The Terrorist Challenge
SpyCast8 Tammi 2010

The Terrorist Challenge

The U.S. authorities' failure to prevent a Nigerian suicide bomber from boarding a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas Day, and the suicide bombing at a CIA base in Afghanistan have roiled the intelligence community. International Spy Museum historian Dr. Thomas Boghardt discusses with SpyCast host and CIA veteran Peter Earnest how these incidents unfolded and their implications for intelligence reform.

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 To Catch a Drug Cartel

To Catch a Drug Cartel

Keith Bulfin was a banker, not a spy. But then came a special client–a supposed coffee importer who was actually a banker for Mexican and Colombian drug cartels. Soon, U.S. authorities were knocking o...

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Retracing the Hunt for Bin Laden

Retracing the Hunt for Bin Laden

This Thursday marks the 24th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, which spawned a decade-long search for the man behind them – Osama Bin Laden. Ed Bogan was the Chief of Operations for...

9 Syys 202535min

An Assassination in Athens and a CIA Officer’s Legacy

An Assassination in Athens and a CIA Officer’s Legacy

It’s been 50 years since the assassination of the CIA’s former Station Chief in Athens, Richard Welch. At the time, he was the agency’s highest level officer killed in the line of duty. A Greek, Marxi...

2 Syys 202531min

From the SpyCast Vault: Escaping Tehran with The CIA Pt. 2

From the SpyCast Vault: Escaping Tehran with The CIA Pt. 2

We return to November, 1979 when radical Iranian students seized the US Embassy in Tehran and took dozens of Americans hostage.  Mark and Cora Lijek were two American officials stuck in Tehran, and i...

26 Elo 202529min

From the SpyCast Vault: Escaping Tehran with The CIA

From the SpyCast Vault: Escaping Tehran with The CIA

We'll go back in time to November, 1979 when radical Iranian students seized the US Embassy in Tehran and took dozens of Americans hostage. Six US officials managed to find refuge with Canadian embass...

19 Elo 202530min

Catching an Iranian-American Missile Broker

Catching an Iranian-American Missile Broker

Reza Olangian, a dual US-Iranian citizen, left behind his life in Silicon Valley to spy for Iran in the capital. And by the time DEA special agent Jeffrey James Higgins found out about him in 2011, Ol...

12 Elo 202535min

Lethal Dissent: Iran’s Spy Games in Turkey

Lethal Dissent: Iran’s Spy Games in Turkey

Washington and Tehran have a long and complicated history, with tensions that rise, fall and then rise again. Just this summer, we watched the U.S. and Israel strike Iran’s nuclear infrastructure. Th...

5 Elo 202529min

Agent 202: New Secrets Emerge on an American Who Spied for Cuba

Agent 202: New Secrets Emerge on an American Who Spied for Cuba

Codenamed "Agent 202," Kendall Myers went undetected as a spy for Cuba for nearly 30 years. He worked at the State Department’s Foreign Service Institute, secretly spying for Cuba out of an earnest lo...

29 Heinä 202530min

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