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 Juli 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 Juli 202531min
From Intel Officer to White House Adviser: A Chat with The Museum’s Executive Director
This week we spoke with the International Spy Museum's Executive Director, Colonel Chris Costa. His decades-long career in the intelligence community spanned multiple continents, running sensitive ope...
15 Juli 202533min
“America’s Gatekeeper”: A Conversation with DCSA’s Director David Cattler
Born out of a major Chinese cyberattack that stole personal information from millions of federal government employees, the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency calls itself ‘America’s Gatek...
8 Juli 202529min
Russia's Fake Identity Assembly Line in Brazil
When a Russian spy was arrested in Brazil in 2022, authorities were shocked to discover that he seemed to have a real birth certificate and authentic citizenship documents. The incident sparked a mult...
1 Juli 202531min
Breaking the Silence: Coming Out in the CIA
Emerging alongside Joseph McCarthy’s Red Scare in the 1950s was the Lavender Scare: Widespread panic and paranoia over the inclusion of gay personnel in the federal government. Their perceived dangers...
24 Juni 202532min
A Conversation with House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman
What should the US Intelligence Community prioritize domestically and overseas, and how should the work be done? We sat down with Congressman Rick Crawford, Chairman of the House Permanent Select Comm...
17 Juni 202532min
