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- 37 minutes 48 secondsAir Fright
Russia’s airliner sabotage ops are examined by science writer Jeff Wise and SpyTalk host Jeff Stein.
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9 May 2025, 3:06 pm - 39 minutes 37 secondsLetting Russia Off the Hook
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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29 April 2025, 1:31 pm - 56 minutes 39 secondsThe Last Spy Story of the Vietnam War
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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25 April 2025, 4:15 pm - 52 minutes 40 secondsThe CIA, Iran and a Conspiracy of Silence
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.
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18 April 2025, 9:00 am - 34 minutes 15 secondsInsanity Claws
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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11 April 2025, 4:10 pm - 43 minutes 5 secondsCIA Opened Oswald’s Mail!
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.
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3 April 2025, 10:00 pm - 1 hour 1 minute"There's not a day I do not think about those Americans" who died in Iraq
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.
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28 March 2025, 2:00 pm - 38 minutes 39 secondsA Former CIA Spy Catcher Weighs Trump’s Russia Turn
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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21 March 2025, 7:30 pm - 48 minutes 14 secondsVindman: Putin is "Toying" with Trump
The star player in Trump’s first impeachment tells Michael Isikoff there will no ceasefire in Ukraine and calls DC prosecutor a “henchman” for launching bogus probe of him and his brother.
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15 March 2025, 8:21 pm - 36 minutes 20 secondsWhat's Ukraine Thinking?
Former senior CIA operations official Glenn Corn talks with Jeff Stein about his recent trip to Ukraine and its prospects in a rapidly and radically changing diplomatic landscape
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7 March 2025, 3:34 pm - 40 minutes 28 secondsThe Ghosts of Munich
Former US NATO envoy and Army General Doug Lute discusses JD Vance insults of allies, administration abandonment of Ukraine to Russia with SpyTalk podcast host Michael Isikoff.
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