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Jul 29

180. Have the US and Israel Always Spied on Each Other? (Ep 2)

How did Israel’s spy in America Jonathan Pollard wind up getting caught? And what does the sordid episode tell us about the nature of the spy relationship between America and Israel? David and Gordon explore how an US-Israeli spy stole hundreds of classified documents in the 1980 ... Show More

51m 49s

Jul 26

179. Did Israel Spy on Trump’s Iran Negotiations? (Ep 1)

Do Israel and America spy on each other? And how do close allies navigate stealing each other’s secrets? Listen as David and Gordon step inside the tricky intelligence sharing relationship between the US and Israel. ------------------- THE REST IS CLASSIFIED LIVE 2026 at The Rest ... Show More

58m 19s

Jul 22

178. The Plot to Destroy Russia’s Gas Empire (Ep 2)

How did a group of civilian divers carry out what’s been described as one of the greatest acts of sabotage of the 21st century? And have they finally been exposed? Listen as David and Gordon unpack the investigation into who blew up the Nord Stream Pipeline in 2022 with Bojan Pan ... Show More

56m 1s

Jul 2024

The Spy Who Defused the Missile Crisis | The Stranger In Red Square | 1

It’s 1960. The world hangs on the brink of nuclear war. But in Moscow, a man’s about to emerge from the shadows with an offer for the CIA. His name is Oleg Penkovsky and he wants to supply the US with the Soviet Union’s greatest nuclear secrets. But is he for real or part of an e ... Show More

42m 11s

Jul 2024

The Spy Who Defused the Missile Crisis | Code Nuclear | 4

It’s 1962 and Oleg Penkovsky has gone to ground after spotting a KGB surveillance team tracking his MI6 contact Janet Chisholm. But when the British Embassy in Moscow invites him to a cocktail party, he sees a chance to reconnect with Western intelligence.Listen to The Spy Who ad ... Show More

41m 2s

Oct 2021

The Billion Dollar Spy

`Hayley Atwell tells the story of Adolph Tolkachev, one of the CIA's most prolific Russian assets, with his handler David Rolph. David's task was to keep this priceless information flowing, but first he had to make sure the KGB weren't onto him. What would YOU do? From SPYSCAPE, ... Show More

49m 1s

Jul 2024

The Spy Who Defused the Missile Crisis | Manoeuvres in Moscow | 3

Oleg Penkovsky is back in the USSR, ready to feed Soviet secrets to his new MI6 contact: a pram-pushing mother of three. But with the Berlin Crisis about to boil over, his intel could be the difference between war and peace. But with the KGB lurking everywhere smuggling these sec ... Show More

43m 2s

Aug 2024

The Spy Who Defused the Missile Crisis | Unpacking the mind of a spy legend | 5

Few spies have motives as hard to decipher as those of Oleg Penkovsky. Was he a hero, an egotist or a madman? The Spy Who's Tristan Donovan sits down with Jack Basu-Mellish, host of the LSE Cold War Podcast, to discuss Penkovsky’s actions, plus the lessons to learn from the event ... Show More

38m 37s

Aug 2019

Summer of ‘69: George Trofimoff Pt. 1, Soviet Spy

This episode is brought to you by Espionage, a Parcast Original. For more episodes like this one, subscribe to Espionage on Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. In 1969, American intelligence officer George Trofimoff agreed to provide copies of highly classified documents ... Show More

50m 46s

Oct 2021

New Russia, New Rules

It's 1993, and Russia is tearing itself apart. A violent coup is threatening to derail Boris Yeltsin's fragile post-Soviet government. Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, Deputy Chief of Station for the CIA in Moscow, is caught in the crossfire. To get out alive, he'll need to lean on an unlike ... Show More

41m 28s

Oct 2024

The Spy Who Putin Poisoned | End of an Era | 1

When the USSR falls apart, GRU officer Sergei Skripal finds himself adrift in the new Russia, having never asked for the country's new democracy. So when he meets a shadowy wine dealer, he leaps at the chance to make some money, without a clue how the deal would lead him to Salis ... Show More

38m 49s

Feb 2020

A Mole in the CIA

February 21, 1994. Early in the morning, FBI agents assemble near the home of Aldrich Ames. They wait for him to leave his house and then they pounce, arresting one of the deadliest double agents in CIA history. He received almost $2 million from the KGB, selling CIA secrets and ... Show More

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14. Crossing the Iron Curtain: The CIA’s...