Executive Director, Chris Costa is joined by former CIA Officer and author, Sam Faddis to discuss his book The CIA War in Kurdistan: The Untold Story of the Northern Front in the Iraq War. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 14, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 423
Executive Director, Chris Costa talks with Kirsten Fontenrose, current Director of the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative at the Atlantic Council, about current events in the Middle East and her twenty years of experience with the region. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 07, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 422
Executive Director Chris Costa sits down with Washington Post journalist, Jason Rezaian to talk about his book and experiences being taken hostage in Iran. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 31, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 421
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Rick Holland, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Vice President of Strategy for Digital Shadows, to discuss the latest cyber trends and developments Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 24, 2020•51 min•Ep. 420
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with bioterrorism expert Hank Parker to discuss current threats and Parker's new book Containment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 17, 2020•42 min•Ep. 419
Having trouble getting a handle on world events? Join Spy Museum Executive Director Chris Costa and Former CIA/ Spy Museum Advisory Board Member Karen M. Schaefer for a discussion of the latest intelligence, national security, and terrorism issues in the news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 10, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 418
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with former CIA officer and FBI special agent Tracy Walder to discuss her career in intelligence, and her new book, The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 03, 2020•51 min•Ep. 417
SpyCast has teamed up with Live Science to bring you this special preview clip of the new podcast, Life's Little Mysteries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 02, 2020•13 min•Ep. 416
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera to discuss the Russian “illegals” program and his new book, Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin's Spies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 25, 2020•57 min•Ep. 415
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with former CIA officer Darrell Blocker to discuss his career and work throughout Africa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 18, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 414
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with writer, speaker, commentator, and Pulitzer Prize finalist Mara Hvistendahl to discuss the rise of economic espionage, the American response to this threat, and her new book, The Scientist and The Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 11, 2020•50 min•Ep. 413
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Sue Gordon to discuss her career and many important topics in intelligence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 04, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 412
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with retired 4-star general David Petraeus, former Commanding General, Multi-National Force – Iraq; Commander, US Central Command; commander of the International Security Assistance Force and Commander, US Forces Afghanistan; and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, where he served from September, 2011, until November, 2012. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 28, 2020•48 min•Ep. 411
Having trouble getting a handle on world events? Join Spy Museum Executive Director Chris Costa for a discussion of the latest intelligence, national security, and terrorism issues in the news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 21, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 410
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with counterterrorism expert and former MI5 officer Tom Parker to discuss the role of human rights in the fight against terrorism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 14, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 409
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with terrorism expert William Rosenau to discuss a most improbable true story: America’s first female terrorist group and their attacks, which included the Washington Navy Yard, an FBI office, and even the US Capitol. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 07, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 408
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with the 21st Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency to discuss his career, the mission of the DIA, and his role as its director. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 31, 2019•52 min•Ep. 407
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with representatives of the United States Marshals Service to discuss the decades-long manhunt for Nazi war criminal Dr. Joseph Mengele. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 31, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 406
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with former Green Beret Major Jim Gant and his wife, former war correspondent Ann Scott Tyson, who is the author of the book, American Spartan: The Promise, the Mission, and the Betrayal of Special Forces Major Jim Gant Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 31, 2019•2 hr 33 min•Ep. 405
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Jack Doyle, former field director for NEST, the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Emergency Search Team. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 31, 2019•59 min•Ep. 404
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with former NSA Director and CYBERCOM commander Admiral Mike Rogers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 31, 2019•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 403
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Jason Fickett, the Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge, Intelligence Division, FBI’s Washington Field Office, to discuss his career and the government’s new program to combat foreign influence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 24, 2019•49 min•Ep. 402
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with recently retired CIA Senior Intelligence Service officer Marc Polymeropoulos to discuss a career that spanned more than two decades and crossed multiple continents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 17, 2019•57 min•Ep. 401
SPY Executive Director Chris Costa sat down with Peter Bergen to discuss his new book, Trump and His Generals: The Cost of Chaos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 10, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 400
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with a former senior advisor to both the White House and the Secretary of State to discuss the difficulties in explaining American national security policy to both domestic and foreign audiences Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 03, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 399
In November, 2006, SpyCast was born. After 13 years, 397 episodes, and millions of worldwide listeners, we are still going strong. This is because of you, and your continued support for the little-podcast-that-could. Thank you! Here is the very first SpyCast: a conversation between the great Peter Earnest, and one of our very favorites, Tony Mendez, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 26, 2019•25 min•Ep. 398
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with bestselling author Henry Hemming to discuss information operations, fake news, British and German espionage, and his new book, Agents of Influence: A British Campaign, a Canadian Spy, and the Secret Plot to Bring America into World War II Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 19, 2019•57 min•Ep. 397
Last week, Gen. Michael Hayden was honored by the International Spy Museum with the 2019 William H. Webster Distinguished Service Award. In 2016, SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Gen. Hayden to discuss his life and career in intelligence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 12, 2019•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 396
SPY Executive Director Chris Costa sat down with the Former Director, Directorate of Strategic and Operational Planning at the National Counterterrorism Center, to discuss recent events in counterterrorism, and the Trump Administration’s decision to end their support of the Kurds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 05, 2019•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 395
In this special Halloween SpyCast, SPY Historian Vince Houghton spoke to DIA Chief Historian Greg Elder about the DIA’s investigation into telekinesis, telepathy, remote viewing, and other spooky stuff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 29, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 394