Alumni of the British Secret intelligence Service are notoriously tight-lipped. John Bryan Wood was no exception. Fortunately, his son, Alistair, has spent years piecing together the details of his secret life. The result is a fascinating portrait of a man who was one part mystic ...Show more
True Spies Debrief: Suzanne Cope on Italy's Female Resistance Fighters
Author Suzanne Cope is the author of Women of War: The Italian Assassins, Spies, and Couriers Who Fought the Nazis. In this conversation with True Spies producer Eleanor Sly, Suzanne discusses her research into the brave female resistance fighters who worked to defeat fascism und ...Show more
The USA's Central Intelligence Agency is a mysterious organisation which has used covert methods to assassinate enemies, influence governments and tip whole countries into revolution - or so countless films, TV series and books would have us believe. How much of it is true? Hugh ...Show more
38. CIA Mind Control: America’s Secret Cartel (Ep 4)
How did Cold War paranoia fuel the CIA's mind control experiments? What did popular films like The Manchurian Candidate have to do with the agency's secret programs? And did the CIA really help shape the counterculture of the 1960s? In the shadowy world of espionage, the line bet ...Show more
A power ballad helped bring down the Soviet Union. Was it written by the CIA? Journalist Patrick Radden Keefe investigates the secret history of Cold War espionage and heavy metal. Wind Of Change is an Original Series from Pineapple Street Studios, Crooked Media and Spotify. Lear ...Show more