S10 Ep44: A Spy at War with Charles Beaumont
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Charles Beaumont discusses his experiences as an MI6 officer and the themes of his novel A Spy at War, particularly in relation to the Ukraine War and Russian disinformation.
Charles Beaumont spent years as an MI6 officer running human sources before turning to fiction—and his second novel, A Spy at War, carries the authority of someone who has actually done the work. Set against the early days of the Ukraine War in 2022, the book maps the architecture of Russian disinformation: corruption narratives seeded into sympathetic media, useful idiots at senior policy levels, and the Chechen enforcers whose own histories implicate Moscow in the violence that built Putin's state. His conversation with Matt covers the CIA-SIS pre-invasion intelligence coup, the fracturing transatlantic alliance, and the Global South's soft-power vacuum—arriving at a conclusion that is harder to dismiss with every passing month: that this war won't be decided in the Donbas, but in the battle for Western public opinion, a battle the West is still not sure it's fighting.Subscribe and share to stay ahead in the world of intelligence, global issues, and current affairs.Order A Spy at War and Charles’s first novel, A Spy Alone: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/259672/charles-beaumont/Follow Charles on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/aspyalone.bsky.socialPlease share this…
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