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 journalist Jeff Stein, the podcast features ... more

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The podcast currently has 151 episodes available.

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April 03, 2025 CIA Opened Oswald’s Mail!
Host Michael Isikoff, JFK conspiracies-buster Fred Litwin, and national security analyst Peter Kornbluh dissect MAGA Rep. Anna Luna’s wacky hearing featuring Oliver Stone and other assassination plot zealots.
Peter Kornbluh
Fred Litwin

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March 28, 2025 "There's not a day I do not think about those Americans" who died in Iraq
Luis Rueda, once the director of the CIA's Iraq Operations Group, reflects with Michael on the many mistakes the U.S. government made during the war in Iraq-- and the fatal consequences.
Luis Rueda
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March 21, 2025 A Former CIA Spy Catcher Weighs Trump’s Russia Turn
Sue Miller not only headed CIA Counterintelligence, among other high positions during her 39-year career. She oversaw the agency's controversial assessment of Russian interference in the 2016 election. And she thinks Trump’s pro-Russia moves should be an ongoing counterintelligence concern.

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March 15, 2025 Vindman: Putin is "Toying" with Trump
The star player in Trump’s first impeachment tells Michael Isikoff there will no ceasefire in Ukraine and calls DC prosecutor a “henchman” for launching bogus probe of him and his brother.
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March 07, 2025 What's Ukraine Thinking?
Former senior CIA operations official Glenn Corn talks with Jeff Stein about his recent trip to Ukraine and its prospects in a rapidly and radically changing diplomatic landscape
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February 26, 2025 The Ghosts of Munich
Former US NATO envoy and Army General Doug Lute discusses JD Vance insults of allies, administration abandonment of Ukraine to Russia with SpyTalk podcast host Michael Isikoff.
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February 21, 2025 Trump’s CIA and Russia
Veteran former senior CIA operations official Bill Murray talks with Jeff Stein about the challenges of countering aggressive Russian intelligence ops, from the Cold War to Trump II’s radical policy shifts toward Moscow.
William D Murray - Vice-President and co-founder - Council on Intelligence Issues | LinkedIn
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February 11, 2025 Betrayal: Trump Justice Department’s War on the FBI
Former top FBI counterterrorism agent Chris O’Leary tells host Michael Isikoff how Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove was a diligent prosecutor of Jan. 6 rioters before he turned on his teammates at Trump's behest.

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February 07, 2025 How Might Trump Deploy DHS Intelligence?
Former Senior DHS Intelligence Counsel Spencer Reynolds talks with host Jeff Stein about the troubled past and uncertain future of the agency’s Intelligence & Analysis wing under President Trump.
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https://www.brennancenter.org/experts/spencer-reynolds
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January 31, 2025 A “Bonanza" of Spyware Abuses
Ronald Deibert of Citizen Lab tells host Michael Isikoff how his research firm has uncovered the shocking abuse of commercial spyware by foreign governments and spy agencies around the world, resulting in a proliferation of "Watergate-like” scandals.
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Chasing Shadows
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