Goat Staring and Other Oddities: An Interview with Jon Ronson
SPY Historian Vince Houghton traveled to Politicon in Pasadena, CA and sat down (before a live audience) with Jon Ronson, author of The Men Who Stare at Goats, and all-around interesting person. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
19 Juli 201659min
The Secret History of WWII: An Interview with Sir Max Hastings
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with prolific author Sir Max Hastings, whose 20+ books have set the standard for historical writing over the last 40 years. Dr. Houghton and Sir Max discuss the fascinating topic of Hastings’ new book, The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945, arguably the best single-volume history of the secret side of the War. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
12 Juli 201648min
Intel at Leyte: An Interview with John Prados
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Dr. John Prados, author of the new book Storm Over Leyte: The Philippine Invasion and the Destruction of the Japanese Navy. Drs. Houghton and Prados discuss the role of intelligence in the Pacific War and, specifically, how it impacted the Battle of Leyte Gulf – the largest naval battle in world history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
5 Juli 201643min
Author Debriefing: Executing the Rosenbergs: Death and Diplomacy in a Cold War World
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Dr. Lori Clune, Associate Professor of History at California State University, Fresno, to discuss her new book on how the Rosenberg spy case affected American relations with the rest of the world. A completely new way of looking at this milestone in spy history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
28 Juni 201642min
Combating Extremism: An Interview with Dr. Tara Maller
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Dr. Tara Maller, the Spokesperson and a Senior Policy Advisor for the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), to discuss the growing threat – and responses to – online extremism. To learn more about the CEP, go to http://www.counterextremism.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
21 Juni 201649min
The Missing Man: An Interview with the NYT’s Barry Meier
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Barry Meier of the New York Times to discuss the story of Bob Levinson, former FBI agent and CIA contract worker, who disappeared in Iran in 2007. Meier’s book, Missing Man: The American Spy Who Vanished in Iran, drew on years of interviews and never-before-disclosed CIA files to weave together a riveting narrative of the ex-agent's journey to Iran and the hunt to rescue him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
14 Juni 201646min
From the SpyCast Vault: D-Day Anniversary Edition
Juan Pujol was the Walter Mitty of World War II, a nobody who at one doomed venture after another while dreaming of doing something interesting with his life -- saving Western civilization, if possible. Journalist Stephan Talty, whose work has appeared widely, including in the New York Times Magazine and GQ, has told the remarkable story of how against all the odds, Pujol did just that by becoming agent GARBO, the most important double agent of World War II. Hear Talty discuss his new book with SPY Historian Mark Stout in this author debriefing which took place on July 12, 2012. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
7 Juni 201644min
The Blonde Bond: An Interview with Vanity Fair’s Howard Blum
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Howard Blum, contributing editor at Vanity Fair and the author of The Last Goodnight: A World War II Story of Espionage, Adventure, and Betrayal, a book about one of the greatest spies of WWII, Betty Pack. Pack used seduction as her tradecraft, and stole some of the most consequential secrets of the war. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
31 Maj 201649min
