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Enter the secretive world of spies, espionage, and covert operations. Hosted by former CIA analyst turned spy novelist, David McCloskey, and veteran security correspondent, Gordon Corera, this podcast unravels real-life spy stories,…

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Kim Philby: Exiled in Moscow (Ep 6) 2026-10-26 · 56m
Intelligence Scoop: Is Saudi Arabia Spying on Silicon Valley? 2026-10-21 · 56m
Kim Philby: Unmasking MI6’s Greatest Traitor (Ep 5) 2026-10-18 · 49m
Intelligence Scoop: The Biggest Threats to Britain, Live From MI5 2026-10-13 · 49m
Kim Philby: Undercover in Beirut (Ep 4) 2026-10-11 · 47m
Intelligence Scoop: Former German Spy Chief Arrested for Treason 2026-10-07 · 36m
Kim Philby: Interrogated by MI5 (Ep 3) 2026-10-04 · 51m
London Station (Extract) 2026-10-02 · 33m
Intelligence Scoop: Could Netanyahu Have Prevented October 7? 2026-09-30 · 53m
Kim Philby: The Russians Make a Fatal Mistake (Ep 2) 2026-09-27 · 55m
Intelligence Scoop: Is Russia Preparing to Attack Europe? 2026-09-23 · 57m
Kim Philby: A KGB Spy in Washington (Ep 1) 2026-09-20 · 55m
How Silicon Valley Took Over National Security 2026-09-17 · 37m
The KGB in Iran: Appeasing the Ayatollah with Ben Macintyre (Ep 2) 2026-09-16 · 53m
The KGB in Iran: Defecting to MI6 with Ben Macintyre (Ep 1) 2026-09-13 · 46m
9/11: The War on Terror (Ep 6) 2026-09-09 · 57m
9/11: The Twin Towers Fall (Ep 5) 2026-09-06 · 49m
9/11: Could the Attacks Have Been Prevented? (Ep 4) 2026-09-02 · 55m
9/11: How Much Did the Saudis Know? (Ep 3) 2026-08-30 · 67m
9/11: How to Recruit a Hijacker (Ep 2) 2026-08-26 · 64m
The Man Who Briefed the President on 9/11 2026-08-25 · 15m
9/11: The Rise of Osama bin Laden (Ep 1) 2026-08-23 · 64m
The Secret Spy Network: Can Five Eyes Survive Trump? (Ep 4) 2026-08-19 · 48m
The Secret Spy Network: How Snowden Nearly Destroyed Everything (Ep 3) 2026-08-16 · 53m
The Secret Spy Network: Kim Philby Threatens the Alliance (Ep 2) 2026-08-12 · 37m
The Secret Spy Network: How The US and UK Spy Together (Ep 1) 2026-08-09 · 40m
The Imitation Game: The Codebreakers Who Defeated Hitler (Ep 2) 2026-08-05 · 59m
The Imitation Game: How Alan Turing Broke Enigma (Ep 1) 2026-08-02 · 46m
Have the US and Israel Always Spied on Each Other? (Ep 2) 2026-07-29 · 52m
Did Israel Spy on Trump’s Iran Negotiations? (Ep 1) 2026-07-26 · 58m
The Plot to Destroy Russia’s Gas Empire (Ep 2) 2026-07-22 · 56m
Who Blew Up the Nord Stream Pipeline? (Ep 1) 2026-07-19 · 47m
The True Story of the Spies Held Hostage by China (Ep 2) 2026-07-15 · 47m
How China Downed a US Spy Plane (Ep 1) 2026-07-12 · 37m
The Murder of Litvinenko: Did the British State Hide the Truth? (Ep 6) 2026-07-08 · 48m
The Murder of Litvinenko: The Killers Escape (Ep 5) 2026-07-05 · 38m
The Murder of Litvinenko: Russia’s Nuclear Weapon (Ep 4) 2026-07-01 · 43m
The Murder of Litvinenko: Killed in Plain Sight (Ep 3) 2026-06-28 · 41m
The Murder of Litvinenko: Putin’s Plan To Kill (Ep 2) 2026-06-24 · 52m
The Murder of Litvinenko: Poisoned in London (Ep 1) 2026-06-21 · 52m
Trump's New Director of National Intelligence and the CIA's Missing Gold Bars 2026-06-18 · 63m
The Covid Origin Story: What the CIA Really Found (Ep 2) 2026-06-17 · 62m
The Covid Origin Story: Lab Leak or Animal Outbreak? (Ep 1) 2026-06-14 · 39m
Why England Didn't Win the 1970 World Cup (Ep 2) 2026-06-10 · 56m
Did the CIA Poison England's World Cup Goalkeeper? (Ep 1) 2026-06-07 · 46m
Argo: Smuggled Out of Khomeini's Iran (Ep 4) 2026-06-03 · 48m
Argo: How the CIA Made a Movie That Never Existed (Ep 3) 2026-05-31 · 47m
Is Iran Recruiting Spies to Conduct Anti-Semitic Attacks? 2026-05-28 · 42m
Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2) 2026-05-27 · 66m
Argo: The Secret Iranian Hostage Crisis (Ep 1) 2026-05-24 · 66m
Is NATO Prepared for a Russian Attack? 2026-05-21 · 53m
The Road to Iraq: George Bush's Unstoppable War (Ep 6) 2026-05-20 · 60m
Why the Former Head of MI6 Has No Regrets About Iraq 2026-05-19 · 15m
The Road to Iraq: What the Spies Got Wrong (Ep 5) 2026-05-17 · 54m
The Road to Iraq: Tony Blair's Campaign for War (Ep 4) 2026-05-13 · 57m
The CIA's Biggest Intelligence Failure with Michael Morrell 2026-05-12 · 15m
The Road to Iraq: How 9/11 Changed Everything (Ep 3) 2026-05-10 · 55m
The Road to Iraq: Saddam Hussein's Fatal Error (Ep 2) 2026-05-06 · 49m
Alastair Campbell on the Iraq War 2026-05-05 · 15m
The Road to Iraq: Weapons of Mass Destruction (Ep 1) 2026-05-03 · 64m
Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4) 2026-04-29 · 63m
Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: From Spy to Executioner (Ep 3) 2026-04-26 · 52m
Why Do Russian Spies Interfere in Global Politics? 2026-04-23 · 58m
Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: How to Run a Killer (Ep 2) 2026-04-22 · 48m
Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: The Truth Behind Stakeknife (Ep 1) 2026-04-19 · 45m
Can Europe Salvage its Relationship with Trump? 2026-04-17 · 37m
Will Trump Destroy Iran’s Nuclear Programme? (Ep 2) 2026-04-14 · 71m
How the CIA Rescued a Pilot Inside Iran (Ep 1) 2026-04-12 · 60m
Black Hawk Down: What Osama bin Laden Learnt from Somalia (Ep 4) 2026-04-07 · 51m
Black Hawk Down: The Bloodiest US Battle Since Vietnam (Ep 3) 2026-04-05 · 45m
Black Hawk Down: Chaos in Mogadishu (Ep 2) 2026-03-31 · 52m
Black Hawk Down: The True Story (Ep 1) 2026-03-29 · 53m
Trump’s Latin America Playbook: How the CIA Toppled a Regime (Ep 2) 2026-03-25 · 53m
Trump’s Latin America Playbook: Before Venezuela, There Was Guatemala (Ep 1) 2026-03-23 · 52m
Trump vs Iran: Saddam Hussein and the Nuclear Bomb (Ep 2) 2026-03-18 · 56m
Trump vs Iran: The Road to Operation Epic Fury (Ep 1) 2026-03-16 · 56m
How Russia Made Trump: MAGA Take The White House (Ep 6) 2026-03-11 · 64m
How Russia Made Trump: Putin’s Troll Factory (Ep 5) 2026-03-09 · 46m
Is The CIA Arming Kurdish Militias In Iran? 2026-03-07 · 39m
How Russia Made Trump: Was The Vote Rigged? (Ep 4) 2026-03-04 · 51m
How Russia Made Trump: Romanian Hackers, WikiLeaks, and Hillary’s Emails (Ep 3) 2026-03-03 · 44m
What's Next For Iran? 2026-03-01 · 60m
How Russia Made Trump: Stealing Washington’s Secrets (Ep 2) 2026-02-25 · 49m
How Russia Made Trump: Putin Hacks The 2016 Election (Ep 1) 2026-02-23 · 47m
Al Qaeda’s Deadliest Plot: Why You Can’t Bring Liquids On Planes (Ep 4) 2026-02-18 · 41m
Al Qaeda’s Deadliest Plot: CIA vs Pakistan (Ep 3) 2026-02-16 · 44m
Was Epstein A Russian Spy? 2026-02-13 · 60m
Al Qaeda’s Deadliest Plot: The Terror Attack That Never Happened (Ep 2) 2026-02-11 · 33m
Al Qaeda’s Deadliest Plot: How MI5 Stopped Another 9/11 (Ep 1) 2026-02-09 · 45m
Kim Philby: Britain’s Most Notorious Traitor (Ep 4) 2026-02-04 · 51m
Kim Philby: Communist Double Agent In London (Ep 3) 2026-02-02 · 49m
Kim Philby: An Assassin In Spain (Ep 2) 2026-01-28 · 62m
Kim Philby: Stalin’s Mole Inside MI6 (Ep 1) 2026-01-26 · 64m
The Persian (Extract) 2026-01-24 · 13m
Greenland Intelligence Scoop: Trump, Xi, and Putin's Battle for the Arctic 2026-01-23 · 42m
Inside Iran: Why Trump Didn’t Intervene (Ep 2) 2026-01-21 · 52m
Inside Iran: Can You Predict A Revolution? (Ep 1) 2026-01-19 · 59m
Epstein Files Declassified: Mossad, Israel and Ghislaine Maxwell (Ep 2) 2026-01-14 · 49m
Epstein Files Declassified: Was He A Spy? (Ep 1) 2026-01-12 · 39m
Ex-CIA Officer On How The Cubans Failed Maduro in Venezuela 2026-01-09 · 5m
Intelligence Scoop: Why Venezuela Isn’t About Oil (Ep 2) 2026-01-07 · 49m
Intelligence Scoop: How Trump Captured Maduro in Venezuela (Ep 1) 2026-01-05 · 47m
How To Protect Your Secrets: Is The Toaster Spying On You? (Ep 2) 2025-12-31 · 55m
How To Protect Your Secrets: Inside China’s Technical Surveillance Playbook (Ep 1) 2025-12-29 · 49m
The Man Behind The CIA: Shooting In The White House (Ep 2) 2025-12-24 · 48m
The Man Behind The CIA: Charming Mussolini and Stealing From MI6 (Ep 1) 2025-12-22 · 48m
Hunting Al-Qaeda: The CIA’s Deadliest Day (Ep 4) 2025-12-17 · 42m
Hunting Al-Qaeda: From Jihadist To Spy (Ep 3) 2025-12-15 · 53m
Introducing: The Rest Is Science 2025-12-11 · 12m
Hunting Al-Qaeda: The War On Terror (Ep 2) 2025-12-10 · 52m
Hunting Al-Qaeda: Anatomy Of A Terrorist (Ep 1) 2025-12-08 · 55m
The Chinese Spy Scandal: Mastering LinkedIn (Ep 2) 2025-12-03 · 42m
The Chinese Spy Scandal: Breaching Westminster (Ep 1) 2025-12-01 · 43m
The Rise Of Putin: Becoming President 2025-11-28 · 11m
Putin's Secret Army: The Coup That Almost Brought Down Russia (Ep 6) 2025-11-26 · 55m
Putin's Secret Army: Criminals And Cannibals - Russia's War In Ukraine (Ep 5) 2025-11-24 · 35m
The Rise Of Putin: Russian Organised Crime 2025-11-21 · 10m
Putin's Secret Army: Wagner's Control Of Africa (Ep 4) 2025-11-19 · 39m
Putin's Secret Army: Fighting With Assad In Syria (Ep 3) 2025-11-17 · 46m
The Rise Of Putin: Joining The KGB 2025-11-14 · 10m
Putin's Secret Army: Trump, Wagner And Russia (Ep 2) 2025-11-12 · 44m
Putin’s Secret Army: The Rise Of Prigozhin (Ep 1) 2025-11-10 · 42m
Selling The World's Secrets: Why The Brits Won The Falklands War (Ep 2) 2025-11-05 · 51m
Selling The World's Secrets: Is The CIA Reading Your Messages? (Ep 1) 2025-11-03 · 41m
Did Fidel Castro Kill JFK? 2025-10-31 · 10m
JFK vs the CIA: Death in Dallas (Ep 6) 2025-10-29 · 54m
JFK vs the CIA: Fighting in Cuba (Ep 5) 2025-10-27 · 66m
Did The Mafia Kill JFK? 2025-10-23 · 10m
JFK vs the CIA: Bay of Pigs (Ep 4) 2025-10-21 · 53m
JFK vs the CIA: Raising Hell in Havana (Ep 3) 2025-10-19 · 63m
Did The CIA Kill JFK? 2025-10-16 · 8m
JFK vs the CIA: Killing Castro (Ep 2) 2025-10-14 · 63m
JFK vs the CIA: The Battle for Cuba (Ep 1) 2025-10-12 · 62m
EXCLUSIVE: Google's President of Global Affairs on AI, Cyber Attacks and Silicon Valley 2025-10-09 · 6m
China vs Google: The Battle That Shaped the Internet (Ep 2) 2025-10-07 · 33m
China vs Google: When Beijing Took on Silicon Valley (Ep 1) 2025-10-05 · 42m
Mossad Pager Attack: Crippling Hezbollah (Ep 2) 2025-09-30 · 48m
Mossad Pager Attack: The Long War with Hezbollah (Ep 1) 2025-09-28 · 52m
EXCLUSIVE: The Spy Who Smuggled Gordievsky Out of Russia 2025-09-25 · 6m
The Man Who Saved The World: The Great Escape (Ep 6) 2025-09-23 · 56m
The Man Who Saved The World: A Friendship Shattered (Ep 5) 2025-09-21 · 53m
The Man Who Saved The World: Countdown to Armageddon (Ep 4) 2025-09-16 · 51m
The Man Who Saved The World: Britain’s Best Ever Agent (Ep 3) 2025-09-14 · 49m
The Man Who Saved The World: Abandoning Communism (Ep 2) 2025-09-09 · 48m
The Man Who Saved The World: Making of a Traitor (Ep 1) 2025-09-07 · 46m
The Hunt for Pablo Escobar: Killing the Cocaine King (Ep 6) 2025-09-02 · 57m
The Hunt for Pablo Escobar: Death Squads & Delta Force (Ep 5) 2025-08-31 · 53m
The Hunt for Pablo Escobar: The Medellin Cartel vs Colombia (Ep 4) 2025-08-26 · 51m
The Hunt for Pablo Escobar: From Narco to Global Terrorist (Ep 3) 2025-08-24 · 57m
The Hunt for Pablo Escobar: The War on Drugs (Ep 2) 2025-08-19 · 56m
The Hunt for Pablo Escobar: Rise of a Drug Lord (Ep 1) 2025-08-17 · 59m
Destroying the Nazi Nuclear Program: Saving the World From War (Ep 2) 2025-08-12 · 41m
Destroying the Nazi Nuclear Program: Bombing Norway (Ep 1) 2025-08-10 · 45m
Israel Attacks Iran: The Dawn of Cyber Warfare (Ep 4) 2025-08-05 · 44m
Israel Attacks Iran: The Virus Spreads (Ep 3) 2025-08-03 · 34m
Israel Attacks Iran: Mossad’s First Assault (Ep 2) 2025-07-29 · 39m
Israel Attacks Iran: The Origins of the Iranian Nuclear Programme (Ep 1) 2025-07-27 · 48m
The Great Betrayal: Defecting to Moscow (Ep 2) 2025-07-22 · 51m
The Great Betrayal: An American Traitor (Ep 1) 2025-07-20 · 48m
Former Head of MI5: 7/7, Putin, and Al-Qaeda (Eliza Manningham-Buller) 2025-07-17 · 10m
Terror Strikes London: The Forgotten Attack (Ep 4) 2025-07-15 · 35m
Terror Strikes London: The Al-Qaeda Mastermind (Ep 3) 2025-07-13 · 35m
Terror Strikes London: What did MI5 know? (Ep 2) 2025-07-08 · 34m
Terror Strikes London: 7/7 (Ep 1) 2025-07-06 · 39m
The Truth About UFOs: Whistleblowers, Warplanes, and Worlds Unknown (Ep 4) 2025-07-01 · 41m
The Truth About UFOs: The CIA's Alien Obsession (Ep 3) 2025-06-29 · 33m
The Truth About UFOs: Alien Sightings (Ep 2) 2025-06-24 · 36m
The Truth About UFOs: The Roswell Incident (Ep 1) 2025-06-22 · 34m
Why Israel Attacked Iran 2025-06-18 · 106m
Bin Laden vs the CIA: Death in Pakistan (Ep 6) 2025-06-16 · 63m
Bin Laden vs the CIA: The Hunt for the World's Most Wanted (Ep 5) 2025-06-15 · 57m
Bin Laden vs the CIA: 9/11 (Ep 4) 2025-06-10 · 43m
Bin Laden vs the CIA: The Great Escape (Ep 3) 2025-06-08 · 59m
Bin Laden vs the CIA: Declaring Jihad (Ep 2) 2025-06-03 · 53m
Bin Laden vs the CIA: The Origins of Al-Qaeda (Ep 1) 2025-06-01 · 56m
The Man Who Tried To Kill The KGB: On the Run from Russia (Ep 2) 2025-05-27 · 45m
The Man Who Tried To Kill The KGB: A Traitor in the Kremlin (Ep 1) 2025-05-25 · 46m
The Leak That Changed The World: Death of Privacy (Ep 6) 2025-05-20 · 53m
The Leak That Changed The World: Spying on the World (Ep 5) 2025-05-18 · 39m
The Leak That Changed The World: Snowden On The Run (Ep 4) 2025-05-13 · 38m
The Leak That Changed The World: America Exposed (Ep 3) 2025-05-12 · 44m
The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2) 2025-05-06 · 36m
The Leak That Changed The World: Snowden Hacks the System (Ep 1) 2025-05-04 · 47m
Putin’s Minions: The Master in Moscow (Ep 2) 2025-04-29 · 37m
Putin’s Minions: How Russia Spies (Ep 1) 2025-04-27 · 36m
Iran vs Israel: Mossad Assassinates Iranian Mastermind (Ep 2) 2025-04-22 · 49m
Iran vs Israel: Inside the Shadow War (Ep 1) 2025-04-20 · 49m
Introducing... Legacy 2025-04-17 · 9m
CIA Mind Control: America’s Secret Cartel (Ep 4) 2025-04-15 · 44m
CIA Mind Control: Sex, Drugs, and Mysterious Deaths (Ep 3) 2025-04-13 · 48m
CIA Mind Control: Fighting Communism with LSD (Ep 2) 2025-04-08 · 52m
CIA Mind Control: The Birth of MK Ultra (Ep 1) 2025-04-06 · 45m
Putin's War: The Battle for Kyiv (Ep 4) 2025-04-01 · 38m
Putin’s War: How Russian Intelligence Failed (Ep 3) 2025-03-30 · 35m
Putin’s War: The CIA Warn Zelensky (Ep 2) 2025-03-26 · 43m
Putin’s War: The Secret Plot to Invade Ukraine (Ep 1) 2025-03-24 · 46m
30. The Spy Who Betrayed Oppenheimer: Showdown with MI5 (Ep 4) 2025-03-19 · 45m
The Spy Who Betrayed Oppenheimer: Deception at Los Alamos (Ep 3) 2025-03-17 · 50m
The Spy Who Betrayed Oppenheimer: The Manhattan Project (Ep 2) 2025-03-12 · 48m
The Spy Who Betrayed Oppenheimer: Fighting the Nazis (Ep 1) 2025-03-10 · 47m
The Intelligence War: Trump and the End of American Support for Ukraine 2025-03-06 · 27m
Trump vs the CIA: The Halloween Massacre (Ep 2) 2025-03-05 · 42m
Trump vs The CIA: Purging the Deep State (Ep 1) 2025-03-03 · 52m
Why Trump Wants Greenland: The Lost Nuclear Bomb (Ep 2) 2025-02-26 · 39m
Why Trump Wants Greenland: Secret Bases, The Arctic Circle, and Project Iceworm (Ep 1) 2025-02-24 · 38m
Death on the Thames: The Poisoned Umbrella (Ep 2) 2025-02-19 · 46m
Death on the Thames: An Assassin in London (Ep 1) 2025-02-17 · 42m
Attack on Greenpeace: Death in the Pacific (Ep 2) 2025-02-12 · 35m
Attack on Greenpeace: France’s Nuclear Bomb (Ep 1) 2025-02-10 · 39m
Crossing the Iron Curtain: Revenge in Russia (Ep 4) 2025-02-05 · 44m
Crossing the Iron Curtain: Escape From the KGB (Ep 3) 2025-02-03 · 47m
The Seventh Floor (Extract) 2025-02-01 · 11m
Crossing the Iron Curtain: The Cold War’s Most Valuable Spy (Ep 2) 2025-01-29 · 46m
Crossing the Iron Curtain: The CIA’s Mole In Moscow (Ep 1) 2025-01-27 · 52m
How China Spies: Trump, TikTok, and Taiwan 2025-01-22 · 43m
The Spy Who Loved Me: A Russian in New York (Ep 2) 2025-01-21 · 53m
The Spy Who Loved Me: Undercover in Londongrad (Ep 1) 2025-01-15 · 41m
North Korea’s CIA: The Billion Dollar Heist (Ep 2) 2025-01-08 · 44m
North Korea’s CIA: Inside Kim’s Crime Family (Ep 1) 2025-01-01 · 43m
The Man Who Made MI6 2024-12-25 · 46m
The Real Godfather: The Assassination that Shook Syria (Ep 2) 2024-12-19 · 40m
The Real Godfather: Assad’s Syrian Mafia (Ep 1) 2024-12-18 · 44m
CIA vs the Taliban: Bin Laden's Trojan Horse (Ep 2) 2024-12-11 · 41m
The Rise and Fall of Assad's Spy State 2024-12-10 · 37m
CIA vs the Taliban: Behind Enemy Lines (Ep 1) 2024-12-04 · 46m
The First CIA Coup: Turmoil in Tehran (Ep 2) 2024-11-28 · 31m
The First CIA Coup: Oil, Iran, and MI6 (Ep 1) 2024-11-27 · 42m
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