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 Sep 202535min
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 Sep 202531min
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 Aug 202529min
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 Aug 202530min
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 Aug 202535min
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 Aug 202529min
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 Jul 202530min
Agent of Chaos: The Austrian Fugitive Running Russia’s Global Spy Networks
Today he’s one of the most wanted men in the world, but before Jan Marsalek fled to Russia, he was the COO of payment-processing firm Wirecard. Officials and investigators say Marsalek used the comp...
22 Jul 202531min
