I Spy
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
After Hotel Rwanda, Part 4: The Homecoming
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As pressure on the Rwandan government mounts, Paul signs a pardon request, expressing some contrition and agreeing to refrain from political activitie...
After Hotel Rwanda, Part 3: The Campaign
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A Rwandan court convicts Paul Rusesabagina on terrorism charges and sentences him to 25 years in prison. As he comes to terms with the prospect of spe...
After Hotel Rwanda, Part 2: The Backstory
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tensions between ethnic Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda began long before the 1994 genocide—a vestige of Belgian colonial rule in the country. On this ep...
After Hotel Rwanda, Part 1: The Trap
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An old friend persuades human rights activist Paul Rusesabagina to travel from his home in San Antonio, Texas, to Burundi for a speaking engagement. B...
Introducing: After Hotel Rwanda
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hello I Spy listeners. We're back in your feed to introduce you to a remarkable new podcast made by the producers of I Spy called: After Hotel Rwanda....
The Skeptic
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Long before Joe Weisberg created the award-winning television show The Americans, he served in the CIA. His brief period in the agency informed story ...
The Investigator
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Secret Service is known for its VIP protection unit but it also investigates international crimes, including hacking cases. On this episode, we fe...
The Handler
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Michele Rigby Assad joined the CIA just weeks after the attacks of September 11, 2001, and spent much of the next decade working undercover in the Mid...
The Spycatcher Part 2
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is part two of Eric O'Neill's story. O'Neill was an FBI agent who went undercover to catch a suspected spy in the bureau: Robert Hanssen. If ...
The Spycatcher
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, FBI agent Eric O'Neill goes undercover to catch a suspected spy in the bureau: Robert Hanssen. O'Neill is just 26 at the time. Hansse...
The Trainer
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Well, listeners, it's taken us a while but here it is: the first episode of our fourth season. We begin with Ric Prado, a former CIA officer who train...
I Spy Season 4—Coming May 31
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hey there I Spy listeners, here's the trailer for season 4. We'll have new episodes starting May 31. More spies, more Margo Martindale. This season, w...
The Cassandra part 2
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is part 2 of Frank Snepp's story. Snepp was a CIA analyst based in Saigon during the Vietnam War. In April of 1975, he discovered that Communist ...
The Cassandra
02 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Frank Snepp was a CIA analyst based in Saigon during the Vietnam War. In April of 1975, he discovered that Communist forces were preparing a large-sca...
The Special Agent
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The FBI's Ali Soufan specialized in Al Qaeda investigations both before and after the attacks of September 11th. In 2002 he was sent to question Abu Z...
The Hellraiser
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jay Dobyns was a special agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. In 2002, he infiltrated the Hells Angels biker gang and s...
The Infiltrator
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The British spy agency MI5 recruited Willie Carlin to infiltrate Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland. He spied on the group for 11 years until his cover was...
The Interrogator
02 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
FBI special agent George Piro spent seven months interrogating deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, establishing a rapport and then getting him to r...
The Narc part 2
28 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is part 2 of the story with DEA special agent Steve Murphy, who goes to Bogota, Colombia, to hunt for the head of the Medellin Cartel, Pablo Esco...
The Narc
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Season 3 of I Spy. On this episode, DEA special agent Steve Murphy is sent to Bogota, Colombia to hunt for the head of the Medellin Cartel,...
I Spy Season 3—Coming January 19
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
More spies, more Margo Martindale. Hey there I Spy listeners, here's the trailer for season 3. We'll have eight new episodes starting January 19. Che...
The Analyst
16 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
CIA analyst Sarah Carlson spent a year at the U.S. Mission in Libya after the attack that killed four Americans in Benghazi. When battles between riva...
The Operative
09 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mubin Shaikh poses as a Muslim extremist to nab Canadians who planned to stage large-scale attacks on government targets. The group he infiltrated wou...
The Bookseller
02 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Naveed Jamali worked at his parents’ specialty book business, a little company that counted among its regular customers one very unusual client: a R...
The Widow Spy
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Martha Peterson handled one of the most valuable Soviet spies of the Cold War, code-named TRIGON—until the KGB got wind of the operation. Peterson w...
The Whistleblower
19 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Drake joined the NSA in 2001 to help deal with the glut of data created by the huge rise of Internet use around the world. But he grew increasi...
The Chaperone
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, CIA officer Milt Bearden helps a KGB defector make a new life in the United States. But the Russian, Vitaly Yurchenko, discovers Amer...
The Targeter
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, CIA targeting officer Nada Bakos leads a two-year hunt for one of the most dangerous militants in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. This se...
The Survivor
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Season 2 of I Spy. On this episode, CIA officer Richard Holm is sent to Congo in 1965 to organize local agents against an anti-government r...
I Spy, Season 2 - Coming April 28
23 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Foreign Policy’s hit show returns Tuesday, April 28 with the first of eight new episodes. From a former CIA officer’s retelling of how he survived...
The Jumper
10 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A man jumps from a burning plane, exposing a covert U.S. operation and nearly bringing down the president. This week on I Spy, Eugene Hasenfus tells h...
The Art Dealer
03 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Amaryllis Fox worked for a decade as an undercover agent at the CIA, cultivating arms merchants and preventing them from selling fissile material to t...
The Counterspy
26 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The CIA thought it had thoroughly penetrated Cuban intelligence, with scores of agents and informants in Havana, until one day a Cuban officer walked ...
The Man With the Antidote
19 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, the Israeli Mossad operative Mishka Ben-David is sent to the Jordanian capital of Amman to help assassinate Khaled Mashal, the politi...
The Sleeper Agent
12 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, we talk to Albrecht Dittrich—aka Jack Barsky—who was born in East Germany, recruited by the KGB, and sent to the United States to...
The Master of Disguise
12 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On this first episode of I Spy, CIA agent Jonna Mendez is sent to a capital city in Asia to help steal a top-secret encryption machine from a Soviet E...
Trailer: I Spy
03 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Spies don’t talk—it’s the cardinal rule of the business. But on Foreign Policy’s podcast I Spy, we get them to open up. We hear from the opera...