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  • Gulp of America
    Jan 9 2026

    CIA in Venezuela, Cuba and Beyond

    With Luis Rueda
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/luis-rueda-b060a217/

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    Peter Eisner
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    40 min
  • Her Grandfather Was a Nazi Spy
    Jan 2 2026

    Christine Kuehn talks about her shocking discovery in “Family of Spies"

    Family of Spies
    https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250344465/familyofspies/

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    40 min
  • The House of Secrets
    Dec 19 2025

    Tom Blanton talks about 40 years of unearthing CIA plots at the National Security Archive.

    https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/

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    50 min
  • Trump’s Antifa Fiction
    Dec 13 2025

    Top former national security official Josh Geltzer separates fake from real threats.

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    52 min
  • The Pipe Bomb Suspect—and More
    Dec 6 2025

    Ace investigative reporter Carol Leonnig talks about her latest scoop and new book on Trump’s DoJ, “Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department.”

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    56 min
  • Sidelining the FBI's Spy Hunters
    Nov 26 2025

    Investigative reporter Ron Kessler and retired former senior CIA officer John Sipher on the GOP plan to give Tulsi Gabbard control of neutralizing spies and terrorists.

    John Sipher
    https://www.thecipherbrief.com/

    Risking a National Security Disaster by Ronald Kessler
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    44 min
  • Pushing Back on Lawless Venezuela Strikes
    Nov 21 2025

    Top Democrat Sen. Jack Reed calls Trump threats “off the wall...”

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    42 min
  • Has Trump Authorized Assassinations?
    Nov 14 2025

    Intelligence historians James Risen and Peter Kornbluh on Trump policies and Cold War excesses.

    More from James Risen
    https://www.theguardian.com/profile/james-risen

    More from Peter Kornbluh
    https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/7/gunboat_diplomacy

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    47 min
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