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In the early hours of 27 September, a farmer driving home through the Cotswolds found her lane blocked by three vans and a group of masked men, a couple of miles from RAF Fairford, the main base in Europe for America’s heavy bombers.
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Credit to Psywarrior whose article I relied on substantially in creating this video Donate via PayPal: In February 1970, funeral gongs, weeping women, and the voices of dead soldiers echoed through the jungles of Vietnam. They weren't ghosts. They were a US Army psychological operation built on one fear: dying unburied, far from home.
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On 9 October 2026, the FBI arrested OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan. He's accused of hiding a home-made listening device in an executive conference room at OpenAI's San Francisco headquarters. It wasn't a sophisticated operation. The bug was a $14 controller board wrapped in toilet paper and plugged into the back of a TV.
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In 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.
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Donate via PayPal: On 6 October 2026, German police arrested August Hanning, the former head of the BND, Germany's foreign intelligence service. It's the equivalent of a former director of the CIA or chief of MI6 being arrested on suspicion of treason.
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Donate via PayPal: In March 1968, Soviet nuclear submarine K-129 carrying three ballistic missiles vanished in the North Pacific with all 98 men aboard. The Soviet Navy searched for 72 days and found nothing. The Americans knew exactly where it was, and they wanted what was on board.
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Listen to my spy stories on the True Life Spy Stories podcast! In this episode I sit down with author and professor Jason Bell to discuss the incredible story of the Sparrows, a World War 2 spy story that has been hidden from history, until now. Jason's new book Operation Sparrow: The Incredible True Story of the Spies Who Tricked Hitler and Won the War, is out now!
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Guest: Viktor Belenko
Donate via PayPal: On 6 September 1976, Soviet Air Force Lieutenant Viktor Belenko took off on a routine training flight in a MiG-25 interceptor and never came back. He landed at a civilian airport in Japan and handed the West the most secret aircraft in the Soviet arsenal.
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Listen to my spy stories on the True Life Spy Stories podcast! American Kompromat: how the KGB cultivated Donald Trump and related tales of sex, greed, power, and treachery by Craig Unger Full source list for every claim in this episode
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Book your place with Tradecraft Travel on the Dead Drops & Double Agents tour - a spy tour of Berlin, Leipzig, Prague, and Vienna with former CIA Chief of Station John Sipher and Tradecraft Travel founder Jack Buchanan. Get the full briefing at
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Guest: William Mackinnon Gray
Donate via PayPal: In April 1941, MI6 station chief William Mackinnon Gray shot his wife dead in a British Army officers' mess, then turned the gun on himself. He survived. When Britain's Secret Intelligence Service learned who he really was, they moved to make sure the world never found out, and the truth stayed buried for over eighty years.
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Listen to my spy stories on the True Life Spy Stories podcast! She was captured by the Gestapo, tortured with a red-hot iron, and had all ten toenails ripped out with pincers. She said nothing. Sentenced to death twice over, Odette Sansom survived it all to become the most highly decorated woman spy of the Second World War.
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Book your place with Tradecraft Travel on the Dead Drops & Double Agents tour - a spy tour of Berlin, Leipzig, Prague, and Vienna with former CIA Chief of Station John Sipher and Tradecraft Travel founder Jack Buchanan. Get the full briefing at
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Topics: A is for Abwehr · B is for Berlin Tunnel · C is for Cambridge Five · D is for Dead Drop · E is for Enigma · F is for False Flag
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