The 3 Best The Rest Is Classified Podcast Episodes
1) 4. How Security Services Will React To The Fall Of Assad
What will western and Syrian spy services be focusing on following the fall of Bashar al-Assad? Is Russia and Iran’s withdrawal from Syria similar to the US withdrawal from Afghanistan? Were the secur...Show More
4. How Security Services Will React To The Fall Of Assad
39:29 | Dec 10th, 2024
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2) The Rest is Classified Trailer
The Rest Is Classified takes you into the mysterious world of spies and espionage. Hosted by former CIA analyst now turned spy novelist, David McCloskey, and veteran security correspondent, Gordon Cor...Show More
3) 1. The First CIA Coup: Oil, Iran, and MI6
Welcome... to the first episode of The Rest is Classified! It's Iran 1951. Mohammad Mosaddegh, fuelled by an ever-growing nationalism, has just been elected Prime Minister. Immediately he chooses to ...Show More
4) 86. Mossad Pager Attack: The Long War with Hezbollah (Ep 1)
"The smartphone is a lethal collaborator. " This was the stark warning from Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah in February 2024. In the wake of intense conflict with Israel, the group made a...Show More
5) EXCLUSIVE: The Spy Who Smuggled Gordievsky Out of Russia
*Declassified Club exclusive: SUBSCRIBE to listen to the full interview* What does it take to smuggle the West’s most valuable Russian agent out of the Soviet Union, under the noses of the KGB? How d...Show More
6) 85. The Man Who Saved The World: The Great Escape (Ep 6)
Oleg Gordievsky wants to leave Moscow, but how? How can a man under suspicion of being a traitor escape the watchful eye of the KGB? Do MI6 have a plan to rescue him? Or will the man who has leaked co...Show More
7) 84. The Man Who Saved The World: A Friendship Shattered (Ep 5)
Just as Oleg Gordievsky was moments away from being the KGB’s most senior man in Britain, he is recalled to Moscow. Has his spying been revealed? What can MI6 do? And will he return to his homeland kn...Show More
8) 83. The Man Who Saved The World: Countdown to Armageddon (Ep 4)
It’s 1983 and the world is on the brink of nuclear war. Operation Able Archer has ratcheted tensions right up, how is Oleg Gordievski going to prevent a nuclear apocalypse? Is this the greatest contri...Show More
9) 82. The Man Who Saved The World: Britain’s Best Ever Agent (Ep 3)
Oleg Gordievsky is now recruited as an agent for MI6 and he is providing intelligence of the highest order, but is there a chance he’ll be rumbled by the KGB? Who will keep him safe in London? And wha...Show More
10) 81. The Man Who Saved The World: Abandoning Communism (Ep 2)
How did Oleg Gordievsky get recruited to work for MI6? What effect did living in Copenhagen have on his political views? And how did Britain nearly blow the recruitment of one of the most consequentia...Show More