Latest Special agents Podcast Episodes
127. Modern Espionage Tales with The Gunfighter Project
SPYCRAFT 101 - December 25, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 269 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 ★★★★★ - 269 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. Privatized Intelligence Gathering with Robert Lancaster
SPYCRAFT 101 - December 11, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 269 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. From the SAS to the World of Private Intelligence with Robert Lancaster
SPYCRAFT 101 - December 11, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 269 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 ★★★★★ - 269 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 ★★★★★ - 269 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 ★★★★★ - 269 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 ★★★★★ - 269 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 ★★★★★ - 269 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 ★★★★★ - 269 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 ★★★★★ - 269 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 ★★★★★ - 269 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...
116. The Air Force Office of Special Investigations in West Germany with Michael Honegger
SPYCRAFT 101 - October 09, 2023 05:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 269 ratingsToday'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,...
115. Protecting International Defectors with Joe Augustyn
SPYCRAFT 101 - October 02, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 269 ratingsThis 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 ...
115. Protecting Inertnational Defectors with Joe Augustyn
SPYCRAFT 101 - October 02, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 269 ratingsThis 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 ...
114. Death and the Dangers of Clandestine Work Part II
SPYCRAFT 101 - September 25, 2023 04:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 269 ratingsThis 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 case...
113. Spies in Uniform: The Military Liaison Missions in Berlin
SPYCRAFT 101 - September 18, 2023 04:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 269 ratingsThis 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 ...
112. Mark of the Maker with Mark Stheiner, Tom Krein, and Sean Kendrick
SPYCRAFT 101 - September 11, 2023 04:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 269 ratingsThis 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...
111. The Priest Who Funneled Weapons from Gaddafi to the IRA with Jennifer O'Leary
SPYCRAFT 101 - September 04, 2023 04:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 269 ratingsToday, 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 hor...
110. The Mysterious Death of an Anti-Communist Danish Diplomat
SPYCRAFT 101 - August 28, 2023 04:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 269 ratingsIn 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...
109. Spy Hunter: How I Caught Robert Hanssen with Eric O'Neill
SPYCRAFT 101 - August 21, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 269 ratingsThis 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 y...
108. The Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi
SPYCRAFT 101 - August 14, 2023 04:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 269 ratingsIn 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,...
107. British Covert Action with Rory Cormac
SPYCRAFT 101 - August 07, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 269 ratingsThis 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 D...
106. Fighting for the Truth: A Green Beret's Death with Michelle Black
SPYCRAFT 101 - July 31, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 269 ratingsThis 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...
105. Thrive Unafraid with Kelly Sayre and Doug Patteson
SPYCRAFT 101 - July 24, 2023 04:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 269 ratingsThis 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 ...
104. The Bill Buckley Story: Kidnapped by Hezbollah in Lebanon with Fred Burton
SPYCRAFT 101 - July 17, 2023 04:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 269 ratingsThis 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'...
103. Smuggling Weapons for the IRA with John Crawley
SPYCRAFT 101 - July 10, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 269 ratingsToday, 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 broug...
102. The Rise of American Intelligence with Nicholas Reynolds
SPYCRAFT 101 - July 03, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 269 ratingsThis 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 se...
101. Episode 101 - Looking Back and Looking Forward
SPYCRAFT 101 - June 26, 2023 04:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 269 ratingsIn 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 wi...
100. The Disappearance of Bob Levinson with Barry Meier
SPYCRAFT 101 - June 19, 2023 04:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 269 ratingsThis 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 t...
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