Best of SpyTalk Podcasts
We'll be back next week after a holiday break. Meanwhile, enjoy some of our own faves.
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
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.