Spies and Lies

Check out Omri's new show with Wondery+ - Guilty by Design "Guilty by Design is the TRUE(?) STORY of Interior designers Alexander and Frank, a gay American couple, who in the 80s, landed the jackpot of all clients –...

The small Rossli hotel overlooked a quiet airfield in the tranquil town of Unterbach, Switzerland... and in the summer of 2023, it became the center of a suspected espionage plot by Chinese intelligence services to...

Check out Tortoise Media's new show - The Gas Man! "It’s the late 1980s and US Special Agent Dennis Bass is warned about a shipment of suspicious chemicals headed to a secret destination. So he follows the lead – and...

Wrapping up season 2, Omri and Jason answer listener questions and discuss past seasons, as well as what's to come. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As the Pacific theatre of WW2 raged and the Philippines became a battleground between US and Japanese troops, Josephina Guerrero, a young woman suffering a terrible disease, joined the the Filipino resistance to become...

The Mongol Empire, founded by Genghis Khan, who dubbed himself the 'wrath of God', became the 2nd largest empire in human history. But how did tribal steppe warriors conquer much of the then known world... and what were...

Deniss Metsavas was a symbol for all that Estonia aspired to stand for... patriotism, unity, and the refutation of Russian lies... until in 2018, he was arrested, and his terrible secret revealed... that he had been a...

An article with a bombastic headline about Russian spies operating in a NATO country and another claiming details of the "worst breach since the Cold War" lead to a discussion and analysis of recent Ukraine & Russian...

Throughout France's history of espionage and spycraft... perhaps its most mysterious, daring, and eccentric agent was... a monkey? Wait, that can't be right... or - Is it? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...

For close to 40 years she spied for the Soviets, stole nuclear secrets, and was never caught... She was... Melita Norwood - AKA - Agent Hola. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

During WW2, the Nazi Abwehr intelligence service managed to infiltrate deep into Great Britain, creating a massive network of spies - code named "Arabel" - which provided vital and in depth information. The catch? It...

Juan Pujol travels to England and begins his work with MI5. His actions with the help of MI5 would go on to save thousands of lives perhaps single-handedly (or in his case... 27 fake agents' hands!) change the course of...

After approaching British intelligence 3 times at the start of WW2 and being rejected - Juan Pujol switched sides and approached the Germans, but that was all part of his master plan... A plan that would eventually...

Fashion icon and legend Coco Chanel has a secret... and a WW2 code name... Was Baron von Dincklage more than just her Nazi lover? Was he also... her Abwehr spy handler? And what do Winston Churchill and the Duke of...

Famous for "the Haversack ruse" and other trickery in espionage... was Richard Meinertzhagen the spy master he claimed to be? Did he murder his wife? And what about all those birds??? Hosted on Acast. See...