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Carlos the Jackal and the Return of Terror for Hire | Joby Warrick
Oct 18, 2026
56m 21s
Podcast Update | This Weekend's Episode Coming Sunday
Oct 16, 2026
0m 23s
RAF Fairford, Flydubai, and the FBI | Espresso Martini
Oct 10, 2026
1h 03m 11s
What the Next 10 Years Look Like: China, Russia, Europe and AI | Sam Lichtenstein RANE
Oct 3, 2026
59m 04s
Russia’s worldview, disinformation, and the politics of influence | Dave Troy
Sep 26, 2026
1h 07m 34s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 10/18/26 |  Carlos the Jackal and the Return of Terror for Hire | Joby Warrick | Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Joby Warrick covered national security for the Washington Post for nearly three decades. In his new book, The Jackal, he turns to Ilich Ramírez Sánchez—Carlos the Jackal—the Venezuelan who in the 1970s and '80s was the most famous terrorist in the world. | 56m 21s | ||||||
| 10/16/26 | Podcast Update | This Weekend's Episode Coming Sunday | No description provided. | 0m 23s | ||||||
| 10/10/26 |  RAF Fairford, Flydubai, and the FBI | Espresso Martini | Chris and Matt break down the week's biggest intelligence and geopolitical stories: what really happened at RAF Fairford, the intelligence failure behind the FlyDubai hijacking, allegations of treason against a former BND chief, and a major data leak at the FBI. | 1h 03m 11s | ||||||
| 10/3/26 |  What the Next 10 Years Look Like: China, Russia, Europe and AI | Sam Lichtenstein RANE | Sam Lichtenstein, director of analysis at the global risk intelligence firm RANE, returns to walk Chris through RANE's 2025–2035 decade forecast: a multipolar world in which no great power has the will or the means to set the rules. | 59m 04s | ||||||
| 9/26/26 |  Russia’s worldview, disinformation, and the politics of influence | Dave Troy | Every week, Russia’s Security Council publishes a digest of world events that, journalist Dave Troy argues, reveals more about the Kremlin’s worldview than objective reality. In conversation with Chris, Troy explains how Moscow sees the war in Ukraine as part of a broader struggle over the global order—and how it seeks to export that worldview through proxies, information warfare, conspiracy theories, and ideas about sovereignty. | 1h 07m 34s | ||||||
| 9/19/26 |  The Stay Behinds: Sweden’s Cold War Guardians | Johan Wennström | Beginning in 1949, officially non-aligned Sweden did something it kept secret for half a century: in close cooperation with the CIA and MI6, it built a clandestine civilian resistance network meant to outlast a Soviet occupation and fight on from within. Its members were ordinary people, farmers, salesmen, gamekeepers, organized into cells that never met. In this episode, Matt talks with Johan Wennström of the Swedish Defence University, whose book The Stay Behinds: Sweden’s Cold War Guardians is the first in-depth English account of the network — the tradecraft, the human cost, and why it suddenly speaks to a Europe at war and a Sweden newly inside NATO during the alliance’s most uncertain moment in a generation. | 1h 09m 32s | ||||||
| 9/12/26 |  The Nerd Reich | Gil Durán | Journalist Gil Durán spent years in political consulting before returning to reporting, and eventually, to the beat that became the subject of his book, The Nerd Reich. He joins Chris to lay out his case that a corner of Silicon Valley has turned against democracy itself. | 59m 42s | ||||||
| 9/5/26 | CIA operationsIranian influence+4 | — | CIANATO+2 | RussiaIran+2 | CIAJohn Ratcliffe+5 | — | 1h 16m 23s | ||
| 8/29/26 | espionageIrish history+4 | Rory Carroll | The GuardianKilling Thatcher+1 | — | IRAEaster Rising+3 | — | 42m 07s | ||
| 8/22/26 | EspionageWorld War II+3 | Nicholas ReynoldsKatie S. Sanders | OSSCIA+8 | — | Peter J. OrtizOSS+7 | — | 48m 58s | ||
| 8/15/26 | GPSEspionage+3 | Katherine Dunn | Secrets & SpiesLittle Blue Dot: How GPS Shaped the Modern World | Black SeaBaltics+2 | GPSKatherine Dunn+5 | — | 1h 04m 50s | ||
| 8/8/26 | Israeli intelligenceMossad operations+4 | Samuel M. Katz | MossadThe Architect of Espionage+1 | IsraelIran+2 | Meir DaganMossad+7 | — | 1h 02m 42s | ||
| 8/1/26 | espionagemilitary deception+4 | Amanda Mason | Imperial War MuseumsBellingcat | Salisbury | espionagemilitary deception+6 | — | 29m 08s | ||
| 7/25/26 | espionagepolitical violence+4 | — | Mossad | IsraelJapan+1 | MossadAhmadinejad+5 | — | 1h 16m 39s | ||
| 7/18/26 | Russian politicsespionage+4 | Sean Wiswesser | CIATradecraft, Tactics, and Dirty Tricks | — | PutinCIA+5 | — | 51m 38s | ||
| 7/11/26 | intelligenceespionage+3 | Florian Flade | BND | GermanyGestapo+1 | GermanyBND+6 | — | 57m 12s | ||
| 7/4/26 | politicsdefense+5 | — | Anthropic | — | Keir StarmerAndy Burnham+6 | — | 1h 07m 25s | ||
| 6/27/26 | US intelligencepolitical influence+4 | Shane Harris | Office of the Director of National IntelligenceWashington Post | — | US intelligencepolitical influence+4 | — | 51m 43s | ||
| 6/20/26 | U.S.-Iran relationssanctions relief+4 | — | U.S.Iran+3 | Strait of HormuzVersailles | IranU.S.-Iran memorandum+6 | — | 1h 06m 36s | ||
| 6/13/26 | cyber espionageUS China competition+4 | Ahana Datta Fasel | British governmentFull Stack Spies | China | cyber espionageUS China relations+4 | — | 1h 00m 53s | ||
| 6/11/26 | Middle East dynamicsChina's influence+4 | Ahmed Aboudouh | Chatham House | IranChina+4 | IranChina+5 | — | 48m 37s | ||
| 6/6/26 | intelligence workinterpersonal skills+4 | Julian Fisher | Secrets & SpiesThe Intelligence Maven+2 | — | intelligencetrust+6 | — | 1h 09m 28s | ||
| 6/4/26 | Cold WarEspionage+4 | Stephen Long | CIAMI6+2 | Albania | CIAMI6+6 | — | 54m 00s | ||
| 5/31/26 | intelligencegeopolitics+5 | — | CIANew York Times+1 | BeijingTaiwan+2 | Tulsi GabbardTrump+7 | — | 1h 17m 04s | ||
| 5/23/26 | war powersU.S. Constitution+5 | Brian Finucane | International Crisis GroupState Department+3 | United StatesIran | war powersBrian Finucane+6 | — | 58m 47s | ||
| 5/16/26 | espionagedisinformation+4 | Charles Beaumont | MI6CIA+3 | UkraineRussia+2 | MI6CIA+5 | — | 1h 12m 10s | ||
| 5/8/26 | production breakepisode recommendations+4 | Rupal PatelAnthony Vinci | CIANational Geospatial-Intelligence Agency+1 | — | production breakepisode recommendations+6 | — | 1m 21s | ||
| 5/2/26 | US-Iran relationsHungary politics+4 | — | CIAUS-Iran ceasefire and nuclear talks in 2026 | IranUnited States+3 | IranCIA+5 | — | 1h 16m 32s | ||
| 4/29/26 | Cold Warespionage+4 | James Stejskal | Stasi Museum BerlinCheckpoint Charlie Museum+3 | Berlin | Cold Warespionage+5 | — | 1h 05m 21s | ||
| 4/26/26 | nuclear warCold War+5 | Brian J. Morra | CIANATO+1 | TokyoWashington+1 | Able Archernuclear war game+8 | — | 1h 01m 05s | ||
| 4/18/26 | CIAHollywood+5 | John SipherJerry O'Shea | Spycraft EntertainmentMission Implausible | Moscow | CIAHollywood+5 | — | 1h 18m 51s | ||
| 4/11/26 | espionageintelligence operations+5 | Sean Wiswesser | CIAFSB+7 | RussiaEurope | intelligenceCIA+7 | — | 1h 01m 38s | ||
| 4/4/26 | New Apostolic ReformationAmerican politics+4 | Pastor Louis Florio | New Apostolic ReformationLutheran+4 | Virginia | New Apostolic ReformationPastor Louis Florio+7 | — | 1h 40m 26s | ||
| 3/28/26 | Iran operationsRussia invasion+4 | — | CIAMI6 | IranWashington+4 | Espresso MartiniIran+7 | — | 1h 06m 18s | ||
| 3/18/26 | espionageintelligence+5 | Trevor Barnes | MI5Met's Counter Terrorism Command+1 | BulgarianMoscow+1 | Bulgarian spy ringTrevor Barnes+6 | — | 1h 24m 45s | ||
| 3/14/26 | espionageintelligence+4 | David SheddAndrew Badger | Defense Intelligence AgencyOxford+5 | — | Chinaespionage+7 | — | 1h 00m 49s | ||
| 3/7/26 | IranKhamenei's succession+4 | Phillip Smyth | CIAIRGC+2 | IranIraq+1 | IranKhamenei+7 | — | 1h 25m 06s | ||
| 2/28/26 | terrorismUK+4 | Lizzie Dearden | Secrets & SpiesPlotters | — | terrorismUK threats+4 | — | 57m 33s | ||
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Chart history for Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage | Global Issues | Current Affairs
Peaked at #14 in Finland, currently #14 in Finland.
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| Finland | — | #14 | #14 | — |
| IL | — | #25 | #25 | — |
| TH | — | #28 | #28 | — |
| IS | — | #37 | #37 | — |
| GR | — | #41 | #41 | — |
| PH | — | #41 | #41 | — |
| Sweden | — | #42 | #42 | — |
| CZ | — | #46 | #46 | — |
| Denmark | — | #47 | #47 | — |
| United Kingdom | — | #48 | #48 | — |
| South Africa | — | #51 | #51 | — |
| Australia | — | #55 | #55 | — |
| BE | — | #61 | #61 | — |
| KE | — | #64 | #64 | — |
| RO | — | #68 | #68 | — |
| Germany | — | #70 | #70 | — |
| Norway | — | #70 | #70 | — |
| Ireland | — | #72 | #72 | — |
| New Zealand | — | #72 | #72 | — |
| Canada | — | #82 | #82 | — |
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39 placements across 37 markets.
Chart Positions
39 placements across 37 markets.