Latest Special agent Podcast Episodes
144. How Cuba and The Cold War Made Miami with Vince Houghton and Eric Driggs
SPYCRAFT 101 - April 22, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 250 ratingsThis 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 ...
143. Friendly Intelligence in the Falklands with Nick van der Bijl
SPYCRAFT 101 - April 15, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 250 ratingsToday 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...
143. British Military Intelligence in the Falklands with Nick van der Bijl
SPYCRAFT 101 - April 15, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 250 ratingsToday 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...
142. The Cover Up of the Tragic USS Liberty Incident with Phillip F. Tourney
SPYCRAFT 101 - April 08, 2024 04:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 250 ratingsThis 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...
141. Benedict Arnold: America's Most Famous Traitor with Aaron Stark
SPYCRAFT 101 - April 01, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 250 ratingsThis 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 completi...
140. An Atomic Soviet Spy with Ann Hagedorn
SPYCRAFT 101 - March 25, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 250 ratingsThis 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...
139. Freddie Scappaticci: IRA Turncoat with Richard O'Rawe
SPYCRAFT 101 - March 18, 2024 04:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 250 ratingsThis 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 int...
138. The Defection of a Communist Spy Queen with Kathryn Olmsted
SPYCRAFT 101 - March 11, 2024 04:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 250 ratingsThis 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 Wa...
137. The Hitman, the Dissident, and the Detective with Ray Martinez
SPYCRAFT 101 - March 04, 2024 05:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 250 ratingsThis 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...
136. A Vietnamese Agent Hidden for 20 Years with Dr. Larry Berman
SPYCRAFT 101 - February 26, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 250 ratingsToday 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 Televis...
135. General James Wilkinson: American Traitor with Howard Cox
SPYCRAFT 101 - February 19, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 250 ratingsToday 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 man...
134. North Vietnamese and Viet Cong Intelligence with Dr. David Strachan-Morris
SPYCRAFT 101 - February 12, 2024 05:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 250 ratingsThis 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 Inte...
133. A Double Agent in the Canadian Mounted Police with Justin Ling
SPYCRAFT 101 - February 05, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 250 ratingsThis 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...
132. Noel Field: Stalin's Last American Spy with Kati Marton
SPYCRAFT 101 - January 29, 2024 05:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 250 ratingsThis 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 Stre...
131. A Bombing in Sheridan Circle with Alan McPherson
SPYCRAFT 101 - January 22, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 250 ratingsThis 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 fr...
130. Nuking the Moon with Vincent Houghton
SPYCRAFT 101 - January 15, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 250 ratingsToday, 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 Intern...
129. The Cambridge Five with Dr. Paul Winter
SPYCRAFT 101 - January 08, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 250 ratingsThis 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 an...
128. A POW Spy Ring in Vietnam with Jim Stockdale
SPYCRAFT 101 - January 01, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 250 ratingsThis 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. Nav...
127. Modern Espionage Tales with The Gunfighter Project
SPYCRAFT 101 - December 25, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 250 ratingsIn 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 pr...
126. The Arab Section: Israel's First Spies with Matti Friedman
SPYCRAFT 101 - December 18, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 250 ratingsJustin'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...
125. From the SAS to the World of Private Intelligence with Robert Lancaster
SPYCRAFT 101 - December 11, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 250 ratingsThis 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 off...
125. Privatized Intelligence Gathering with Robert Lancaster
SPYCRAFT 101 - December 11, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 250 ratingsThis 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 off...
124. Double Agent: How I Caught a Russian Spy with Naveed Jamali
SPYCRAFT 101 - December 04, 2023 05:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 250 ratingsThis 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 inadver...
123. The Unsung Icarus of the French Resistance with Peter Dowding
SPYCRAFT 101 - November 27, 2023 05:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 250 ratingsToday 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 tel...
122. How Polish Counterintelligence Officers Penetrated Foreign Embassies with Tomasz Awlasewicz
SPYCRAFT 101 - November 20, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 250 ratingsThis 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 Peo...
121. How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World with Alex Joske
SPYCRAFT 101 - November 13, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 250 ratingsThis 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...
120. A Life in State Department Counterintelligence with Robert Booth
SPYCRAFT 101 - November 06, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 250 ratingsThis 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 Counteri...
119. Rampant Assassination in the Roman Empire with Colonel Rose Mary Sheldon
SPYCRAFT 101 - October 30, 2023 04:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 250 ratingsRepeat 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 ma...
118. World War II's Serial Killer: The Crimes of Marcel Petiot
SPYCRAFT 101 - October 23, 2023 04:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 250 ratingsIn 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 Gesta...
117. The Lumumba Plot with Stuart Reid
SPYCRAFT 101 - October 16, 2023 04:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 250 ratingsThis 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 Magazin...
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