Shadow State: The Secret History of North Korea’s Room 39
Deep within the closed borders of Pyongyang sits Room 39, a highly secretive government branch dedicated to generating hard foreign currency for the North Korean regime. This gripping investigative ep...
19 Touko 5min
Espionage on Ice: Sergei Fedorov’s Daring Cold War Defection to the Detroit Red Wings
In the collapsing final years of the Soviet Union, Detroit Red Wings officials orchestrated one of the most daring sports defections in modern history—smuggling hockey phenom Sergei Fedorov out from u...
18 Touko 29min
Friday Flashback-Operation Mincemeat: The Fake Identity That Deceived Hitler’s High Command
How did a deceased, homeless Welshman become the most effective secret agent of World War II? This episode uncovers the brilliant espionage tradecraft behind Operation Mincemeat, a masterclass in coun...
15 Touko 4min
The Mayor and Beijing propaganda: How a California Suburb Became a Target for Chinese Influence
In May 2026, Eileen Wang, the mayor of Arcadia, California, resigned her position and agreed to plead guilty to federal charges of acting as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China. Prosecu...
13 Touko 4min
The Ghost Stories Program: Children Raised Inside the World of Espionage
Some intelligence operatives don’t just live under false identities — they raise entire families inside them. In this episode, we explore the psychological consequences of children growing up in espio...
12 Touko 12min
Traitor in the Vault
Behind the vaulted doors of the CIA, three women were tasked with an impossible mission: finding a ghost among their own colleagues. As they peeled back layers of Cold War deception, their evidence po...
11 Touko 34min
The Invisible Key: Zero Days in the World of Espionage
For an intelligence officer, a Zero Day is the ultimate skeleton key for gathering signals intelligence without leaving a footprint. We dive into the secret marketplace the tech world where these vuln...
6 Touko 4min
Dead Drops, Brush Passes, and Spy Tradecraft That Still Works Today: The Psychology of Invisible Communication in a Hyper-Surveilled World
Analyze the enduring mechanics of classic espionage techniques—dead drops, brush passes, and related tradecraft—still employed by intelligence services despite pervasive digital surveillance. This epi...
4 Touko 6min
