Spies, Policymakers, and Nuclear Weapons: An Interview with Gregg Herken (Part 2)

A year ago, SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with former DIA Director and National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. Here is their conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

21 Feb 20171h 4min

SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with James Acton, co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program and a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, to discuss the threat of nuclear confrontation and how intelligence can play a vital role in reducing this danger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

14 Feb 201757min

SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Josh Kurlantzick of the Council on Foreign Relations to discuss his new book A Great Place to Have a War: The Secret War in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7 Feb 20171h 2min

SPY Historians Vince Houghton sat down to rehash the year that was 2016. He was joined by former SPY Historian Mark Stout, former CIA briefer David Priess, and BuzzFeed intelligence and national security reporter Ali Watkins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

31 Jan 20171h 20min

SPY Historian Vince Houghton is joined by John Nixon, who shares what he learned as the first man to conduct a prolonged interrogation of the captured Iraqi president. Get the book:http://www.spymuseumstore.org/spycast-books.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

24 Jan 20171h 2min

SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with bioterrorism expert Hank Parker to discuss current threats and Parker's new book Containment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

17 Jan 201744min

SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Dmitri Alperovitch, the CTO and co-founder of CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm that detected the hack of the DNC, and traced the breach back to Russian intelligence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10 Jan 201746min

The Iranian Hostage Crisis (September 1, 2008) In November 1979, radical Iranian students overran the U.S. embassy in Tehran, capturing most of the embassy staff—except for six diplomats who found refuge with the Canadian embassy. Today, Peter talks with retired CIA officer Tony Mendez who, in an elaborate deception and disguise operation, managed to exfiltrate the six Americans from Tehran before the Iranians were able to track them down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3 Jan 201731min