Podcast · 66 episodes
The Spy Who, page 3
by Audible · English
These are stories you were never meant to hear. The invisible but vital work of the world’s intelligence services: secret operatives playing to very different rules. The Spy Who, hosted by Indira Varma, Raza Jaffrey and Emilia Fox, takes you deep inside that shadow world to meet spies who risked everything in the national interest – or, sometimes, their own. Audible subscribers can listen to all episodes of The Spy Who ad-free right now. Join Audible today by downloading the Audible app.
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The Spy Who Outran the KGB | War Games | 2Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB officer turned MI6 asset, navigates KGB mole-hunting, then warns the West about Soviet nuclear paranoia during NATO’s Able Archer war games, helping avert (or at least manage)…2 Dec 2025 · 48 min · 13 chapters
The Spy Who Outran the KGB | Secrets and Chocolate Bars | 1MI6 and Danish PET recruit KGB officer Oleg Gordievsky, culminating in his later 1985 escape attempt; the episode also shows his ideological doubts, early contact with MI6, and the “Safeway…25 Nov 2025 · 44 min · 14 chapters
The Spy Who Lived Inside Al-Qaeda | Morten Storm on his extraordinary life, being 'one of the worst spies' and the true cost of espionage | 4Morten Storm’s journey from Danish gang life to becoming an Al-Qaeda infiltrator in Yemen, then turning against the group and describing the “cat-and-mouse” with multiple spy agencies, including…18 Nov 2025 · 38 min · 17 chapters
The Spy Who Lived Inside Al-Qaeda | Disposable Hero | 3Danish spy Morten Storm’s covert work inside al-Qaeda networks in Yemen, including CIA tracking of Anwar al-Awlaki, later attempts to locate Nasir al-Wuhashi, and Storm’s eventual break with Danish…11 Nov 2025 · 38 min · 12 chapters
The Spy Who Lived Inside Al-Qaeda | The Struggle Within | 2Danish ex-jihadi spy Morten Storm tries to help Western intelligence locate Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen, but internal disagreements and operational failures derail the plan; Storm later rebuilds contact…4 Nov 2025 · 40 min · 12 chapters
The Spy Who Lived Inside Al-Qaeda| Jump in the Fire | 1Morton Storm, a Danish convert turned al-Qaeda insider, is recruited as a spy to locate al-Qaeda leadership in Yemen for US drone strikes, then later helps stop a UK “lone wolf” bomb plot by passing…28 Oct 2025 · 41 min · 19 chapters
The Spy Who Colluded with Castro | How Ana Montes Fooled Her FBI Siblings | 4Final episode of The Spy Who Colluded with Castro, focused on Ana Montes’ 17-year CIA/DIA-era espionage for Fidel Castro’s Cuba, her family’s involvement (especially FBI agent sister Lucy), and why…21 Oct 2025 · 35 min · 13 chapters
The Spy Who Colluded with Castro | Ready to Snap | 3This episode follows DIA counterintelligence officer Scott Carmichael and FBI agent Steve McCoy trying to confirm whether Ana Montez is a Cuban spy inside the DIA.14 Oct 2025 · 39 min · 17 chapters
The Spy Who Colluded with Castro | In This Building | 2DIA analyst Ana Montez is questioned for suspected Cuban ties, then learns about the NRO’s MISTI spy-satellite program and decides to leak it to her handler Ernesto, using a floppy disk and a Cuban…7 Oct 2025 · 42 min · 14 chapters
The Spy Who Colluded with Castro | The A Traitor in the Making | 1Ana Berlin Montez, a Puerto Rican–linked DIA analyst, is recruited by Cuban intelligence after protesting U.S. Contra support, trained in Havana, and later becomes a high-level mole.30 Sep 2025 · 40 min · 12 chapters
The Spy Who is Back Soon | 6Teaser for upcoming episodes of “The Spy Who,” framing three spy stories as infiltration, betrayal, and intelligence tradecraft.7 Sep 2025 · 1 min
Encore: The Spy Who Inspired 007 | The Other James Bonds | 5The Spy Who Inspired 007 finale asks who most inspired Ian Fleming’s James Bond, arguing Bond is an amalgam rather than one source.19 Aug 2025 · 21 min · 11 chapters
Encore: The Spy Who Inspired 007 | Retribution | 4Dushko Popov’s role in Operation Fortitude deception before D-Day, the interrogation and drug rehearsal involving Johnny Yebsen, and the later hunt for Yebsen’s captor and fate.12 Aug 2025 · 40 min · 10 chapters
Encore: The Spy Who Inspired 007 | Back in the Game | 3Dushko Popov’s strained FBI/Abwehr double-agent work after Pearl Harbor, his exposure via Walter Winchell gossip, his extraction by MI5/MI6, and his role in Operation Fortitude (misleading Germany…5 Aug 2025 · 36 min · 11 chapters
Encore: The Spy Who Inspired 007 | Warning Signs | 2Dusko Popov’s double-agent work intensifies in the US before Pearl Harbor—microdots, FBI distrust, and a forced Hawaii cover story that collapses into legal and bureaucratic interference—ending with…29 Jul 2025 · 36 min · 10 chapters
Encore: The Spy Who Inspired 007 | A Friend Among Foes | 1Dushko Popov’s rise as a WWII double agent who helped inspire James Bond, moving from Gestapo imprisonment to Abwehr work, then MI6 deception, and finally escalating missions toward the US and Pearl…22 Jul 2025 · 35 min · 9 chapters
The Spy Who Saved MI5 (Encore) | How the Cambridge Five Changed MI5 | 5How MI5’s reputation was damaged at the start of the 1970s and how it later “rehabilitated” itself after the Cold War Cambridge spy scandal, focusing on Oleg Lelin’s impact and the Cambridge Five’s…15 Jul 2025 · 38 min · 13 chapters
The Spy Who Saved MI5 (Encore) | The Dominoes Fall | 4Operation Foot (Sept 24, 1971) expels 105 Soviet intelligence officers from Britain after MI5/defector Oleg Lelin’s intelligence; the episode follows British and Soviet retaliation, diplomatic…8 Jul 2025 · 39 min · 13 chapters