Spy Craft

True Crime

Welcome to “Spy Craft,” the podcast that delves into the gripping world of espionage. Join us as we uncover life-and-death spy stories, dissect covert operations, and explore the news and events that made them possible. Each episode offers a thrilling...

Episodes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Traitor in the Vault

The Invisible Key: Zero Days in the World of Espionage

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Surveillance of the Drone Pipeline

The Perception Gap: Counter-Surveillance Tactics in Urban Environments

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