Serving in the Middle East, then Writing About It (with Ilana Berry)
Award-winning author Ilana Berry explores the gap between how espionage is portrayed and how it actually works. Drawing on her experience in the CIA, the Department of Defense, and er firsthand view o...
26 Apr 42min
Modern Conspiracy Culture: How Real Scandals Fueled False Narratives (with Kathryn Olmsted)
Real government secrecy, intelligence failures, and historic scandals created the conditions for today’s conspiracy culture. Pearl Harbor, The Red Scare, JFK, 9/11, QAnon - a small truth can explode i...
19 Apr 39min
The Terrible Thing People Say When They Think No One Is Listening (with Ben Palmer)
Comedian Ben Palmer (Palmer Trolls) does sort-of-pranks that have evolved from satire to social experiment. Using aliases, fake websites and a “deportation hotline,” Palmer reveals how easily ordinary...
12 Apr 37min
What the Steele Dossier Got Right—and Why It Still Matters (with Christopher Steele)
In 2016, former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele produced a series of intelligence memos that were leaked and widely called “The Steel Dossier” containing allegations about Russia's int...
5 Apr 1h 2min
Havana Syndrome Is Real - and They Tried to Bury It (with Michael Weiss) - Part Two
We continue to look at Havana Syndrome and Russian intelligence operations. Investigative journalist Michael Weiss expands on evidence suggesting that a covert unit within Russian military intelligenc...
29 Mar 27min
Havana Syndrome Is Real - and They Tried to Bury It (with Michael Weiss) - Part One
Havana Syndrome wasn’t a mystery. It was a coverup. And it wasn’t just Havana. Investigative journalist Michael Weiss (The Insider) returns to the show to break down his explosive reporting on the une...
22 Mar 34min
The CIA Analyst Who Knows Why Intelligence Fails (with David McCloskey)
Former CIA analyst and bestselling spy novelist David McCloskey (“The Rest Is Classified” podcast) explains how Israel manipulated Trump to get him to attack Iran and what Netanyahu’s real plan is. Th...
15 Mar 41min
The Singularity War and How to Hack Minds (w/ Anthony Vinci)
Former senior intelligence officer and author of The Fourth Intelligence Revolution explores how artificial intelligence, big data, and information warfare are fundamentally reshaping global intellige...
8 Mar 38min
