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- Sex, Lies and Women at the CIA
Jeff talks with CIA operations veteran Laura Thomas about the gains and losses for women at the spy agency.
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Read Laura’s piece Espionage is a Man's World - by Laura Thomas
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Jeff talks with John Hadden, author of “Conversations with a Masked Man: My Father, the CIA, and Me."
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Jeff Stein talks with Kai Bird, co-author of “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.”
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David Ignatius talks about his new thriller “The Tao of Deception.”
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Jeff talks with top former CIA Russia hand John Sipher about spy agency ops and Moscow’s leadership crisis.
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Jeff talks with Calder Walton, author of “Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West.”
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Journalist James Risen speaks with Jeff Stein about his new book on Sen. Frank Church’s unprecedented investigation of CIA misdeeds, from assassination plots to LSD mind-control experiments to spying on Americans.
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The Last Honest Man
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Former CIA and DoD Chinese espionage expert Nicholas Eftimiades talks with Jeff about Beijing’s newly aggressive covert campaigns against pro-democracy activists in the US.
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Legendary retired CIA officer Jim Lawler talks with Jeff about the massive leak of highly classified Pentagon documents.
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Law enforcement and extremist reporter Ali Winston says the FBI is getting better, but radicals are metastasizing.
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About SpyTalk
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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 Karen J. Greenberg, the podcast features exclusives by SpyTalk’s roster of longtime reporters, news and profiles of US and foreign spymasters, and interviews with policymakers and expert authors. There’s nothing quite like it—a place for experts and laypersons alike, who enjoy national security scoops and insights by SpyTalk's subject matter experts. For more SpyTalk go to: https://www.spytalk.co/