Intelligence & Espionage

The radar war, codebreaking, and human intelligence — SpyCast carries the tradecraft, while the Bruneval episodes show signals intelligence driving a physical raid. Civil War spies operating out of Montreal are the archive's reminder that none of this started in 1939.

Featured episodes

The History of WWII Podcast

EssentialEpisode 615-Battle of Midway: Prelude

SelectionEpisode 616-Midway: First Blood

We Have Ways of Making You Talk

EssentialHeist From The Sky: The Bruneval Raid (Part 1)

EssentialHeist From The Sky: The Raid Begins (Part 2)

SpyCast

SelectionFrom Ivory Tower to Iron Curtain: The Academics Who Reshaped the CIA

The History Extra Podcast

EssentialThe battle of the Arctic: the overlooked crucible of WW2

Go deeper

🎙 Veterans' accounts · from From Ivory Tower to Iron Curtain: The Academics Wh

Library of Congress Veterans History Project holds interviews with Cold War-era intelligence officers and analysts — searchable at loc.gov/vets

🎙 Veterans' accounts · from The battle of the Arctic: the overlooked crucible

Library of Congress Veterans History Project holds interviews with American merchant marine and naval personnel involved in Arctic operations — searchable at https://loc.gov/vets/