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How Foreign Spies Infiltrate US Police

Jan 23, 2022

Forever timely, given the arrests this week of one present and one former DHS officer in connection with a Chinese op to harass dissidents in the U.S. Former top FBI counterspy Frank Figliuzzi tells Jeff Stein how foreign agents woo state and local US police, and Jeanne Meserve learns how satellite sleuths track China’s Uighur genocide from RAND Corp expert Scott Harold. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spytalk/id1560016782?i=1000547766881

Of Spies and Dirty Wars

June 23, 2022

Former Deputy CIA Director John McLaughlin and Jeanne Meserve discuss the case of a deep cover Russian spy rolled up in Holland. Mossad’s war on Iran gets scrutinized by Middle East expert Jonathan Broder and Jeff Stein. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spytalk/id1560016782?i=1000567475434

Conspiracy of Dunces

Oct. 28, 2021

Jeff Stein explores crazy coup plots and spy defectors in Venezuela with Latin America expert David Smilde, and Jeanne Meserve talks with ABC News investigative reporter James Meek about his disturbing new documentary about the deaths of Green Beret operatives in Niger. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spytalk/id1560016782?i=1000539985449

Revelations

May 12, 2022

Newly declassified FBI and UK documents on Saudi intrigues in the 9/11 attacks are discussed by former FBI Supervisory Agent Mark Rossini, and reporter Haley Britzky talks about her exposé of brutal harassment of students at the Marine Corps Intelligence School. With Jeff Stein and Jeanne Meserve. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spytalk/id1560016782?i=1000560727114

A CIA Spy in Syria, and US Responses to Russian, Chinese and Other Adversary Hacking

Apr. 22, 2021

One of our most popular podcasts. In the debut edition of the SpyTalk podcast, co-host Jeff Stein talks to the Washington Post’s Joby Warrick about an extraordinary CIA operation in Syria, as told in his new book, Red Line. Jeff and co-host Jeanne Meserve also discuss the Biden administration’s recent expulsion of suspected Russian spies, then Jeanne talks with former NSA Director and Cyber Command chief Admiral Mike Rogers about Chinese, Russian and other hackers’ infiltration of U.S. computer networks.https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spytalk/id1560016782?i=100051819367

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Shape Changes: Right-Wing Extremists and the US-Russia Cold War Jan 6

Jeanne Meserve talks with the Atlantic Council’s Jared Holt about the evolving face of right-wing extremism. Joe Weisberg, creator of the hit spy drama “The Americans,” defends his argument on ending the Cold War with Russia with Jeff Stein.

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