Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage | Global Issues | Current Affairs

GPS is the rare piece of infrastructure most of us never think about until it fails — and it is failing more often, in more places, by design. In Little Blue Dot: How GPS Shaped the Modern World , journalist Katherine Dunn traces the system from its Cold War origins — wartime radio beams, Vietnam's ...

Samuel M. Katz, New York Times bestselling author of *The Architect of Espionage*, joins *Secrets & Spies* to explore the remarkable life of Meir Dagan, the Mossad director who transformed Israeli intelligence. Chris and Katz discuss Mossad, covert operations, Israel's secret war against Iran, count...

Amanda Mason, Senior Curator of Contemporary Conflict at the Imperial War Museums, joins Chris to discuss *Spies, Lies and Deception*, the IWM's major exhibition exploring the history of espionage and military deception. From Operation Mincemeat and Noor Inayat Khan to Cold War spy rings, Bellingcat...

Mossad spent years grooming a former Iranian president to topple the regime from within — until he lost his nerve. Chris and Matt on the Ahmadinejad plot, the nuclear bunker even America's biggest bomb can't reach, Japan's Russian spy problem, and the violence fraying Western politics.

Every few months, a rumor or prediction suggests Vladimir Putin is finally cornered — a purge, a battlefield setback, a grim Victory Day parade. Former senior CIA officer Sean Wiswesser, author of Tradecraft, Tactics, and Dirty Tricks, says the West keeps mistaking Russia's elite infighting for weak...