Double Agent in the Canadian Mounted Police with Justin Ling
February 05, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour - 43.5 MBThis week's guest is Justin Ling. Justin is an award winning investigative journalist whose work has appeared in Vice, Maclean's Foreign Policy, and The Globe and Mail, among other publications. He's also the author of the book Missing from the Village, which is about Toronto based serial killer Bruce MacArthur and has hosted two seasons of the Uncover Podcast for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Today, Justin dives into a story he wrote in April, 2021 titled "The Rise and Fall of a Do...
132. Noel Field: Stalin's Last American Spy with Kati Marton
January 29, 2024 05:00 - 49 minutes - 34.3 MBThis week, Justin sits down with Kati Marton. Kati is an author, journalist, and correspondent who has worked with National Public Radio and later ABC News, where she was the Bureau Chief in Germany. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Times of London, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, and many other publications. She has also published nine books and has served as an advocate for human rights all over the world, including as the chair of the Inter...
131. A Bombing in Sheridan Circle with Alan McPherson
January 22, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour - 56.1 MBThis week Justin chats with Dr. Alan McPherson. Alan is a historian of U.S. foreign relations at Temple University and the director of the Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his M.A. in history from San Francisco State University. He has also published 11 books and dozens of articles on U. S. foreign relations, particularly regarding Latin America. Today Alan discusses a story which culminate...
130. Nuking the Moon with Vincent Houghton
January 15, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBToday, Justin sits down with Vince Houghton. Vince is a veteran of the U.S. Army and served in the Balkans. He went on to receive a Master's Degree and PhD in Diplomatic and Military history from the University of Maryland. He spent more than six years as the historian and curator for the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, and is now the director of the National Cryptologic Museum located on the National Security Agency campus at Fort Meade, Maryland. This week Vince discusses Nukin...
129. The Cambridge Five with Dr. Paul Winter
January 08, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour - 43.7 MBThis week Justin sits down with Dr. Paul Winter. Paul is an independent historian, an author who specializes in wartime intelligence and military history, and a Red Team consultant. He's published articles in several journals and has written two books about World War II called D Day Documents and Defeating Hitler, as well as a third book called First In, Last Out, The Post War Organization, Employment, and Training of Royal Marines Commandos. He has also been an affiliated academic with the...
128. A POW Spy Ring in Vietnam with Jim Stockdale
January 01, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour - 70.3 MBThis week Justin's guest is James B. Stockdale II. Jim has worked in public education for many years, including as an independent school headmaster, public school district superintendent, and as a distinguished educator for the Pennsylvania Department of Education. He's also the son of U. S. Navy aviator, Admiral James B. Stockdale. Admiral Stockdale was shot down over North Vietnam in September 1965. and would go on to spend more than seven years as a prisoner of war in Hualap Prison, bett...
127. Modern Espionage Tales with The Gunfighter Project
December 25, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 52.6 MBIn this bonus episode, Justin shares his interview from The Gunfighter Project podcast. With host B, he discusses espionage stories that sound too incredible to be true. The Gunfighter Project features members of some of the world's most elite military units. It's a conversational show where professionals from around the world share their expertise to help you protect yourself and your family and stay prepared for everyday dangers. Connect with The Gunfighter Project: linktr.ee/thegunfigh...
126. The Arab Section: Israel's First Spies with Matti Friedman
December 18, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 44.5 MBJustin's guest this week is Matti Friedman. Matti has worked as a correspondent for the Associated Press and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Smithsonian Magazine, and elsewhere. He's also the author of four nonfiction books covering subjects related to the formation of Israel and the conflicts that followed the birth of that nation. Today Matti tells the story of four men who worked undercover as part of the Arab Section, a tiny group of Jewish spies who operated w...
125. Privatized Intelligence Gathering with Robert Lancaster
December 11, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 46.8 MBThis week Justin talks with Robert Lancaster. Robert served in the British Army from 1977 until 1989, including time spent with 22nd SAS, and then in the Australian Army as a reserve special forces soldier. In 1991, he founded Lancaster's Global Risk Consultancy based in Australia, which has offered a wide variety of security surveillance, business intelligence, and counterintelligence services all over the world. His previous clients include governments, multinational corporations, publicly...
125. From the SAS to the World of Private Intelligence with Robert Lancaster
December 11, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 46.2 MBThis week Justin talks with Robert Lancaster. Robert served in the British Army from 1977 until 1989, including time spent with 22nd SAS, and then in the Australian Army as a reserve special forces soldier. In 1991, he founded Lancaster's Global Risk Consultancy based in Australia, which has offered a wide variety of security surveillance, business intelligence, and counterintelligence services all over the world. His previous clients include governments, multinational corporations, publicly...
124. Double Agent: How I Caught a Russian Spy with Naveed Jamali
December 04, 2023 05:00 - 55 minutes - 38.4 MBThis week Justin sits down with Naveed Jamali. Naveed is currently an editor at large for Newsweek, where he reports on national security issues. Naveed grew up in New York City, where his parents owned a small business selling technical journals and other hard to find publications. This inadvertently put them in touch with Russian agents working under diplomatic cover at the Soviet mission to the United Nations, who were constantly seeking information on American research and development ac...
123. The Unsung Icarus of the French Resistance with Peter Dowding
November 27, 2023 05:00 - 58 minutes - 40.6 MBToday Justin talks with Peter Dowding. Peter worked as a solicitor and barrister for many years in Australia, beginning in 1966. He also served in various positions with the Labour Party and was elected to serve as the 24th Premier for Western Australia from 1988 until 1990. Peter is here to tell the story of his uncle Bruce who was studying in Paris when Germany invaded duriNg WWII and felt the call to contribute in any way that he could. Bruce served in uniform, was captured, escaped, joi...
122. How Polish Counterintelligence Officers Penetrated Foreign Embassies with Tomasz Awlasewicz
November 20, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 65.2 MBThis week's guest is Tomasz Awasiewicz. Tom is an author, journalist, and expert on counterintelligence who has taught courses at the SWPS University of Social Sciences in Warsaw and elsewhere. Currently, he focuses on the Cold War-era intelligence and counterintelligence units of the Polish People's Republic. Today, Tom discusses a covert unit of Polish counterintelligence officers who specialized in penetrating foreign embassies to steal their secrets. The unit was filled with safe cracker...
121. How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World with Alex Joske
November 13, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 45.1 MBThis week Justin is joined by Alex Joske. Alex is an analyst and researcher who focuses on the Chinese government and Chinese Communist Party. He has worked for the Australian Strategic Policy Institute and has also written articles which have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and with NBC News. Today he's here to discuss the incredible effort China has put into influencing world opinion over the past few decades, and how they've successfully lulled so many people an...
120. A Life in State Department Counterintelligence with Robert Booth
November 06, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 59.3 MBThis week Justin sits down with Robert David Booth. Robert served as a special agent with the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security all over the world for nearly 30 years, in locations like Beijing, Geneva, Tokyo, Haiti, and Paris. He was the deputy director for the Office of Counterintelligence from 1996 until 2002, and afterwards served as a consultant for the same office until 2012. Today Robert shares about his career with the State Department and several of the very famous ...
119. Rampant Assassination in the Roman Empire with Colonel Rose Mary Sheldon
October 30, 2023 04:00 - 58 minutes - 40.5 MBRepeat guest Rose Mary Sheldon taught history as a professor at Virginia Military Institute for more than 25 years and is a world renowned expert on intelligence activities in the ancient world. She earned her Ph. D. from the University of Michigan in 1987, and has published several books and many articles over the years, as well as serving as an editor for The International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, and Small Wars and Insurgencies, and The Journal of Military History....
118. World War II's Serial Killer: The Crimes of Marcel Petiot
October 23, 2023 04:00 - 41 minutes - 28.4 MBIn this solo episode, Justin tells the story of a notorious serial killer active in France during World War II who effectively used the war itself as cover for his crimes. But Marcel Petiot was much more than just a murder. He was a conman, a thief, a doctor, a politician, a target for the Gestapo, and possibly even a source of information for a little known U. S. intelligence organization known as The Pond. Petiot was finally convicted of 26 murders (though his death toll is thought to be b...
117. The Lumumba Plot with Stuart Reid
October 16, 2023 04:00 - 57 minutes - 39.4 MBThis week's guest is Stuart Reid. Stuart is a graduate of Dartmouth college and has worked at Foreign Affairs Magazine for the past 15 years, where he's now an executive editor. He's also written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, Businessweek, Politico Magazine, Slate, and other publications. Today he discusses his new book, The Lumumba Plot. It centers ontThe very short and tragic career of the Republic of the Congo's first prime minister after gaining i...
116. The Air Force Office of Special Investigations in West Germany with Michael Honegger
October 09, 2023 05:00 - 47 minutes - 33 MBToday's guest is Michael Honegger. Michael is a professional photographer and author. He spent much of his youth growing up in West Germany in the 1960s. His father was an officer with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. Michael knew almost nothing of his father's career at the time, but there were a lot of clues that he was involved in some very important and very secretive work. Years later, Michael embarked on a quest to learn more about his father's work and put it into the l...
115. Protecting International Defectors with Joe Augustyn
October 02, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBThis week Justin sits down with Joe Augustyn. Joe was a member of the Central Intelligence Agency's clandestine service for 28 years, working as a case officer in several locations and later as Chief of Station on three different occasions. After the September 11th attacks, he was appointed the deputy associate director of CIA for Homeland Security until the standup of the brand new Department of Homeland Security in November, 2002. He's also been credited as being one of the original archit...
115. Protecting Inertnational Defectors with Joe Augustyn
October 02, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBThis week Justin sits down with Joe Augustyn. Joe was a member of the Central Intelligence Agency's clandestine service for 28 years, working as a case officer in several locations and later as Chief of Station on three different occasions. After the September 11th attacks, he was appointed the deputy associate director of CIA for Homeland Security until the standup of the brand new Department of Homeland Security in November, 2002. He's also been credited as being one of the original archit...
114. Death and the Dangers of Clandestine Work Part II
September 25, 2023 04:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MBThis week, Justin covers four mysterious espionage deaths. In most of these cases, the exact nature of the events that came to pass is still up for debate. He dives into chilling and complex stories from Cold War Germany to Czechoslovakia, Washington DC, and Scotland. Unfortunately in these cases, we often never find answers. Check out episode 76, Death and the Dangers of Clandestine Work, here. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1780478/11919106 Connect with Spycraft 101: Check out Justin's lat...
113. Spies in Uniform: The Military Liaison Missions in Berlin
September 18, 2023 04:00 - 33 minutes - 23.4 MBThis week, Justin shares the story of the military liaison missions in post-war Germany, or the spies in uniform. If you're a longtime listener, you might recall episode number 23 with Aden Magee, who participated in these missions himself and wrote a book about it titled Cold War Wilderness of Mirrors. Today Justin gives broader overview of the subject today because it was such a unique mission that could only have taken place in a divided Germany caught between the two nuclear superpowers....
112. Mark of the Maker with Mark Stheiner, Tom Krein, and Sean Kendrick
September 11, 2023 04:00 - 2 hours - 86 MBThis week, Justin shares his interview from the Mark of the Maker Podcast, with hosts Mark Stheiner, Tom Krein, and Sean Kendrick. It's a podcast about knives by knifemakers, discussing everything forging and creation to collecting and history. They dove into some of the most interesting weapons from Justin's book, Covert Arms. Connect with Mark of the Maker: IG: @markofthemaker Connect with Spycraft 101: Check out Justin's latest release, Covert Arms, here. spycraft101.com IG: @spycraft10...
111. The Priest Who Funneled Weapons from Gaddafi to the IRA with Jennifer O'Leary
September 04, 2023 04:00 - 48 minutes - 33.1 MBToday, Justin sits down with Jennifer O'Leary. Jennifer is an award-winning investigative reporter for BBC Northern Ireland's current affairs program called Spotlight. She has investigated a wide variety of stories, including money laundering by organized crime, criminal conspiracy to export horses unfit for human consumption into the food chain, and the secret intelligence war between the state and the IRA. This week Jennifer tells the story of Father Patrick Ryan, a Catholic priest who hel...
110. The Mysterious Death of an Anti-Communist Danish Diplomat
August 28, 2023 04:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBIn this solo episode, Justin shares a confusing and twisted story he's posted about before on his Instagram page. This is the mysterious death of a Danish diplomat on Long Island in November, 1959. Connect with Spycraft 101: Check out Justin's latest release, Covert Arms, here. spycraft101.com IG: @spycraft101 Shop: spycraft-101.myshopify.com Patreon: Spycraft 101 Find Justin's first book, Spyshots: Volume One, here. Download the free eBook, The Clandestine Operative's Sidearm of Choice, ...
109. Spy Hunter: How I Caught Robert Hanssen with Eric O'Neill
August 21, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBThis week Justin talks with author, attorney, public speaker, security expert, and former FBI agent Eric O'Neill. Eric is the founder of the Georgetown Group, a premier investigative services and security firm. In law, he specializes in national security matters. But long before that, he was a young investigative specialist with the FBI. In December of 2000, he was unexpectedly pulled off his normal duties for a special assignment, which would arguably be one of the most important ever in th...
108. The Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi
August 14, 2023 04:00 - 26 minutes - 18.6 MBIn another solo episode, Justin covers a relatively recent assassination. This is the story of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist and dissident who was murdered in 2018 after being lured into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. Connect with Spycraft 101: Check out Justin's latest release, Covert Arms, here. spycraft101.com IG: @spycraft101 Shop: spycraft-101.myshopify.com Patreon: Spycraft 101 Find Justin's first book, Spyshots: Volume One, here. Download the free eBook, The Clandest...
107. British Covert Action with Rory Cormac
August 07, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 48.1 MBThis week Justin sits down with Rory Cormac. Rory is a professor of international relations at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom, specializing in secret intelligence and covert action. He's also given presentations at #10 Downing Street, he UK Ministry of Defense, the US State Department, and the Pentagon. In addition to teaching, he's written five books focusing on British history, covert action, and statecraft. Today, he discusses British covert activities in the post-Wor...
106. Fighting for the Truth: A Green Beret's Death with Michelle Black
July 31, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 68.6 MBThis week's guest is Michelle Black (no relation). Michelle is a mother to two boys and the widow of Staff Sergeant Bryan Black, who was killed in an ambush along with three other Special Forces soldiers in Niger, Africa in October, 2017. Michelle sought answers in the aftermath of her husband's death, but only found more questions. She eventually decided to find out for herself what really happened to her husband, and learned that bad assumptions, bad intelligence, and bad decisions at seve...
105. Thrive Unafraid with Kelly Sayre and Doug Patteson
July 24, 2023 04:00 - 59 minutes - 40.8 MBThis week, Justin shares his interview from the Thrive Unafraid podcast, hosted by situational awareness expert Kelly Sayre and former CIA case officer Doug Patteson. You may remember Doug from episode two of the podcast in which he discussed his life in the CIA. On their show, Justin discusses how to defend yourself against common manipulation techniques and the importance of personal resilience. Listen to Doug's episode, The Reality of Life in the CIA, here. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1...
104. The Bill Buckley Story: Kidnapped by Hezbollah in Lebanon with Fred Burton
July 17, 2023 04:00 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MBThis week Justin welcomes repeat guest Fred Burton. Fred is the former Deputy Chief of the Counter-Terrorism and Protective Intelligence Division for the US State Department's Diplomatic Security Service, and is currently the executive director of the Onyx Center for Protective Intelligence. He's also the author of four non-fiction books about counterterrorism and intelligence matters. Today, Fred discusses the murder of CIA Station Chief William F. Buckley in Hezbollah's War Against America...
103. Smuggling Weapons for the IRA with John Crawley
July 10, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 49 MBToday, Justin speaks with John Crawley. John grew up in the United States in an Irish immigrant family, and after returning to Ireland for several years he became committed to the cause of Irish independence, vowing to return to join the IRA. After a stint in the USMC as a recon Marine, he brought his combat training back with the intent to fight back against British occupying forces in Northern Ireland. John spent years in an active service unit before coming back to the US again to purchas...
102. The Rise of American Intelligence with Nicholas Reynolds
July 03, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 43.2 MBThis week, Justin has a conversation with Nicholas Reynolds. After graduating from Oxford University in the 1970s, he served in the US Marine Corps as an infantry officer, and later as a historian. Nick retired from the Reserves as a colonel and the officer in charge of field history. He also served with the Central Intelligence Agency, including as the historian for the Agency's museum at their headquarters in Langley. Today, Nick dives into the origins of the modern intelligence community ...
101. Episode 101 - Looking Back and Looking Forward
June 26, 2023 04:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MBIn a special retrospective for episode 101 of the podcast, Justin discusses the lessons he's learned along the way. From getting into contact with incredible guests to growing an audience to some of his favorite episodes, we take a look back at how Spycraft 101 got where it is today. Connect with Spycraft 101: Check out Justin's latest release, Covert Arms, here. spycraft101.com IG: @spycraft101 Shop: spycraft-101.myshopify.com Patreon: Spycraft 101 Find Justin's first book, Spyshots: Volu...
100. The Disappearance of Bob Levinson with Barry Meier
June 19, 2023 04:00 - 53 minutes - 36.8 MBThis week, Justin sits down with Barry Meier. Barry is a veteran reporter who has written for the New York Times and received the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, along with other members of the New York Times staff. He's also the first journalist to bring significant attention to the dangers of abuse of the prescription drug, Oxycontin, with his book Pain Killer, which was first published in 2003. Today, Justin and Barry discuss the story of a former FBI agent turned private...
99. Industrial Espionage: The Downfall of a Great American Company with Aaron Stark
June 12, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 44.2 MBToday, Justin speaks with Aaron Stark. Aaron served in the US Army as an Apache helicopter pilot, including on two tours in Afghanistan. He finished his term of service teaching at his alma mater, West Point Military Academy, as an assistant professor of economics after completing his Master's in Business administration at Harvard University, and he now works as a chief of staff at a Fortune 500 tech company. Today, Aaron is discussing the story of the Waltham Watch Company, headquartered in...
98. Special Forces Detachment A in Berlin with James Stejskal
June 05, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 46.7 MBToday, Justin chats with author, veteran, and former CIA case officer James Stejskal. James enlisted in the US Army in 1973 and served for more than 20 years, including with the now famous Special Forces Detachment A in Berlin in the 1970s and 80s. Among other assignments, he was severely wounded in Somalia in 1992 and medically retired from the Army in 1996, after which he joined the CIA as a case officer, where he spent nearly another 15 years. Now fully retired from government service, Ja...