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| 5/23/26 | ![]() Clyde Conrad | The Ice Cold Spy Who Sold Out America | Ways to support the podcast:Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ https://bmc.link/philipthompsonDonate via PayPal: 💸 paypal.me/PhilipT284In 1990, a German court made a finding that sent shockwaves through the Western intelligence community. If the Cold War had turned hot, NATO would have been forced to choose between capitulation and launching nuclear weapons on German soil. The man responsible was not a senior official, a diplomat, or a career intelligence officer. He was a U.S. Army sergeant from Ohio named Clyde Conrad.For thirteen years, Conrad walked into one of the most sensitive offices in NATO's European command and sold its most secret war plans to the other side. By the time investigators found him, the damage was done. A German judge would describe him as standing at the top of the worldwide list of all known spies.This is the full story of Clyde Conrad — his recruitment by a Hungarian-American mole inside his own unit, the thirteen-year operation that followed, the decade-long hunt to find him, and the undercover sting that finally brought him down.📚 Sources & Further Reading (affiliate link):📕 Damian and Mongoose: How a U.S. Army Counterespionage Agent Infiltrated an International Spy Ring by Danny L Williams - Danny L Williams📕 Traitors Among Us: Inside the Spy Catchers World by Stuart A. Herrington - https://amzn.to/4uVZXac | — | ||||||
| 5/14/26 | ![]() Intel Dossier | Iran Purges Alleged CIA & Mossad Spies | Ways to support the podcast:Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ https://bmc.link/philipthompsonDonate via PayPal: 💸 paypal.me/PhilipT284Welcome to Dead Drop.In this week's dossier: 1. Iran hangs three men for alleged Mossad and CIA espionage as the post-war ceasefire teeters on the edge; 2. Britain records its first-ever convictions for Chinese espionage;3. Norway seizes a 22-ton satellite receiver in a suspected Chinese plot to intercept NATO intelligence from the Arctic;4. a leaked investigation exposes the GRU's secret hacker school embedded inside Russia's most prestigious university; and 5. two Americans are sentenced for running North Korean IT workers inside US companies. | — | ||||||
| 5/9/26 | ![]() Project Azorian | The CIA's Deep-Sea Submarine Heist | Ways to support the podcast:Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ https://bmc.link/philipthompsonDonate via PayPal: 💸 paypal.me/PhilipT284In 1968 a Soviet nuclear submarine sank in the North Pacific with 98 men aboard. The Soviets never found it. The Americans did — and they spent six years and half a billion dollars trying to secretly raise it from three miles down. This is the story of Project Azorian: the CIA's deep-sea submarine heist.📚 Sources & Further Reading (affiliate links):📕 Project Azorian: The CIA and the Raising of the K-129 by Norman C. Polmar - https://amzn.to/4u7ovxg📕 Project Azorian: The History of the CIA Operation to Recover a Sunken Soviet Submarine by Charles River Editors, KC Wayman - https://amzn.to/3ORHbSj | — | ||||||
| 5/3/26 | ![]() Intel Dossier | Russia's Secret Hit Squad Unmasked | Ways to support the podcast:Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ https://bmc.link/philipthompsonDonate via PayPal: 💸 paypal.me/PhilipT284Welcome to Dead Drop. In this week's dossier:Russia's secret unit for assassinations and sabotage finally unmasked — after one of its operatives used Google Translate to arrange a murder and was arrested in Colombia;A former Google engineer becomes the first person convicted in the US on AI-related economic espionage charges, after stealing thousands of pages of proprietary AI technology for China; andA FOIA lawsuit extracts internal emails revealing how America's top intelligence office quietly wiped hundreds of its own public records from the internet. | — | ||||||
| 4/30/26 | ![]() Bogdan Stashinsky | Diary Of A KGB Assassin | Ways to support the podcast:Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ https://bmc.link/philipthompsonDonate via PayPal: 💸 paypal.me/PhilipT284In October 1957, a young Ukrainian man walked into a Munich office building, passed a stranger on a stairwell, and killed him with a weapon that left no trace. Two years later, he did it again. Both deaths were recorded as heart attacks.On 13 August 1961, as the Berlin Wall was being erected, Bogdan Stashinsky walked into a West Berlin police station and confessed to both murders.This is the story of a KGB assassin recruited and trained to kill with a Soviet poison gun concealed in a rolled newspaper, and ultimately broken by the weight of what he had done. It is also the story of the two men he killed, Lev Rebet and Stepan Bandera, leaders of the Ukrainian nationalist movement in exile, hunted by Moscow across Western Europe throughout the 1950s.Stashinsky's trial in Karlsruhe in 1962 exposed the Soviet Union's use of state-sponsored assassination to the world. His memoirs, written before the trial and lost in an archive for sixty years, were published in 2024.His whereabouts today, should he still be alive, are unknown.📚 Sources & Further Reading (affiliate link):📕 The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story by Serhii Plokhy - https://amzn.to/4cHLecS📕 Erinnerungen eines KGB-Agenten: Kontexte des Mordes an Stepan Bandera und Lew Rebet by Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe | — | ||||||
| 4/25/26 | ![]() Lily Sergueiew | The D-Day Spy That History Forgot | Ways to support the podcast:Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ https://bmc.link/philipthompsonDonate via PayPal: 💸 paypal.me/PhilipT284She walked 1,400 kilometres across Europe. Cycled through Nazi Germany as Hitler rose to power. And then, in the middle of the most elaborate deception operation in history, she made a decision that would cost her everything.Nathalie Sergueiew, known to everyone as Lily, was one of just five double agents entrusted with feeding Adolf Hitler's high command the lie that saved D-Day. The Germans trusted her completely. MI5 codenamed her Treasure. She had one condition. She wanted her dog.What followed threatened to unravel Operation Fortitude and erase Lily from the history books entirely. This is her story.📖 This video is based on Codename TREASURE: The Life of D-Day Spy, Lily Sergeiev by Peter Winnington, published by Pen & Sword Books. A superb read, highly recommended (affiliate links): 📖 Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3KBK5VR📖 Pen & Sword Books: https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Codename-TREASURE-Hardback/p/23441/aid/1237Peter Winnington's website: https://gpeterwinnington.com/ | — | ||||||
| 4/24/26 | ![]() Intel Dossier | Russian Spy Fleet Stalks the North Atlantic | Ways to support the podcast:Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ https://bmc.link/philipthompsonDonate via PayPal: 💸 paypal.me/PhilipT284Welcome to Dead Drop. In this week's dossier:Russian spy fleet caught stalking the undersea cables that carry the West's internet and power;Iran's wartime spy ring penetrates the Israeli Air Force — and its hackers hit American hospitals and water systems;A Delta Force employee is arrested for leaking classified secrets to a journalist; andUkraine kills 12 FSB officers in a devastating drone strike in Donetsk . | — | ||||||
| 4/20/26 | ![]() Into The KGB Archive | What Mitrokhin Taught Us About The KGB | Ways to support the podcast:Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ https://bmc.link/philipthompsonDonate via PayPal: 💸 paypal.me/PhilipT284When Vasili Mitrokhin defected to Britain in 1992, he brought with him six cases of handwritten notes copied from the KGB's most secret files — material spanning from the October Revolution to the eve of the Gorbachev era. The FBI called it the most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source. In this members episode, we go beyond the story of the man himself and into what the archive actually revealed: the operational detail of the Cambridge Five, the atom spy network, the KGB's assassination programme, its signals intelligence operations against Washington, its war against the Soviet dissidents, and — in Volume Two — the full sweep of Soviet operations across Cuba, Nicaragua, the Middle East, India and Afghanistan. This is what Mitrokhin risked his life to expose.📚 Sources & Further Reading (affiliate links):📕 The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin📘 The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB in the World by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin📕 The Spy in the Archive by Gordon Corera | — | ||||||
| 4/12/26 | ![]() Vasili Mitrokhin | A KGB Spy's Ultimate Revenge | Ways to support the podcast:Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ https://bmc.link/philipthompsonDonate via PayPal: 💸 paypal.me/PhilipT284In 1972, the KGB exiled Vasili Mitrokhin to the archives. It was meant to be the end of his career. Instead, it gave him access to everything. For the next twelve years, the failed spy read every classified file that passed through his hands, took secret notes in a code only he could read, and buried the results under the floorboards of his dacha outside Moscow. When he finally brought his archive to the West, the CIA called it the biggest counterintelligence bonanza of the entire post-war period. This is the story of how a punishment became a catastrophe, and why the man who caused it died believing his warning had gone unheard.📚 Sources & Further Reading (affiliate links):📕 The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin - https://amzn.to/48IEcSD📘 The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB in the World by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin - https://amzn.to/4eb5JzK📕 The Spy in the Archive by Gordon Corera - https://amzn.to/3NWndp1 | — | ||||||
| 4/9/26 | ![]() Intel Dossier | CIA Runs Deception Campaign to Save Downed US Airman | Ways to support the podcast:Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ https://bmc.link/philipthompsonDonate via PayPal: 💸 paypal.me/PhilipT284Welcome to Dead Drop. In this week's dossier:The CIA runs a live deception campaign inside Iran to rescue its down F15 airmen;Israel assassinates the head of the Iranian spy chief, againThe Russian FSB publicly names and expels another British diplomat; andAnd North Korea steals 285 million dollars from a cryptocurrency exchange. | — | ||||||
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| 4/2/26 | ![]() Jeffrey Epstein | Was Epstein A Mossad Spy? | Ways to support the podcast:Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ https://bmc.link/philipthompsonDonate via PayPal: 💸 paypal.me/PhilipT284Was Jeffrey Epstein a spy? It's a question that has migrated, with the release of more than 3.5 million pages of investigative records under the 2026 Epstein Files Transparency Act, from internet speculation into a credible hypothesis. In this episode I examine the evidence: the Robert Maxwell nexus and what it tells us about how Epstein entered Israeli intelligence circles, his documented operational relationship with former Israeli Prime Minister and military intelligence chief Ehud Barak, the state-level surveillance deals they brokered together across three continents, an Israeli intelligence officer living under Epstein's roof for weeks at a time, and a 2020 FBI memorandum in which a confidential informant told federal investigators that Epstein had been trained as a spy under Barak's direction. Yet, much of the evidence remains contested, or circumstantial. Even if he was a spy, what sort of spy was he? | — | ||||||
| 3/25/26 | ![]() Ukraine's Secret War | The Spies Taking The War To Russia | Ways to support the podcast:Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ https://bmc.link/philipthompsonDonate via PayPal: 💸 paypal.me/PhilipT284On the morning of 17 December 2024, a bomb concealed inside an electric scooter killed Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov outside his Moscow apartment building. The man who planted it had no idea who he was really working for. This episode tells the story of how Ukraine's intelligence services transformed from Soviet-era relics into one of the most consequential covert warfare machines of the modern era, responsible for sinking Russia's Black Sea flagship, bombing the Kerch Bridge, and striking irreplaceable strategic bombers deep inside Russian territory with drones. It is also an honest account of the failures, the moles, and the political compromises that complicate the cleaner version of the story. | — | ||||||
| 3/18/26 | ![]() Noor Inayat Khan | The Spy Princess's Fatal Mistake | Ways to support the podcast:Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ https://bmc.link/philipthompsonDonate via PayPal: 💸 paypal.me/PhilipT28413 October 1943. For four months, the Gestapo in Paris had been hunting a British wireless operator codenamed Madeleine. She changed her appearance and safe houses constantly, vanishing every time the German direction-finding vans closed in on her signal. She was the only Allied radio link left in the city. Every other operator was locked up, or dead.But her luck had sadly run out. On the thirteenth of October, the Gestapo set a trap. They had a name. They had an address. And they were waiting. What happened next would determine the fate of the entire Allied network in Paris.The Germans had finally caught their ghost. She was the most unlikely of secret agents - she was a pacifist and the daughter of a Sufi mystic descended from Indian Muslim royalty. Post-war accounts referred to her as the Spy Princess.Her name was Noor Inayat Khan, and this is her story. 📚 Sources & Further Reading (affiliate links):📕 Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan by Shrabani Basu - https://amzn.to/4bNhvP9📘 Agent Noor: The World War II Spy Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice by Ethan Quinn - https://amzn.to/4dlXIri📕 A Forgotten Woman: The Story of the Unsung Heroine of the SOE Noor Inayat Khan by Iris Jenkins - https://amzn.to/3N7rLbJ📘 A Life In Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE by Sarah Helm - https://amzn.to/4lvxwfM📕 Between Silk and Cyanide: A Code Maker's War, 1941-45 by Leo Marks - https://amzn.to/3NFxsOc | — | ||||||
| 3/10/26 | ![]() Super Embassy | China's Spy Fortress On The Thames | Ways to support the podcast:Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ https://bmc.link/philipthompsonDonate via PayPal: 💸 paypal.me/PhilipT284In January 2026, Britain approved plans for the largest Chinese embassy in Europe; a 5.4-acre fortress opposite the Tower of London with 208 underground rooms and a concealed chamber sitting one metre from critical financial data cables. Beijing refused to explain the redacted blueprints. Britain said yes anyway. This episode asks the question intelligence analysts are asking: what exactly are they building down there, and why are Britain's leaders so willing to cave in to Chinese pressure? | — | ||||||
| 3/2/26 | ![]() Operation Epic Fury | The End of The Ayatollah, and How We Got Here | Ways to support the podcast:Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ https://bmc.link/philipthompsonDonate via PayPal: 💸 paypal.me/PhilipT284On 28 February 2026, a joint US-Israeli airstrike killed Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in his Tehran compound. He died alongside his son, his defence minister, the head of the Revolutionary Guard, and around 40 other senior officials. Three locations were hit simultaneously, within a single minute. The spies who made it possible had been watching him for months.But the road to that airstrike runs through 73 years of American involvement in Iran. In the summer of 1953, a CIA officer named Kermit Roosevelt arrived in Tehran with a fake passport, a bag of cash, and orders to remove Iran's democratically elected prime minister. What followed was the agency's first ever covert regime change operation, a masterclass in political manipulation that nearly failed twice before succeeding. It cost less than a million dollars. Its consequences are still unfolding.This episode traces the chain from Operation Ajax to Operation Epic Fury: from hired mobs and bribed newspaper editors in 1953, through the Shah's secret police, Khomeini's revolution, the hostage crisis, the nuclear standoff, and the protests that swept Iran in late 2025, to the intelligence operation that finally brought the Islamic Republic to its knees. | — | ||||||
| 2/27/26 | ![]() Markus Wolf | The Spy Without A Face | Ways to support the podcast:Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ https://bmc.link/philipthompsonDonate via PayPal: 💸 paypal.me/PhilipT284For twenty-five years, the CIA hunted a ghost. They knew he existed—his fingerprints were on operations across Europe. But they had no idea what he looked like. They called him "the man without a face."Markus Wolf was East Germany's spymaster for over three decades. He placed agents inside NATO, inside the West German Chancellor's office, and inside the lives of lonely secretaries seduced by his infamous "Romeo" spies. When the Berlin Wall fell, his secrets spilled into the light.This is the story of the Cold War's most elusive spy; and the people he used and discarded along the way.📚 Sources & Further Reading (affiliate links):Man Without A Face: The Autobiography Of Communism's Greatest Spymaster by Markus Wolf - https://amzn.to/4qUkBFgDie Troika by Markus Wolf - https://amzn.to/4qYIgVcSpymaster: The Real-Life Karla, His Moles, and the East German Secret Police by Leslie Colitt - https://amzn.to/3MHYHr0 | — | ||||||
| 2/16/26 | ![]() Operation Grim Beeper | How Mossad Turned Hezbollah's Pagers Into Bombs | dead drop #12 | Ways to support the podcast:Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ https://bmc.link/philipthompsonDonate via PayPal: 💸 paypal.me/PhilipT284In September 2024, thousands of pagers exploded across Lebanon in a single afternoon. The devices had been built by Israeli intelligence, packed with explosives, and sold to Hezbollah through a network of fake companies stretching from Budapest to Sofia. The operation had been ten years in the making. This is the story of Operation Grim Beeper. | — | ||||||
| 2/7/26 | ![]() Lazarus Group | The Crypto-Hacker Group Propping Up A Dictator | Ways to support the podcast:Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ https://bmc.link/philipthompsonDonate via PayPal: 💸 paypal.me/PhilipT284On February 21st 2025, employees at the Dubai-based cryptocurrency exchange ByBit approved what looked like a routine transaction. The interface showed the correct destination. Multiple signatories signed off. Everything looked normal.$1.5 billion vanished in seconds — routed to wallets controlled by North Korean state hackers.This is the story of the Lazarus Group: the elite cyber unit that has become Kim Jong Un's most valuable asset. While North Korea's legitimate economy exports wigs and fake eyelashes, its hackers steal billions. The money funds missiles, nuclear submarines, and a weapons programme that sanctions were supposed to make impossible.How did the world's most isolated country build one of its most sophisticated hacking operations? And why can't anyone stop them? | — | ||||||
| 1/30/26 | ![]() Richard Sorge | Stalin's Best Spy | Ways to support the podcast:Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ https://bmc.link/philipthompsonDonate via PayPal: 💸 paypal.me/PhilipT284In 1941, a German journalist in Tokyo held the fate of the Soviet Union in his hands.Richard Sorge had spent eight years building the most successful espionage network of World War II—stealing Nazi secrets from inside the German Embassy, warning Stalin about Operation Barbarossa, and ultimately providing the intelligence that allowed the Red Army to save Moscow from the Wehrmacht.But Stalin dismissed him as a drunk running "brothels in Japan." And when Sorge was finally caught, the country he had sacrificed everything for denied he ever existed.This is the story of the most effective spy in history—and how his own masters left him to die.📚 Sources & Further Reading (affiliate links):An Impeccable Spy by Owen Matthews - https://amzn.to/3NCj3SxStalin's Spy by Robert Whymant - https://www.biblio.com/book/stalins-spy-richard-sorge-tokyo-espionage/d/823759232A Century of Spies by Jeffrey T. Richelson - https://amzn.to/4bPve8u | — | ||||||
| 1/25/26 | ![]() Egisto Ott | Austria's Spy Trial Of The Century | dead drop #10 | Ways to support the podcast:Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ https://bmc.link/philipthompsonDonate via PayPal: 💸 paypal.me/PhilipT284A former Austrian intelligence officer stands trial in Vienna, accused of selling encrypted laptops to the FSB, hunting down journalists for the Kremlin, and analysing a Russian state assassination. The Egisto Ott case exposes how Vienna, a city that never stopped being a spy capital, became a launchpad for Russian intelligence operations in the heart of Europe.Video made in: https://vizzy.io | — | ||||||
| 1/21/26 | ![]() The Maduro Snatch | Operation Absolute Resolve And The Downfall Of A Dictator | dead drop #9 | Ways to support the podcast:Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ https://bmc.link/philipthompsonDonate via PayPal: 💸 paypal.me/PhilipT284On the night of January 3rd, 2026, U.S. special operators breached the fortified residence of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, fought through his Cuban security detail, and extracted him from the heart of Caracas—all while the city lay in engineered darkness.How did they pull off the most audacious political kidnapping in modern history? I break down the intelligence preparation, the massive military deception that hid the strike force in plain sight, the CIA source inside Maduro's inner circle, and the cyber-kinetic assault that left Venezuelan defenders blind before the first helicopter crossed the coast.Video made in: https://vizzy.io | — | ||||||
| 1/10/26 | ![]() History Daily | A Cold War Spy Swap & The Zimmerman Telegram | Follow the History Daily Podcast: www.historydaily.comToday is a very special episode where I have the amazing History Daily podcast feature two fascinating episodes on the True Life Spy Stories podcast.First up, The Cold War Spy Swap: February 10, 1962. At the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union conduct a spy exchange.Followed by, The Zimmerman Telegram Pushes America into World War I: February 24th, 1917. The British present the Zimmermann Telegram to US President Woodrow Wilson, an intercepted message that reveals new threats against the United States and persuades the nation to enter World War I.History Daily will kindly be featuring an episode from the True Life Spy Stories podcast over on their pod the same day of this upload. | — | ||||||
| 1/7/26 | ![]() dead drop #8 | The Death of Notorius Soviet Spy Aldrich Ames | Ways to support the podcast:Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ https://bmc.link/philipthompsonDonate via PayPal: 💸 paypal.me/PhilipT284Notorious Soviet and Russian spy and former CIA officer Aldrich Ames has died in a US prison on 5 January 2026, aged 84.This is my report.#philipthompson #truelifespystories #aldrichames | — | ||||||
| 12/28/25 | ![]() Fang Fang | The Chinese Honeytrap Who Infiltrated Congress | Ways to support the podcast:Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ https://bmc.link/philipthompsonDonate via PayPal: 💸 paypal.me/PhilipT284In 2014, at a mayors' conference in Washington DC, an older Midwestern mayor introduced a young Chinese woman on his arm as his girlfriend. He seemed genuinely smitten. She was beautiful, attentive, and at least two decades younger than him.What none of them knew was that the FBI already had eyes on the glamorous young lady. She had been photographed meeting repeatedly with a suspected Chinese intelligence officer at the San Francisco consulate.Her name was Christine Fang, and she was sent to build relationships with up-and-coming American politicians as part of a long-term Chinese influence campaign. This she did for 5 years, penetrating the heart of Silicon Valley.While FBI investigators waited for concrete evidence before moving in, they allowed Christine Fang to slip through their fingersThis is the story of Fang Fang, the Chinese honeytrap who seduced America.#philipthompson #truelifespystories #fangfang | — | ||||||
| 12/6/25 | ![]() Anna Chapman | The Russian Doll Spy | Ways to support the podcast:Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ https://bmc.link/philipthompsonDonate via PayPal: 💸 paypal.me/PhilipT284The afternoon of 26 June 2010 was sweltering in Manhattan. Inside a coffee shop in lower Manhattan, a young woman with distinctive red hair sat across from a man she'd never met. Anna Chapman was nervous. The man claimed to be from the Russian consulate, using coded phrases that only someone from Moscow Center would know. He told her that her laptop needed to go back to Russia for repairs. She hesitated, feeling dubious.What she didn't know was that the man across from her was an FBI agent. The laptop she'd handed over would never see Moscow. And within 36 hours, her life as a Russian intelligence operative in America would be over.This is the story of Anna Chapman, the red-headed socialite spy who infiltrated London and New York's elite circles. Born in Volgograd to a KGB officer, she acquired British citizenship through marriage, moved through Mayfair's high society, and eventually landed in Manhattan where she transmitted encrypted data to Russian handlers using covert wireless networks. Her arrest in June 2010, alongside nine other Russian illegals, marked the end of Operation Ghost Stories and the largest US-Russia spy swap since the Cold War.But Anna's story didn't end with her capture. It had only just begun.From coffee shops in Manhattan to the Kremlin's halls of power, from FBI surveillance to magazine covers and television shows, this is the true story of the spy who came in from the cold and found the spotlight warmer than she'd ever imagined.#philipthompson #truelifespystories #annachapman | — | ||||||
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