SPYCRAFT 101

Today's guest is Dr. Jason Bell. Jason is a professor of philosophy at the University of New Brunswick, who has served as a Fulbright professor in Germany and taught at universities in Belgium, the United States, and Canada. He's here to discuss one of the least known and most important deception operations of World War II, when three OSS officers parachuted into Hungary with one goal in mind: to be taken prisoner and interrogated by German forces. Connect with Jason: jasonbell.org Check out the book, Operation Sparrow: The Incredible True Story of the North American Spies Who Tricked Hitler and Won the War, here. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G4WK8WY6 Connect with Spycraft 101: Get Justin’s latest book, Murder, Intrigue, and Conspiracy: Stories from the Cold War and Beyond, here. spycraft101.com IG: @spycraft101 Shop: shop.spycraft101.com Substack: spycraft101.substack.com Patreon: Spycraft 101 Find Justin’s first book, Spyshots: Volume One, here. Check out Justin’s second book, Covert Arms, here. Download…

Dr. Ahana Datta Fasel discusses cyber spies.

Former CIA agent Thomas Pecora dives into his career.

Author and veteran Time Spicer tells the story of SAS officer Brian Franks.

Expert Joseph Gelman tells the story of Israeli spy turned Hollywood film producer Arnon Milchan.

Author, preofessor, and former CIA officer Gene Coyle shares the story of his high-risk operations in Cold War Moscow.

IRS agent Robert Mazur shares the story of how he infiltrated prominent drug cartels by posing as a money launderer.

Vertan, author, and expert Nicholas Reynolds shares the story of legendary Marine Corps officer Peter Ortiz.

Expert Kevin Riehle discusses Soviet defectors.

Expert and Army Reserve Lieutenant Colonel Michael Lebowitz discusses the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.

Former US Secret Service Agent William Gage discusses ultra-realisitc North Korean counterfeit bills.

Investigative journalist John Ware dives into the story of tow informants working for British Intelligence in Northern Ireland during The Troubles

Trial lawyer Michael Pullara details how he uncovered the murder of CIA case officer Freddie Woodruff.

Retired Navy SEAL Michael Walsh details the adventures of his career in Vietnam, Panama, The Middle East, and more.

Former Navy policeman and CIA officer Charles Finfrock discusses intelligence and privacy in government and the private sector.

Author and expert Greg Barnhisel delves into the complicated life of OSS Officer Norman Holmes Pearson.

Author Josh Ireland discusses the assassination of Leon Trotsky, as orchestrated by Joseph Stalin.

Sam McKnight, founder of Khthon, discusses the organizations efforts to unveil war crimes and mass graves using satellite imagery.

Dr. Niccolò Petrelli covers Italy's Cold War activities involving Gladio.

Expert Dr. Stephen Long unveils MI6 and the CIA's espionage activities in Albania in the 1940s.

Former Brazilian Naval officer turned corporate consultatn Luis Baptistella shares intelligence and counterintelligence strategy.

Author and professor Rory Cormac discusses British Cold War black propaganda.

Kirillo Alexandrov tells the harrowing story of his capture by Russians while living in Ukraine.

Expert Dr. Emrah Safa Gürkan covers Ottoman intelligence.

Eduardo Barreto tells the story of his uncle Ángel Manuel Benítez, a CIA-backed Cuban exile in the Congo.

Former CIA chief of station Sean Wiswesser shares stories of working against the Russians, and more.

Mubin Shaikh shares the story of how he became involved with jihadist group The Toronto 18, and how he helped the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) bust them.

French intelligence expert Dr. Damien Van Puyvelde unveils the methods of the DGSE, France's premier foreign intelligence agency.

Former Russian FSB officer Janosh Neumann shares his story of defection to the US.

National security reporter Zach Dorfman shares the story of a converted Czech spy.

Cybersecurity analyst Allie Mellen breaks down the ever-shifting global balance of power online.

Lee Gossett returns to share his stories from Laos and beyond.

Lee Gossett shares stories of his time flying for for the CIA's secret airline.

Former pilot Shane Osborn shares his first-hand account of the Hainan Island Incident and the time he spent in Chinese custody after a mid-air collision.

Former intelligence operative and author Jules Fisher shares stories of his career and his book, Think Like A Spy.

Author and former Chief of Police Paula May discusses a unique North Carolina murder in which the victim was once a prime suspect in the assassination of Sweden's Prime Minister.

Investigator and security expert Michael Hershman shares the story of his career, including the Senate investigation of Watergate.

Author Lisa Story shares the exploits of her uncle Walter Reca, a prime suspect in the infamous D.B. Cooper skyjacking.

Author and expert Tim Scherrer discusses how different branches of military intelligence work together.

Marine Corps veteran Matthew John Heath shares stories of his deployment as well as the 2+ years he spent held hostage in a Venezuelan prison.

Expert Dr. Brian J. Ellison discusses secret intelligence operations by the US Navy in the Indo-Pacific.

cohort.ID CEO and data security expert Mike Yeagley shares how your advertising data could be a national intelligence concern.

Cuban exile Ana Martinez shares the story of her life and marriage to infamous Cuban spy Juan Pablo Roque.

Retired FBI special agent Sheldon Fung sheds light on one of the biggest WMD cases ever. In 2000, Dr. Larry Ford tried to order a professional hit on his business partner, but what the investigation unveiled was much more complex than that.

Former FBI Agent James Gaylord shares the details of a case involving China's most prolific spy family.

Today Justin sits down with Gregg Bergersen. Gregg spent 19 years in the Department of Navy's office of Naval Intelligence as an intelligence research specialist. He was then asked to join the Department of Defense as a weapons systems policy analyst at the Defense Security Cooperation Agency in Arlington, Virginia, where he oversaw complex command control, communication, computer intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance foreign military sales programs managed by the Army, Navy, and Air...

Today Justin sits down with Sam Farran. Sam moved to United States from his birth place in Lebanon and joined the US Marine Corps in 1978. He was later trained as an interrogator and worked on orders with the Defense Intelligence Agency and as an at attache officer. After retiring from the Marine Corps, he worked as a civilian contractor all over the Middle East and in particular in Yemen. In 2015, Sam was captured by Houthis Fighters in Sanaa shortly after they took over the capital city. He...

Today Justin is joined by repeat gues Trevor Barnes, who writes on national security issues for the London Standard Newspaper and is a former senior reporter for the British Broadcasting Corporation. He is the author of Dead Doubles The Extraordinary Worldwide Hunt for One of the Cold War's Most Notorious Spy Rings. That was the story of the infamous KGB Portland spying, which operated in England in the 1950s. If you're a longtime listener, you may remember Trevor from his previous appearance...

Today Justin talks with Dr. Brad Williams. Brad is an associate professor in the Department of Asian and International Studies at the City University of Hong Kong. He has studied, taught and conducted research in Australia, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Myanmar, Taiwan, and the United States. He is the author of Resolving the Russo-Japanese Territorial Dispute, which was published in 2007 and has published on a diverse range of issues in Japanese politics and foreign policy such as arms procur...

Today Justin talks with Chris Feistl. Chris worked for 26 years as a special agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration. He spent much of his career in Columbia beginning in 1994. Since then, he's been featured in several different documentaries, including the Discovery series Finding Escobar's Millions, plus German Cocaine Cowboy and Narco Wars. He's here today to discuss his book, After Escobar. It's the story of his time in Columbia in the mid 1990s, working with his partner, Dave Mitc...