Info
Welcome to “Spy Craft,” the podcast that delves into the gripping world of espionage. Join us as we uncover life-and-death spy stories, dissect covert operations, and explore the news and...
mostra di più
Welcome to “Spy Craft,” the podcast that delves into the gripping world of espionage. Join us as we uncover life-and-death spy stories, dissect covert operations, and explore the news and events that made them possible. Each episode offers a thrilling journey into the clandestine activities of spies, revealing the secrets, strategies, and stakes behind some of the most daring missions in history. Tune in for an exciting look at the shadowy world of espionage and the operatives who risk everything.
mostra meno
Episodi & Post
Episodi
Post
Trascritto
8 SET 2026 · A mole does not confess. He blends, he performs loyalty better than the loyal, and he waits inside an institution built entirely on the assumption that everyone in the room can be trusted. This is the story of how counterintelligence learned to hunt for an absence rather than a presence, and why the hunt itself has ruined as many careers as it has saved.
Trascritto
7 SET 2026 · In late August, U.S. Green Berets put Polish special forces through a first-of-its-kind NATO exercise: crossing a simulated front line, covering roughly sixty miles, and striking a target with a drone while more than a hundred enemy aircraft searched for them overhead. This episode examines why the exercise matters less for its use of drones and more for what it signals — NATO allies are now training as if constant aerial surveillance is a baseline threat, not an exception. It's a look at how tradecraft and evasion have to adapt when there's nowhere left to hide from the sky.
Trascritto
3 SET 2026 · On August 26 the Justice Department said it had seized the domains behind two Chinese state-linked hacking platforms, QScan and QTRouter, used since at least 2018. Some U.S. networks were compromised; others, including a NASA attempt, were not — and DOJ later had to correct its own “everyone was a victim” language. The part that belongs on a personal-protection show is the method: scan cheap internet devices, fold them into a botnet, and hide the real attacker behind your house.
Trascritto
1 SET 2026 · Kim Philby was a high-ranking British intelligence officer who spent decades secretly working for the Soviet Union. As a member of the "Cambridge Five" spy ring, he passed classified information to Moscow while rising through the ranks of MI6, even being considered for its top job. His eventual defection to the USSR in 1963 remains one of the most damaging betrayals in the history of Western intelligence
Trascritto
30 AGO 2026 · Even in an era of pervasive digital surveillance, classic espionage tradecraft like dead drops and brush passes hasn't disappeared — it's adapted. This episode breaks down the operational logic behind these techniques and why intelligence services still rely on them when electronic communication carries too much risk. It's a look at how anonymity, misdirection, and low-tech human skill can outmaneuver even the most sophisticated monitoring systems.
Trascritto
23 AGO 2026 · Surveillance detection routes, the tactics civilians pick up from movies, and the reality of how professional surveillance teams actually operate are three very different things. This episode breaks down what it actually takes to detect and evade trained surveillance, why most amateur countermeasures fail immediately, and what the psychology of paranoia versus legitimate threat awareness looks like in practice. We separate Hollywood tradecraft from the real methodology used by intelligence and protective services professionals.
Trascritto
19 AGO 2026 · For twenty years, a French diplomat believed he was in a secret relationship with a woman who bore him a son — until a Paris courtroom revealed she was a man. This episode unpacks the true story behind Shi Pei Pu and Bernard Boursicot, the twenty-year deception that fed classified documents to Chinese intelligence, and the psychological questions that still surround one of the strangest espionage cases of the Cold War. It’s the real story behind “M. Butterfly” — and it’s stranger than the play.
Trascritto
16 AGO 2026 · In Homeland, the CIA encounters a Russian facility described as an intelligence “dead zone”—a compound where electronic listening and drone surveillance become nearly useless. The concept sounds like television fiction, but RF shielding, acoustic isolation, signal filtering, TEMPEST protections, electronic countermeasures, and sophisticated counter-drone systems are very real. This episode examines the technology behind secure intelligence facilities and asks the ultimate spycraft question: can you actually construct a building that an intelligence agency cannot penetrate?
Trascritto
10 AGO 2026 · Spy movies love the park-bench meeting: two intelligence officers sit facing opposite directions, whisper without looking at each other, exchange an envelope, and disappear into the crowd. But wouldn’t two people behaving that strangely actually attract more attention than two friends having a normal conversation? In this episode, we examine the real intelligence concepts behind clandestine meetings—including cover for action, surveillance detection, brush passes, dead drops, pattern-of-life analysis, and why sometimes the safest meeting is the one that never happens.
Trascritto
9 AGO 2026 · In this episode of Strange Spy Facts, we dive into the shadowy world of Simon Emil Koedel, a naturalized American who became one of Nazi Germany’s most effective agents on U.S. soil. Learn how he turned his adopted daughter Marie into the so-called “Waterfront Mata Hari,” sending her into New York’s seedy bars to seduce sailors and steal shipping secrets. Their pre-war intelligence operation, eventual arrest, and surprising light sentences reveal a forgotten chapter of American vulnerability before Pearl Harbor.
Welcome to “Spy Craft,” the podcast that delves into the gripping world of espionage. Join us as we uncover life-and-death spy stories, dissect covert operations, and explore the news and...
mostra di più
Welcome to “Spy Craft,” the podcast that delves into the gripping world of espionage. Join us as we uncover life-and-death spy stories, dissect covert operations, and explore the news and events that made them possible. Each episode offers a thrilling journey into the clandestine activities of spies, revealing the secrets, strategies, and stakes behind some of the most daring missions in history. Tune in for an exciting look at the shadowy world of espionage and the operatives who risk everything.
mostra meno
Informazioni
| Autore | Circle Of Insight Productions |
| Organizzazione | Circle Of Insight Productions |
| Categorie | Governo , News - Affari , Cultura e società |
| Sito | - |
| - |
Copyright 2026 - Spreaker Inc. an iHeartMedia Company
