• Air Fright
    May 9 2025

    Russia’s airliner sabotage ops are examined by science writer Jeff Wise and SpyTalk host Jeff Stein.

    Jeff Wise
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    https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/inside-new-security-threats-in-the-skies?

    https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/aviation-flights-white-house-tcas-drones.html

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    38 mins
  • Letting Russia Off the Hook
    Apr 29 2025

    Trump’s shutdown of Russian war crimes investigations is the focus of former US Ambassador-at-large Stephen Rapp and SpyTalk host Michael Isikoff.

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    40 mins
  • The Last Spy Story of the Vietnam War
    Apr 25 2025

    Former CIA officer Frank Snepp shares a stunning spy story of the Vietnam War’s chaotic end with host Jeff Stein

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    57 mins
  • The CIA, Iran and a Conspiracy of Silence
    Apr 18 2025

    Doug Waller talks with Michael Isikoff about his new biography of CIA master spook Frank Wisner, quarterback of the 1953 Iran coup—and so much more.

    The Determined Spy

    Douglas Waller

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    53 mins
  • Insanity Claws
    Apr 11 2025

    Pulitzer-winning intelligence historian Tim Weiner discusses the latest wacky—and disturbing—news from inside the Trump administration’s national security team with SpyTalk host Jeff Stein

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    34 mins
  • CIA Opened Oswald’s Mail!
    Apr 3 2025

    Host Michael Isikoff, JFK conspiracies-buster Fred Litwin, and national security analyst Peter Kornbluh dissect MAGA Rep. Anna Luna’s wacky hearing featuring Oliver Stone and other assassination plot zealots.

    Peter Kornbluh

    Fred Litwin

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    43 mins
  • "There's not a day I do not think about those Americans" who died in Iraq
    Mar 28 2025

    Luis Rueda, once the director of the CIA's Iraq Operations Group, reflects with Michael on the many mistakes the U.S. government made during the war in Iraq-- and the fatal consequences.

    Luis Rueda

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • A Former CIA Spy Catcher Weighs Trump’s Russia Turn
    Mar 21 2025

    Sue Miller not only headed CIA Counterintelligence, among other high positions during her 39-year career. She oversaw the agency's controversial assessment of Russian interference in the 2016 election. And she thinks Trump’s pro-Russia moves should be an ongoing counterintelligence concern.


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    39 mins