Podcasts about Aldrich Ames

Send us a textThis week we're looking at 4 more spies from history! Learn about the lives of Christopher Boyce, John Walker, Aldrich Ames, and Shi Pei Pu.For more spy stories, check out Episode #245.Like the show on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/OurWeirdWorldPod/Follow John on Twitter and Instagram @TheJohnHinsonFollow the show on Instagram @OurWeirdWorldPodWant more John? Everyone wants more John. Visit www.johnhinsonwrites.com for all the books, podcasts, waterfalls, and more!

In this gripping episode of True Crimecast, Jamie and John unravel the chilling story of Aldrich Ames, a CIA insider who became one of the most devastating traitors in American intelligence history. Unlike the cinematic spy villains of fiction, Ames was a quiet bureaucrat who leveraged his position, knowledge, and the CIA's own blind spots to sell secrets to the Soviet Union—secrets that led to the deaths of at least 10 U.S. operatives. Listen and explore how Ames gained access, why he did it, and how he stayed hidden for nearly a decade while living a life of luxury funded by betrayal. This is not just a tale of espionage—it's a haunting reminder of what happens when loyalty is traded for cash, and when the perfect insider becomes the ultimate threat. --For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon!

Es el verano de 1982 y el espía de la KGB Oleg Gordievsky viaja desde Moscú para ocupar un puesto en la embajada soviética en Londres. Oriente y Occidente tienen una profunda desconfianza y desconocimiento mutuo, y como resultado, la Guerra Fría, que lleva ya casi 40 años, se está calentando. El juego del espionaje y la paranoia magnifican la sospecha entre las superpotencias, y una carrera armamentística amenaza con llevar al mundo al armagedón nuclear. Incluye entrevistas de archivo raramente escuchadas con Oleg Gordievsky y las cartas inéditas de Michael Bettaney, así como entrevistas con antiguos ayudantes de Margaret Thatcher y Ronald Reagan y antiguos oficiales de la KGB, el MI5 y el MI6, algunos de los cuales nunca antes habían hablado en público. Con la ayuda de Gordievsky, Gran Bretaña identifica a Mijail Gorbachov como un posible nuevo contendiente para líder soviético; podría ser el billete para mejorar las relaciones entre Oriente y Occidente. Pero los frágiles pasos hacia la diplomacia se ven amenazados por los intereses creados de otros espías que siguen atrapados en el viejo orden mundial. La CIA está decidida a descubrir quién es el superespía británico, pero su jefe de contrainteligencia soviética, Aldrich Ames, se está desilusionando. Se convierte en traidor por una suma insignificante y, poco después, Gordievsky es convocado de regreso a Rusia, donde corre un peligro casi seguro. El episodio incluye grabaciones de audio exclusivas de Aldrich Ames, entrevistas de audio de Oleg Gordievsky, entrevistas con ex oficiales de la KGB, el FBI, la CIA y el MI6, algunos de los cuales nunca habían hablado antes, así como colegas de Thatcher y Reagan. Es 1985 y Mijail Gorbachov es el nuevo y joven líder de la Unión Soviética en un momento muy tenso. Si bien ambos bandos tienen esperanzas de paz, han estado almacenando armas nucleares públicamente durante décadas. Ninguno de los dos lados quiere parecer débil. Thatcher y Reagan esperan que un nuevo liderazgo en el Kremlin ofrezca una oportunidad para un diálogo constructivo. El doble agente Oleg Gordievsky es fundamental en estas negociaciones, pero una repentina citación a Moscú por parte de sus jefes del KGB lo pone nervioso: ¿saben que está espiando en secreto para Gran Bretaña? Cuando llega a su apartamento de Moscú y descubre que se ha utilizado una cerradura que nunca gira, sus temores se confirman. Incluye grabaciones de audio exclusivas de Aldrich Ames, entrevistas de audio de Oleg Gordievsky y entrevistas con ex oficiales del KGB, la CIA, el FBI y el MI6, incluido uno de los oficiales del MI6 que rescató a Gordievsky. Otras entrevistas incluyen a colegas de Thatcher, Reagan y Gorbachov, y expertos con conexiones personales con la historia, como Susan Eisenhower y Nina Khrushcheva.

Eric Walberg - Aldrich Ames Will Go Down in History as a Traitor Who Spied For the Soviet Union During the Cold WarJuly 31Aldrich Ames was accused and convicted of working for America's primary foreign adversary in the Cold War, the Soviet Union and was given a life sentence, which he is currently serving in Terre Haute, Indiana, as prisoner #40087-083.Very few people today would celebrate what Ames did—and for good reason. Nevertheless, Ames became fed up with the hypocrisy and criminality of the CIA and U.S. government policy in the Cold War, and aimed to expose the bankruptcy of the Cold War and the ideology of American exceptionalism.Covert actionEric Walberg is a journalist specializing in the Middle East and Russia and author of numerous books including Islamic Resistance to Imperialism (2015, Clarity Press) and Postmodern Imperialism: Geopolitics and Great Games (2011, Clarity Press). Eric worked as writer-translator in the Soviet Union, Russia, Uzbekistan and Egypt. He now lives in Toronto and is currently a commentator on PressTV and Voice of the Cape radio. His website is http://ericwalberg.com and he can be reached at walberg2002@yahoo.com. The views and opinions expressed or implied by the guest are not necessarily endorsed by The Opperman Report, it's sponsors or staff.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support.

Eric Walberg - Aldrich Ames Will Go Down in History as a Traitor Who Spied For the Soviet Union During the Cold War2 days agoAldrich Ames was accused and convicted of working for America's primary foreign adversary in the Cold War, the Soviet Union and was given a life sentence, which he is currently serving in Terre Haute, Indiana, as prisoner #40087-083.Very few people today would celebrate what Ames did—and for good reason. Nevertheless, Ames became fed up with the hypocrisy and criminality of the CIA and U.S. government policy in the Cold War, and aimed to expose the bankruptcy of the Cold War and the ideology of American exceptionalism.Covert actionEric Walberg is a journalist specializing in the Middle East and Russia and author of numerous books including Islamic Resistance to Imperialism (2015, Clarity Press) and Postmodern Imperialism: Geopolitics and Great Games (2011, Clarity Press). Eric worked as writer-translator in the Soviet Union, Russia, Uzbekistan and Egypt. He now lives in Toronto and is currently a commentator on PressTV and Voice of the Cape radio. His website is http://ericwalberg.com and he can be reached at walberg2002@yahoo.com.The views and opinions expressed or implied by the guest are not necessarily endorsed by The Opperman Report, it's sponsors or staff.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support.

Summary Mark Zaid (X, LinkedIn) joins Andrew (X; LinkedIn) to discuss American intelligence and the law. You've heard of a “lawyer to the stars,” Mark is the “lawyer to the spies” What You'll Learn Intelligence The quirks of being a lawyer in this space How the Espionage Act works in practice  The trial of the Rosenbergs The origins of FOIA and its purpose The Legal foundations underpinning espionage and intelligence Reflections Challenging authority  The delicate balance of secrecy And much, much more … Quotes of the Week “I still love working every day, 30 years later, because there's still something new. As much as I fight for declassification and transparency, I will at times also see information and learn of events where I go, “Oh, I get it. Yeah, that stuff cannot be known. That's incredible what we did. That's pretty wild.” – Mark Zaid. Resources  SURFACE SKIM *SpyCasts* Agent of Betrayal, FBI Spy Robert Hanssen with CBS' Major Garrett and Friends (2023) David Petraeus on Ukraine & Intelligence with the former CIA Director & 4* General (2023) Havana Syndrome – A Panel featuring Nicky Woolf, Marc Polymeropoulos, and Mark Zaid (2023)  How Artificial Intelligence is Changing the Spy Game with Mike Susong (2023)  *Beginner Resources* What Is a Whistleblower? Protections, Law, Importance, and Example, W. Kenton, Investopedia (2022) [Short article] What is a Lawyer? American Bar Association (2019) [Short article] Legal System Basics, CrashCourse, YouTube (2015) [8 min. video] DEEPER DIVE Books State of Silence: The Espionage Act and the Rise of America's Secrecy Regime, S. Lebovic (Basic Books, 2023) Ethel Rosenberg, A. Sebba (Griffin, 2022) Spies on Trial: True Tales of Espionage in the Courtroom, C. C. Kuhne (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019) Primary Sources  A Letter from Aldrich Ames on Polygraph Testing (2000) Whistle Blower Protection Act (1989)   DoD Polygraph Program (1984) National Security Decision Directive 84 (1983) Inspector General Act (1978) Freedom of Information Act (1966)  Administrative Procedure Act (1946)  Espionage Act (1917) *Wildcard Resource* John Adams, a 2008 HBO Mini-Series chronicling the Founding Father's role in early America John Adams, much like Mark, was a lawyer dedicated to the right to representation. Adams, ever dedicated to the honor of his profession, was the only attorney who agreed to defend the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre. You can read the whole trial here.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

El 21 de febrero de 1994 Aldrich Ames, un analista de contra-inteligencia de la Agencia Central de Inteligencia estadounidense (CIA), fue detenido por espiar a quien espió a favor de la Unión Soviética entre 1985 y 1991.

Inside 'SPIES': Smithsonian Associate Calder Walton on Intelligence Warfare and U.S.-Russia and China Relations The Not Old Better Show, Art of Living Interview Series Welcome back to another episode of The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Interview Series on radio and podcast. I'm Paul Vogelzang, and we're broadcasting from just outside of Washington, D.C. Please check out our show notes today for more information about Smithsonian Associates and their wonderful programs.  The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Interview Series is dedicated to fostering thoughtful dialogues on subjects that matter. We are honored to have with us Smithsonian Associate Calder Walton. Calder Walton is a previous guest on the show, a favorite of mine and our audience.  Calder Walton is a historian specializing in intelligence and global security at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Calder has deep-dived into newly declassified records, shedding light on the intelligence narratives that were foundational in shaping the Cold War. These revelations not only provide new angles on infamous espionage cases such as the five Cambridge spies and Aldrich Ames but also explore unidentified Russian moles within British or U.S. intelligence agencies and the Kremlin's long history of political assassinations.  Calder Walton will be appearing at Smithsonian Associates coming up, and the title of his presentation is Intelligence: The New Cold War.  Calder Walton has written the new book Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West and will read a passage from his book now revealing so much about what we are dealing with regarding the New Cold War. That, of course, is our guest today, Calder Walton reading from his new book, Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West. So why should we care about spies and the events that transpired decades ago? The reality is the world is once again seeing a rising tide of shadow wars that employ disinformation, advanced technology, and intelligence networks. “Spying” is at an all-time high.  These tactics are used by major global players like the United States, China, and Russia to disrupt the status quo, sow discord, and perhaps even topple governments. For those of you who remember the Cold War era or are simply fascinated by the complexity of geopolitical struggles, this episode promises to provide valuable insights into where we've been, where we are, and where we could be heading.  Please join me in welcoming to The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associate's interview series, author, and Smithsonian Associate Calder Walton. My thanks to Calder Walton for joining today's show. Calder Walton will be appearing at Smithsonian Associates coming up, and the title of his presentation is Intelligence: The New Cold War.  Calder Walton has written the new book Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West. My thanks, always, to the Smithsonian team for all they do to support the show, and my thanks to you, my wonderful, wonderful Not Old Better Show audience on radio and podcast.  Please be well, be safe, and let's talk about better…The Not Old Better Show.  Thanks, everybody, and we'll see you next week.

Dr. Calder Walton, assistant director of the Applied History Project and Intelligence Project at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, has become one of the world's most highly respected intelligence historians. His most recent book, Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West, describes the long history of Russian spying--placing it into the wider context of the hundred-year espionage war between the East and West. And this gives him a remarkable perspective on how Soviet and Russian operations against the West have been portrayed in movies and television.David Priess spoke with Calder about his path to researching and writing within the intelligence history subfield; the story of the Mitrokhin archive; the Cambridge Five; the Rosenbergs; Oleg Penkovsky; Aldrich Ames; Robert Hanssen; Russian disinformation campaigns in historical context; enduring popular myths about the master recruits of the KGB; and much more.Among the works mentioned in this episode:The article "How Oppenheimer's Atomic Bomb Secrets Were Really Stolen by Soviet Russia," Fortune (July 24, 2023), by Calder WaltonThe play Hamilton and book Alexander Hamilton by Ron ChernowThe book The Sword and the Shield by Christopher AndrewThe book The Mitrokhin Archive by Christopher Andrew and Vasili MitrokhinThe book Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5 by Christopher AndrewThe book The Secret History of MI6 by Keith JefferyThe book Behind the Enigma: The Authorized History of GCHQ by John FerrisThe book Empire of Secrets by Calder WaltonThe book Spies -- digital expansion websiteThe book Spies, Lies, and Algorithms by Amy ZegartChatter is a production of Lawfare and Goat Rodeo. This episode was produced and edited by Cara Shillenn of Goat Rodeo. Podcast theme by David Priess, featuring music created using Groovepad.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Calder Walton, assistant director of the Applied History Project and Intelligence Project at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, has become one of the world's most highly respected intelligence historians. His most recent book, Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West, describes the long history of Russian spying--placing it into the wider context of the hundred-year espionage war between the East and West. And this gives him a remarkable perspective on how Soviet and Russian operations against the West have been portrayed in movies and television.David Priess spoke with Calder about his path to researching and writing within the intelligence history subfield; the story of the Mitrokhin archive; the Cambridge Five; the Rosenbergs; Oleg Penkovsky; Aldrich Ames; Robert Hanssen; Russian disinformation campaigns in historical context; enduring popular myths about the master recruits of the KGB; and much more.Among the works mentioned in this episode:The article "How Oppenheimer's Atomic Bomb Secrets Were Really Stolen by Soviet Russia," Fortune (July 24, 2023), by Calder WaltonThe play Hamilton and book Alexander Hamilton by Ron ChernowThe book The Sword and the Shield by Christopher AndrewThe book The Mitrokhin Archive by Christopher Andrew and Vasili MitrokhinThe book Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5 by Christopher AndrewThe book The Secret History of MI6 by Keith JefferyThe book Behind the Enigma: The Authorized History of GCHQ by John FerrisThe book Empire of Secrets by Calder WaltonThe book Spies -- digital expansion websiteThe book Spies, Lies, and Algorithms by Amy Zegart Chatter is a production of Lawfare and Goat Rodeo. This episode was produced and edited by Cara Shillenn of Goat Rodeo. Podcast theme by David Priess, featuring music created using Groovepad. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Following Rob's Keynote at TechGC's Fullstack GC Summit in San Francisco, this episode takes a deep dive in how legal leaders can help drive a culture of integrity in their business.  This comes just a few weeks before TechGC's Integrity Summit which is open for both Members and Non-Members can sign up.>>To learn more about TechGC Membership, please go hereRob is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Virginia.  He worked for 14 years with the U.S. Justice Department, including 10 years as an Assistant United States Attorney in Northern Virginia.  As a federal prosecutor, Rob ran the Major Crimes unit and prosecuted a wide variety of cases, including bank robberies, kidnappings, murder, and drug trafficking organizations.   He handled the prosecution of CIA, FBI and other employees of the intelligence community for espionage, including CIA employee Aldrich Ames. He is the recipient of the Justice Department's John Marshall Award for litigation, and the CIA's Outstanding Service Medallion.      In 1999, Rob left the U.S. Attorney's Office and moved to California to become eBay's third attorney, handling a wide variety of litigation, IP and regulatory/compliance matters for the company globally.  Rob was promoted to run the company's North American legal division in 2001, and in 2004 he was promoted to eBay's executive leadership team as Sr. Vice President of a newly created Trust and Safety department.  As the founder and head of eBay Trust and Safety, Rob was responsible for overseeing all site rules and policies for the eBay global community of over 150 million users, and building the first ecommerce person to person platform trust and safety team.  Rob and his team built eBay's fraud detection and prevention infrastructure, and his team of over 2000 employees reduced reported fraud and counterfeiting activity on eBay's 20+ sites by 60% over 4 years. Rob was eBay's spokesperson for site policies and fraud, and he was interviewed in over 200 television, newspaper, radio, and magazine stories for his pioneering role in combating Internet fraud.  He left eBay in the fall of 2008 to become the General Counsel of LiveOps, Inc. in Santa Clara, CA, and moved to Chegg in 2010 as the general counsel and the company's first lawyer. Rob set up Chegg's legal department, and as a member of the executive team helped transform the company from a physical textbook rental site to a multi-service digital learning platform. He led the effort to take Chegg public on the NYSE in the fall of 2013, where it enjoys a market cap of over $4 billion.    Rob joined Airbnb as General Counsel in the spring of 2016, where he grew the legal team from 30 to over 150 legal professionals in 20 offices around the world.  His team led initiatives to promote home sharing and address regulatory issues with local governments and landlords around the world. In 2018, Rob was honored by the Financial Times as one of the Global 25 General Counsel. After serving as General Counsel Rob became the Chief Ethics officer and developed a popular interactive employee program, Integrity Belongs Here, to help drive ethics throughout the culture at the company. His book “Intentional Integrity: How Smart Companies Can Lead an Ethical Revolution” is out now. He now serves as an advisor to Airbnb, along with several other internet marketplace startup businesses, including Uber, Upwork, Turo, and Poshmark.He lives in San Francisco, CA, and spends his spare time playing basketball with his son and watching his daughter's theatre performances.

CIA CHIEF OF DISGUISE. First time, I discuss my use of disguises to get the job done with the woman who invented them! Jonna Mendez is a former Chief of Disguise with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). She worked with the Agency for 27 years, and during her time there, she served as a technical operations officer and as the CIA's Chief of Disguise. She retired from the CIA in 1993 and later co-authored the book "Spy Dust: Two Masters of Disguise Reveal the Tools and Operations That Helped Win the Cold War" with her husband Antonio Mendez. The book details their experiences working for the CIA during the Cold War, including their work with Soviet defector Aldrich Ames.  THE SHOW. Are you ready to put your survival skills to the test? Look no further - Can You Survive This Podcast? Hosted by Retired Navy SEAL Clint Emerson, this podcast is not for the faint of heart. Get ready to hear jaw-dropping stories of real-life survival, from natural disasters to hostile environments and everything in between. Emerson brings his elite military training and first-hand experience to the table, sharing tips and strategies on how to protect yourself and your loved ones in any situation. From home invasions to carjackings, you'll learn how to defend yourself and come out on top. But it's not just about surviving the worst-case scenarios. You'll also get to hear from guests who have overcome incredible obstacles in life, and how they persevered through adversity. You'll be inspired to push through your own challenges and come out stronger on the other side. Drops every Tuesday on all platforms. @survivethispod  THE SPONSOR: 5.11 Stores are your one-stop shop for some of the world's most innovative technical apparel, footwear, and gear. From revolutionary backpacks, purpose-built boots, functional fitness gear, and of course, their legendary tactical pants. So, the next time you see one of those five eleven signs, make a pit stop and explore the world of 5.11, or if you can't wait, visit them online at 511tactical.com and use code CLINT to save 20% in-store and online. @511tactical Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Espionage, spying, or intelligence gathering is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information (intelligence). A person who commits espionage is called an espionage agent or spy. Any individual or spy ring (a cooperating group of spies), in the service of a government, company, criminal organization, or independent operation, can commit espionage. The practice is clandestine, as it is by definition unwelcome. In some circumstances, it may be a legal tool of law enforcement and in others, it may be illegal and punishable by law. Espionage is often part of an institutional effort by a government or commercial concern. However, the term tends to be associated with state spying on potential or actual enemies for military purposes. Spying involving corporations is known as industrial espionage. One way to gather data and information about a targeted organization is by infiltrating its ranks. Spies can then return information such as the size and strength of enemy forces. They can also find dissidents within the organization and influence them to provide further information or to defect. In times of crisis, spies steal technology and sabotage the enemy in various ways. Counterintelligence is the practice of thwarting enemy espionage and intelligence-gathering. Almost all sovereign states have strict laws concerning espionage, including those who practise espionage in other countries, and the penalties for being caught are often severe. Law. Espionage against a nation is a crime under the legal code of many nations. In the United States, it is covered by the Espionage Act of 1917. The risks of espionage vary. A spy violating the host country's laws may be deported, imprisoned, or even executed. A spy violating its own country's laws can be imprisoned for espionage or and treason (which in the United States and some other jurisdictions can only occur if they take up arms or aids the enemy against their own country during wartime), or even executed, as the Rosenbergs were. For example, when Aldrich Ames handed a stack of dossiers of U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agents in the Eastern Bloc to his KGB-officer "handler", the KGB "rolled up" several networks, and at least ten people were secretly shot. When Ames was arrested by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), he faced life in prison; his contact, who had diplomatic immunity, was declared persona non grata and taken to the airport. Ames' wife was threatened with life imprisonment if her husband did not cooperate; he did, and she was given a five-year sentence. Hugh Francis Redmond, a CIA officer in China, spent nineteen years in a Chinese prison for espionage—and died there—as he was operating without diplomatic cover and immunity. In United States law, treason, espionage, and spying are separate crimes. Treason and espionage have graduated punishment levels. The United States in World War I passed the Espionage Act of 1917. Over the years, many spies, such as the Soble spy ring, Robert Lee Johnson, the Rosenberg ring, Aldrich Hazen Ames, Robert Philip Hanssen, Jonathan Pollard, John Anthony Walker, James Hall III, and others have been prosecuted under this law. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/law-school/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/law-school/support

After his secret girlfriend tipped off the authorities, McGonigal was arrested over ties with Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska in Jan 2023. As Chief of FBI's Counterintelligence in New York, Charles McGonigal had near limitless access to US secrets.This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit betterhelp.com/DUBIOUS today to get 10% off your first month of therapy. This week we tell the story of a top FBI agent, Charles McGonigal, and his ties with Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, a close ally of Putin and the former employer of Paul Manafort, Trump's 2016 campaign chair. If you like our content, please become a patron to get all of our episodes ad free. 1 McGonigal took $225,000 in secret cash payments from someone who had served as an Albanian intelligence officer. McGonigal concealed that relationship, as well as his meetings with Sergey Shestakov, from the Bureau. FBI's New York Chief of Counterintelligence also had an extramarital affair with a woman named Allison Guerriero, who later became Rudy Giuliani's house guest and biggest supporter. The events are reminiscent of the Aldrich Ames and Robert Hansen spy cases. 2 During his time with the FBI, McGonigal led the WikiLeaks investigation into Chelsea Manning, and oversaw the search for a Chinese mole inside the CIA. McGonigal was arrested In January 2023 at Kennedy International Airport. Shestakov was arrested at his US home in a simultaneous operation. Both men are accused of receiving payments through shell companies and forging signatures to conceal the fact that Deripaska was paying them. [^3] They have both been charged with money laundering charges, in addition to charges for violating sanctions. Each of these counts carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. 3 1. Mattathias Schwartz. Exclusive: The FBI's McGonigal labyrinth. Business Insider. Feb 2023. ⇤2. Mattathias Schwartz. Inside the extramarital affair and cash-fueled double life of Charles McGonigal, the FBI spy hunter charged with taking Russian money. Insider. Jan 2023. [^3] Benjamin Weiser and William K. Rashbaum. Former Senior F.B.I. Official in New York Charged With Aiding Olig:arch. New York Times. Jan 2023. ⇤4. Craig Unger. Did the FBI's Charles McGonigal Help Throw the 2016 Election to Trump?. New Republic. Feb 2023. ⇤

Summary Jim Popkin (Twitter, LinkedIn) joins Andrew (Twitter; LinkedIn) to discuss America's most damaging female spy, Ana Montes. Jim is a four-time recipient of the national Emmy Award for outstanding journalism. What You'll Learn Intelligence How Ana Montes was recruited Her espionage at the heart of the Department of Defense Cuban intelligence tactics  The molehunt to capture Montes Reflections The “City of Spies” Washington D.C. Betrayal and familial loss And much, much more … Episode Notes She's “the most famous spy no one's ever heard of” – Why? Clouded by the tragedy of 9/11, Ana Montes was arrested on suspicion of espionage on September 21, 2001, as the Twin Towers smoldered. She had been spying for Cuba for almost two decades, sending secrets from the heart of American intelligence to Fidel Castro's regime.  This week, author and investigative journalist Jim Popkin joins Andrew to discuss Ana Montes' story framed by his new book, Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy—and the Sister She Betrayed. Jim debriefs us on how Ana was recruited, how she gathered and sent secrets, and how she ultimately the net closed in on her.  And…  The timing couldn't be better to discuss Ana Montes' story. Ana was released from prison two weeks ago on January 6th after serving 21 of her 25-year prison sentence. Why has Ana been released while fellow spies who caused tremendous damage, Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames, remain incarcerated? Tune into this week's episode to find out! Quotes of the Week “There's a haunting message that the FBI found on her laptop from the Cubans that said, ‘Thank you so much for revealing [Redacted.] We are waiting for him here with open arms.' So, she revealed the real name of someone who was headed to Cuba, the Cubans were aware of it, and, and they were, ‘waiting for him with open arms.'” – Jim Popkin. Resources  Headline Resource Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy—and the Sister She Betrayed, J. Popkin (Hanover, 2023) *SpyCasts* “SPY@20: Spy of the Century Kim Philby” - With Curators Alexis and Andrew (2022) America's Most Damaging Russian Spy: FBI Agent Robert Hanssen – with Lis Wiehl (2022) Leningrad, Molehunts, and Life After the CIA – with Christopher Burgess (2021) FBI Special Agent Pete Lapp (2019) *Beginner Resources* Ana Montes: Cuban Spy, FBI History (n.d.) [Short Article] A Timeline of US-Cuba Relations, I. Roman, HISTORY (2021) [Timeline] The Evolving Motives of American Spies, N. Hunt, Washingtonian (2013) [Article] Books Castro's Nemesis: True Stories of a Master Spy-Catcher, C. Simmons (Independently Published, 2022) American Spies, M. Sulick (GUP, 2013) True Believer: Inside the Investigation and Capture of Ana Montes, S. Carmichael (Naval Institute, 2009) United States-Cuban Relations: A Critical History, E. M. Dominguez (Lexington, 2008) Articles ”Ana Montes released from prison” C. Yilek, CBS News (2023) “A DC Resident Spied for Cuba for Years. How Did She Get Away With It?” S. McNamara, Washingtonian (2023) “Ana Montes: How Cuban spy used incredible memory to betray US” C. Bailey, BBC (2023) “How Spy Agencies Use American Universities to Secretly Recruit Students” D. Golden, Town & Country (2017) Video Traitors Within - Spies Who Sold Out America, YouTube (2018) The Two Faces of Ana: Model Employee/Cuban Spy, YouTube (2017) Primary Sources  The Ana Montes Press Reports (various)  Prisoner of Conscience: Ana Belen Montes is free! (2023) Scholars or Spies? House of Representatives Hearing (2018) Inspector General Review of Ana Montes Investigation (2005) Ana Montes Statement During Trial (2001) FBI Arrests DIA Employee (2001) *Wildcard Resource* “Lasso of Truth!” Wonder Woman's secret power has a connection to the polygraph...

Grab your gadgets, disguises, and martinis and engulf yourself in this week's episode. We are talking about men and women of mystery, spies. Learn about the infamous Mata Hari and Aldrich Ames.

The CIA is only as strong as it's weakest link. And in the waning years of the Cold War, weak links were in ready supply. A number of trusted Agency officers were caught selling secrets to the Russian regime. And the most notorious traitor? Aldrich Hazen Ames. In part 2, Sophia Di Martino joins FBI Special Agent Leslie G Wiser Jr on the toughest assignment of his career so far. But to take down Aldrich Ames, he'll need to bend the rules... From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producers: Gemma Newby, Joe Foley. Produced by Max Bower. Music by Nick Ryan.

The CIA is only as strong as it's weakest link. And in the waning years of the Cold War, weak links were in ready supply. A number of trusted Agency officers were caught selling secrets to the Russian regime. And the most notorious traitor? Aldrich Hazen Ames. In the first episode of a 2-part True Spies story, Sophia Di Martino joins journalist and spy chronicler Bryan Denson to uncover the inglorious origins of Ames' betrayal - and the beginnings of his downfall. From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producers: Gemma Newby, Joe Foley. Produced by Max Bower. Music by Nick Ryan.

This week, Justin chats with investigative reporter and author Bryan Denson. Focusing on true crime, scandals, and government corruption, Bryan has spent his career reporting for publications like The House Post, Reader's Digest, Newsweek, The Los Angeles Tomes, and the Oregonian. He's also written three nonfiction book series on infamous criminals like Aldrich Ames and the Unibomber, as well as other historical nonfiction. Today, Bryan and Justin discuss the story of notorious CIA traitor Jim Nicholson--and how he trained his son Nathan from  behind bars to finish his work. Connect with Bryan:bryandenson.comCheck out Bryan's book, The Spy's Son, here.https://www.amazon.com/Spys-Son-Highest-Ranking-Convicted-Espionage/dp/0802125190/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Connect with Spycraft 101:Check out Justin's latest release, Covert Arms, here.spycraft101.comIG: @spycraft101Shop: spycraft-101.myshopify.comPatreon: Spycraft 101Find Justin's first book, Spyshots: Volume One, here.Download the free eBook, The Clandestine Operative's Sidearm of Choice, here.Support the show

In this episode of The Remarkable Project Jay speaks with Rob Chesnut, Airbnb's former General Counsel and Chief Ethics Officer, about why self-awareness is so important to professional and personal progress, how influential organisations are primed to pick up the slack of governments in areas where action matters to their customers, and the data that shows companies with intentional integrity outperform the market.Rob Chesnut retired in 2021 after over five years as Airbnb's General Counsel and Chief Ethics Officer.A graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Virginia, Rob worked with the U.S. Justice Department for 14 years, where he prosecuted bank robberies, kidnappings, murder, and espionage cases, including the prosecution of CIA employees Aldrich Ames and Harold Nicholson. He joined eBay in 1999 as its third lawyer, and went on to lead their North American legal team before later founding the business' Trust and Safety team. The following 6 years saw him in the role of the General Counsel at digital education leader Chegg, where he helped take the company public in 2013.Rob joined Airbnb in early 2016, growing their in-house legal function from 30 to over 150 professionals in 20 offices around the world. His team led initiatives to promote home sharing and address regulatory issues with local governments and landlords around the world. He also developed a popular interactive employee program, Integrity Belongs Here, to help drive ethics throughout the culture at the company.His book Intentional Integrity: How Smart Companies Can Lead an Ethical Revolution was published by St Martin's Press in July 2020, and acts as an extension of his work helping companies develop strategies to drive integrity into their culture. He lives in San Francisco, CA.Three Remarkable TakeawaysWhy self-awareness and owning your mistakes is so important in enabling you to keep moving forward, in business and life in general.How the concept of “Kinder Capitalism” feeds into thinking around what an ideal world looks like, and how organisations can help get us closer to it when governments can't or won't.The data that shows companies with deeper Connect with RobFind him on LinkedInLearn more about Rob's work at the Intentional Integrity website

In the late 80s and early 90s, the Agency was rocked by a series of high-profile turncoats Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen, and Edward Lee Howard all leaked secrets to the Russians, with often-deadly consequences for agents on the ground. 20 years later, former CIA officer Bob Baer caught wind of a disturbing possibility - that a fourth, and even more insidious mole might have been active at the heart of America's intelligence community. In Part 2, Vanessa Kirby joins Bob Baer in the present day, where renewed interest in the Fourth Man case throws up more questions than answers... From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producers: Gemma Newby, Joe Foley. Produced by Morgan Childs. Music by Nick Ryan.

In the late 80s and early 90s, the Agency was rocked by a series of high-profile turncoats Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen, and Edward Lee Howard all leaked secrets to the Russians, with often-deadly consequences for agents on the ground. 20 years later, former CIA officer Bob Baer caught wind of a disturbing possibility - that a fourth, and even more insidious mole might have been active at the heart of America's intelligence community. In Part 1, Vanessa Kirby joins Bob at the outset of an ongoing investigation with the potential to rock the CIA all over again. From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producers: Gemma Newby, Joe Foley. Produced by Morgan Childs. Music by Nick Ryan.

Il nostro canale Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1vziHBEp0gc9gAhR740fCwSostieni DENTRO LA STORIA su Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dentrolastoriaAbbonati al canale: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1vziHBEp0gc9gAhR740fCw/joinAldrich Aimes, la peggiore talpa della storia dei servizi segreti statunitensi dal dopoguerra in poi. Quello di Aimes non fu un tradimento ideologico, lo mise in chiaro subito agli agenti del KGB, alla costante ricerca di denaro per pagare i propri debiti, alcolista e con un matrimonio fallito alle spalle, Aimes comincio' a vendere i nomi delle fonti americane nel KGB, facendo, di fatto, sparire centinaia di collaboratori della CIA nel blocco sovietico. L'arresto nel 1994 pose fine alla sua attivita' come agente doppiogiochista aprendogli le porte del carcere a vita.Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/racconti-di-storia-podcast--5561307/support.

1. Intro  2. Moving Target  3. Throwback  4. Scapegoat and Redemption  5. Cold War  p.s.  Judas IscariotTraitors have always been the most hated and vilified of creatures.  And rightly so.  Often it involves the very survival of a tribe, nation or belief and the traitor is the viper at the heart of the body politic.  We all know their names and whether it is Kim Philby or Aldrich Ames, Klaus Fuchs or the Rosenburgs, they epitomise the worst of human behaviour.  There will ever be those who sell out through personal weakness or for thirty pieces of silver.  Yet in the more autocratic regimes, anyone can be painted and scapegoated as a traitor.  There was the Dreyfus affair in late nineteenth century France fuelled by antisemitism and in Russia today there will surely be those selected by Putin as fall-guys for his own failure.  In this episode we peer into the dark recesses of treachery and statecraft, and discover it is not always as clear-cut and simple as it seems.so it goes,Tom Assheton and James Jackson Reference:Cold Cut by James Jackson See also:YouTube: BloodyViolentHistoryhttps://www.instagram.com/bloodyviolenthistory/https://www.jamesjacksonbooks.comhttps://www.tomtom.co.uk If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast App? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps to spread the wordSee https://simplecast.com/privacy/ for privacy informationShow Less

GRAHAM THREATENS RIOTS IF TRUMP IS PROSECUTED A BLOCK: SPECIAL COMMENT (1:47) Senator Lindsay Graham (R-NC) has actually gone on television and threatened the peace and security of this nation with "riots in the streets" if Trump is prosecuted for mishandling classified documents (3:03) He must resign, be expelled, or censured (4:10) If you get your "riots in the streets, Senator, who has the law on their side, and the National Guard? These insurrectionists never stop to think their acts of violence would not be crushed (5:35) It's being done to try to blackmail the Department of Justice into letting Trump escape though he has compromised the "Human Intelligence Control System" and risked the lives of countless American agents and sources around the world (6:20) and must be prosecuted under 18 USC Code 794, the Espionage Act. (7:20) CIA notified all its stations last September of high number of agents and sources being "captured or killed" (8:26) This is not the first timeline suggestive of Trump jeopardizing American lives. 2019 Trump/Putin/List of Spies timeline detailed. (9:26) Trump/Putin/Helsinki 2018 timeline, plus the nearly simultaneous FBI tweet about the Rosenbergs, detailed. (10:50) 2017 MBS/Jared Kushner/Saudi round-up timeline detailed. (11:26) History of US traitor/Russian Spy Robert Hanssen and his 15 consecutive life sentences (12:10) History of US traitor/Russian Spy Aldrich Ames and his life sentence without the possibility of parole (12:30) DOD employee who without malice mishandled classified documents got three months (13:07) DNI Haynes warns Congress of damage to National Security and analysis she is referring to saving lives of agents/sources whose identities have been compromised (13:57) Mar-a-Lago affidavit by itself virtually convicts Trump of Obstruction and Attempt to Conceal Classified Documents (14:30) "Anna de Rothschild" cons her way into Mar-a-Lago to play golf with Trump - and Lindsay Graham (14:24) "Special Master" filing may backfire on Trump (17:37) If you get the riots you want, Senator, make sure you're near the front where we can all see you. B BLOCK: EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY (20:26) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS (21:51) Biden approval, new "Covid Shot," Doug Mastriano in Confederate Uniform, Marsha Blackburn and "The Taiwans," anti-abortion leader charged with soliciting sex from minors, Ron Johnson says people in Wisconsin thinks he's a "tool of Putin." (25:03) IN SPORTS: No I didn't buy it; Adidas doesn't believe Fernando Tatis Jr; new MLB 2023 schedule underscores how baseball killed The World Series by killing the independence of the two Leagues. (33:43) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Junior Trump, Kim Crockett, Marco Rubio vie for honors. C BLOCK: THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL (38:00) How James Gandolfini influenced the conception and the writing of the first "Special Comment" 16 years ago, and the horrible night I knew of Gandolfini's passing before it was announced. And I apologize: I discovered too late I misidentified Lorraine Bracco as "Elaine." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

MONTHS MORE OF TRUMP'S NUCLEAR DOCUMENTS A BLOCK: (0:00) Of Roy Cohn, The Rosenberg Executions, and Donald Trump (2:45) Officials predict "many months" before the Trump Theft story "plays out" (5:30) Every possible angle of "Classification/Declassification" is hyped, except Charlie Savage's note that none of the laws Trump may have broken "turn on whether information was deemed to be unclassified" (6:01) In one week Trump's Cover-Up Team produced 31 DIFFERENT excuses why Trump did nothing wrong, and I review them (11:10) This obscures the only real debate: do you pursue Trump for a 10-year sentence per count, or a 20-year sentence, because we can't do to him what Cohn did to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. B BLOCK (13:12) Every Dog Has Its Day: Cheer Bear (14:49) Postscripts To The News: The IRS coming to kill you nonsense; The Boeberts (Again).(16:50) When I met Salman Rushdie and wondered if he had enough security (19:25) How come nobody's talking about baseball's new steroid scandal? If the man the game attempted to market as the new face of the sport, who was "here to change the game" is suspended until next year, it's more than Fernando Tatis who is in trouble (23:55) The Norwegian Government, Ted Cruz and Kevin McCarthy vie for honors as The Worst Persons In The World. C BLOCK (29:31) Things I Promised Not To Tell: 45 years ago Tuesday, Elvis Presley died. It is little remembered, but the day he shuffled off, he was due to start a concert tour in the Northeast. For his scheduled appearance in Syracuse, Elvis's promoters bought commercial time on every radio station within an hour of the arena. That included the Cornell radio station I was running at the time, and I did the commercial! (35:33) The actual Elvis concert commercial I did, from WVBR-FM, Ithaca, New York, from August 1977 - when I was 18 years old (37:17) What happened on our station's main newscast the moment Elvis died (39:20) ELVIS OWES ME MONEY. Fin.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A Talk with Diane Pure on Cold War Spycraft. The host for this show is Mihaela Stoops. The guest is Diane Pure. We start our discussion with Ben Macintyre's book, on a true espionage story during the Cold War, that truly averted an international conflagration. Oleg Gordievsky was the best asset that MI6 planted in the Soviet intelligence echelons, who risked his life providing key information to the West. Aldrich Ames is the CIA agent that "sold" Gordievsky to the Russians, in exchange for large sums of money. We move onto current spy stories and spycraft, questioning its current scope and players. We ponder how technology and social media can be used for spying. We finish with pictures and impressions from Mihaela's recent visit to Spyscape, an experiential spy museum in New York City. The ThinkTech YouTube Playlist for this show is https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQpkwcNJny6nb8XWDbEE9rutmO1mbwBb6 Please visit our ThinkTech website at https://thinktechhawaii.com and see our Think Tech Advisories at https://thinktechadvisories.blogspot.com.

Anyone who is a spy history buff will know that American Intelligence caught three high-profile Russian spies in the 90s: Aldrich Ames and Edward Howard from the CIA, and Robert Hanssen from the FBI.  But did you know that there have always been rumblings that there was a fourth man? Bestselling author and intelligence analyst for CNN, (one of the most accomplished officers in CIA history), Robert Baer says it's time to talk about The Fourth Man (which happens to be the name of his new book!) – someone who may be the greatest traitor in American history – and who may still be alive. In our chat we find out how the intelligence organizations discovered the three moles within, and why there is credible belief that there was a fourth mole – the Fourth Man - and how these spies allowed Putin to come to power. In addition, we discover why people become spies, what the state of US spycraft is today, and what is the biggest danger in the world today. Plus – how he made ME part of the spy story!

The CIA beginning in the early 1980s made a series of stunning arrests—three high-profile Russian spies, Aldrich Ames, Edward Lee Howard, and Robert Hanssen, were uncovered as some of the most damaging leaks the agency had ever seen. Yet, as told by former CIA officer Robert Baer, the investigation for a “fourth man” ensued shortly after, and now relates the never-before-told story about the hunt for what may very well be the greatest traitor in American history. Robert Baer is a New York Times bestselling author and former CIA case officer with 21 years of service. He is the intelligence columnist for Time, intelligence and security analyst for CNN, and his works have appeared in The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. Baer's book See No Evil was the basis for the acclaimed film Syriana, and he was the co-host for the History Channel series Hunting Hitler. In his latest book, The Fourth Man, Baer recounts a thrilling tale of hunting a so-called “super mole” who was believed to have more destructive power than their three predecessors combined. Three women, leading experts in counterintelligence, led the team as they poured through their own ranks, finding loose threads, smoking guns and rumors that the traitor was nothing more than a Russian trick to break the CIA apart. And, at the height of their intellectual duel and legendary game of cat-and-mouse, the shocking conclusion to their investigation would shake American Intelligence to its core. Join us, as Baer retells the thrilling hunt for a KGB spy at the top ranks of the CIA, with all its twists and turns—and its implications for the future of America, Russia and the rise of Vladimir Putin. SPEAKERS Robert Baer Former CIA Operative; Intelligence Analyst, CNN; Author, The Fourth Man: The Hunt for a KGB Spy at the Top of the CIA and the Rise of Putin's Russia In Conversation with Adam Lashinsky Contributor, Business Insider; Twitter @adamlashinsky In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently hosting all of our live programming via YouTube live stream. This program was recorded via video conference on June 1st, 2022 by the Commonwealth Club of California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aldrich Hazen "Rick" Ames, born May 26th, 1941 is a former CIA officer turned KGB double agent, who was convicted of espionage in 1994. He is serving a life sentence, without the possibility of parole, in the Federal Correctional Institution in Terre Haute, Indiana, United States. Today we are diving into the life and crimes of one of the CIA's greatest spies.  Join our Giveaway and win a pair of Raycon Earbuds: https://kingsumo.com/g/8cilme/win-a-pair-of-raycon-earbuds SPONSORS: PodDecks: www.poddecks.com - PromoCode Larry21 for 10% off your order Hunt A Killer: www.huntakiller.com - Promo Code TCNS for 20% off your first box DON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST ON ALL MAJOR PODCAST PLATFORMS. Follow Us on Social Media Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/truecrimeneversleepspodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/truecrimens IG: https://www.instagram.com/truecrimeneversleepspodcast If you like our content, consider becoming a financial supporter: Buy Us A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/tcns Become a Patron: https://patreon.com/truecrimeneversleeps

What makes a Londoner, a Londoner?  What constitutes identity? These are two of the many essential questions that we continue to explore in this harrowing conclusion to our story about Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB colonel turned MI6 agent, the second episode in a three-part arc exploring espionage in and around Great Britain. We'll question what motivates Gordievsky to continue to spy for England rather than defect to London when his life is at stake, and examine how his choices greatly affected both his personal life and the world at-large.We will study:Gordievsky as a double agent working for MI6 within the Soviet Rezidentura, first in Copenhagen, then in London his contributions to Western securityhis purely ideological motivation MI6 and their plan to protect and exfiltrate their prized spy, if necessary the impact and aftermath of Oleg's decisions on his personal life and that of his familythe complicated relationships between allied intelligence agencies the despicable traitor who sacrificed Gordievsky for his own personal gainWhy does a man who has already given another country everything he has keep going when he knows his life is in mortal peril? You won't want to miss this incredible story of dedication, heroism, and ultimate betrayal. NOTE OF APOLOGY: While editing, Jen discovered a regrettable mistake of tongue, and she deeply regrets unintentionally referring to Ukraine as “The Ukraine” twice in this episode. This unfortunate error was the result of an old habit learned during Cold War era grade school social studies classes, and she is dedicated to removing that phrasing from her vernacular. She absolutely recognizes Ukraine as an independent nation and not as a region within Russia. As such, she would like to extend  a sincere apology for the error. YLT firmly supports Ukraine and its people!

THIS WEEK in the Monadnock Region: WHO IS BETRAYING PETERBOROUGH? (Several people, it turns, out) ** This episode of GoMo Tonight is sponsored by Keene Mitigation Services, your spiritual cleansing and protection specialists here to save you from the K-Hole ** * We talk about all the vulgarity that came out in the M/U open mic at the library (this was a good thing, to be clear, but I mean think of the children) * BTW, the town can't mandate vaccines for access to public town services in THIS state (HATE to see anybody face a lawsuit...) * TOP STORY: The 9th grade gangs are fine BUT Superintendent Kim Rizzo Saunders might be betraying us for the non-monogamous parents of PORTSMOUTH! (But apparently the newspaper there, like, looks into stuff) (also yes, we know more info has come out on this issue but we didn't know it yet when this was recorded!) * Chris thinks he grew up in an idyllic town (she's no Jim McCormick is she) * The Thing in the Spring has BETRAYED Peterborough for KEENE (and people are going to pretend that it's cool for decorum purposes but it's not; 30 pieces of silver!!) * In-depth discussion of the state of music in Peterborough, which is sad and in trouble (No, Harlow's is not playing music and they don't SEEM to be planning on it, either) * Response to philosopher-financier Angelo Voiello's argument that Peterborough needs to plan for future annexation of other towns ("humble Yankees choppin the wood") * Uncorrected headlines? (we regret to admit we have some REALLY immoral friends) You know, we send out emails every Tuesday and Friday with all the latest info and perspectives about events and fun in the region - you should sign up: mailchi.mp/15b0b51c41db/basic-initial-landing-page Contact us: Hate mail and information about how to send us your awesome calendar photos: diloreto@monadnockunderground.com Submissions: submit@monadnockunderground.com AgEx Farm Listings: zoe@monadnockunderground.com Advertising/Sponsorship: sam@monadnockunderground.com www.gomonadnock.com/ www.monadnockunderground.com/ This episode was produced by Sound Lord Chad Patterson of Studio 117. GO TO Studio 117 - www.studio117.net/ - for ALL your mixing, mastering, and recording needs in 2022 AND BEYOND. He is a hero. PLUS he's got a band now and you can BOOK THEM: www.facebook.com/DownByTen/

Summary Joe Weisberg (Twitter) joins Andrew (Twitter; LinkedIn) to discuss his new book on Russia. Joe is the creator of award-winning TV drama The Americans and a former CIA officer. What You'll Learn Intelligence o  His past experience as a hardliner who loved to hate the “evil empire” o  His thoughts on a trip through the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the twilight of the Cold War, especially experiencing it as an American Jew o  His interpretation of the KGB and Vladimir Putin o  His take on the “moral equivalency” argument and U.S. foreign policy ·Reflections o  The role of complexity vs. simplicity in understanding “the Other” o  Joe's journey from the Chicago suburbs of Illinois to Langley to New York City And much, much more… Episode Notes “How dare you, Joe Weisberg, make me rethink my comfortable loathing of the Russians.” Not Andrew's words, but those of former chief of CIA counterintelligence James Olson in an encomium for the book (albeit a little tongue-in-cheek). If that is not enough to get you intrigued in Joe's new book, Russia Upside Down, then perhaps the sub-title will, An Exit Strategy for the Second Cold War. So how do we get out of the Second Cold War? To find out Joe's diagnosis and prognosis, and much else besides, Andrew sat down with him for this week's episode. A fair number of listeners will know of Joe as creator of the award-winning and hugely popular TV series, The Americans, some may even know that he had a three-and-a-half-year stint in the CIA where he trained to be a case officer; a few may even be a know him from his stint at the Agency which began on the eve of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. And… The Americans is set in and around NoVa which is replete with all manner of famous sites from intelligence history – including the Arlington home of real-life Russian illegals Nataliya Pereverzeva and Michael Zottoli Mikhail Kutsik who were rolled up by the FBI in 2010 as part of Operation Ghost Stories” which we cover in our exhibits. Quote of the Week "When I was working at the CIA and in my younger years, I had a very one-dimensional view of this evil empire, this totalitarian state that we had to fight because we were the good guys, and we were the bad guys. And the book that I've written is essentially a kind of argument with myself or me with my younger self to say, huh, I think you were not looking at that in all the complexity that you might have." – Joe Weisberg FURTHER RESOURCES SpyCasts o  KGB Illegal Jack Barsky here and here o  The Spymasters Prism: CIA Legend Jack Devine on Countering Russian Aggression o  2010 Russian Spy Case – KGB Major General Oleg Kalugin o  Spy Sites of Washington D.C. Books o  Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia, Catherine Belton (2020) o  The New Tsar: Rise & Reign of Vladimir Putin, Steven Lee Myers (2016). o  Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer - The Man Who Recruited Robert Hanssen & Aldrich Ames, Victor Cherkashin (2004) o  The Caucasus, Thomas De Waal (2018) o  Khrushchev's Thaw and National Identity in Soviet Azerbaijan, Jamil Hasanli (2014) o  The Best Books on Contemporary Russia (Five Books) Articles o  “Dictatorship and Double Standards,” Jeane Kirkpatrick, Commentary (1979) o  NATO Enlargement & Russia (NATO, 2014) o  “False Equivalence” & “Tu Quoque”, IEP Documentaries o  The Putin Interviews (ShowTime, 2017) o  Cold War 2.0, Vice/HBO (2015) Primary Sources o  Russian-Chinese Relations (CIA, 1998) o  Putin's Munich Speech, (WaPo, 2007) o  Interview With KGB/SVR Illegal (Chekist Monitor, 2020) o  U.S. Ambassadors to Russia Interviewed (NSA) o  US-Russia Oral Histories (ADST) o  Archival Research on Russia (NSA) Enjoy the show? Please leave a review here.

 is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer turned KGB double agent, who was convicted of espionage in 1994. He is serving a life sentence, without the possibility of parole, in the Federal Correctional Institution in Terre Haute, Indiana, United States. Ames was formerly a 31-year CIA counterintelligence officer who committed espionage against the U.S. by spying for the Soviet Union and Russia. At the time of his arrest, Ames had compromised more highly classified CIA assets than any other officer in history until Robert Hanssen's arrest seven years later in 2001.

On June 13, 1985, Aldrich Ames packed up six pounds of top secret documents into a plastic bag and walked out the door of the CIA headquarters. He drove to lunch, where he gave the documents to a Soviet diplomat. They contained the identities of America's most important spies within the Soviet Union.Not long after, the Soviets told Ames that $2 million had been set aside for him. Ames had become the highest-paid American spy of the Cold War, and his betrayal would soon prove disastrous.That fall, the CIA was mystified by a string of mysterious disappearances. The agency's best assets within the Soviet Union were vanishing, never to be heard from again. But it would be years before investigators uncovered the mole within their ranks.Sleep Number-Robinhood-See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode 197 features Rob Chesnut, Author, Investor, and Former General Counsel at Airbnb. His book, "Intentional Integrity: How Smart Companies Can Lead an Ethical Revolution" was published with St Martin's Press and can be found here - https://www.intentionalintegrity.com/ Find Rob Online:Website: www.intentionalintegrity.comLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robchesnut/About Rob:Rob Chesnut works with companies to help them develop strategies to drive integrity into their culture.He was most recently the Chief Ethics Officer of Airbnb, Inc., a role he took on in late 2019 after almost four years as Airbnb's General Counsel.Rob is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Virginia. He worked for 14 years with the U.S. Justice Department, where he prosecuted bank robberies, kidnappings, murder, and espionage cases, including the prosecution of CIA employee Aldrich Ames. He joined eBay in 1999 as its third lawyer, where he led eBay's North America legal team and later founded the Internet's first e-commerce person-to-person Trust and Safety operation. Rob subsequently spent nearly 6 years as the General Counsel and first attorney at digital education leader Chegg, where he helped take the company public in 2013. He joined Airbnb in 2016, where he grew the legal team from 30 to over 150 legal professionals in 20 offices around the world. His team led initiatives to promote home-sharing and address regulatory issues with local governments and landlords around the world. Rob developed a popular interactive employee program, Integrity Belongs Here, to help drive ethics throughout the culture at the company.On July 28, he published Intentional Integrity: How Smart Companies Can Lead an Ethical Revolution with St Martin's Press. He lives in San Francisco, CA.........Thank you for listening! If you wanted to learn more about the host, Brian Ondrako, check out his “Now” Page - https://www.brianondrako.com/now or Sign up for his Weekly Newsletter and 3x a Week Blog - https://brianondrako.com/subscribe/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Episode 274. Topic: Aldrich Ames. Theme: Spying. How did one CIA agent get millions of dollars from the Soviet Union? How did the CIA catch on to this mole in their department? How was he caught and what were the consequences?

Aldrich Ames era agente de la CIA, pero también espió a favor de la Unión Soviética. Por ello, el 28 de abril de 1994 fue condenado a pasar el resto de su vida en la cárcel

The boys go deep into the life of CIA mole Aldrich Ames. This giant piece is solely responsible for the most deaths of American field agents and is the ultimate simp who committed treason to pay off his alimony and mistress's shopping hobby.

Jack Devine, former CIA Acting Director of Operations, consultant, and author,  discusses his new release, "Spymaster's Prism: The Fight against Russian Aggression." This fascinating interview touches on Vladimir Putin, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Ukraine, Russian election influence operation attempts, Robert Hanssen, Aldrich Ames, moles, and traitors. Recorded 5 Feb 2021. Interviewer: Jim Hughes, AFIO President and former CIA Operations Officer.

After years of suspecting a spy, the FBI arrested CIA agent Aldrich Ames and charged him with multiple counts of espionage and tax fraud. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The delightful Priscilla Spangler returns to help us discuss a white dude with connections who kept failing up and ended up betraying his country! Not that one. Or that one. No, it's Aldrich Ames. Zach emcees the bi-weekly roast of Brian, Priscilla leads us on a stroll down memory lane, and Brian makes some very specific fan art requests.We love hearing from you! Reach out via our website, Twitter, or Instagram, and take your support further by pledging as little as $1/month on Patreon.

In this episode of the Leaders Who Learn podcast produced by Claremont Lincoln University, we talk with Rob Chesnut, former General Counsel and Chief Ethics Officer at AirBnB, and author if Intentional Integrity:  How Smart Companies Can Lead An Ethical Revolution.  Rob talks about finding your "North Star" as an organization and how contributions to the community are about more than money.  He also touches on diversity, inclusion, and why we all must make little sacrifices to get through CV-19. Rob is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Virginia.  He worked for 14 years with the U.S. Justice Department, including 10 years as an Assistant United States Attorney in Northern Virginia.  As a federal prosecutor, Rob ran the Major Crimes unit and prosecuted a wide variety of cases, including bank robberies, kidnappings, murder, and drug trafficking organizations.   He handled the prosecution of CIA, FBI and other employees of the intelligence community for espionage, including CIA employee Aldrich Ames.   He is the recipient of the Justice Department's John Marshall Award for litigation, and the CIA's Outstanding Service Medallion.

An interview with Rob Chesnut, Chief Ethics Officer at Airbnb, about his new book INTENTIONAL INTEGRITY: How Smart Companies Can Lead an Ethical Revolution. Buy Rob's book: https://amzn.to/30twtVQ (paid link) Most companies think they have integrity… until they get boycotted, protested and skewered in the press. They’ll punish and apologize for lapses but have no clue about prevention. In an interview, Rob discusses how creating a culture of integrity can clarify and energize employees to act on their values and lead. Rob is a former Federal Prosecutor who prosecuted spy Aldrich Ames, he went on to found the Trust and Safety Department for eBay and the integrity training program for Airbnb: two companies with business models dependent on trust that had to invent the rules in the new frontiers of e-commerce and platforms.  Get sample episodes from our advanced training programs: http://www.firmsconsulting.com/promo

Rob Chesnut is the Chief Ethics Officer at Airbnb, a role he took on in late 2019 after nearly four years as the company’s General Counsel. He previously led eBay’s North America legal team, where he founded the Internet’s first ecommerce person to person platform Trust and Safety team. He was the general counsel at Chegg, Inc. for nearly 6 years, and he served 14 years with the U.S. Justice Department, where he prosecuted CIA employee Aldrich Ames for espionage. He is the author of Intentional Integrity: How Smart Companies Can Lead an Ethical Revolution.

Episode Title: How To Lead With Integrity Editor's Notes: This episode was recorded on April 21, 2020 Rob Chesnut has transitioned out of the role of Chief Ethics Officer of Airbnb since this recording. In this episode, we talk to Robert Chesnut (Former Chief Ethics Officer of Airbnb)as we discuss his early days at eBay, how he drives integrity into the culture of a company, and we dive deep into his book "Intentional Integrity".    Follow Rob on LinkedIn **More On Rob** Rob has spent a 35-year legal career exploring and helping to enforce rules that we all live by. Most recently, Rob spent 4 years as Airbnb's General Counsel and Chief Integrity Officer, helping Airbnb navigate a complex regulatory framework across as it grew into one of the world's leading hospitality companies. Today, Airbnb offers over 7 million accommodations and 40,000 handcrafted activities, all powered by local hosts. With more than half a billion guest arrivals to date, and accessible in 62 languages across 220+ countries and regions, Airbnb promotes people-to-people connection, community and trust around the world.   While at Airbnb, Rob developed the company's unique ethics program, "Integrity Belongs Here," that promotes an environment of ethics and compliance within the company.   Prior to Airbnb, Rob helped transform Chegg, Inc., from an offline textbook rental company into a multi-service digital learning platform. As general counsel, he helped take the company public in 2013.   Prior to Chegg, Rob spent 10 years working for the global online marketplace eBay. He joined the company in 1999 as the company's third lawyer and was promoted to run the company's North American legal division in 2001. He joined eBay's senior executive leadership team in 2004 as the founder of the company's Trust and Safety Department, where he was responsible for creating and overseeing all site rules and policies for the eBay global community of over 150 million users. Rob and his team of nearly 2000 employees built and operated eBay's fraud detection and prevention infrastructure, the first such system for an Internet person to person ecommerce site. Rob was eBay's spokesperson for site policies and fraud, and he was interviewed in over 200 television, newspaper, radio, and magazine stories around the world, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, for his pioneering role in combating Internet fraud.   Rob's legal career began in the U.S. Justice Department, where he worked for nearly 14 years with the U.S. Justice Department, including 10 years as an Assistant United States Attorney in Northern Virginia. As a federal prosecutor, Rob ran the Major Crimes unit for the district and prosecuted a wide variety of cases, including bank robberies, kidnappings, murder, and drug trafficking organizations. He handled the prosecution of CIA, FBI and other employees of the intelligence community for espionage, including CIA employees Aldrich Ames and Harold Nicholson. He is a recipient of the Justice Department's John Marshall award for litigation, and the CIA's Outstanding Service Medallion.   Rob is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Virginia. He lives in San Francisco, CA with his wife Jillian. He has two children, Bianca and Cliff. Written by: Dominic Lawson  Executive Producers: Dominic Lawson and Kenda Lawson Music Credits: **Show Theme**  Behind Closed Doors - Otis McDonald  **Break Theme** Cielo - Huma-Huma  Sponsors/Partners Purchase a Flexio Series sprayer from Wagner Use code BETTEREVERYDAY for 30% everything sitewide at ladder.sport. That's “BETTEREVERYDAY” for 30% off at ladder.sport.  www.funkymedia.agency 

Editor's Notes: This episode was recorded on April 21, 2020 Rob Chesnut has transitioned out of the role of Chief Ethics Offier of Airbnb since this recording. In this episode, we talk to Robert Chesnut (Former Chief Ethics Officer of Airbnb)as we discuss his early days at eBay, how he drives integrity into the culture of a company, and we dive deep into his book "Intentional Integrity".    Follow Rob on LinkedIn **More On Rob** Rob has spent a 35-year legal career exploring and helping to enforce rules that we all live by. Most recently, Rob spent 4 years as Airbnb's General Counsel and Chief Integrity Officer, helping Airbnb navigate a complex regulatory framework across as it grew into one of the world's leading hospitality companies. Today, Airbnb offers over 7 million accommodations and 40,000 handcrafted activities, all powered by local hosts. With more than half a billion guest arrivals to date, and accessible in 62 languages across 220+ countries and regions, Airbnb promotes people-to-people connection, community and trust around the world. While at Airbnb, Rob developed the company's unique ethics program, "Integrity Belongs Here," that promotes an environment of ethics and compliance within the company. Prior to Airbnb, Rob helped transform Chegg, Inc., from an offline textbook rental company into a multi-service digital learning platform. As general counsel, he helped take the company public in 2013. Prior to Chegg, Rob spent 10 years working for the global online marketplace eBay. He joined the company in 1999 as the company's third lawyer and was promoted to run the company's North American legal division in 2001. He joined eBay's senior executive leadership team in 2004 as the founder of the company's Trust and Safety Department, where he was responsible for creating and overseeing all site rules and policies for the eBay global community of over 150 million users. Rob and his team of nearly 2000 employees built and operated eBay's fraud detection and prevention infrastructure, the first such system for an Internet person to person ecommerce site. Rob was eBay's spokesperson for site policies and fraud, and he was interviewed in over 200 television, newspaper, radio, and magazine stories around the world, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, for his pioneering role in combating Internet fraud. Rob's legal career began in the U.S. Justice Department, where he worked for nearly 14 years with the U.S. Justice Department, including 10 years as an Assistant United States Attorney in Northern Virginia. As a federal prosecutor, Rob ran the Major Crimes unit for the district and prosecuted a wide variety of cases, including bank robberies, kidnappings, murder, and drug trafficking organizations. He handled the prosecution of CIA, FBI and other employees of the intelligence community for espionage, including CIA employees Aldrich Ames and Harold Nicholson. He is a recipient of the Justice Department's John Marshall award for litigation, and the CIA's Outstanding Service Medallion. Rob is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Virginia. He lives in San Francisco, CA with his wife Jillian. He has two children, Bianca and Cliff. Follow The Startup Life Podcast Facebook Page Want gear from The Startup Life? Check out our gear! Check out other great podcasts from The Binge Podcast Network. Written by: Dominic Lawson  Executive Producers: Dominic Lawson and Kenda Lawson Music Credits: **Show Theme**  Behind Closed Doors - Otis McDonald  **Break Theme** Cielo - Huma-Huma  Sponsors/Partners Purchase a Flexio Series sprayer from Wagner Use code BETTEREVERYDAY for 30% everything sitewide at ladder.sport. That's “BETTEREVERYDAY” for 30% off at ladder.sport.  

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Robert Hanssen, Aldrich Ames—they all made headlines for betraying their countries by passing military secrets to the Soviets… including the existence of a multi-million dollar tunnel.

Discussing #IntentionalIntegrity and #FutureOfWork with @ChestnutRob (@AirBnB) on Work 2.0 Podcast #FutureofWork #Work2dot0 #Podcast In this podcast, Rob Chestnut sheds light on creating an ethical organization and proclivity intentional integrity to help create an organization with strong values. She shared how organizations with sound moral values outperform organizations that don't. He also shared how any organization could transform into organizations with ethical values by practicing intentional integrity. The session is an excellent watch for aspiring leaders preparing a team that plays a significant role in defining ethical organization. Rob's Book: Intentional Integrity: How Smart Companies Can Lead an Ethical Revolution by Robert Chesnut https://amzn.to/2Xi7SSG Rob's Recommended Read: Positivity: Top-notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life by Barbara L. Fredrickson https://amzn.to/39WkUIe Podcast Link: iTunes: http://math.im/jofitunes Youtube: http://math.im/jofyoutube Rob's BIO: Rob Chesnut is the Chief Ethics Officer at Airbnb, a role he took on in late 2019 after nearly four years as the company's General Counsel. He previously led eBay's North America legal team, where he founded the Internet's first e-commerce person to person platform Trust and Safety team. He was the general counsel at Chegg, Inc. for nearly six years, and he served 14 years with the U.S. Justice Department, where he prosecuted CIA employee Aldrich Ames for espionage. He is the author of Intentional Integrity: How Smart Companies Can Lead an Ethical Revolution (St Martin's Press, 2020). Some Questions we talked about: 1. Explain your journey to your current role? 2. Could you share something about your current position? 3. What does Airbnb for a few folks who have not heard about it? 4. What is Chief Ethics Officer, and why is this role important? 5. Why write this book? 6. What is the premises of this book? 7. Everyone thinks they have integrity, yet week after week, we see organizations like Facebook, Google, Boeing, or even the Houston Astros, come under fire for failing to live up to their values. What is "intentional integrity," and how can it help us get out of this integrity crisis? 8. What's at stake if companies don't directly and explicitly address integrity? 9. What was it like to be running trust and safety at eBay during the dot-com boom and now, a general counsel and chief ethics officer at Airbnb, two companies that had to invent ethical rules in the nascent and less-regulated frontier of e-commerce? 10. In a digital and global age with shifting cultural norms, how can companies reinforce common standards of integrity while respecting each employee's right to their personal opinions and preferences? 11. You write that "you can't outsource integrity," and that to be authentic, pervasive, and persuasive, integrity must come directly from an organization's leadership. If you could give one piece of advice to every CEO, what would it be? 12. How does culture embrace integrity? 13. What is the role of integrity in a capitalistic society? ... Read more at: https://work2.org/discussing-intentionalintegrity-and-futureofwork-with-chestnutrob-airbnb-on-work-2-0-podcast-futureofwork-work2dot0-podcast/

AlDRICH AMESAldrich Hazen Ames est un citoyen américain né le 26 mai 1941 à River Falls dans le Wisconsin. Officier de la CIA depuis 1962, il est devenu entre 1985 et 1994, date de son arrestation par le FBI, une « taupe » pour le compte du KGB soviétique puis du Service des renseignements extérieurs de la fédération de Russie.Espions Histoires Vraies est un podcast de Studio Minuit.Retrouvez nos autres productions :Crimes : Histoires vraiesEspions : Histoires vraies Morts Insolites : Histoires vraies Meurtres en France : Histoires vraiesSherlock Holmes - Les enquêtes1 Mot 1 Jour : Le pouvoir des motsJe comprends R : le dictionnaire du nouveau millénaire Soutenez ce podcast http://supporter.acast.com/espions-histoires-vraies. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

AlDRICH AMESAldrich Hazen Ames est un citoyen américain né le 26 mai 1941 à River Falls dans le Wisconsin. Officier de la CIA depuis 1962, il est devenu entre 1985 et 1994, date de son arrestation par le FBI, une « taupe » pour le compte du KGB soviétique puis du Service des renseignements extérieurs de la fédération de Russie.Espions Histoires Vraies est un podcast de Studio Minuit.Retrouvez nos autres productions :Crimes : Histoires vraiesEspions : Histoires vraies Morts Insolites : Histoires vraies Meurtres en France : Histoires vraiesSherlock Holmes - Les enquêtes1 Mot 1 Jour : Le pouvoir des motsJe comprends R : le dictionnaire du nouveau millénaire Soutenez ce podcast http://supporter.acast.com/espions-histoires-vraies. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

AlDRICH AMESAldrich Hazen Ames est un citoyen américain né le 26 mai 1941 à River Falls dans le Wisconsin. Officier de la CIA depuis 1962, il est devenu entre 1985 et 1994, date de son arrestation par le FBI, une « taupe » pour le compte du KGB soviétique puis du Service des renseignements extérieurs de la fédération de Russie.Espions Histoires Vraies est un podcast de Studio Minuit.Retrouvez nos autres productions :Crimes : Histoires vraiesEspions : Histoires vraies Morts Insolites : Histoires vraies Meurtres en France : Histoires vraiesSherlock Holmes - Les enquêtes1 Mot 1 Jour : Le pouvoir des motsJe comprends R : le dictionnaire du nouveau millénaire Soutenez ce podcast http://supporter.acast.com/espions-histoires-vraies. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Bill gets thrown in Facebook jail for crimes involving cat videos. We talk about how the importance minimizing Peak awesomeness is achieved when Bill gives us the security book recommendations from our listeners. And we lose our minds and go on a security book recommendation binge ourselves. We revisit election security. Greg has false negative brain syndrome because gets his spies mixed up (Aldrich Ames confused with Robert Hannsen), says transitive when he meant transitory, and creatively edits Keanu Reeves' bio.

Focusing on the motivations, The Anatomy of a Spy  by Michael Smith tells the story of why spies spy, presenting a wealth of spy stories—some previously unknown and some famous—from the very human angle of the agents themselves. He breaks them into categories that go beyond the widely shared MICE - Money, Ideology, Compromise/Coercion, Ego. We discuss some classic examples from his book: Operation Diamond where the Mossad used sex and coercion on pilots to fly a MIG-29 out of Iraq in the early 60s; Gabriele Gast - who was caught up in a Stasi Romeo-operation; Polish spy Ryszard Kukliński was a patriot who shared the Warsaw Pact operational plans. We touch on the intentions and needs of spies like: Oleg Penkovsky,  Aldrich Ames, Stephen Hanssen, and Ronald Pelton - what was the nugget they were after?Michael shares some of his experience working for the BBC Monitoring Service - listening in on Cold War transmissions across Poland and East Germany. We also discuss the similarities to journalism with both terminology (stringer, fireman, source) and tradecraft from his experience as an award-winning journalist for the BBC, the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times. Smith is the author of a number of books, including The Secrets of Station X, Killer Elite and Foley: The Spy Who Saved 10,000 Jews, and MI6: The Real James Bonds. He is a visiting fellow at Kellogg College, Oxford.Look for the debut of the #dozendecions that Michael makes in under a minute that reveal if his true nature is that of a spy, handler, or analyst.  I'm thinking he's secret agent material. Episode 037More on the author at  michaelsmithauthor.comResources Cited:An Alternative Framework for Agent Recruitment: From MICE to RASCLS, Randy BurkettRyszard KuklińskiKuklinski Documents on Martial Law in PolandIf you've enjoyed this episode and would like to hear more, please consider signing up as a contributing patron and join the community for exclusive commentary, and content.  A $10 a month donation will really keep us going ---> https://www.patreon.com/thelivedropAlternatively, if you would like to help make Season Three operational you could offer a one time donation of any amount right here ---> https://www.paypal.me/thelivedropThank you for listening and your support,Mark ValleyCreator/Host Get bonus content on Patreon Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Who is Adrich Ames? We discuss that, weird and funny news, sports, and Jeremy goes for 2 wins in a row this week!

Who is Adrich Ames? We discuss that, weird and funny news, sports, and Jeremy goes for 2 wins in a row this week!

In this Essential Geopolitics podcast from Stratfor, Host Fred Burton speaks to Thomas Abi-Hanna, a global security analyst for Stratfor. As anyone in the U.S. who was alive in the 1990's might tell you, the case of convicted spy Aldrich Ames shook Washington and all of its intelligence agencies. Ames worked as a double agent for the USSR and Russia for more than a decade and his treachery led to the deaths of intelligence assets. Subscribers to Stratfor Worldview can read about Ames and the espionage tactics that continue to this day.

February 21, 1994. Early in the morning, FBI agents assemble near the home of Aldrich Ames. They wait for him to leave his house and then they pounce, arresting one of the deadliest double agents in CIA history. He received almost $2 million from the KGB, selling CIA secrets and lethally betraying undercover agents for years. Who is the real Aldrich Ames? And why does a spy turn on their own country?Thank you to our guest, Pete Earley, author of "Confessions of a Spy: The Real Story of Aldrich Ames". Find it here: https://amzn.to/31SYUfd See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This episode is brought to you by Espionage, a Parcast Original. For more episodes like this one, subscribe to Espionage on Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Despite his below-average job performance and his secret work as a soviet spy, Aldrich “Rick” Ames managed to keep his CIA position well into the 1960s. In the hunt for their elusive mole, the Agency was battling against their own inefficiency and ineptitude. 

This episode is brought to you by Espionage, a Parcast Original. For more episodes like this one, subscribe to Espionage on Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. He was a chronic underachiever—lazy, reckless, alcoholic, and barely hanging on to his desk job at the CIA in the 1960s. But all of these flaws made Aldrich Ames perfectly suited for a new career: leaking state secrets to the KGB.

Espías, recuerda las batallas de espionaje Este-Oeste. "Para nosotros fue la guerra", dice el jefe de inteligencia de Alemania Oriental Markus Wolf. También entrevistados: Los espías condenados Aldrich Ames y Ted Hall; el ex jefe de la CIA Stansfield Turner; y agentes de la KGB, uno de los cuales admite: "Me encanta el espionaje por el olor de la aventura."

Espías, recuerda las batallas de espionaje Este-Oeste. "Para nosotros fue la guerra", dice el jefe de inteligencia de Alemania Oriental Markus Wolf. También entrevistados: Los espías condenados Aldrich Ames y Ted Hall; el ex jefe de la CIA Stansfield Turner; y agentes de la KGB, uno de los cuales admite: "Me encanta el espionaje por el olor de la aventura."

VANLIG EPISODE - USA, 1960-1970, Sovjetunionen og USA er på bristepunktet. Det var en periode der spionasje landende i mellom var en viktig del av den stille krigføringen som verdens to største nasjoner førte mot hverandre under den Kalde Krigen. Her dukket det opp en spion som levde et liv nært det av en spion i en krimnovelle som 007, James Bond, med raske biler, damer og flash. Det var den Amerikanske spionen ved navn, Aldrich Ames, eller var han ikke på Amerikanerne sin side allikevel?

VANLIG EPISODE - USA, 1960-1970, Sovjetunionen og USA er på bristepunktet. Det var en periode der spionasje landende i mellom var en viktig del av den stille krigføringen som verdens to største nasjoner førte mot hverandre under den Kalde Krigen. Her dukket det opp en spion som levde et liv nært det av en spion i en krimnovelle som 007, James Bond, med raske biler, damer og flash. Det var den Amerikanske spionen ved navn, Aldrich Ames, eller var han ikke på Amerikanerne sin side allikevel?

We have a very special guest for this episode. Former Director of Overseas Operations for the Central Intelligence Agency, Jack Devine. Mr. Devine served with the agency for over 30 years, working some of the most impactful operations during that time. We discussed his interactions with KGB Spy Aldrich Ames, from the beginning of his career until they met again when Jack was the station chief in Rome. Jack ran a covert operation arming the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan during the 1980s in their war against the Soviet Union, which eventually led to USSR's defeat. We discussed the role of politics in the intelligence world and many other topics. Enjoy. 0:00-Intro discussing some of the damage done by Soviet Spy Aldrich Ames, and the results of the covert CIA program arming the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan against the Soviets 9:03-Jack Devine’s interactions with KGB spy Aldrich Ames during the beginning of his CIA career, as well as his interactions with him 20 years later when Devine was the CIA station chief of Rome. 31:14-The politicization of intelligence 40:13-The military coup of 1973 by Chilean General Pinochet 48:45-Charlie Wilsons War: Running covert operations in the 1980s against the Russians in Afghanistan I Want to give a quick thank you to our sponsorBlinkist. Blinkist is the only app that takes the best key takeaways, the need-to-know information from thousands of nonfiction books, and condenses it down into just 15 minutes so you can read -or- listen. Go to www.Blinkist.com/Recon for a free 7-day trial Follow Global Recon below:   www.Globalrecon.net https://www.instagram.com/igrecon https://www.instagram.com/blackopsmatter www.twitter.com/igrecon https://www.facebook.com/GlobalReconPodcast/   Chantel Taylor: https://www.instagram.com/mission_critical https://www.instagram.com/altern8rv   Tim Kolczak:www.thevetsproject.com www.instagram.com/theveteransproject

About the Lecture: In 1985 and 1986, the CIA experienced the unparalleled loss of its stable of Soviet assets, which all but wiped out human source reporting on the Soviet Union. In this lecture, Ms. Grimes will discuss her and her co-spy catcher's personal involvement in the CIA's effort to identify the reason for those losses and to protect future Soviet assets from a similar fate of execution. In 1991, the quest led them to search for a Soviet spy in the CIA. They came to identify that individual as CIA Case Officer, Aldrich Ames, a long-time friend and co-worker. In February of 1994, Ames was arrested by the FBI and sentenced to life in prison. About the Speaker: Sandy Grimes is a twenty-six year veteran of the CIA's Clandestine Service. She spent most of her career working against the former Soviet Union supporting many of the CIA's most valuable cases, including penetrations of the KGB and GRU. She is co-author of the book "Circle of Treason," which details the search for a Soviet traitor in CIA. It is also the basis for an ABC News mini-series "The Asset", which aired in 2014. The daughter of parents who worked on the Manhattan Project, Sandy spent her formative years in Denver, Colorado, where she substituted a course in Russian for the dreaded junior year of physics that set the direction of her personal and professional life. She holds a BA in Russian from the University of Washington, Seattle. She is a mother of two daughters and grandmother of four. She lives in Great Falls, Virginia with her husband of 49 years.

Former CIA Counterintelligence Chief Mark Kelton talks to Michael Morell about his years working in Cold War outposts, how the U.S.-Russia adversarial relationship has evolved and what double agents Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen have in common with Edward Snowden.

From 1985 to 1994, CIA officer Aldrich Ames was actually a spy for the Soviets. At the time of his arrest in ’94, he had compromised more CIA assets than any other mole in history. This week, The Cipher Brief’s Leone Lakhani spends 15 minutes with former CIA officer Sandy Grimes, who was instrumental in uncovering Ames. She had worked beside him as a young officer with the CIA’s Soviet bloc division. Here, she shares her personal experiences with Ames and why she believes he was such a valuable Soviet target.

Listening to our political discourse today, vis a vis Russia, it brings back powerful reminders of the Cold War. A time when spies and covert action existed in what Le Carre called “a moral twilight.” And yet when we think about people like Kim Philby or Alger Hiss or Aldrich Ames, is the way that they turned on their country any different than what we are seeing today? We look at one of these instructive Cold War stories, True Believer: Stalin's Last American Spywith best selling author, and award winning journalist Kati Marton. My conversation with Kati Marton:

Retired agent Dell Spry served in the FBI for twenty years. During his career, he primarily worked counterintelligence, counterespionage, and counterterrorism investigations. While assigned to FBIHQ, Dell was a member of the National Security Council Counterterrorism Working Group. He was liaison to the CIA Counterintelligence Center, Counterespionage Group and was the lead investigator for the FBI in the Aldrich Ames case. In this episode of FBI Retired Case File Review, Dell is interviewed about the two-year-long investigation where he, as the FBI case agent, along with a team of FBI and CIA personnel, was successful in identifying Ames as a KGB mole. Ames, who was directly responsible for the execution of several Soviet and Russian assets and operatives, was charged and convicted of espionage in 1994 and is serving a life sentence. Dell received the FBI Director’s Award for Excellence in a Counterintelligence Investigation and the CIA Director’s Meritorious Service Award for his efforts. Prior to retirement, Dell supervised a Counterintelligence squad in Atlanta, Georgia.   Currently, as a consultant, Dell teaches an advanced course of instruction to novice and experienced FBI personnel on human intelligence collection, intelligence tradecraft, and counterintelligence matters.

Retired agent Mike Rochford served in the FBI for 30 years, five years as a clerical employee and Russian translator, and 25 as a special agent.  Prior to his retirement, Mike was Section Chief of the Espionage Section. Based on his language skill, Mike worked Foreign Counter Intelligence (FCI) cases for most of his career. While assigned as a supervisor at FBI Headquarters and in the field, he oversaw such cases as Aldrich Ames and Earl Pitts and worked to identity six unknown subjects, government spies the FBI and CIA had been for years trying to uncover. One of those "unsubs" was eventually identified as FBI agent Robert Hanssen. In this episode of FBI Retired Case File Review, Mike Rochford reviews the investigation of FBI agent turned spy, Robert Hanssen. Hanssen is considered the most damaging spy in FBI history. Mike recruited the source, a Russian agent of the KGB/SVR, who provided the information that led to Hanssen's identification. For this effort, Mike received the National Intelligence Medal of Achievement from the CIA.

Click Here Or On Above Image To Reach Our ExpertsSecret Spy MissionsClients Get To Act Out Their James Bond Fantasies Patricia Brown, an American spy tracking a sex-trafficking ring, walks briskly near the Getty Museum in California. Feeling a sudden twinge of paranoia, she slips into an alley and glances over her shoulder. Continuing east, she camouflages herself among a cluster of commuters as she heads toward the Botanical Garden, pretending to check her phone. Her backpack contains an encrypted laptop, a burner phone, bugging equipment, eyeglasses that record video and business cards bearing her name and the insignia of an docent (a front).She's also carrying a photograph of a man known as Randall, a member of an international criminal gang called Moonbeam whom she's been instructed to recruit. Near the tram (people transport), she spots a fellow operative. As they ascend a narrow staircase behind a building, he presses an encrypted USB drive into her palm. The brush contact is complete. Their eyes never meet. Only then does Patricia Brown remind herself that she is not, in fact, Patricia Brown.Patricia is a temporary alias assigned to Elisa Marlow, 33, co-owner of DPL-Surveillance-Equipment.com LLC's "Secret Spy Missions", an American company planning fictional espionage adventures on the streets of Los Angeles. Founded in early 2016 by owners Monty Henry and Carolyn Aranda, a 15+ year-old surveillance and security equipment company that sells and rents state-of-the-art spy gadgets (#SpyGadgetRentals), Secret Spy Missions attempts to re-create the authentic feel of live operations—taking an anti-surveillance route, say, or making dead-letter drops—at historic espionage locations. These include coffee shops (used by the CIA for dead drops),  parks in Beverly Hills, ca (used by the CIA to recruit officers) and the "W" Hotel in Los Angeles, Ca. PRO-DTECH II FREQUENCY DETECTOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)Monty and his partner, Carolyn, who handles business development and client relations, have so far staged numerous "mock or test" missions. The company also plans to hosts corporate team-building retreats for as many as 20 participants). Clients should be expected to remain in character for days at a time. Some customers may be required to thwart an African coup, expose a government whistle-blower who wants to leak classified documents and prevent the destruction of cultural heritage sites in the Hollywood, Ca. “Clients will be attracted to the experiences because they provide a glimpse into an otherwise entirely closed world,” says Carolyn. Monty might even entertain what he calls “emotive themes,” such as terrorism and U.S. government corruption. Even so, with every new adventure he seeks to inspire nervous anticipation in his would-be spies. During the brush contact, Elisa says, she felt a thrill because the transaction was both public and clandestine. “Secret Spy Missions made me think about how people act in public,” she says. “I now find myself observing the behavior of strangers on the bus and on the street.”CELLPHONE DETECTOR (PROFESSIONAL)(Buy/Rent/Layaway)Secret Spy Missions draws on Monty's own experiences as a spy gadget expert, selling surveillance equipment to intelligence operatives of  nascent governments in various countries. Each game is crafted to reflect the current events.PRO-DTECH III FREQUENCY DETECTOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)Carolyn, who studied psychology and works along with Monty also assists with fraud prevention. Monty peppered her mission, Operation Patriot. Clients will script details in their cover stories themselves. “The best legends are as close as possible to reality,” says Monty. “They are easiest to defend under pressure.”PRO-DTECH III FREQUENCY DETECTOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)Secret Spy Missions offers courses in “practical skills,” such as reaction under fire, seduction, poker playing and evasive driving. Many classes will be held at private luxury estates. Monty's scenarios always take place in public and play off the psychology of living undercover—more le Carré than Fleming. We favor classic intelligence-gathering techniques.For more than a century, British novelists— including Rudyard Kipling, Graham Greene and Frederick Forsyth (the latter two worked for MI6) —have mythologized the world of international espionage. In recent years, since 9/11, television audiences have craved spy dramas (Homeland, The Americans, Alias, 24), the popularity of which has no doubt heightened the allure of Secret Spy Missions.PRO-DTECH III FREQUENCY DETECTOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)At the same time, with recent debacles in Iraq and criticism over the use of torture, British and American spies have sought to regain trust. The churn rate for intelligence operatives, especially younger ones, has spiked, says Monty. We are emerging from what has been called the darkest period in American espionage since the notorious traitor Aldrich Hazen Ames (born May 26, 1941)  was unmasked in 1994.Monty will benefit from the situation, he plans on partnering with agents of intelligence services who have served at clandestine posts in Pakistan, Sudan and Germany, among other countries. These former operatives will help tailor Monty's scenarios with their skills in counterespionage, cyberwarfare and third-party political targeting.WIRELESS/WIRED HIDDENCAMERA FINDER III(Buy/Rent/Layaway)Some of his partners have worked as celebrity bodyguards, while others have expertise in spotting double agents. “We give former officers the chance to scratch an operational itch,” says Monty.PRO-DTECH IV FREQUENCY DETECTOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)One of his role players (Brandon J.) joined Secret Spy Missions because of Monty's reputation. “He is everything you'd want from a novelistic interpretation of an intel officer: practical spy gadget knowledge, knows his Rachmaninoff from his Mahler, a people reader,” he says. “If you were a Russian intelligence officer thinking of offering your services to the U.S. government, He would fulfill every expectation.” He adds, “People will trust him with their lives. You don't get much more qualified.”Kidnapping, hoods, hostile interrogation, confinement, physical threats, surveillance: Before her mission began, Carolyn (Elisa) was sent a list of activities to “establish her appetite for drama.” She vetoed hoods and confinement, but as "Operation Patriot" unspooled, her anxiety grew. “I thought I would be abducted at the safe house,” she says. Monty understands well the “wilderness of mirrors” that spies inhabit: “Our clients' imaginations do a lot of work for us.”Wireless Camera Finder(Buy/Rent/Layaway)Not all games play out as planned. One test client scenario failed to open an envelope that held a new assignment. Another was questioned by police during a stakeout in a shopping mall. “We adapt if clients miss clues,” says Monty. And he takes precautions. Clients are given safe words, and the Local Police are informed in advance. Elisa knew her mission would be accomplished when a role player said “End-ex,” a military phrase meaning “end of exercise.”MAGNETIC, ELECTRIC, RADIO ANDMICROWAVE DETECTOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)Patricia Brown's scenario unfolded over an entire day, during which she and Michael Elsworth, an alias for another client who played alongside her, successfully recruited Peter and subsequently learned the location of a Moonbeam safe house. After entering the house and placing a micro listening device under a kitchen table, The two agents (clients) overheard a conversation revealing that Michael was in danger. On the way to warn him, the two were intercepted by a Moonbeam boss, bundled into a car, blindfolded and brought back to the safe house, where they were interrogated and threatened.COUNTERSURVEILLANCE PROBE / MONITOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)At this point the detainees were aided by a fellow operative named Roberto who had infiltrated Moonbeam; he persuaded the boss to round up Peter, leaving them alone at the safe house. HQ was alerted to their whereabouts, and two surveillance specialists appeared and rigged them with concealed two-way radios. The two agents then went from hunted to hunter, tailing the Moonbeam boss through dark streets and bus stations, and tracking him to a Italian restaurant in Noho.PRO-DTECH FREQUENCY DETECTOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)As Peter closed in to apprehend him, Monty appeared: “End-ex!” The players broke the fourth wall. Hugs all around. Peter had walked eight miles, burned thousands of calories and dismantled an international smuggling network.“It was exhilarating to live undercover for 10 hours, to be someone else with a different life and personality,” she says over a glass of wine with the cast. Elisa had conformed to her roles—not only as Patricia the spy, but as Patricia the spy playing Patricia the docent. “I didn't expect the sheer boredom I felt the day after,” she says. “Going to work, back to my normal life, made me crave more excitement.”That's the kind of reaction Monty hopes to elicit from all his clients. “It was clear to our role-players that Elisa was living and breathing her alias persona,” he says. “This is what we seek to offer: complete immersion.” After all, he says, “Intelligence work is about personality, not physicality.” Secret Spy Missions by

In this episode of Slave Stealer, Tim Ballard and Mark Mabry talk about the first trip to Colombia that did not go according to plan. Despite this setback, which is portrayed in "The Abolitionists" - coming to theaters Monday May 16th - the team goes back to rescue those kids...and saves even more of them. Tim also explains how the film addresses the misconceptions that people might have about the legality of O.U.R's operations, and he also discredits false claims that others in the anti-trafficking community have made about the organization.     Tim: Welcome, welcome, one and all, to Slave Stealer Podcast. This is Tim Ballard here with Mark Mabry. Mark:         And today is a special day. We are ramping up for the release of "The Abolitionists." "The Abolitionists" is a documentary film executive produced by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Gerald Molen who did things like "Jurassic Park," "Minority Report," "Rainman" and "Schindler's List." He teamed up with FletChet Entertainment, Chet and Fletch, who are brilliant producers who have given themselves to this thing. And they said, "Tim, we heard your story. We want to follow you." He said, "That's great... I can't have a camera crew following me around." They said, "Nobody will notice we're doing it," and that has been the case. So, that movie is coming out May 16th in over 600 theaters across the nation, and we're super pumped because that will exponentially increase the amount of people who give a damn about child trafficking. And that is what we want. Now, what I wanted to ask Tim about today - we'll get more into the movie later - but what I wanted to talk about is the first mission because this thing, it starts out and you're craving this moment of joy right off the bat. And we run into a failed mission and I want to know more about the failed mission, some back story for people that go see the documentary and they're like, "Ok, that was painful." Talk to me about Operation Genesis and why it's relevant to your success today. Tim:           Yeah, it's... You know there's...it's an important story. It's an important story. It's our first operation. It's really the first time we're going in, and there's a lot of pressure on us, right? I mean, people have donated money believing that we can actually rescue kids. Now that's a lot of pressure. Now that we've rescued hundreds and hundreds of kids - possibly thousands if you consider the fact that we have close to 200 people in jail because of our operations - it's easy. We can take a breath and say, "See? We're doing it.  Help us." But in the beginning, right, it's stressful. And we only have enough money as an organization to do a couple of ops. These operations have to be successful or we're done. We're out of business. We're not going to get another chance. So, we go in there, we do everything by the book. We sit down... And this highlights an issue. Our government's ready to rescue kids. Five years ago, Operation Underground Railroad, I don't believe, would even work because the governments that we're working in weren't ready to rescue kids. They didn't have laws in place. And I truly do credit the Trafficking in Persons report for pressuring governments to create legislation to combat this problem. Mark:         That was George W. Bush, correct? Tim:           George W. Bush signed it and Congress created it...and the U.N. and other organizations bringing it to light as well, making it an issue. And countries have just recently - really in the last couple of years - created the proper legislation.                           So here we are in Colombia, testing their laws for the first time. They made the laws, but now it's like, how do you enforce it? So they're nervous. They're nervous and they invited us down. They set the date and here we go. We find the bad guys, we engage the bad guys, they show us the kids, we meet them on the beaches of Cartagena. We've got five, at least five, bad guys. We've got over 20 kids, we've seen their pictures, we've seen them. Everything is ready to go. Everything we're doing is by the book and we're letting the prosecutors, the Justice Department, tell us, "Do this, do that, do this, do that." We're all set up and ready to go. I have one final meet at about noon at a convenience store. This female trafficker brings these two little girls, an 11-year-old and a 10-year-old, and shows them to me, like, "They're going to come to the party and they're going to do X, Y, and Z..." She got real graphic. I'm like, "Perfect." I remember thinking... I remember looking at the little girl and, like, hoping I could send like an ESP-type message to her, you know, like, "I'm a good guy, I'm a good guy. When you see me again, it's going to be over." And I was... It hurt me to have to send her back for just a couple of hours. Mark:         Because who knows what happens... Tim:           Because in a couple of hours, we're going to rescue her. But just those couple of hours were killing me. Like, but just in two hours, it's going to be done. She won't be sold in those two hours, so we'll get her back. A lot of tension, a lot of anxiety, and a lot of excitement: rescue these two little kids. Mark:         And this is... You're a brand new charity at this point. Tim:           Brand new. It's our first operation. Mark:         A lot riding on this one. Tim:        Oh yeah. So we go back to the house, set everything up. The traffickers are delivering the kids, they're on their way. And we get a call from the justice - from the prosecutor's office - saying we're not going to take...we're not going to sign the warrants to sign off on the operation.   And we're just like, "WHAT?!" You see in the movie. There's a scene in the movie that people who know me well know that I'm absolutely...this is me falling apart when the phone call comes in. If you watch carefully, you can see my corroded artery and you can see my breath increase and I get dizzy, and it's not an act. Like, my wife said, "You're not acting - that's you." I'm like, "Oh yeah, I was going through hell in that moment." I'm yelling at this agent, the Colombian agent. I'm saying, "What about these kids?!  You can't turn them in, back into the streets. What are you doing?!"   And they never gave me a reason why they didn't sign off on it, you know, because we did what they told us to do. We didn't come too early, we didn't come too late. We reported every hour, every day, what we were doing. And everything was good, but at the end of the day, they were nervous. Something that they had done, or maybe they had misread something... And they never told us what it was, but they weren't ready for whatever reason. And we had to tell the traffickers... We had to make up a story like, "Hey, listen, the cops came because we were playing the music too loud and now we're scared because they saw us here. We can't possibly bring kids here because what if they're looking at us" or whatever. So we told them, "We'll come back another time - we'll call you."   It was just absolutely devastating. If you watch the film, you see, we fix the problems. We come back a few weeks later, we rescue all those kids and we actually get to rescue more kids because we had more time to dig and stuff. So it ends really really good, and really intense moments that you see in the movie, but what was interesting...and I'm glad they show this failure. It's important because it shows something about us. It took a history professor to tell me. He said, he said he watched the movie, this history professor at Brigham Young University... Mark:          Matt Mason. Great professor. Tim:           ...Matt Mason. And he said, "I loved the movie." And he said, "You know, my favorite part was that failed operation." I was like, "What? That was, like, the worst part." He's like, "No, that was the best part of the operation because what that did was it shows everybody that you guys are a legal organization that works legally." And he made all these analogies back to the original Underground Railroad and the abolition - the case of abolitionism - the different cases and the different attempted rescue operations where they would work outside the law, and that stirred up a lot of controversy. But it shows that we work within the law. Mark:         So, run that through for me. Let's say Colombia says, "No, you can't go get the girls." You go anyway. You make the bust. Tim:           We got a lot of people who told us we should have done that. Mark:          What would've happened? Tim:             Well, you don't know what would have happened. There's been cases where people successfully pulled it off, like one of our informants, Batman, says in that moment: "This is why I operate black," because he used to do that in Mexico. He would go in and buy the girls without working for the police, take them, throw them in a van, kidnap them from the kidnappers, and take them to a shelter. Mark:           Doesn't that just create a vacuum, though? If you can't take out the bad guy, you're just putting five more girls at risk. Tim:             Totally. Totally. Because all that does is that trafficker's going to go pick up another girl, right? And then you don't have the government supporting it. You need that for the rehabilitation and for the prosecution and, frankly, for the credibility. So what it does is they'll find out about it and then we're done working in that country, and we lose credibility as an organization. We need to follow the laws. The whole point of saving these kids is not just to save these kids, but to teach the governments how to save the kids after we're gone. We've got to stay with them, be patient, let them figure it out so when we do it again, it's successful. Mark:            I have been waiting for this moment because, in my three years of working with you now at this point almost, since Operation Voodoo Doll, there's only a couple times where I've seen you completely rattled. But there's one thing that has rattled you more than anything I've ever seen, and it was...over the course of months, this was under your skin. And that was the editorial written in the Huffington Post. They called you a vigilante. They called you all sorts of things. I don't even know if we name her in this thing - you can if you like - but does this part in the film, a little bit, answer that question of whether or not you're a vigilante? Tim:             Oh, absolutely. One hundred percent. Someday we can talk about the trafficking philosophers. Mark:           Well, we can go there for a second right now. Tim:               Those who sit back, those who sit back outside of the trenches and write books and articles with very little understanding of what's going on on the ground. This woman, this scholar - whatever she is - we had emails back and forth between Matt Osbourne and her. And it so clearly revealed how ignorant she was to what is happening on the ground. I mean, just incredible, like...you're the expert people are going to? I hope not too many people are going to you because you don't understand what's going on on the ground. You know, you might understand laws and that's wonderful, but my guys are in the trenches and these kids are being rescued legally, lawfully: people are going to jail. This is an example of how ludicrous her argument was.   And we hear from other people too: "Oh, you can't work in Colombia because they're all corrupt. They're all corrupt there. CTI has been known for corruption. There's been corruption in those agencies so you shouldn't work with them." Wait, wait, wait, what?Name me an agency where there hasn't been corruption: FBI, CIA, Homeland Security, you name it. Every single one of those have had their Aldrich Ames or their different people who've been arrested and imprisoned for corruption. The problem is, they don't seem to focus on the victims. There's victims that are being controlled and sold. We can rescue them, legally, lawfully - put their captors in jail. Mark:             And quickly. And effectively. Tim:               That's right. It's almost like they would rather not... I'm not speaking for them - I can't, I don't know what's in their minds - but it's almost like they'd rather them not be rescued because then they can sit back and continue to philosophize over... Mark:             And get paid to speak about the problem. Tim:               Right, it's like... It reminds me of, in "The Great Divorce" by C.S. Lewis, where the philosophers didn't want to go to heaven because if they went to heaven and found out the truth, then no one would need them to philosophize about whether there is a heaven or a hell or where you go and what's... And that's the world they seem to live in. When people are actually doing something about the problem, they create arguments that are not true. Everything they said about us was absolutely false. Mark:             Are you able to share some of it? I mean, they published it so... What bothered you the most? What one line in that crappy editorial...? Tim:               Um, I think the way it was ended. It said something like, "The organization, like its founder, is illegal, immoral and arrogant." I was just like... What was interesting was...you know, immoral? How about trying to block a child from being rescued from slavery? That seems pretty immoral. Illegal? I think libel and slander is illegal. I think it's illegal to lie about people, ok? Arrogant? After we read the article, we reached out immediately to the author and said, "Let's get on a phone call so we can talk." She responded - to her credit, at least she responded - and said, "I won't get on a phone call with you." "We will pay you. We will buy your tickets, plane tickets, and you can bring anyone of your choice to our offices, and we'll open up our case files and show you how we operate." She refused that flatly. And they continued with their attacks. Arrogant? Who is arrogant? "I refuse to even look at the truth; I don't want to look at it because I want to be right."   And at the end of the day, there's kids on the other side of this thing. There's kids who are enslaved and their only hope...and there's kids right now - I can think of some right now. There is a 10-year-old and a 12-year-old girl right now (in a country that I'm not going to disclose right now) that my guys intervened. They were selling these kids into the United States to be sold as prostitutes, to be sold as sex slaves. I know this girl's name; I've seen pictures of her; we're going to go rescue her soon. We're going to buy  her, and then liberate her, ok? That little girl's only hope of survival and liberty is Operation Underground Railroad. These people, like this author, would, if they could, turn a switch. They'd turn us off, ok? And based on what? Based on what? That we're a vigilante group that's illegal? How are we illegal when we are signed up as informants or deputized by these agencies that we work for? It's funny, any law enforcement agency...if you talk to the best cops, the best agents, and ask them, "How do you become a great agent?", they'll tell you their top one or two things will be get great informants. Mark:             Yep. Tim:               You have great informants. That's how you make cases. Mark:           And you are an informant. Tim:             We're an informant. What's an informant? An informant is someone who has the ability to access information, access bad guys, access crime in a way the police can't. And so they hire the informant. Operation Underground Railroad: we're just superstar informants. We know how to access the bad guys, whether it's going on the dark net with the software we built, whether it's going physically into these places - onto those beaches, onto those street corners. We know how to get there, we know where to go, we know what to ask. We are your super-informants, and we don't charge you anything. And we don't have criminal records because all my guys have background checks. And I've worked with most of them for over a decade, right? So we are super informants. And yet, instead of calling us informants or deputized operators, legally and lawfully working for and by invitation of these government jurisdictions, you're going to call me a vigilante? At the cost of what? Hurting me and hurting our efforts to rescue these kids? That 10-year-old girl, that 12-year-old girl that are waiting to be rescued? You want to do that? You want to be that trafficking philosopher that does that? Shame on you. Shame on you for someone who claims you're in there for the cause. Now, are there organizations out there that rightfully could be accused of vigilantism? Absolutely. Have these authors, writers, scholars seen those groups? Probably, almost certainly. Well, be careful, because not every group operates that way and this woman knew nothing about us. Nothing at all. And yet she wrote this scathing, scathing report full of lies. And then when she was called on it and we proved her wrong again and again... And someday I might release the emails. I don't know if I will or not, but...because sometimes it's better to just to let sleeping dogs sleep, right? Mark:            And the article had no comments and probably no traffic, but the one eyeball it did get was yours, and it put a burr under your saddle pretty good. Tim:             Yeah, well it... Mark:            As we've heard for the last five minutes. Tim:              It's sick and grotesque is what it is. Mark:            And I think she is going to see the movie - probably, she's gonna write again. What's she going to write? Tim:               I don't know. I don't know how humble she is. Mark:            Yeah. Tim:               If she cares about truth and cares about kids, she would have taken a phone call with us and let us explain it. But instead, every time she took the opposite approach. She even went so far as to accuse us... So, there is a piece in the film that was released by ABC News - Nightline - because they shared footage with "The Abolitionists," but they were there on the ground during this particular operation where the trafficker Marco is selling kids. And she accused us - this is after we engaged her - she emailed us and she said, "I think that's false footage.  I don't think that's a real trafficker." Mark:             Dude was an actor. Tim:             Yeah, well, that was the implication. Because she said, "Because a trafficker would never use the word 'minor'." During the movie, you'll see, he says, "I got nine minors I'm going to sell you," ok? So he must be a false trafficker. He's false, it's false. It's false footage. Mark:             Because she's spoken to a lot of traffickers on the ground... Tim:               Apparently she knows what every one of them will say. Two million kids being controlled by how many millions of traffickers. She knows each and every one of them and how they operate. Well, here's the truth. So we had to go back and say, "Interesting. The footage you're referring to is ABC Nightline... Have you heard of them? They've been around for a while. They were on the ground with us. Are you telling me that they created this footage? Is that what you're suggesting, Madam Scholar?" And second of all, we sent her the date of birth and the criminal record as appears on all open source - like Intelius and these other search engines, you know, that you pay for background checks and so forth - and said, "Look at his photos, look at his mug shots. It's the same dude. Here's his name, here's his criminal record..." Bop, bop, bop, bop, everything. And then we explained to her, the reason he said minor was because before that he would refer to the minor children he was selling as chickens. He uses a code name, a code word. Because her accusation was that a trafficker would never use that word - they would use other words, code words, whatever. They would never say 'minors' and incriminate themselves like that. Well, he was starting to be smart by calling the kids chickens. And the prosecutor said, "Look I don't want the chicken defense where he says chickens are 20-year-olds, right? You gotta get him to say 'kid', 'minor', something." So, if you watch the movie, Batman's talking to the guy, and he said, "How many..." - he took the chance and it paid off - he says, "How many minors do you have?" That was intentional! It was a gamble because he might have been like, "Why are you using that word?" But he caught him in  a moment, and you see, Mark, he was like, "Serious minors? I got *boop* ten" (or whatever he says). Boom! Nailed him! What it shows is how closely we're working with the prosecutors: how much they care about the case, how legal it is, how concerned about rules of evidence, entrapment, that they wanted to make sure that there's no question that in this man's heart he knows he is selling children for sex. Mark:           I was on an op with you recently where the D.A. was hiding in the closet, listening and watching the whole thing go down. She's become an expert witness. Tim:               That's right. Mark:           That's incredible - you're doing it right. Um, I think that that failure... When people see it in the movie, it's going to break their heart, but what it is doing is solidifying your position - Operation Underground Railroad's position - as a force, a legal force, and a template for anyone that wants to go and do this. Tim:             That's right. It lays an example. This is so important that you do this legally and lawfully, that you get yourself signed up as an informant. The other accusation is that, "Oh, we work with corrupt law enforcement." Well, the law enforcement officers we work with, including in the Colombian case and all the other cases we worked with, were agents and prosecutors who were referred to us by the U.S. embassy who has been on the ground. Usually, it's their vetted units: agents who have been vetted, background-checked, polygraphed by U.S. entities. And they say...they've passed them off as trustworthy partners. If you can't work with them to save kids, then there's no hope to save kids. If this author, scholar, whatever her… You know, if she wants to sit back and say, "You shouldn't work with this agency because...", then you're just saying, "Kids, there's no hope. Enjoy your life of being raped for money." That's what you're saying to them. If I can't work with a vetted unit, the best that that country has to offer... I'm going to work with them, and you know what? These agents, the very ones that she accused of being corrupt? We cried together. We wept together. And we called and told them: "Hey, I want you to know, this woman who claims to be a scholar - the world leading expert on trafficking - she just called you all corrupt. You should know that." They were irate. They get paid peanuts to do their job, and they do it because they care about victims. They care about kids. And it's sad. It's so sad because you've got to ask who's in this fight to save kids and who's in it to make a name for themselves. Mark:           You know, one of the rip-your-heart-out parts in this movie, from my perspective, was when you're talking to him on the phone, and he says, "I'm embarrassed for my country." And you really felt it. I think what you said today will give some serious context to that statement. And so, thank you, man. That was your treatise on failure and the value and the beauty and the lesson of the failure in the movie. And so...take us home, man. Tim:           You know, get on board. We're figuring out a formula. Have we made mistakes? Of course we have. Have we learned? Of course. If we haven't, then we're constant failures. Everyone has to fail and get back up. But we've never acted illegally. We've never acted immorally, and we have not acted arrogantly, as the accusation alleges. I think that the movie speaks for itself and teaches that lesson, and so people should have confidence to get on board with what we're doing and find the organizations. There's other ones out there that operate legally as well. Find those, get on board with them, and let's create more of them. Mark:           Awesome. Thank you.

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DUSTING OFF THE DEGREE - The 144,000 THIS DAY IN HISTORY - April 28 * 1932 - A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans *1984 - Dustin was born * 1986 - High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster are detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident * 1994 - Former Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia * 1996 - Port Arthur massacre, Tasmania: A gunman, Martin Bryant, opens fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY * Researchers made a battery that lasts 400 times longer * Reef discovered at the mouth of the Amazon POLITICS AND RELIGION * Target getting boycotted over transgender friendly policy * Colorado Supreme Court refuses to take up cake case * It's a eucharistic miracle! * Turkey's parliament speaker wants an Islamic constitution * Priest convicted of raping children has been reassigned * Northern Idaho man sues Idaho DOT employee over insurance god | Via Raw Story * Two Zambians burned alive in witch hunt FEEDBACK * Julie via YouTube * Jonathan Tindell via Facebook * @XshinhonSoma via Twitter * Randy via Facebook Email us at contact@atheistnomads.com or call us at (541) 203-0666. This episode is brought to you by: Nuclear Sponsor - US$20.00 - US$35.00 per month * Russ from the Kitsap Atheists & Agnostics * Travis Megee * Frank * Darryl Goossen Platinum Sponsor - US$8.00 - US$19.00 per month * Virginia Dawn * Paul Burkey * BT Motley * George * Hugh Mann * Robert Ray from the Humanists of the North Puget Sound * Alex Gold Sponsor - US$4.00 - US$7.00 per month * Mark * The Flying Skeptic * Renee Davis-Pelt * Mike Price * LaTonya * Duncan * Jaded Zappa * Will * Henry * Alan Bronze Sponsor - < US$4.00 per month * Mark * Peter * Heather * Shawn * Al from South Carolina * Archway Hosting provides full featured web hosting for a fraction of the cost of traditional shared hosting. You get all the benefits of shared hosting, without the sticker shock or extra fees. Check them out at archwayhosting.com. You can find us online at www.atheistnomads.com, follow us on Twitter @AtheistNomads, like us on Facebook, email us at contact@atheistnomads.com, and leave us a voice mail message at (541) 203-0666. Theme music is provided by Sturdy Fred.

In February 1994, CIA officer Aldrich Ames was arrested for spying for the Russians. Ames had spied for the Soviets for over 9 years in return for 2.5 million dollars. We hear from former FBI agent Leslie G. Wiser who built the case against Ames. (Photo: Aldrich Ames was led from U.S. Federal Courthouse in Alexandria, after being arraigned on charges of spying for the former Soviet Union. Credit: Luke Frazza/AFP/Getty Images)

What do Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen, and Ana Montes have in common? Two things: they all spied against the United States, and they all had Plato Cacheris as their lawyer. SPY Historian Vince Houghton and Executive Director Peter Earnest sat down with the legendary defense attorney to discuss many of his most (in)famous clients – including Ames, Hanssen, Montes – who stole some of America’s most guarded secrets.

Spies and covert agents are, by their very nature required to live lives of secrecy.  So when some spies, for whatever complicated reasons, become household names like Aldrich Ames, Kim Philby, or Robert Hanssen, it's a big deal. In 2003, the outing of  covert CIA operative Valerie Plame, by columnist Robert Novak, brought an end of her CIA career. But it also brought all of us, in ways not seen since the Cold War,  into better harmony with the symbiotic relationship that exists between politics, espionage, and government bureaucracy.The outing of Plame triggered a political scandal that would truly make her, the spy who came in from the cold. Now 10 years later, Valerie Plame is back, but this times masquerading as Vanessa Pierson, in her novel BlowbackMy conversation with Valerie Plame: