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  • CIA AT RISK

    Trump-MAGA infestation of spy agency poses national security threat, senior CIA ops veteran Luis Rueda tells SpyTalk host Jeff Stein.

    Luis Rueda

    How to Take Greenland

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    42 min
  • Buckley and the CIA

    Sam Tanenhaus, author of new biography of William F. Buckley, Jr., joins Michael Isikoff to discuss the conservative columnist's early role as a CIA spy and his longtime relationship with his one time agency boss, Watergate burglar Howard Hunt. 

    Buy the book
    Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America

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    58 min
  • The Intel Mess

    Gabbard’s meddling with intel disqualifies her, Sen. Mark Warner says on SpyTalk podcast with Michael Isikoff     
     

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    30 min
  • China Spy Worries + Russia

    Former top CIA exec Sue Miller talks all things espionage with Jeff Stein & Michael Isikoff.

    Susan Miller https://www.thecipherbrief.com/experts/susan-miller

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    32 min
  • Spy World Politicos

    “It’s not good” that ex-spooks are going public, former CIA officer Steve Cash tells the SpyTalk podcast, but “we’re terrified” by Trump. 

    Steven A. Cash
    https://bsky.app/profile/cashsteven.bsky.social
    https://thesteadystate.org/

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    55 min
  • Trump’s Plane Won’t Fly with Rep. Jim Himes

    Rep. Jim Himes, top Dem on the House Intel Committee, talks with Jeff & Mike about the Qatar grift and more bad things going on under Tulsi Gabbard.

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    39 min
  • Air Fright

    Russia’s airliner sabotage ops are examined by science writer Jeff Wise and SpyTalk host Jeff Stein.

    Jeff Wise
    https://x.com/ManvBrain

    https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/inside-new-security-threats-in-the-skies?

    https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/aviation-flights-white-house-tcas-drones.html

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    38 min
  • Letting Russia Off the Hook

    Trump’s shutdown of Russian war crimes investigations is the focus of former US Ambassador-at-large Stephen Rapp and SpyTalk host Michael Isikoff.

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    40 min
  • The Last Spy Story of the Vietnam War

    Former CIA officer Frank Snepp shares  a stunning spy story of the Vietnam War’s chaotic end with host Jeff Stein

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    57 min
  • The CIA, Iran and a Conspiracy of Silence

    Doug Waller talks with Michael Isikoff about his new biography of CIA master spook Frank Wisner, quarterback of the 1953 Iran coup—and so much more.

    The Determined Spy

    Douglas Waller

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    53 min

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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…