SpyTalk

By SpyTalk, Jeff Stein

SpyTalk lives at the intersection of intelligence operations, foreign policy, homeland security, and military strategy. Hosted by veteran national security journalists Jeff Stein, Michael Isikoff and ... more

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The podcast currently has 193 episodes available.

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January 23, 2026 Battlefield Greenland
Former senior Danish intelligence officer Jacob Kaarsbo talks about Trump’s murky designs on Greenland and NATO.
https://jacobkaarsbo.substack.com/
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46min
January 16, 2026 Will the Iranian Regime Survive?
Two prominent Iranian-American journalists, Jason Rezaian of the Washington Post and Hooman Majd of NBC News, say the regime may be losing its grip.
Jason Rezaian
https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/jason-rezaian/
Hooman Majd
https://www.hoomanmajd.com/
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January 09, 2026 Gulp of America
CIA in Venezuela, Cuba and Beyond
With Luis Rueda
https://www.linkedin.com/in/luis-rueda-b060a217/
and
Peter Eisner
https://substack.com/@petereisner
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January 02, 2026 Her Grandfather Was a Nazi Spy
Christine Kuehn talks about her shocking discovery in “Family of Spies"
Family of Spies
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250344465/familyofspies/
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December 19, 2025 The House of Secrets
Tom Blanton talks about 40 years of unearthing CIA plots at the National Security Archive.
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/
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December 13, 2025 Trump’s Antifa Fiction
Top former national security official Josh Geltzer separates fake from real threats.
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December 06, 2025 The Pipe Bomb Suspect—and More
Ace investigative reporter Carol Leonnig talks about her latest scoop and new book on Trump’s DoJ, “Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department.”
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November 26, 2025 Sidelining the FBI's Spy Hunters
Investigative reporter Ron Kessler and retired former senior CIA officer John Sipher on the GOP plan to give Tulsi Gabbard control of neutralizing spies and terrorists.
John Sipher
https://www.thecipherbrief.com/
Risking a National Security Disaster by Ronald Kessler
https://www.spytalk.co/p/risking-a-national-security-disaster

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November 21, 2025 Pushing Back on Lawless Venezuela Strikes
Top Democrat Sen. Jack Reed calls Trump threats “off the wall...”
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November 14, 2025 Has Trump Authorized Assassinations?
Intelligence historians James Risen and Peter Kornbluh on Trump policies and Cold War excesses.
More from James Risen
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/james-risen

More from Peter Kornbluh
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/7/gunboat_diplomacy
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