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October 12, 2020October 12, 2020
The FBI’s War on MLK and What It Means Today
The Double Exposure documentary film festival has several provocative offerings on the world of intelligence and spying. Coming on October...
October 7, 2020October 7, 2020
The Improbable But True Story of Two Female Assassins from North Korea
The spectacularly brazen murder of King Jong-nam happened in broad daylight, filmed entirely by security cameras. Footage showed two young...
September 28, 2020October 5, 2020
‘Last Narc’: How the CIA Did Business With Drug Traffickers
Former Newsweek correspondent and best-selling author Elaine Shannon tries but doesn’t quite succeed in taking down Amazon’s series “The Last...
September 24, 2020September 25, 2020
SpyTalk Review of Books and Movies
In SpyTalk, veteran intelligence reporter Jeff Stein reviews a diverse slew of recent books in the realm of espionage and...
September 19, 2020December 7, 2020
COUP 53 Sheds New Light on How CIA and MI6 Brought Tyranny to Iran
The coup that toppled a democratically elected government in Iran in August 1953 and replaced it with a tyrannical monarchy...
July 31, 2020January 2, 2021
The End of the Affair: JFK and Mary Meyer
“JFK and Mary Meyer: A Love Story” is a most unusual thing: a novel with footnotes. In the 1960s, the...
June 25, 2020September 19, 2020
Barton Gellman on Edward Snowden and the Threat of ‘Turnkey Authoritarianism’
I recently spoke with Barton Gellman, former Washington Post reporter and author of “Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American...
May 31, 2020September 23, 2020
Raazi: RAW Agent Penetrates Pakistan Military
This Indian spy thriller, said to be based on a true story, is the story of a woman RAW (Research...
May 28, 2020September 23, 2020
‘Influence’ Shows Why if You’re Not Worried About the November Election, You Should Be
A Canadian documentary, Influence, profiles the late Tim Bell, a state of the art political consultant, in the United Kingdom....
April 17, 2020September 23, 2020
Inside Trump’s War on the Deep State Agencies
David Rohde, former New York Times reporter, is publishing a book about Trump’s conception of the “deep state.” In an...
March 23, 2020September 19, 2020
Counterterrorism: A Woman’s Game
From The Interpreter, an Australian blog about international politics. two recently published books on counterterrorism, intelligence, and national security fly...
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