Podcasts about spymasters

Tim Willasey-Wilsey comes on Spymasters to talk about the life and espionage career of Baron Bill de Ropp, a spy who infiltrated the Nazi Party during the rise of Adolf Hitler. The discussion covers his early life, his motivations for espionage, his complex relationships with key figures in the Nazi regime, and the challenges he faced as a spy. The conversation also delves into the historical context of the Baltic Germans, the dynamics of British intelligence during the interwar period, and the implications of de Ropp's reports on the perception of Nazi Germany within the British government. Bill de Ropp was a key figure in MI6's early espionage efforts. His linguistic skills allowed him to blend into various societies. de Ropp's loyalty shifted from Germany to Britain during WWI. He played a significant role in monitoring the Nazi Party's rise. His relationship with Alfred Rosenberg was pivotal for intelligence gathering. His first meeting with Hitler was fraught with tension. Buy the book: https://amzn.eu/d/ixv4x6i Keywords: Baron Bill de Ropp, MI6, Nazi Party, espionage, intelligence, history, World War II, Lithuania, Hitler, British intelligence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From September 16, 2020: What is the proper relationship between the CIA director and the president? How should directors handle arguably illegal orders? How important is the director's role as the nation's honest broker of information during times of crisis?To get at these questions, David Priess sat down with Chris Whipple, a documentary filmmaker, journalist and the author of two books about the people around the president. "The Gatekeepers," based upon his documentary of the same name, examines White House chiefs of staff, and his new book, "The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future," is based on the Showtime documentary "The Spymasters: CIA in the Crosshairs," for which Whipple was the writer and executive producer. They talked about CIA directors through the last several decades and how they've impacted U.S. history and national security.To receive ad-free podcasts, become a Lawfare Material Supporter at www.patreon.com/lawfare. You can also support Lawfare by making a one-time donation at https://givebutter.com/lawfare-institute.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of the SpyMasters podcast, host Antonia Senior interviews thriller writer Mark Ellis, who discusses his journey into writing, the historical context of his novels set in wartime London, and the intricate plots involving crime and espionage. Ellis shares insights into his research methods, the importance of historical accuracy, and the character development of Frank Merlin, his protagonist. The conversation also touches on the portrayal of progressive views in a historical setting and concludes with Ellis recommending his favourite spy novels. keywords Mark Ellis, thriller writer, espionage, crime fiction, historical accuracy, wartime London, Frank Merlin, spy books, murder mystery, gangsters takeaways Mark Ellis transitioned to writing later in life. His novels are set in historically accurate wartime London. Ellis emphasizes the importance of storytelling over excessive detail. Crime rates surged during World War II in London. The character Frank Merlin reflects progressive views on race and sexuality. Ellis's research includes diaries and historical accounts. Espionage themes allow exploration of political issues in his books. Ellis enjoys reading and recommends various spy novels. He believes in creating complex plots with multiple subplots. The conversation highlights the rich backdrop of wartime London for crime fiction. But the book: https://amzn.eu/d/53eVGn7 Follow Mark Ellis: https://markellisauthor.com/; @markellis15 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of the Spymasters podcast, Antonia Senior interviews bestselling novelist Joseph Finder about his latest thriller, 'The Oligarch's Daughter.' The conversation delves into the book's premise, character dynamics, and the intricate themes of wealth, trust, and the blurred lines between capitalism and intelligence in Russia. Finder shares insights into his writing process, the challenges of creating relatable characters in extraordinary situations, and the cultural nuances that inform his storytelling. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of the Spymasters podcast, Antonia Senior interviews Anna Sharpe. about her new book, 'Notes on a Drowning.' Sharpe is a pseudonym for the award winning novelist Anna Mazzola. The conversation explores the book's themes of political intrigue, legal drama, and the murky world of espionage. Mazzola discusses her transition from historical fiction to contemporary writing, the influences behind her work, and the social commentary woven throughout her narrative. The discussion also touches on the challenges faced in the criminal justice system and the allure of espionage in literature, particularly in the context of modern spy craft. Buy the book here: https://amzn.eu/d/0kzWqeH Read more about Anna's legal work at the Centre for Women's Justice: https://www.centreforwomensjustice.org.uk/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's episode is a chat with the acclaimed and bestselling author, William Boyd. He has written countless books including a Solo a Bond novel, screenplays, operas and he even took part in a brilliant art hoax with David Bowie. Last month I had the chance to talk with him about his new book, Gabriel's Moon, the first in a trilogy of espionage novels set in the 1960s featuring the hero Gabriel Dax. We cover that period, spy writing and plenty of other subjects. I should mention that this episode first appeared on our sister podcast SpyMasters and you should definitely check it out where my colleague Antonia Senior interviews spy authors, historians and maybe even a few spooks themselves. William Boyd Links Gabriel's Moon William Boyd & David Bowie Art Hoax Aspects of History Links Latest Issue out - Annual Subscription to Aspects of History Magazine only $9.99/£9.99 Ollie on X Aspects of History on Instagram Get in touch: history@aspectsofhistory.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Oliver Webb-Carter as he talks to William Boyd, the best-selling novelist, about his new book Gabriel's Moon. Gabriel Dax is a young man in sixties London who becomes drawn into the murky world of espionage. William and Oliver talk about why literary writers are drawn to writing spy novels. They talk about James Bond, and Graham Greene and the art of writing. Buy the book here. Follow William Boyd here. Thank you for listening to Spymasters. Don't forget to give us a follow and tell your friends, so we can keep bringing you the best authors in the business talking about spies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The inaugural Books of the Year from the Spymasters Podcast. Join your host Antonia Senior as she talks to three special guests about their books of the year. Oliver Webb-Carter is the Editor of Aspects of History, and the host of our sister podcast, the Aspects of History podcast. https://aspectsofhistory.com/ Paul Burke is the host of the brilliant Crimetimefm podcast, and is writing an encyclopedia of spy fiction, due out in 2025. https://www.crimetime.co.uk/crimetime-fm-the-crime-fiction-interview-podcast/ Thomas Waugh is a writer of contemporary spy thrillers, including the Daniel Ambler series https://www.a's mazon.co.uk/stores/Thomas-Waugh/author/B001HPRLFY?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true The books we discuss on this chat include Ben Macintyre's The Siege Henry Hemming's Four Shots in the Night IS Berry's The Peacock and the Sparrow David McCloskey's Moscow X Tim Tate's To Catch a Spy Nigel West's Classified Henry Porter's The Enigma Girl Merle Negate's Honour Among Spies Mick Heron's The Secret Hours William Boyd's Gabriel's Moon Jane Thynne's Midnight in Vienna Alex Gerlis: Every Spy a Traitor The conversation covers a range of themes, including character-driven narratives, historical contexts, and the evolution of intelligence writing. Each guest presents their selections, providing insights into the authors' styles and the significance of their works in the genre. In this engaging conversation, the panel delvesinto the intricate world of espionage, exploring the ideological divides between American and Communist perspectives, the moral dilemmas faced by spies, and the complexities of British intelligence secrecy. The discussion also highlights the evolution of spy fiction, particularly in relation to real historical events, and examines modern trends in the genre, culminating in a review of notable spy books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of the Spymasters podcast, Antonia Senior talks to Alec Marsh, author of the Drabble and Harris series of historical thrillers. The talk ranges from Istanbul, to the peculiar atmosphere of the 1930s, espionage and beyond. Buy the book here: https://amzn.eu/d/eoCm7PZ Follow Alec Marsh: https://www.alecmarsh.co.uk/ on X: @alecmarsh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The SpyMasters podcasts interviews all the best writers about spying: fact and fiction, historical and contemporary. In this episode, Antonia Senior talks to the brilliant journalist, writer and documentary maker Tim Tate about the Spycatcher Affair. We talk about the culture of secrecy at MI5, about Thatcher's involvement, about Peter Wright, the molecatcher turned whistleblower. Buy the book here. Follow Tim here Find Spymasters on X @spymasterspod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ANTONIA SENIOR, writer, critic, journalist and podcaster chats to Paul about Spymasters - the book and the podcast, the Cambridge Five, historical fiction and Spymasters podcast Writer and journalist Antonia Senior interviews all the best writers on espionage. Each episode will bring you fascinating stories on spies, covert action and more – delving in to fact and fiction, past and present. Antonia can be found on X @Tonisenior. Do please follow us on X @SpyMastersPod and spread the word. We will be grateful for any and all support. Should you be an author, with a relevant new or backlist title, interested in appearing on the podcast do get in touch at spymasters@aspectsofhistory.comSpymasters Aspects of History - the book.Mentions (no particular order): SJ Parris, George Blake, Elizabeth Buchan, Calder Walton, the Cambridge Five, Edith Cavell, Mick Herron, David McCloskey, Merle Nygate, Patrick O'Brian, Hilary Mantel, Mary Renault. Recommendations: Precipice Robert Harris, The CIA Hugh WilfordPaul Burke writes for Monocle Magazine, Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network, Punk Noir Magazine (fiction contribution). He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2024. His first book An Encyclopedia of  Spy Fiction will be out in 2025.Music courtesy of  Guy Hale KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO featuring Kid Anderson. GUY HALEProduced by Junkyard DogCrime TimeCrime Time FM is the official podcast ofGwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023CrimeFest 2023CWA Daggers 2023& Newcastle Noir 20232024 Slaughterfest, National Crime Reading Month, CWA Daggers

Spymasters meets Merle Nygate, the author of Honour Among Spies. The second in Merle's books about Eli Amiram, Mossad's top spy runner, it was a Times thriller of the month. Eli is now chief of Mossad's London operation. He needs an audacious coup to cement his position. Merle and your host, Antonia Senior talk fiction, Mossad and the challenges to writing. Buy the book: https://amzn.eu/d/iZGaR5b Follow Merle: @MerleNygate https://merlenygate.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hugh Wilford joins SpyMasters to talk about his brilliant new book: The CIA, An Imperial History. Hugh is Professor of United States History at California State University, and a leading expert on the history of the CIA. His new book is a groundbreaking study of the history of the world's most famous intelligence agency. The book places the history of the CIA into a global context, in which the Cold War is a clash of empires. We talk about the founders of the CIA, the rise of covert action, and the Agency's unique role in American history. Buy the book: https://amzn.eu/d/0hpxkVpP Let us know what you think on X: @spymasterspod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oliver Webb-Carter, the editor of Aspects of History, picks his top 5 books and his top 3 films about espionage. Some left-field options here from Oliver! Let us know what you think on X @spymasters We talk about the new SpyMasters anthology of top spy writing. And Ollie's picks: RISE and Kill First, Ronan Bergman. Buy. Operation Chiffon, Peter Taylor. Buy The Sympathiser, Viet Thanh Nguyen Buy Goldfinger, Ian Fleming. Buy One Day in September, Simon Reeve. Buy Films: Zero Days Living Daylights The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Antonia Senior joins to discuss her new podcast SpyMasters, from Aspects of History. She and Ollie chat the Cambridge Spies, David Petraeus and the latest spy fiction as she talks about what we can expect. Links SpyMasters David McCloskey David Petraeus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The podcast on espionage that brings you in from the cold. Episode One released Feb 1st with ex CIA office and bestselling novelist David McCloskey, author of Damascus Station and Moscow X. SpyMasters is a new podcast from the team at Aspects of History. Every fortnight we will cover a story from the shadow lands of espionage. Fact and fiction, historical and contemporary, we will be talking to the best writers, established and emerging talents alike, about their books and worlds of spies and intelligence. Early episodes include Francis Walsingham's spying monk with S.J. Parris, the spy networks which uncovered the holocaust with Roger Moorhouse, and the incredible story of Edith Cavell, uncovered in the archives by acclaimed historian, Helen Fry. The new podcast is hosted by journalist, writer and Aspects of History board member, Antonia Senior. Antonia studied intelligence history under Christopher Andrew at Cambridge University, and hoped to get the tap on the shoulder. It never came. Instead, Antonia became an award-winning journalist and author of several novels. She is currently writing a book on the Cambridge Five spy ring, due for publication in 2025. Antonia can be found on X @Tonisenior We have no intention of keeping SpyMasters a closely guarded secret. Do please follow us on X @SpyMastersPod and spread the word. We will be grateful for any and all support. Should you be an author, with a relevant new or backlist title, interested in appearing on the podcast do get in touch at history@aspectsofhistory.com Please understand that we will not be able to oblige all requests. Thank you, and good night. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Best-selling author Chris Whipple's newest book is The Fight Of His Life and it chronicles the first two years of the Biden administration. Chris's extraordinary access to White House insiders provided him with an exclusive look into the workings, challenges and accomplishments of Team Biden.Chris's earlier works include The Gatekeepers and The Spymasters and he is a frequent contributor to The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, and Politico. He's also a filmmaker who has produced documentaries for Discovery and Showtime.The Fight Of His Life opens on the fraught transition during which Trump would not concede, nor allow for a peaceful passing of critical information to the new administration. However, Chris spoke with a heroic Trump insider who quietly and boldly provided the incumbent administration with the tools they would need to safely lead our country.Chris calls his book, "a political thriller in three acts" and it quickly moves into detailing the challenges immediately faced by Biden: A deadly pandemic, a plummeting economy, an unresolved 20-year war, and the aftermath of an attack on the Capitol that polarized the country. The crises continued in waves… The fallout from the Dobbs decision, raging inflation, and Putin's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.Remarkable access to White House insiders including Chief of Staff Ron Klain, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and CIA Director William Burns allowed Chris to learn and explore internal power struggles and back-room compromises.Chris reflects with us on Biden's accomplishments, from Covid relief to rescuing the economy, to an infrastructure bill, to the Inflation Reduction Act, and preparing NATO for the invasion of Ukraine. He also speaks frankly about the troubled withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and he offers his views on what Biden should do next and which achievements he should proudly proclaim from the campaign trail. We talk about the mysterious pull of Trump, the future of the Republican Party and the mixed reviews on Kamala Harris, whom Biden has called “A work in progress.” Plus, Fritz and Weezy are recommending Once Upon a Time Time In Northern Ireland on PBS and Prime and The Last Movie Stars on Max and Prime.Path Points of InterestChris WhippleThe Fight of His Life by Chris Whipple (paperback)Simon & Schuster Author PageChris Whipple on X/TwitterChris Whipple on FacebookOnce Upon A Time In Northern IrelandSay Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden KeefeThe Last Movie Stars - Streaming

"I wanted to be a fighter pilot"

Historian Phillip Deery on how ASIO recruited ordinary people as secret agents, including a 'nice widow from Adelaide' named Anne Neill

Historian Phillip Deery on how ASIO recruited ordinary people as secret agents, including a 'nice widow from Adelaide' named Anne Neill

SpyTalk lives at the intersection of intelligence operations, foreign policy, homeland security, and military strategy. Co-hosted by veteran national security journalist Jeff Stein and former star CNN homeland security correspondent Jeanne Meserve, the podcast features exclusives by SpyTalk's roster of longtime reporters; news and profiles of US and foreign spymasters, and interviews with policymakers and expert authors.  There's nothing quite like it—a place for experts and laypersons alike, who enjoy national security scoops and insights by SpyTalk's subject matter experts.  Subscribe here: https://link.chtbl.com/SpyTalk This week: Jeff talks with Chris Whipple, author of The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future; plus Jeanne speaks with Juan Zarate, former Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing, about the bad guys' use of cryptocurrencies. For more from our guests: Chris Whipple https://twitter.com/ccwhip Juan Zarate https://twitter.com/JCZarate1   Subscribe to SpyTalk on Substack https://www.spytalk.co/ Follow Jeanne Meserve on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JeanneMeserve https://www.jeannemeserve.com/ Follow Jeff Stein on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpyTalker Follow SpyTalk on Twitter: https://twitter.com/talk_spy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week: Jeff talks with Chris Whipple, author of The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future; plus Jeanne speaks with Juan Zarate, former Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing, about the bad guys' use of cryptocurrencies. For more from our guests: Chris Whipple https://twitter.com/ccwhip Juan Zarate https://twitter.com/JCZarate1   Subscribe to SpyTalk on Substack https://www.spytalk.co/ Follow Jeanne Meserve on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JeanneMeserve https://www.jeannemeserve.com/ Follow Jeff Stein on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpyTalker Follow SpyTalk on Twitter: https://twitter.com/talk_spy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Periodically I get a guest on Behind the Shot that makes me nervous. This episode is one of those moments. Wish me luck... David Hume Kennerly is a legend. In fact, I would wager money that other 'legends' look to David Hume Kennerly as the standard by which they are judged. All of that is to say that there is no 'starting point' when trying to explain the photojournalist David Hume Kennerly. Still, the blog is here, and I have to start somewhere. Travel with me back to 1972... (insert way back machine sounds here) David was awarded the 1972 Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for Featured Photography, with a winning portfolio that included Ali being knocked down in the 15th round during the Ali v. Frazier “Fight of the Century,” images of the Vietnam and Cambodia wars, and refugees escaping into India from East Pakistan. David was just 25 at the time. Two years later, at just 27, he was appointed President Gerald R. Ford's Personal White House Photographer, the third person to have that job. Again, I have to stress this, by the time David was 27 he'd seen and documented more history that most of us learn in school. In the years since, David has photographed U.S. presidents from Johnson to Biden, and covered thirteen presidential campaigns. He was a Newsweek magazine contributing editor for ten years, and a contributing photographer for Time & Life and George magazines. American Photo named Kennerly “One of the 100 Most Important People in Photography.” Washingtonian Magazine called him "One of the 50 most important journalists in Washington, DC". That is David Hume Kennerly. One of the most important photographers ever, and his TedX talk has a title that really sums it up: Telling the Story in 1/60th of a Second As an author, David is just as successful. Kennerly has published several books of his work, Shooter, Photo Op, Seinoff: The Final Days of Seinfeld, Photo du Jour, Extraordinary Circumstances: The Presidency of Gerald R. Ford, and David Hume Kennerly On the iPhone. He was also a major contributor to the CNN 2016 book, Unprecedented: The Election that Changed Everything. His exclusive portrait of Trump is on the cover. He was executive producer of The Spymasters, a 2015 CBS/Showtime documentary about the directors of the CIA. He also produced The Presidents' Gatekeepers, a four-hour Discovery Channel film about White House chiefs of staff.  Kennerly was nominated for a Primetime Emmy as executive producer of NBC's, The Taking of Flight 847, and was the writer and executive producer of a two-hour NBC pilot filmed in Thailand, Shooter, starring Helen Hunt. Shooter, based on Kennerly's Vietnam experiences, won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography. In 2019 The University of Arizona Center for Creative Photography acquired the David Hume Kennerly Archive that features almost a million images, prints, objects, memorabilia, correspondence and documents. University President Dr. Robert C. Robbins appointed Kennerly as the university's first Presidential Scholar. When trying to pick an image for this show I lost over an hour browsing through David's site, specifically his 'Greatest Hits' gallery. The image of U.S. President Gerald Ford at the desk in the Oval Office, feet up is amazing. This was the day after he became president, August 10, 1974, and the bookshelves are empty because Nixon's things had been removed, but Ford's memorabilia had yet to arrive, due to the suddenness of the transition. The image of Mohammed Ali being knocked down in the 15th round at Madison Square Garden by Joe Frazier was part of Kennerly's Pulitzer Prize-winning portfolio. Then there was "The Hug", an image where Michelle Obama is hugging former president George W. Bush. Picking one image was hard, but with David's help we found the shot. There is a quote on David's website from James Earl Jones that wraps up David's career perfectly: “David Hume Kennerly is like Forrest Gump, except he was really there.”

Periodically I get a guest on Behind the Shot that makes me nervous. This episode is one of those moments. Wish me luck... David Hume Kennerly is a legend. In fact, I would wager money that other 'legends' look to David Hume Kennerly as the standard by which they are judged. All of that is to say that there is no 'starting point' when trying to explain the photojournalist David Hume Kennerly. Still, the blog is here, and I have to start somewhere. Travel with me back to 1972... (insert way back machine sounds here) David was awarded the 1972 Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for Featured Photography, with a winning portfolio that included Ali being knocked down in the 15th round during the Ali v. Frazier “Fight of the Century,” images of the Vietnam and Cambodia wars, and refugees escaping into India from East Pakistan. David was just 25 at the time. Two years later, at just 27, he was appointed President Gerald R. Ford's Personal White House Photographer, the third person to have that job. Again, I have to stress this, by the time David was 27 he'd seen and documented more history that most of us learn in school. In the years since, David has photographed U.S. presidents from Johnson to Biden, and covered thirteen presidential campaigns. He was a Newsweek magazine contributing editor for ten years, and a contributing photographer for Time & Life and George magazines. American Photo named Kennerly “One of the 100 Most Important People in Photography.” Washingtonian Magazine called him "One of the 50 most important journalists in Washington, DC". That is David Hume Kennerly. One of the most important photographers ever, and his TedX talk has a title that really sums it up: Telling the Story in 1/60th of a Second As an author, David is just as successful. Kennerly has published several books of his work, Shooter, Photo Op, Seinoff: The Final Days of Seinfeld, Photo du Jour, Extraordinary Circumstances: The Presidency of Gerald R. Ford, and David Hume Kennerly On the iPhone. He was also a major contributor to the CNN 2016 book, Unprecedented: The Election that Changed Everything. His exclusive portrait of Trump is on the cover. He was executive producer of The Spymasters, a 2015 CBS/Showtime documentary about the directors of the CIA. He also produced The Presidents' Gatekeepers, a four-hour Discovery Channel film about White House chiefs of staff.  Kennerly was nominated for a Primetime Emmy as executive producer of NBC's, The Taking of Flight 847, and was the writer and executive producer of a two-hour NBC pilot filmed in Thailand, Shooter, starring Helen Hunt. Shooter, based on Kennerly's Vietnam experiences, won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography. In 2019 The University of Arizona Center for Creative Photography acquired the David Hume Kennerly Archive that features almost a million images, prints, objects, memorabilia, correspondence and documents. University President Dr. Robert C. Robbins appointed Kennerly as the university's first Presidential Scholar. When trying to pick an image for this show I lost over an hour browsing through David's site, specifically his 'Greatest Hits' gallery. The image of U.S. President Gerald Ford at the desk in the Oval Office, feet up is amazing. This was the day after he became president, August 10, 1974, and the bookshelves are empty because Nixon's things had been removed, but Ford's memorabilia had yet to arrive, due to the suddenness of the transition. The image of Mohammed Ali being knocked down in the 15th round at Madison Square Garden by Joe Frazier was part of Kennerly's Pulitzer Prize-winning portfolio. Then there was "The Hug", an image where Michelle Obama is hugging former president George W. Bush. Picking one image was hard, but with David's help we found the shot. There is a quote on David's website from James Earl Jones that wraps up David's career perfectly: “David Hume Kennerly is like Forrest Gump, except he was really there.”

This week, we are excited to welcome Jack Devine back to SOFREP Radio. With a career in the CIA that spanned more than three decades, Devine knows more about the American intelligence apparatus than most today. From the Iran-Contra affair and undermining the Russians in Afghanistan to serving as CIA’S acting director of operations and associate director of operations in the mid-1990s, Devine is a spy’s spy. Since his first appearance on SOFREP Radio in 2017, Devine has been hard at work. He brings to this week’s episode a deep dive into the history of U.S.-Russian espionage, which has shown remarkable strategic consistency on the part of the Russians even as the tools of spycraft (especially cyber) have evolved since the Cold War. With this issue very much on the minds of our national security and policy professionals, our media, and informed members of the public, Devine’s new book, Spymasters Prism: The Fight Against Russian Aggression is a timely and informative look at the ongoing spy-vs-spy struggle through the eyes of someone who was intimately involved. Read the full review of Spymasters Prism on SOFREP here. Based on personal experience and exhaustive research, Jack Devine builds a vivid and complex mosaic that illustrates how Russia’s intelligence activities have continued uninterrupted throughout modern history, using fundamentally identical policies and techniques to undermine our democracy as recently as the 2016 Presidential Elections. Don’t miss this important episode that will change how you think about espionage, our enemies and the future of America.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Episode 100: On February 20th, 1939, twenty thousand American Nazis held a rally in Madison Square Garden, declaring George Washington as the “first fascist.” How did Nazi movements come to thrive in the United States, and what were the social and historical conditions that paved the way for their success?Hidden History Patreon: LinkSources and Further ReadingHitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law: LinkNazi action T4 euthanasia programme: historical research, individual life stories and the culture of remembrance: LinkThe Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism: LinkThe Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics: LinkLegalizing Hate: The Significance of the Nuremburg Laws and the post-War Nuremburg Trials: LinkHenry Ford and "The International Jew": LinkHenry Ford and the Jews : The Mass Production of Hate: LinkAnti-Semitism and American History: LinkCannistraro, Philip V. Blackshirts in Little Italy: Italian Americans and Fascism, 1921-1929. Vol. 17. Bordighera Incorporated, 1999.Wolf, Cameron. "Fritz Kuhn's Nazi America: Kuhn's Growth and Destruction of the German American Bund in the 1930s." PhD diss., Department of History, University of Kansas, 2019.Post-War Further ReadingVeil of Protection: Operation Paperclip and the Contrasting Fates of Wernher von Braun and Arthur Rudolph: LinkAmerican Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party: LinkThe dialectics of historical fantasy: The ideology of George Lincoln Rockwell: LinkDr. Space: The Life of Wernher von Braun: LinkBecoming a Racist: Women in Contemporary Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazi Groups: LinkThe Beast Reawakens: Fascism's Resurgence from Hitler's Spymasters to Today’s Neo-Nazi Groups and Right Wing Extremists: LinkReichsrock: The International Web of White-Power and Neo-Nazi Hate Music: Link

Join us for a discussion with the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers, on his new book The Spymasters as we get a a remarkable, behind-the-scenes look at what it's like to run the world's most powerful intelligence agency, and how the CIA is often a crucial counterforce against presidents threatening to overstep the powers of their office. Chris Whipple tells the story of an agency that answers to the United States president alone, but whose activities—spying, espionage, and covert action—take place on every continent. The Spymasters resonates with themes from today's headlines. It is the story of how CIA directors have stood up to rogue presidents, from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump. It was Director Richard Helms's refusal to carry out the Watergate coverup that brought down Nixon; in the scandal over President Trump's shakedown of Ukraine's president, it was a CIA whistleblower who brought Trump to the verge of being removed from office. Most important, in times of national crisis, including deadly pandemics, the CIA director must be the president's, and the nation's, honest broker of information. Chris Whipple is one of the most accomplished multimedia journalists of our era: a writer, documentary filmmaker, and speaker. He is a multiple Peabody and Emmy Award–winning producer at CBS's 60 Minutes and ABC's Primetime. Kai Bird is an author and columnist who has written on numerous topics and won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography on Oppenheimer. His books have received critical acclaim and popular success, including The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames, which was a New York Times best-seller. His memoir, Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. To RSVP for upcoming events, visit our events page at: https://www.thecommongoodus.org --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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The DEC hosted Chris Whipple, Journalist, Documentary Filmmaker, and New York Times Bestselling Author, on Monday, December 7. Chris discussed his book, "The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future," with DEC President & CEO Steve Grigorian, and answered audience questions. Thank you to our Sponsors & Partners for supporting the DEC: http://www.econclub.org/sponsors-partners/ Purchase The Spymasters book by clicking here.

Guests: Victor Avila, Retired Supervisory Special Agent with ICE, On to discuss his book "Agent Under Fire." Chris Whipple, Emmy Award-winning Producer, On to discuss his book "Spymasters." Jeff McCausland, Author, On to discuss his book "Battle Tested." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Podcast: On Point (LS 65 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: 'Spymasters' Author Chris Whipple On Presidential Transition, Future Of The CIAPub date: 2020-11-27Journalist Chris Whipple speaks with Meghna Chakrabarti about the challenging road ahead for President-elect Joe Biden, restoring the CIA and his new book "The Spymasters." The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from WBUR, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Chris Whipple, Author of "The Spymasters" tells" Conversations With Jim Zirin" how 17 CIA directors have shaped U.S. History. While some directors got it wrong the successful ones are those who had a close relationship with the President.

Chris Whipple, documentarian and author of Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency and The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future, joins Lisa Birnbach to talk about transitions - more specifically, White House presidential transitions. What could go wrong? Just in case they also talk about the 5 Things that make their lives better.Lisa Birnbach's 5 Things: 1. The Queen’s Gambit, 2. Christopher Krebs, 3. Getting a medical appointment, 4. Return of Shtisel on Netflix and watching The Crown, 5. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s Inauguration January 20.Chris Whipple’s 5 Things: 1. Family, 2. Friends, 3. First Responders, 4. The Deep State, 5. The Crown .

Chis Whipple joined host Karen J. Greenberg on September 29th to discuss his new book: The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future. The full webinar can be watched on our website at CenterOnNationalSecurity.org/events. Vital Interests Podcast with Karen Greenberg is brought to you by the Center on National Security at Fordham Law.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer issued a warning to President Donald Trump prior to his inauguration in 2017: “You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.” Since 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency has been the “eyes and ears” of presidents. The stakes of the relationship between the elite spy agency and the U.S.’ elected leaders are high, says “The Spymasters” author Chris Whipple: “The stakes range from starting wars to averting Armageddon.” In her conversation with Whipple, Lone Star Analysis’ director of competitive intelligence Laurie Young will explore this in-depth history of the CIA told through the Agency’s directors and how their interactions with our U.S. presidents have shaped history. Chris Whipple is a writer, documentary filmmaker and speaker who has written for many publications including Newsweek, Vanity Fair and Politico. His previous book, “The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency,” was a New York Times bestseller in 2017. Former Secretary of State James Baker III called Whipple “an accomplished historian, hard-nosed journalist, and master storyteller.” In conversation with Laurie Young

From Chris Whipple, the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers, comes a highly anticipated book, the most thorough and illuminating portrait ever of America's CIA directors-based on extensive interviews with the directors themselves-those upon whom the country depends to prevent another 9/11, or even a deadly pandemic. Epic in scope, spanning seven decades of intelligence gathering, espionage and covert warfare, and intimate in detail, featuring indelible portraits of the directors, this is the definitive story of the men-and, currently, the woman-who keep the secrets-The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future (Scribner, on-sale: September 15, 2020; $30.00/hardcover). What's the proper relationship between the CIA director and the president? Should directors obey illegal orders? How important is the director's role as the nation's honest broker of information during times of crisis? What's the truth about Gina Haspel's involvement in the brutal interrogations at a CIA "black site" in Thailand? And how, as director, does she manage Donald Trump, who famously rejects intelligence that conflicts with his beliefs? Through exclusive, unvarnished, and eye-opening interviews with former CIA directors and other top U.S. intelligence officials, including George Tenet, Leon Panetta, John Brennan, and David Petraeus, The Spymasters answers these questions and more, offering inside stories behind our country's greatest intelligence coups and blunders: . Was the coronavirus pandemic Donald Trump's preventable 9/11? The epilogue of The Spymasters reveals new details about the intelligence community's warnings about the emerging COVID-19 threat, and President Trump's failure to heed them. In January 2020, as the virus was spreading in the U.S., Trump's intelligence briefings-a daily occurrence for most presidents-had almost completely broken down. Throughout January, Trump was briefed not two or three times a week, as had become usual for him, but once a week. Items about the pandemic appeared regularly in the President's Daily Brief (PDB)-but Trump did not bother to read it. Moreover, Trump was, for all intents and purposes, unbrief-able. Convinced that the intelligence community was a deep state, honeycombed with traitors, the president rarely believed anything the CIA told him. Against this backdrop, the COVID-19 pandemic arrived with horns honking and sirens blaring. Tens of thousands of lives depended on quick action-yet Trump looked the other way. Why is it so difficult for CIA directors to convince presidents of what they don't want to hear? . Trump's difficulty understanding security briefings. In The Spymasters, a senior intelligence official described trying to brief the president: "We were talking about surveilling domestic terrorism suspects, and at some point he just said, 'Why wouldn't we just deport them?' And we had to say, 'Well, we're talking about people who are U.S. citizens, sir. So no, deporting them isn't really an option.'" . Gina Haspel's unlikely journey from shadowy covert operative to CIA Director, and how she earned the confidence of Donald Trump. But can she stand up to him? . Russia's massive interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election-despite Donald Trump's continuing effort to deny the plot's existence. The Spymasters details John Brennan's discovery of the plot, James Clapper's conclusion that it tipped the election to Trump, and the Obama administration's efforts to combat Russia's covert campaign-which were stymied by Republican antipathy toward President Obama. . The untold story of the CIA's biggest manhunt ever. The never-before-reported account of the agency's botched attempt to capture Hezbollah's operational mastermind. And new details about the joint Mossad-CIA covert operation that finally succeeded in eliminating "the Scarlet Pimpernel" of terrorism in 2008. . The failure of George W. Bush's White House to heed the CIA's urgent warnings of an imminent Al Qaeda attack prior to 9/11, sounded during a dramatic July 10, 2001 meeting with Condoleezza Rice. And how, by failing to take a simple action, the administration missed an opportunity to unravel the 9/11 plot. Sweeping, illuminating, and rivetingly told, The Spymasters offers the most revealing look yet inside the CIA's wilderness of mirrors.

From Chris Whipple, the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers, comes a highly anticipated book, the most thorough and illuminating portrait ever of America's CIA directors-based on extensive interviews with the directors themselves-those upon whom the country depends to prevent another 9/11, or even a deadly pandemic. Epic in scope, spanning seven decades of intelligence gathering, espionage and covert warfare, and intimate in detail, featuring indelible portraits of the directors, this is the definitive story of the men-and, currently, the woman-who keep the secrets-The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future (Scribner, on-sale: September 15, 2020; $30.00/hardcover). What's the proper relationship between the CIA director and the president? Should directors obey illegal orders? How important is the director's role as the nation's honest broker of information during times of crisis? What's the truth about Gina Haspel's involvement in the brutal interrogations at a CIA "black site" in Thailand? And how, as director, does she manage Donald Trump, who famously rejects intelligence that conflicts with his beliefs? Through exclusive, unvarnished, and eye-opening interviews with former CIA directors and other top U.S. intelligence officials, including George Tenet, Leon Panetta, John Brennan, and David Petraeus, The Spymasters answers these questions and more, offering inside stories behind our country's greatest intelligence coups and blunders: . Was the coronavirus pandemic Donald Trump's preventable 9/11? The epilogue of The Spymasters reveals new details about the intelligence community's warnings about the emerging COVID-19 threat, and President Trump's failure to heed them. In January 2020, as the virus was spreading in the U.S., Trump's intelligence briefings-a daily occurrence for most presidents-had almost completely broken down. Throughout January, Trump was briefed not two or three times a week, as had become usual for him, but once a week. Items about the pandemic appeared regularly in the President's Daily Brief (PDB)-but Trump did not bother to read it. Moreover, Trump was, for all intents and purposes, unbrief-able. Convinced that the intelligence community was a deep state, honeycombed with traitors, the president rarely believed anything the CIA told him. Against this backdrop, the COVID-19 pandemic arrived with horns honking and sirens blaring. Tens of thousands of lives depended on quick action-yet Trump looked the other way. Why is it so difficult for CIA directors to convince presidents of what they don't want to hear? . Trump's difficulty understanding security briefings. In The Spymasters, a senior intelligence official described trying to brief the president: "We were talking about surveilling domestic terrorism suspects, and at some point he just said, 'Why wouldn't we just deport them?' And we had to say, 'Well, we're talking about people who are U.S. citizens, sir. So no, deporting them isn't really an option.'" . Gina Haspel's unlikely journey from shadowy covert operative to CIA Director, and how she earned the confidence of Donald Trump. But can she stand up to him? . Russia's massive interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election-despite Donald Trump's continuing effort to deny the plot's existence. The Spymasters details John Brennan's discovery of the plot, James Clapper's conclusion that it tipped the election to Trump, and the Obama administration's efforts to combat Russia's covert campaign-which were stymied by Republican antipathy toward President Obama. . The untold story of the CIA's biggest manhunt ever. The never-before-reported account of the agency's botched attempt to capture Hezbollah's operational mastermind. And new details about the joint Mossad-CIA covert operation that finally succeeded in eliminating "the Scarlet Pimpernel" of terrorism in 2008. . The failure of George W. Bush's White House to heed the CIA's urgent warnings of an imminent Al Qaeda attack prior to 9/11, sounded during a dramatic July 10, 2001 meeting with Condoleezza Rice. And how, by failing to take a simple action, the administration missed an opportunity to unravel the 9/11 plot. Sweeping, illuminating, and rivetingly told, The Spymasters offers the most revealing look yet inside the CIA's wilderness of mirrors.

The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future by Chris Whipple Chriswhipple.net From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers, a remarkable, behind-the-scenes look at what it’s like to run the world’s most powerful intelligence agency, and how the CIA is often a crucial counterforce against presidents threatening to overstep the powers of their office. Only eleven men and one woman are alive today who have made the life-and-death decisions that come with running the world’s most powerful and influential intelligence service. With unprecedented, deep access to nearly all these individuals plus several of their predecessors, Chris Whipple tells the story of an agency that answers to the United States president alone, but whose activities—spying, espionage, and covert action—take place on every continent. At pivotal moments, the CIA acts as a brake on rogue presidents, starting in the mid-seventies with DCI Richard Helms’s refusal to conceal Richard Nixon’s criminality and continuing to the present as the actions of a CIA whistleblower have ignited impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump. Since its inception in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency has been a powerful player on the world stage, operating largely in the shadows to protect American interests. For The Spymasters, Whipple conducted extensive, exclusive interviews with nearly every living CIA director, pulling back the curtain on the world’s elite spy agencies and showing how the CIA partners—or clashes—with counterparts in Britain, France, Germany, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Russia. Topics covered in the book include attempts by presidents to use the agency for their own ends; simmering problems in the Middle East and Asia; rogue nuclear threats; and cyberwarfare. A revelatory, behind-the-scenes look, The Spymasters recounts seven decades of CIA activity and elicits predictions about the issues--and threats—that will engage the attention of future operatives and analysts. Including eye-opening interviews with George Tenet, John Brennan, Leon Panetta, and David Petraeus, as well as those who’ve just recently departed the agency, this is a timely, essential, and important contribution to current events. About Chris Whipple Chris Whipple is an acclaimed writer, documentary filmmaker, and speaker. He is the author of the upcoming book, 'The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future,' to be published by Scribner on September 15, 2020. Highly anticipated, 'The Spymasters' is the most thorough and illuminating portrait ever of America's CIA directors--based on extensive interviews with the directors themselves--those upon whom the country depends to prevent another Pearl Harbor, 9/11, or deadly pandemic. Epic in scope, spanning seven decades of intelligence gathering, espionage and covert warfare, and intimate in detail, featuring indelible portraits of the directors, this is the definitive story of the men--and, currently, the woman--who keep the secrets. Whipple's previous book, 'The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency,' was a critically acclaimed, New York Times bestseller. The first in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the men who have been the president's closest advisers, 'The Gatekeepers' was named by both Amazon and Apple as one of their "best books of the year." The Huffington Post compared it to "classic works by Richard Neustadt, Theodore White and other White House chroniclers." A frequent guest on MSNBC and CNN, Whipple has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Politico, the Daily Beast, and many other publications. He is the chief executive officer of CCWHIP Productions, and executive producer of the Showtime film, 'The Spymasters: CIA in the Crosshairs.' Whipple was educated at Deerfield Academy and received a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in history from Yale College.

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(9/17/20) Since its inception in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency has been a powerful player on the world stage, operating largely in the shadows to protect American interests. Based on extensive, exclusive interviews with nearly every living CIA director, MSNBC contributor and bestselling author Chris Whipple’s new book “The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future” pulls back the curtain on the world’s most elite spy agency. Join us for a behind-the-scenes look at seven decades of CIA activity in this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI.

What is the proper relationship between the CIA director and the president? How should directors handle arguably illegal orders? How important is the director's role as the nation's honest broker of information during times of crisis? To get at these questions, David Priess sat down with Chris Whipple, a documentary filmmaker, journalist and the author of two books about the people around the president. "The Gatekeepers," based upon his documentary of the same name, examines White House chiefs of staff, and his new book, "The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future," is based on the Showtime documentary "The Spymasters: CIA in the Crosshairs," for which Whipple was the writer and executive producer. They talked about CIA directors through the last several decades and how they've impacted U.S. history and national security.

Author Chris Whipple discusses his new book, The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future with SPY Executive Director Chris Costa.

It does seem that no matter how much you dabble in the historical spider web of CIA lies and deceit, there's always something new and exciting to explore.  Let's dive into a small piece of the rabbit hole that was MK Ultra... Works Cited:            Project MKULTRA: The CIA's Program Of Research In Behavioral Modification; JOINT HEARING BEFORE THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE AND THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF THE COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES; UNITED STATES SENATE NINETY-FIFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION: AUGUST 3, 1977 https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/rp3h/lansberry/mkultra.pdf Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control Posted on September 11, 2019 by Stephen Kinzer https://www.thehistoryreader.com/us-history/sidney-gottlieb-and-the-cia-search-for-mind-control/ American History: The Assassination of JFK: Sidney Gottlieb https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKgottlieb.htm British History  >Spies and Spymasters  >Richard Bissell https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKbissell.htm British History  >Spies and Spymasters  >Richard Helms https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKhelms.htm American History  >Cold War  >Allen Dulles https://spartacus-educational.com/USAdullesA.htm Home Library Center for the Study of Intelligence Studies Archive Indexes Volume 44: An Interview with Richard Helms Memoirs 1950-1963, Volume 2, George F. Kerman, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1972, pp 145-167.  https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol44no4/html/v44i4a07p_0021.htm 1953: MK-ULTRA was hatched by Allen Dulles and Richard Helms January 18, 2015 ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION: Advancing Voluntary, Informed Consent to Medical Intervention https://ahrp.org/1953-mk-ultra-was-hatched-by-allen-dulles-and-richard-helms/ 1941: The term, “psychological warfare” was a Nazi concept adapted and “Americanized” January 18, 2015 ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION Advancing Voluntary, Informed Consent to Medical Intervention https://ahrp.org/1941-the-term-psychological-warfare-was-a-nazi-concept-adapted-and-americanized/ The Secret Surrender, Harpers Magazine, By Allen Dulles, July 1966 https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP70-00058R000300010059-3.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency#Controversies MK-Ultra: HISTORY.COM UPDATED:AUG 21, 2018 ORIGINAL:JUN 16, 2017 EDITORS https://www.history.com/topics/us-government/history-of-mk-ultra INSIDE THE ARCHIVE OF AN LSD RESEARCHER WITH TIES TO THE CIA’S MKULTRA MIND CONTROL PROJECT: Tom O’Neill, Dan Piepenbring November 24 2019 https://theintercept.com/2019/11/24/cia-mkultra-louis-jolyon-west/ The true story behind a CIA scientist’s mysterious death By Lauren Sarner December 14, 2017 https://nypost.com/2017/12/14/the-true-story-behind-a-cia-scientists-mysterious-death/ THE SAD TALE OF FRANK OLSON, THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S HALLUCINOGEN FALL MAN by JARED KELLERMAY 14, 2019 https://psmag.com/news/the-sad-tale-of-frank-olson-the-u-s-governments-hallucinogen-fall-man Did the CIA’s Dr. Frank Olson Jump to His Death or Was He Pushed? Paul Vidich Published Feb. 17, 2020 https://www.thedailybeast.com/did-the-cias-dr-frank-olson-jump-to-his-death-or-was-he-pushed The Man Who Knew Too Much BY MARY A. FISCHER Gentleman’s Quarterly – January, 2000 https://frankolsonproject.org/the-story/ CIA Papers Link Harvard To Mind-Control Project By Joseph L. Contreras September 28, 1977 https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1977/9/28/cia-papers-link-harvard-to-mind-control/ Madness, Part 3: Subproject 68 May 08, 2020 by Josh Swartz https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2020/05/08/madness-part-three-subproject After learning of Whitey Bulger LSD tests, juror has regrets: Nation Feb 18, 2020 3:10 PM EDT https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/after-learning-of-whitey-bulger-lsd-tests-juror-has-regrets The conspiracy theorists convinced celebrities are under mind control By THOMAS HOBBS Thursday 9 May 2019 https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mkultra-conspiracy-theory-meme

Ever wonder who are the real-life Thomas Stansfields and Irene Kennedys? Chris & Mike reflect on the Showtime documentary "The Spymasters: CIA in the Crosshairs" featuring candid interviews with former Directors of Central Intelligence. Who best fits your image of a Stansfield or Kennedy? Who would have been able to successfully run a Mitch Rapp in the field? Visit www.MitchRappPod.com to see a poster with images of all of the featured interviewees from the film. Please subscribe, rate & review using Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcasting platform. You can find us online at MitchRappPod.com and on twitter @mitchrapppod. And as always, “Just let Mitch be Mitch.” This episode is made possible and kept ad-free thanks to our fantastic Patrons! For less than the price of a novel a month, you can help us keep the show going and get access to exclusive content, goodies, and signed book giveaways! Become a Patron today at Patreon.com/MitchRappPod. Disclaimer: This podcast is not affiliated with Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills, or Simon & Schuster. The music soundtrack is Guerilla Tactics by Rafael Krux.

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Gina Bennett takes the scare out of national security and approaches it as a woman and mother. She talks resiliency, how women experience personal security differently from men and the importance of including girls in our conversations about security. Gina is a member of the CIA’s Senior Analytic Service, and long-standing member of the Senior Analytic Service currently on assignment as the Senior Counterterorrism Advisor in the Directorate of Strategic Operational Planning in the National Counterterrorism Center. She is a seasoned counterterrorism specialist who authored the earliest warnings of some of today's terrorism trends, including the 1993 report that warned of the growing danger of Osama Bin Laden and the extremist movement he was fomenting. We talk about her shift into national security and what I’m calling her sixth sense when it comes to the insightfulness of her work over decades. Gina was featured in the 2015 Showtime documentary, Spymasters, the HBO documentary, Manhunt, and in the PBS documentary, Makers: Women Who Make America in their episode on women in war for her role as a trailblazing woman in the counterterrorism field. She has been featured in the cover story of Newsweek’s issue on “Women in CIA” in 2016 and in a previous Newsweek article for her role as a female pioneer in the targeting; and in a variety of media for her book, National Security Mom. Gina teaches ethics in intelligence as an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University in the Security Studies Program of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and at the George Washington University in the International Policy and Practice program at the Elliot School of International Affairs. She is also a founding board member of Girl Security, an educational program to familiarize elementary-to-high school girls in national and international security issues. She is a single mom of five children.

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It’s History in Five Friday, presented by Simon & Schuster. Our guest is Douglas C. Waller, sharing some insight on several CIA Directors who had previously worked for William “Wild Bill” Donovan’s spy agency, Office of Strategic Services. Waller’s books related to this subject are Disciples: The World War II Missions of the CIA Directors Who Fought For Wild Bill Donovan and the New York Times bestselling biography Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created OSS and Modern American Espionage. Waller is a former correspondent for TIME Magazine, and you can keep up with his work at DouglasCWaller.com, and Facebook.com/DouglasWallerAuthor. Simon & Schuster’s History in Five Friday. It’s the perfect way to kick off your modern weekend…with people, from the past.  

Episode 114: The Staying Power Of Codenames Length: 58:04 Show Links: RSS | iTunes | Stitcher | Download Episode   Welcome back to Vox Republica, the Cardboard Republic Podcast! We post new episodes every other Thursday, with each episode being about 30 - 45 minutes long. Vox Republica is proudly supported by our Patreon. Consider contributing today! DESCRIPTION: This week, Erin and Ryan cover a whole slew of topics, including some GAMA news, our first annual Laurel awards, and Snakes & Ladders: the video game. Then we dive into a brief review of the super popular social game Codenames. GUEST: None RECENTLY PLAYED GAMES - (01:36): Paradox by Split Second Games Fury of Dracula by Fantasy Flight Games Warehouse 51 by Passport Game Studios The King Is Dead by Osprey Games QUICK TOPICS - (22:22): With the 2016 GAMA gaming convention coming to a close, Ryan shares a handful of news bits that caught his attention.  For reasons that baffles everyone, someone has decided to make Snakes and Ladders into an FPS-style computer game. The Daily Worker Placement gamer survey results continue! We look into some of their most recent findings. We have unveiled The Laurels, our first annual Games of the Year Awards! REVIEW - (38:53): This week we wade right in to the heavy-hitting social game Codenames by Czech Games Edition. Since it's unassuming debut, Codenames has taken the party/social game category by storm, quickly becoming a fan favorite and making its way to many gamer's shelves. In this word association game, two teams of players, each led by a Spymaster, seek to beat the other team by finding all of their team's words from among those on the board. Using single world clues from the Spymaster, their team must guess their leader's intended word choices without accidentally aiding their opposition - or stumbling onto the game-ending assassin. Simple but engaging and with copious replayability, we explore why Codenames still has staying power in the months since it came out. A typical 5x5 word grid The board based on what the Spymasters have to work with Red would like to say 'Animal: 2', but Mole is a Blue card, which likely won't work Being Spymaster can be a bit mentally taxing thing... Codenames in action. Currently Blue is leading 5 to 4   PLUGS - (57:16): As always, Cardboard Republic YouTube videos and the BGG Guild are still ongoing. Subscribe to either - or both if you really love us. You do really love us, right?   We’d love to hear from you! You can send questions or feedback via email at podcast@cardboardrepublic.com. You can also reach us social media, including Twitter and BoardGameGeek.   Audio Credits: Intro music track is "Swing!" by Bargo!, used under Creative Commons license.

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Chuck Morse is joined by CLABE TAYLOR, one of the founding members of SPYMASTERS Literary Guild. Clabe is a veteran and former foreign service officer with many years of service in the Soviet Bloc, Europe, and Latin America. During and after the fall of the USSR, Clabe worked in private industry in Russia, Ukraine, and Central Asia. He speaks Russian, Ukrainian, and Spanish in addition to his native English. Clabe Taylor is the author of the novel TEX MEX: Creed Tucker is an old-school Texas cowboy who finds himself at the epicenter of a firestorm when a Mexican drug cartel moves its operations across the Rio Grande River. With the governments in Austin and Washington fighting each other rather than the cartel, Creed and his Mexican wife Guadalupe are forced to take a stand. With the help of Mako Sloane and a team of retired CIA operatives, Creed learns of a bizarre conspiracy to seize political control of South Texas involving the drug cartel, the leading Mexican presidential candidate, and a high-ranking U.S. politician. Creed and his allies navigate their way through kidnappings, murders, and assassination attempts that threaten to unravel the very fabric of Texas society and destroy the Tucker family…only to discover that the real threat lies much closer to home.