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  • The World's First Super-terrorist

    Joby Warrick joined SpyTalk to talk about “The Jackal: The Rise and Fall of Carlos, the World’s First Super-Terrorist.”

    Check out the book:

    The JackalThe Rise and Fall of Carlos, the World's First


    More from Joby Warrick



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    54 min
  • Gunfight at the CIA Corral

    Political pressure on the spy agency is forcing people out, says former senior analyst Julia Curlee. 

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    52 min
  • Kash Patel’s Strange Trips

    Former FBI executive Lauren Anderson on the Director’s China, Russia outreaches.

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    55 min
  • The Nord Stream Conspiracy

    Wall Street Journal reporter Bojan Pancevski unveils the astounding story of Ukraine’s sabotage of the Russian pipeline.

    Plus, Jeff and Michael discuss Jay Clayton, Todd Blanche, and more.

    Read Bojan’s book

    The Nord Stream Conspiracy 


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    58 min
  • Who’s Running US Intelligence?

    Atlantic staff writer Shane Harris drills down on the changes roiling the ODNI and CIA.


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    42 min
  • Trumpworld’s Dystopian World of Terror

    Terrorism expert Colin Clarke fact-checks the administration’s claims on leftwing extremism and election security.

    More from our guest: Colin P. Clarke

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    49 min
  • The Reporter and the China Trap

    Tom LoBianco answered an ad for a writer and then things went south. 


    Tom LoBianco is a veteran national politics reporter and editor of 24sight News, the independent news site on Substack.

    24sight's scoops have been featured in The New York Times, CNN, ABC News, the Reddit front page, the Columbia Journalism Review and many other outlets.


    Tom LoBianco

    https://www.24sight.news/ 


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    49 min
  • War-Ender Weapons

    Seeing-eye bombs were supposed to limit civilian casualties. Jeffrey Stern, author of “The Warhead,” explains why they didn’t. 

    Jeffrey Stern

    The Warhead

    https://www.jeffreyestern.com/books 


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    Jeffrey E. Stern is an award-winning journalist and the author of five books, including his newest book The Warhead, The 15:17 to Paris, which was adapted as a major motion picture by Clint Eastwood and Warner Brothers, and The Last Thousand: One School’s Promise in a Nation at War, an honorable mention for best book of the year by Library Journal. Stern co-wrote and produced the award-winning independent film Yasmeen’s Element, which premiered at the SXSW film festival and was named a “best of the fest.” He has been named a graduate fellow at the Stanford Center for International Conflict and Negotiation and a grantee of the Pulitzer Center Fellow for Crisis Reporting. Stern’s reporting has appeared in magazines such as The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, and The Atlantic.



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    1 hr 1 min
  • Trump's Hatchet Man Atop US Intelligence

    New York Times Intelligence Reporter Julian Barnes on the Rise of Bill Pulte.

    More from Julian

    Julian E. Barnes 

    Writes about the American intelligence community, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and other spy agencies, as well as broader national and international security issues. His stories seek to break news about what intelligence officials are thinking, and occasionally doing, and to explain the U.S. perspective on security matters.

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    51 min
  • How Trump Broke the ODNI

    Former senior CIA analyst David Kanin on the crises in US intelligence.


    David Kanin is a retired CIA senior analyst and member of the Senior Intelligence Service.

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    1 hr 1 min

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