Spy Craft

Circle Of Insight Productions 401 - Hostile Surveillance: The Taxi Driver, the RAF Base, and the IRGC

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.

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Spy Craft

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Hostile Surveillance: The Taxi Driver, the RAF Base, and the IRGC

Hunting the Jackal: The Rise and Fall of Ilich Ramírez Sánchez

Shadow at SHAPE: The NATO Intern Spy Case

Black Tiger: The RAW Spy Who Became a Pakistani Major

The LinkedIn Trap: How China’s Military Intelligence Is Hunting Your Clearance

American Revolution (1776): The Psychology of Hyper-Vigilance — Inside the Culper Spy Ring

The Silent Invasion: Inside China's Cyber War on US Defense Research

Melita Norwood: The Granny Spy – Britain’s Unassuming Secretary Who Passed Nuclear Secrets to the Soviets for Over 40 Years.

Cuba's Secret Weapon: How the Avispas Negras Built a Ghost Force That Operated Across Three Continents Without Anyone Noticing

The First Spy Tool: How the Spartan Scytale Built the World's Oldest Military Encryption System and Changed the History of Secret Communicat

The Greatest Intelligence Deception of WWII: Helen Fry on How Britain Bugged Hitler's Generals and Won the War from the Inside

The Long Arm of Tehran: Quds Force, Global Hit Networks, and Iran’s Shadow War

The Two Escobars: Cocaine, Cartels, and the Secret War Behind Colombia’s World Cup Dream

The Frumentarii — Rome’s Accidental CIA

Denied Areas: How Elite Operators Conduct Recon in Secret Sectors

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Plymouth Voyeurism Files

The Shadow Operative: Applying High-Stakes Strategy to Spycraft

Spies in the Saddle: Secret Agents of the American Frontier

The Ana Montes Investigation: The “Cuban Queen” Spy and the Memorial Day Breakthrough

Blades in the Shadows: Inside SOG’s Counter-Reconnaissance War

Shadow State: The Secret History of North Korea’s Room 39

Espionage on Ice: Sergei Fedorov’s Daring Cold War Defection to the Detroit Red Wings

Friday Flashback-Operation Mincemeat: The Fake Identity That Deceived Hitler’s High Command

The Mayor and Beijing propaganda: How a California Suburb Became a Target for Chinese Influence

The Ghost Stories Program: Children Raised Inside the World of Espionage

Traitor in the Vault

The Invisible Key: Zero Days in the World of Espionage

Dead Drops, Brush Passes, and Spy Tradecraft That Still Works Today: The Psychology of Invisible Communication in a Hyper-Surveilled World

The Macau Ghost: Inside the Brass Monkey Files – Espionage, Asset Compromise, and Intelligence Tradecraft Breakdown

The Lazarus Proxy: Inside North Korea’s Global IT Heist

The Puppet Masters: Kermit Roosevelt and the Art of the Coup

The Lifecycle of a Spy Network — How Intelligence Operations Rise, Operate, and Collapse

The Gareth Williams “Spy in the Bag” Mystery (2010): Unresolved Questions in the Death of an MI6 Codebreaker

Project Iceworm: The U.S. Army’s Secret Nuclear Missile Base Beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet

The Rumrich Nazi Spy Case (1938): The FBI’s First Major International Espionage Investigation

Spies, Lies, and Centrifuges: A CIA Case Officer’s Hunt for the World’s Most Dangerous Man

The Surveillance of the Drone Pipeline

The Perception Gap: Counter-Surveillance Tactics in Urban Environments

The Digital Trojan Horse: PROMIS and the Birth of Global Surveillance

Triple agent codenamed CAT

Russian spy pleads guilty in honey trap case

THE UMBRELLA ASSASSIN

France captures two Chinese national spies

WE CHAT WITH FORMER CIA CASE OFFICER ON HIS TIME IN CAMBODIA AS A RECRUITER

THE 4TH MAN- THE HUNT FOR A KGB SPY AT THE TOP OF THE CIA

An update on espionage in the university

AI and espionage

Operation Neptune: The Cold War’s Forgotten Fake Treasure Hoax

Operation Tamarisk: Espionage in the Trash

North Korea’s Stolen Filmmaker: The Story of Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee