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SpyCast, the official podcast of the International Spy Museum, is a journey into the shadows of international espionage. Each week, host Sasha Ingber brings you the latest insights and intriguing tales from spies, secret agents, and covert communicators, with a focus on how this secret world reaches us all in our everyday lives. Tune in to discover the critical role intelligence has played throughout history and today. Brought to you from Airwave, Goat Rodeo, and the International Spy Museum.  The Spy Museum does not endorse, approve, or support the opinions stated by guest speakers. Statements made by speakers do not represent the position or opinion of the International Spy Museum.

SpyCast, the official podcast of the International Spy Museum, is a journey into the shadows of international espionage. Each week, host Sasha Ingber brings you the latest insights and intriguing tales from spies, secret agents, and covert communicators, with a focus on how this secret world reaches us all in our everyday lives. Tune in to discover the critical role intelligence has played throughout history and today. Brought to you from Airwave, Goat Rodeo, and the International Spy Museum.  The Spy Museum does not endorse, approve, or support the opinions stated by guest speakers. Statements made by speakers do not represent the position or opinion of the International Spy Museum.

 

#725

Inside Operation Odyssey Lightning in Libya

From August to December 2016, then Marine Special Operations Officer Ivan Ingraham lived o... more

Yesterday

34 MINS

34:52

Yesterday


#724

Auctioning Off the Key to Kryptos

At the CIA headquarters in Langley, you will find Kryptos, a large curved copper panel tha... more

09 Dec 2025

27 MINS

27:37

09 Dec 2025


#723

An Interview with the CIA’s Former “Q”

Bob Wallace was appointed Deputy Director of the CIA’s Office of Technical Service in 1995... more

02 Dec 2025

35 MINS

35:04

02 Dec 2025


#722

Inside the CIA’s Book Club Designed to Bring Down Communism

The CIA’s book club, known by the codename QRHELPFUL, was a secret 35-year program born of... more

25 Nov 2025

33 MINS

33:17

25 Nov 2025


#721

The Hunt for China’s Spy Family

For decades, California-based engineer Chi Mak quietly stole secrets on war-fighting techn... more

18 Nov 2025

38 MINS

38:32

18 Nov 2025


#720

A Family of Spies and a Bloodline of Secrets

No other American has a family history quite like Christine Kuehn. Through years of doing ... more

11 Nov 2025

34 MINS

34:04

11 Nov 2025


#719

From the SpyCast Vault: The Lumumba Plot and The Station Chief's Story

In our last episode, author Stuart Reid peeled back the curtain on 'The Lumumba Plot,' the... more

04 Nov 2025

30 MINS

30:35

04 Nov 2025


#718

The Lumumba Plot: Cold War in the Congo

The Congo was just gaining its independence from Belgium in 1960 when its first democratic... more

28 Oct 2025

34 MINS

34:47

28 Oct 2025


#717

Russian Sabotage Operations and NATO’s Complex Alliance

Russian drones and warplanes have been increasingly breaching the airspace of NATO countri... more

21 Oct 2025

29 MINS

29:58

21 Oct 2025


#716

Opening the Foreign Influence Toolkit

Jessica Brandt knows a lot about influence. She was the director of the Foreign Malign Inf... more

14 Oct 2025

32 MINS

32:42

14 Oct 2025


#715

From the SpyCast Vault: An Assassination in Mexico

Keith Melton is a historian who’s been an advisor to the US Intelligence Community for dec... more

30 Sep 2025

30 MINS

30:46

30 Sep 2025


#714

The Dark Web Broker

Vinny Troia is at home on the Dark Web. The veteran hacker has developed relationships wit... more

23 Sep 2025

35 MINS

35:42

23 Sep 2025


#713

To Catch a Drug Cartel

Keith Bulfin was a banker, not a spy. But then came a special client–a supposed coffee imp... more

16 Sep 2025

28 MINS

28:33

16 Sep 2025


#712

Retracing the Hunt for Bin Laden

This Thursday marks the 24th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, which sp... more

09 Sep 2025

35 MINS

35:50

09 Sep 2025


#711

An Assassination in Athens and a CIA Officer’s Legacy

It’s been 50 years since the assassination of the CIA’s former Station Chief in Athens, Ri... more

02 Sep 2025

31 MINS

31:47

02 Sep 2025


#710

From the SpyCast Vault: Escaping Tehran with The CIA Pt. 2

We return to November, 1979 when radical Iranian students seized the US Embassy in Tehran ... more

26 Aug 2025

29 MINS

29:04

26 Aug 2025


#709

From the SpyCast Vault: Escaping Tehran with The CIA

We'll go back in time to November, 1979 when radical Iranian students seized the US Embass... more

19 Aug 2025

30 MINS

30:41

19 Aug 2025


#708

Catching an Iranian-American Missile Broker

Reza Olangian, a dual US-Iranian citizen, left behind his life in Silicon Valley to spy fo... more

12 Aug 2025

35 MINS

35:38

12 Aug 2025


#707

Lethal Dissent: Iran’s Spy Games in Turkey

Washington and Tehran have a long and complicated history, with tensions that rise, fall a... more

05 Aug 2025

29 MINS

29:56

05 Aug 2025


#706

Agent 202: New Secrets Emerge on an American Who Spied for Cuba

Codenamed "Agent 202," Kendall Myers went undetected as a spy for Cuba for nearly 30 years... more

29 Jul 2025

30 MINS

30:32

29 Jul 2025


#705

Agent of Chaos: The Austrian Fugitive Running Russia’s Global Spy Networks

Today he’s one of the most wanted men in the world, but before Jan Marsalek fled to Russia... more

22 Jul 2025

31 MINS

31:24

22 Jul 2025


#704

From Intel Officer to White House Adviser: A Chat with The Museum’s Executive Director

This week we spoke with the International Spy Museum's Executive Director, Colonel Chris C... more

15 Jul 2025

33 MINS

33:03

15 Jul 2025


#703

“America’s Gatekeeper”: A Conversation with DCSA’s Director David Cattler

Born out of a major Chinese cyberattack that stole personal information from millions of f... more

08 Jul 2025

29 MINS

29:00

08 Jul 2025


#702

Russia's Fake Identity Assembly Line in Brazil

When a Russian spy was arrested in Brazil in 2022, authorities were shocked to discover th... more

01 Jul 2025

31 MINS

31:44

01 Jul 2025


#701

Breaking the Silence: Coming Out in the CIA

Emerging alongside Joseph McCarthy’s Red Scare in the 1950s was the Lavender Scare: Widesp... more

24 Jun 2025

32 MINS

32:42

24 Jun 2025