SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with investigative journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan to discuss Russian intelligence, their security services, and the Russian use of the internet both internally and externally Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 16, 2018•1 hr•Ep. 302
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Kevin Maurer, coauthor of the bestseller No Easy Day, and now coauthor of the new book, American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent, which he cowrote with undercover FBI agent Tamer Elnoury . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 09, 2018•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 301
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Carmen Medina, the CIA’s former Deputy Director of Intelligence and Director of the Center for the Study of Intelligence. She is also the author of Rebels at Work: A Handbook for Leading Change from Within. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 02, 2018•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 300
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with CIA clinical psychologist Dr. Ursula Wilder, who in her over two decades at CIA has worked within the Counterintelligence Center, the Counterterrorism Center, and the Sherman Kent School for Intelligence Analysis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 26, 2017•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 299
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Lynn Wright, the current Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence and the Head of the Naval Intelligence Activity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 19, 2017•56 min•Ep. 298
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Kristin Wood, who spent more than two decades with CIA in a number of roles – from the briefer to the Vice President, to intelligence analyst, to the National Clandestine Service, to the Open Source Center. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 12, 2017•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 297
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with former CIA Deputy Director and Acting Director Michael Morell to discuss his career at the Agency, and his role in some of the most momentous intelligence events of the last two decades. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 05, 2017•2 hr 31 min•Ep. 296
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Israeli activist and attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner to discuss the ongoing campaign to disrupt terrorist finance, and her new book Harpoon: Inside the Covert War Against Terrorism's Money Masters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 28, 2017•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 295
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Ned Price, former CIA analyst and Special Assistant to President Obama on the National Security Council staff, where he also was the Spokesperson and Senior Director for Strategic Communications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 21, 2017•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 294
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Keith Masback, the CEO of the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation, to talk all things GEOINT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 14, 2017•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 293
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with author Jason Fagone to discuss the history of American codebreaking and his book, The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America’s Enemies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 07, 2017•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 292
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with CIA veteran John Sipher, who served multiple overseas tours as Chief of Station and Deputy Chief of Station in Europe, Asia, Southeast Asia, the Balkans, and South Asia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 31, 2017•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 291
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with author Nathan Englander to discuss his new novel, Middle East politics, the Mossad, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and growing up Jewish in America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 24, 2017•52 min•Ep. 290
In late July, SPY Historian Vince Houghton traveled to Pasadena, CA to take part in Politicon, the “Unconventional Political Convention” (think Comic Con for political junkies). There he sat down with prolific actor Robert Davi, who played Franz Sanchez, Bond’s nemesis in License to Kill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 17, 2017•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 289
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Dan Golden to discuss his new book, focused on the exploitation of American universities by both foreign and US intelligence agencies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 10, 2017•58 min•Ep. 288
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Bernd von Kostka, the Acting Director of the Allied Museum in Berlin, to discuss some of the key stories from the Cold War in Germany. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 03, 2017•56 min•Ep. 287
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with attorneys John Tye and Mark Zaid to discuss their new project Whistleblower Aid, which is a non-profit organization designed to protect whistleblowers – and to prevent them from becoming leakers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 26, 2017•56 min•Ep. 286
Recorded in front of a live audience at the Museum, SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with former CIA operations officer Duane Evans, who led a team of special operators into Afghanistan in the weeks following 9/11. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 19, 2017•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 285
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with former Army officer and historian James Kelly Morningstar to discuss the use of intelligence by legendary General George Patton, highlighted in Morningstar’s new book Patton’s Way: A Radical Theory of War. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 12, 2017•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 284
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with author and journalist Josh Dean to discuss Project Azorian, the Glomar Explorer, and one of the most spectacular covert operations in history. Buy The Taking of K-129 from the Spy Museum Store Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 05, 2017•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 283
In the second installment of our recurring series, SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with DIA Chief Historian Greg Elder to discuss the DIA’s role in some of the most momentous events in recent US history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 29, 2017•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 282
Because everyone else is going eclipse crazy, we thought we would re-post SPY Historian Vince Houghton’s interview with one of the tops guys at NASA, Dr. Jim Green. Green’s day job is Director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA. In his spare time, he has become one to the top experts in Civil War balloon reconnaissance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 22, 2017•56 min•Ep. 281
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Sean McFate, a former paratrooper, private military contractor, and now author, novelist, and expert in foreign policy and national security strategy. Drs. Houghton and McFate discuss military and intelligence privatization, and McFate’s new book, Deep Black. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 15, 2017•50 min•Ep. 280
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with former CIA operations officer and Deputy Division Chief for Counterintelligence TL Williams to discuss his career and his new novel, Zero Day: China's Cyber Wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 08, 2017•56 min•Ep. 279
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with former CIA analyst Melvin Goodman to discuss his life in government, and his book “A Whistleblower at the CIA: The Path of Dissent” – an insiders account of the politics of intelligence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 01, 2017•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 278
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with former Green Beret James Stejskal to discuss the role of US Army Special Forces, and their actions against the Warsaw Pact, in Cold War Berlin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 25, 2017•57 min•Ep. 277
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Newsy reporter Liz Wahl to discuss Russian efforts to propagate disinformation to the American public – and her unique role in exposing this threat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 18, 2017•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 276
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with US Naval Officer and helicopter pilot Jack McCain to discuss the potential lessons learned from his experiences and his new book, Angola, Clausewitz, and the American Way of War. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 11, 2017•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 275
Hear from former CIA officer Kenneth Daigler, as he closely examines American intelligence activities during the era of the Revolutionary War from 1765 to 1783. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 04, 2017•55 min•Ep. 274
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with James Rosen (McClatchy), James Ellenberger (formerly of AFL-CIO), and Curt Harris (NIH National Cancer Institute), authors of High Hand. Their novel, which involves a Republican presidential candidate with close ties to Russia, was written long before the 2016 election. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 27, 2017•55 min•Ep. 273