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Bringing realism to famous and not so famous stories of espionage.
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The Berlin tunnel
How $6.5 million and a 1,476-foot tunnel netted the CIA and MI6 intelligence from East Berlin for 11 months and 11 days in 1955
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CIA, Ford Foundation, and Political Warfare
How the CIA cultivated and controlled a political warfare group in West Berlin with a little bit of help from the Ford Foundation
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Feb 6
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COSMIC TOP SECRET
The world came to within inches of nuclear war in 1983. An act of treachery helped avert it. This is the story of Agent Topaz.
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Jan 11
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The curious symmetry of Lt Col Zahir's disappearance
Employed by Pakistan's ISI after his retirement from the army, Lt Col Zahir travelled to Nepal in 2017 and disappeared in events remarkably similar to…
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Nov 24, 2021
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Benazir's dream and the Taliban
Listen now (34 min) | What did Benazir's desire for a natural gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan have to do with the rise of the Taliban…
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Nov 5, 2021
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Abdul Qadeer Khan, nuclear proliferator extraordinaire
An excerpt from my spy thriller 'Let Bhutto Eat Grass' featuring the metallurgist who stole nuclear weapons technology and earned the sobriquet Xerox…
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Oct 11, 2021
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The end of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan
Listen now (28 min) | Discussing the Peshawar Seven, ISI, CIA, and Najibullah's Afghan government with Sudarshan Garg
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Oct 10, 2021
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Panjshir, Afghanistan: Resistance then and now
Listen now (83 min) | Comparing the anti-Taliban resistance led by Ahmad Massoud & Amrullah Saleh in the Panjshir valley today to Ahmad Shah Massoud's…
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Sep 26, 2021
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