Growing up in the Stasi town (278)
Dirk lived in the town of Bernau about 15 miles from East Berlin. Just outside Bernau was Wandlitz the residential estate of the East German leadership. As a result, Bernau had one of the highest dens...
18 Feb 202351min
The most damaging female spy in US history (277)
Ana Montes was the most damaging female spy in US history. For nearly 17 years, Montes was one of the government's top Cuba experts, with easy access to classified documents. By night, she was working...
11 Feb 20231h 23min
The 1989 US Invasion of Panama & the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre (276)
Every weekday on the History Daily podcast, Lindsay Graham takes you back in time to explore a momentous moment that happened ‘on this day’ in history. 1989 was a pivotal year for the Cold War. The...
8 Feb 202337min
Missile away, missile away! - A Cold War US Peacekeeper nuclear missile launch officer (275)
Tim Lyon was an officer assigned to the 400th Strategic Missile Squadron located in Cheyenne Wyoming. The Squadron was maintained 50 Peacekeeper ICBM missiles based in underground silos in farmers’ fi...
4 Feb 20231h 24min
Red Elvis on tour, aka Dean Reed the US Cold War music star (274)
Warning: This episode does cover the subject of suicide. If you need help please use these links: UK https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/ Rest of the World https://findah...
28 Jan 202359min
The Bridge of Spies spy (273)
On 10 February 1962, Gary Powers, the American pilot whose U2 spy plane was shot down in Soviet airspace, was released on “The Bridge in Spies” in Berlin by his captors in exchange for one Colonel Rud...
21 Jan 20231h 23min
Two weddings and a teaching post in Cold War Berlin (272)
Marie-Claude Hawkes continues her story with her return to Berlin in 1985 as a French teaching assistant at the Havel School RAF Gatow, teaching French and taking part in school activities in West and...
14 Jan 202352min
The girl in a Cold War East German coal mine (271)
In 1981 Marie-Claude Hawkes was an 18-year-old living in Amiens, France when she embarked on a trip to East Germany looking for adventure… Among her experiences was working in a lignite coal mine. Li...
7 Jan 202349min
