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- 42 minutes 8 seconds105. The Chinese Spy Scandal: Mastering LinkedIn (Ep 2)
In 2017, former CIA officer Kevin Mallory was drowning in debt when a message landed in his LinkedIn inbox. A Chinese “headhunter” said he had consulting work. Mallory - fluent in Mandarin, seasoned in intelligence, and once trusted with some of America’s most sensitive secrets - replied.
In this episode, David and Gordon unpack how Chinese intelligence services used think-tank cover, tailored taskings, and a custom encrypted smartphone to reel Mallory in. From FedEx scans of classified documents to a frantic attempt to reinvent himself as a double agent, this is the anatomy of a recruitment gone disastrously wrong.
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3 December 2025, 12:02 am - 42 minutes 50 seconds104. The Chinese Spy Scandal: Breaching Westminster (Ep 1)
Earlier this month, MI5 issued a stark warning to Westminster: a “covert and calculated” Chinese espionage campaign was targeting parliament - and doing so at an industrial scale. Not with trench-coats and dead drops, but with something far more mundane: LinkedIn messages.
This week, Gordon and David look at two high-profile cases of alleged Chinese-backed spying in Britain. Those in the frame always denied the allegations - and two of them, Chris Cash and Christopher Berry, were found not guilty when the case against them collapsed. So, what's going on behind the scenes, and if someone called Shirley contacts you via LinkedIn, should you respond?
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1 December 2025, 12:00 am - 10 minutes 35 secondsThe Rise Of Putin: Becoming President
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Vladimir Putin is on the cusp of becoming Russia's all-powerful leader, but how did a humble boy from St Petersburg reach such elite heights?
Listen as David and Gordon are once again joined by one of the world's leading experts on Russian organised crime, Mark Galeotti, to conclude their series on the rise of Putin.
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28 November 2025, 12:02 am - 55 minutes 7 seconds103. Putin's Secret Army: The Coup That Almost Brought Down Russia (Ep 6)
Could this have been the day when Putin fell from power? In June 2023, Prigozhin marched on Moscow, threatening to bring Putin’s authoritarian regime to its knees.
In their final episode on the dramatic rise and fall of Yevgeny Prigozhin, David and Gordon take us back to the coup that almost toppled Putin and how the autocratic leader carried out the ultimate revenge.
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26 November 2025, 12:10 am - 35 minutes 2 seconds102. Putin's Secret Army: Criminals And Cannibals - Russia's War In Ukraine (Ep 5)
It’s 2022 and Russia is preparing to invade Ukraine. But, for Putin, all is not going to plan. Enter: Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Wagner Group.
Listen as David and Gordon tell the story of the disastrous first few months of the war in Ukraine and how Prigozhin’s force of cannibals and sex offenders were fed to the trenches in a desperate attempt to stay in Putin’s orbit.
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24 November 2025, 12:08 am - 9 minutes 52 secondsThe Rise Of Putin: Russian Organised Crime
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Vladimir Putin has left Soviet East Germany and is now back in St Petersburg, dipping his toe in the world of organised crime.
Listen as David and Gordon are once again joined by one of the world's leading experts on Russian organised crime, Mark Galeotti, to explore the rise of Russia's authoritarian overlord.
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21 November 2025, 12:02 am - 38 minutes 53 seconds101. Putin's Secret Army: Wagner's Control Of Africa (Ep 4)
From St Petersburg to the Central African Republic, Yevgeny Prigozhin and the infamous Wagner Group are extending their grip across the Global South and leaving death and destruction in their wake.
In this episode, David and Gordon explore how the Wagner Group became embedded in the African military landscape and how their influence pervades to this day.
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19 November 2025, 12:06 am - 45 minutes 39 seconds100. Putin's Secret Army: Fighting With Assad In Syria (Ep 3)
Prigozhin is now one of America’s most wanted but his star is only just on the rise. Realising Putin’s need for greater geopolitical power and influence, the Russian oligarch forms the Wagner Group, with the help of a neo-Nazi soldier.
Listen as David and Gordon chart the growth of one of the world’s most infamous mercenary groups as Prigozhin embeds himself in the Middle East, helping President Assad of Syria take on the CIA.
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17 November 2025, 12:04 am - 9 minutes 48 secondsThe Rise Of Putin: Joining The KGB
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How did Vladimir Putin rise from a nobody in St Petersburg to the most powerful man in Russia? Did he always crave the power of public office? Or was this relentless determination beaten into him by the KGB?
Listen as David and Gordon are joined by one of the world's foremost experts on Russian organised crime, author and podcaster, Mark Galeotti, to discuss the rise of Putin and his unorthodox time in the KGB.
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14 November 2025, 12:00 am - 44 minutes 15 seconds99. Putin's Secret Army: Trump, Wagner And Russia (Ep 2)
How did Donald Trump win the 2016 US election? Was Russian interference really behind his unlikely success? And how does one man rock the electoral system of the world’s most powerful nation?
In the second instalment of their series on Yevgeny Prigozhin, David and Gordon delve into the murky story of how the Internet Research Agency interfered in the 2016 election and changed the course of history.
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12 November 2025, 12:02 am - 42 minutes 13 seconds98. Putin’s Secret Army: The Rise Of Prigozhin (Ep 1)
From Putin’s chef to Putin’s butcher, this is the story of Prigozhin. A man on the brink of oligarchical power who flew a little too close to the sun…
Listen as David and Gordon begin a new series on the ill-fated life of the head of the infamous Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin.
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