Born into a family of Canadian Communists (208)
Fred Weir was a third-generation red diaper baby from Toronto and a long-time member of the Communist Party. His uncle, trained at the Lenin School in Moscow in the 1920s as an agent of the Communist ...
13 Nov 20211h 5min
Berlin: Capital of Spies (207)
For almost half a century, the hottest front in the Cold War was right across Berlin. From summer 1945 until 1990, spying was part of everyday life in both East and West Berlin. I speak with historian...
6 Nov 202155min
How a Soviet conscript became a NATO General (206)
In 1985, an eighteen-year-old named Riho Terras arrived at the Soviet armed forces’ large conscript assessment facility in Tallinn obeying his conscription orders. Little did he know that 26 years lat...
29 Okt 20211h 1min
Terrorism in the Cold War (205)
I talk with the writers and editors of Terrorism in the Cold War a new two volume book that uses a wide range of case studies including Polish Military Intelligence and Its Secret Relationship with th...
22 Okt 202159min
Emanuela - a Cold War Romanian Childhood (204)
Emanuela Grama was born in the mid-1970s’ in a small provincial town in Eastern Romania. She provides us with a great insight into life in the Romanian provinces during the 1980s. Emanuela lived in ...
15 Okt 20211h 3min
Pete - a BRIXMIS driver behind enemy lines in East Germany (203)
Pete Curran served with BRIXMIS, the British Military Liaison Mission in East Germany. Their operation was established by a post-WWII Allied occupation forces' agreement, where British, US and French ...
8 Okt 20211h
MKUltra - the CIA’s mind control project & the mysterious death of Frank Olson (202)
Frank Olson was an American bacteriologist, biological warfare scientist, and employee of the United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories. In 1953 at a meeting in rural Maryland, he was covertl...
1 Okt 20211h 1min
Flying into nuclear mushroom clouds (201)
Squadron Leader John Robinson AFC (ret’d) was an RAF pilot who was tasked to fly into the mushroom clouds of nuclear bomb tests to capture samples at Operation Buffalo at Maralinga in 1956, and Operat...
24 Sep 202158min
