Former CIA officer Duane Evans talked about his book Foxtrot in Kandahar, in which he recounts his tour of duty in southern Afghanistan shortly after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack…
1,300 viewsVince Houghton talked about attempts by the U.S. government to overthrow or assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro. He spoke about the Bay of Pigs invasion as well as lesser-known plans invol…
1,252 viewsKenneth Daigler talked about his book, Spies, Patriots, and Traitors: American Intelligence in the Revolutionary War, in which he looks at U.S. intelligence during the Revolutionary War and …
1,595 viewsH. Keith Melton and Robert Wallace talked about their book their book, Spy Sites of Washington, D.C.: A Guide to the Capital Region’s Secret History, in which they discuss some of the most n…
1,265 viewsTracy Walder is co-author of The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World’s Most Notorious Terrorists. She sat down for an interview about her ti…
1,319 viewsRichard Schroeder is a former CIA officer and author of The Foundation of the CIA: Harry Truman, the Missouri Gang, and the Origins of the Cold War. He talked about the history of U.S. intel…
962 viewsAntonio Mendez spoke about the Iranian hostage crisis and a secret operation to save Americans in Iran during the turmoil in which he took a role as a Hollywood producer scouting out locatio…
1,671 viewsMichele Rigby Assad talked about her life as a CIA agent working in the Middle East.
1,701 viewsJack Barsky talked about his book, Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America, about his life as a KGB spy operating in the U.S. during the late 1970s an…
3,283 viewsKatherine Egner Gruber talked about slave and Revolutionary War spy James Lafayette. Working for French General Marquis de Lafayette, enslaved volunteer James Lafayette posed as an escaped s…
2,704 viewsDavid Priess talked about his book, The President’s Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligence Briefings to America’s Presidents from Kennedy to Obama, about the President’s Daily Bri…
1,605 viewsJonna Mendez talked about how Czech husband and wife KGB spies Karl and Hana Koecher used sex to infiltrate the CIA and gather top-secret information. Ms. Mendez said that one popular Washin…
6,707 viewsFormer FBI Agent Mike Rochford, author David Wise, and psychiatrist David Charney talked about the career of Robert Hanssen, an FBI agent who spied for the Soviet Union and subsequently Russ…
5,848 viewsBryan Denson talked about his book, The Spy’s Son: The True Story of the Highest-Ranking CIA Officer Ever Convicted of Espionage and the Son He Trained to Spy for Russia, about Jim Nicholson…
1,544 viewsNatalie Zanin talked about Amy Thorpe Pack, the American-born wife of an English diplomat who became a spy for British intelligence. Ms. Zanin said that Ms. Pack, codenamed “Cynthia,” utiliz…
2,504 viewsVince Houghton talked about Soviet spies who infiltrated U.S. atomic bomb research and how this may have led to the development of the Soviet atomic bomb. The International Spy Museum and…
2,362 viewsPeter Duffy talked about his book, Double Agent: The First Hero of World War II and How the FBI Outwitted and Destroyed a Nazi Spy Ring, in which he recounts the life of William Sebold, the …
882 viewsMorten Storm talked about his book, Agent Storm: My Life Inside Al Qaeda and the CIA, in which he discusses his experiences as a member of al Qaeda and his later life as a double agent emplo…
1,027 viewsKai Bird talked about his book, The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames, in which he chronicles the life and career of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative Robert Ames. In his…
820 viewsRonald Olive talked about his book, Capturing Jonathan Pollard: How One of the Most Notorious Spies in American History Was Brought to Justice, published by Naval Institute Press. Mr. Olive …
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