Hosted by Justin Black · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 253 episodes
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Justin Black hosts SPYCRAFT 101, a history show with 253 episodes published.
Today's guest is today is Dr. Greg Barnhisel. Greg is a graduate of Reed College, New York University, and the University of Texas at Austin. He is now a professor of English at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl
Today Justin talks with Josh Ireland. Josh has a master's degree in history from the University of York. After graduating, he worked as an editor at Headline and Quercus, two of Great Britain's leading publishing compani
Today Justin sits down with Sam McKnight. Sam is a graduate student at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He's also the founder and director of Khthon, a non-governmental organization that uses open source intell
Today Justin sits down with Dr. Niccolò Petrelli. Niccolò is a research scholar at the Center for International and Strategic Studies at LUISS in Rome, Italy. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Political Science, his Mas
Today’s guest is Dr. Stephen Long. Stephen earned a PhD in US foreign policy and intelligence from the University of Birmingham and is an assistant professor of international relations at Shan Xiaotong Liverpool Universi
Today Justin speaks with Luis Baptistella. Luis is a specialist in intelligence and counterintelligence, and a retired officer of the Brazilian Navy, where he attained the rank of captain during a distinguished 35-year c
This week Justin talks with Rory Cormac. Rory is a professor of International Relations at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom, specializing in covert action and secret statecraft. He's also given presenta
Today Justin sits down with Kirillo Alexandrov. Kirillo grew up in the United States, but moved to Kherson, Ukraine in 2018. In April 2022, following the Russian invasion and occupation of eastern Ukraine, Kirillo was ta
Today’s guest is Dr. Emrah Safa Gürkan. Emrah received his bachelor's and Master's degree from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, and graduated with a PhD from Georgetown University in 2012. He's worked as a consultan
Today Justin sits down with Eduardo Barreto. Eduardo is a high school teacher at Gulliver Prep School and an adjunct professor of English composition at Miami-Dade College. He's married with five children and lives in Mi
Justin's guest for today is Sean Wiswesser. Sean is a graduate of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, where he earned a Bachelor's degree in History and Russian and Slavic Linguistics. He also has a Master of S
Today Justin sits down with Mubin Shaikh. Mubin grew up in Toronto, Ontario in a family of Indian Muslim immigrants. As a young man, he was drawn down the path of radicalization after traveling to India and Pakistan and
Today Justin talks with Dr. Damien Van Puyvelde. Damien is an associate professor and head of the Intelligence and Security Group at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University, Netherlands. Before
Today Justin sits down with Janosh Neumann, known as Jay. Jay was born in Russia under a different name and joined the Federal Security Service, known as the FSB ,as a counterintelligence officer in 1996. Over the next f
Today Justin is joined again by Zach Dorfman. Zach is a national security reporter whose work has appeared in Politico , The Atlantic , Wall Street Journal , The Los Angeles Times , and many other publications. He receiv
Today Justin sits down with Allie Mellen (@hackerxbella). Allie is a leading industry analyst who advises global 2000 organizations on cybersecurity policy and practice with a focus on detecting and responding to nation
This week continues our tribute to Lee Gossett with his second Spycraft 101 episode. Not only did he appear on the podcast twice, but he and Justin were regularly in contact via email from 2021 and on. He was an avid lis
This week, Spycraft 101 returns to the archives to say goodbye to one of our earliest guests. Lee Gossett got his start as a smoke jumper with the US Forest Service in the late 1950s and later served with Air America and
This week Justin sits down with Shane Osborn. Shane is a veteran of the US Navy and a graduate of the University of Nebraska Lincoln. From 2007 until 2011, he served as the treasurer for the State of Nebraska. He's also
Justin's guest for today is Julian Fisher, a former British intelligence operative espionage specialist and author of Think Like A Spy . Following a stint in government service, Julian headed up Africa operations for a p
Sean Wiswesser
retired CIA Senior Operations Officer and former Chief of Station
1 appearance on this show
Allie Mellen
cybersecurity analyst and author
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Brad Williams
Director of Technology · Idaho National Laboratory
1 appearance on this show
Robert Kerbeck
1 appearance on this show
Shaun Walker
1 appearance on this show
Kevin Bryant
Author of "Spies on the Sidelines: The High-Stakes World of NFL Espionage" · Department of Defense
1 appearance on this show
Thomas Maier
2 appearances on this show
John Lechner
author of Death Is Our Business
1 appearance on this show
Andreas Krieg
defence and security analyst and Gulf specialist
1 appearance on this show
Joe Navarro
FBI Profiler
1 appearance on this show
Greg Walker
CrossFit's first Games Champion in the 60+ Masters Division · Hatchet Brewing Company
1 appearance on this show
Norman Ohler
1 appearance on this show
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