A Legal Perspective on the Snowden Case
Mark Zaid is one of the nation’s top national security lawyers and has defended many alleged whistleblowers and leakers. SPY Historian, Mark Stout, called him in for a consultation on the case of Edw...
24 Kesä 201343min
A Western Spy among Terrorists in Yemen
Morten Storm was a Danish convert to Islam who became a close associate of Anwar al-Awlaki, the American imam who was a senior member of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in Yemen. He even ate...
26 Touko 201358min
The Rice Paddy Navy: U.S. Sailors Undercover in China
After the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the US Navy knew it would need vital information from the Pacific. Captain Milton ‘Mary’ Miles journeyed to China to set up weather stati...
3 Touko 201343min
Spying in America: Espionage from the Revolutionary War to the Dawn of the Cold War
Can you keep a secret? Maybe you can, but the United States government can’t. Since the birth of our country, nations from Russia and China to Ghana and Ecuador, have stolen some of our country’s mos...
3 Touko 201355min
The United States Military Liaison Mission in East Germany
Major General Michael Ennis was one of the rare Marine officers admitted to the Foreign Area Officer program where he became a specialist on the Soviet Union. This led to an assignment as a translator...
19 Huhti 201339min
American Communism and Soviet Espionage: A Look Back with John Earl Haynes
In the 1970s, historian John Earl Haynes was researching the American labor movement when he discovered interesting connections to the Communist party. Fast forward 20 years to the 1990s, when that on...
1 Huhti 201346min
Intelligence in Support of UN Peacekeeping in Bosnia during the 1990s
The United Nations thinks “intelligence” is a dirty word but it still needs intelligence to conduct peacekeeping operations. The result is a euphemism: “military information.” SPY Historian Mark Stout...
11 Helmi 201344min
Born Under an Assumed Name
Looking back on her childhood, Sarah Taber remembers that “my identity was problematic because of moving from country to country and the overall atmosphere of growing up in the CIA.” As an adult she ...
11 Helmi 201327min
