Episodios

  • CIA at Risk
    Jul 2 2025

    Former senior CIA ops manager Luis Rueda talks about an imperiled spy agency with host Jeff Stein.

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    44 m
  • Tulsa Gabbard, Missing in Action
    Jun 27 2025

    Former National Intelligence Council chief Gregory Treverton tells SpyTalk’s Michael Isikoff he wonders why DNI Tulsi Gabbard still has her job - and why her agency should be “substantially” reduced in size.

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    42 m
  • On the Brink
    Jun 20 2025

    Former Obama adviser Ned Price discusses Trump‘s options on Iran with SpyTalk hosts Jeff Stein & Michael Isikoff.


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    39 m
  • CIA AT RISK
    Jun 14 2025

    Trump-MAGA infestation of spy agency poses national security threat, senior CIA ops veteran Luis Rueda tells SpyTalk host Jeff Stein.

    Luis Rueda

    How to Take Greenland

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    42 m
  • Buckley and the CIA
    Jun 9 2025

    Sam Tanenhaus, author of new biography of William F. Buckley, Jr., joins Michael Isikoff to discuss the conservative columnist's early role as a CIA spy and his longtime relationship with his one time agency boss, Watergate burglar Howard Hunt.

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    58 m
  • The Intel Mess
    Jun 5 2025

    Gabbard’s meddling with intel disqualifies her, Sen. Mark Warner says on SpyTalk podcast with Michael Isikoff

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    30 m
  • China Spy Worries + Russia
    May 30 2025

    Former top CIA exec Sue Miller talks all things espionage with Jeff Stein & Michael Isikoff.

    Susan Miller https://www.thecipherbrief.com/experts/susan-miller

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    31 m
  • Spy World Politicos
    May 23 2025

    “It’s not good” that ex-spooks are going public, former CIA officer Steve Cash tells the SpyTalk podcast, but “we’re terrified” by Trump.

    Steven A. Cash
    https://bsky.app/profile/cashsteven.bsky.social
    https://thesteadystate.org/

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    55 m