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  1. Foreign Office #30. The Silent Weapon

    Former CIA officer Marc Polymeropoulos on being a victim of directed energy attacks, U.S. Russian relations, and his new book. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://megaphone.fm/adchoices

  2. Foreign Office #29. The View from Vilnius

    Former Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicious discusses Belarus's hijacking of a commercial plane, and what the West needs to do about Minsk (and Moscow). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://megaphone.fm/adchoices

  3. Foreign Office #28. A KGB Kidnapping

    Andrei Sannikov, a former Belarusian presidential candidate, explains Alexander Lukashenko's crazy plot to arrest a journalist by hijacking a RyanAir plane. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://megaphone.fm/adchoices

  4. Foreign Office #27. Microwaves and Bounties

    National security reporter Tom Rogan on why the CIA isn't giving up on the GRU 'bounties' claim, and on alleged directed energy attacks against Americans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://megaphone.fm/adchoices

  5. Foreign Office #26. Explosions and Expulsions

    Czech analyst Jakub Janda on how Russian state terrorism on NATO soil has upended Prague's relationship with Moscow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://megaphone.fm/adchoices

  6. Foreign Office #25. A 21st Century SMERSH

    Bellingcat's Christo Grozev on what the latest disclosures out of Bulgaria and Czechia tell us about GRU Unit 29155. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://megaphone.fm/adchoices

  7. Foreign Office #24. The Professor and “Ivan”

    Nerma Jelacic, director of External Relations and Communications at Commission for International Justice and Accountability, explains how her NGO unmasked a Russian-back disinformation network on Syria — by pretending to be a Russian spy. L

  8. Foreign Office #23. Of “Kostya” and Collusion

    RFE/RL’s Mike Eckel explains how the latest US sanctions on Russia advance what Mueller alleged about the Trump campaign’s ties to Moscow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://megaphone.fm/adchoices

  9. Foreign Office #22. Will Russia Invade Ukraine (Again)?

    USIP Russia Director Don Jensen weighs the possible reason for Russia’s military buildup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://megaphone.fm/adchoices

  10. Foreign Office #21. Strategic Miscommunication

    Analyst Monika Richter explains how Chinese government threats got an EU report on COVID-19 disinformation censored. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://megaphone.fm/adchoices

  11. Foreign Office #20. Disinformation and Its Discontents

    Johns Hopkins scholar and “Active Measures” author Thomas Rid on the DNI report on Russian meddling and how 2020 is different from 2016. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://megaphone.fm/adchoices

  12. Foreign Office #19. When a Hack is not an Attack

    Wired journalist Andy Greenberg on the SolarWinds hack and why cyberespionage is not cyber warfare. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://megaphone.fm/adchoices

  13. Foreign Office #18. The Pipeline from Hell

    Benjamin Schmitt, an energy security expert, argues Nord Stream 2 can and should be cancelled. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://megaphone.fm/adchoices

  14. Foreign Office #17. Canceling Navalny

    Russian journalist Yevgenia Albats — on Amnesty International’s decision to revoke Navalny’s prisoner of conscious status. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://megaphone.fm/adchoices

  15. Foreign Office #16. Mr. Jones and Me

    Andrea Chalupa, screenwriter of "Mr. Jones," on what inspired her to memorialize the journalist who uncovered Ukraine's terror-famine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://megaphone.fm/adchoices

  16. Foreign Office #15. What the Borrell Was He Thinking?

    Senior Fellow at the European Values Center for Security Policy Nathalie Vogel on why the EU let the Kremlin humiliate it — again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://megaphone.fm/adchoices

  17. Foreign Office #14. Beirut Blues

    The deputy editor of Newlines magazine Faysal Itani on the murder of Lebanese activist Lokman Slim and what America can and cannot do in the Middle East. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://megaphone.fm/adchoices

  18. Foreign Office #13. The KGB's "Confidential Contacts"

    Former CIA Officer John Sipher discusses the grey area between Russian informant and Russian agent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://megaphone.fm/adchoices

  19. Foreign Office #12. The People v. Julian Assange

    Journalist Marcy Wheeler explains the U.S. government's charges against the Wikileaks founder, and why Britain refused to extradite him to America to face them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://megaphone.fm/adchoices

  20. Foreign Office #11. How to Catch a Russian Assassin

    Christo Grozev, the Bellingcat journalist who unmasked Alexey Navalny’s hit squad, explains how he did it, and what it says about Putin’s security state. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://megaphone.fm/adchoices

  21. #10. America in a Post-Trump World

    Foreign policy analyst Damir Marusic on why a Biden presidency won't necessarily change much. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://megaphone.fm/adchoices

  22. #9. Resets, Be Gone!

    Former Biden adviser and Russia expert Michael Carpenter discusses his coauthored articles with President-Elect Joe Biden and what to expect from the new administration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://megaphone.fm/adchoices

  23. #8. Unfrozen Conflict

    Award-winning journalist Simon Ostrovsky reports from Nagorno-Karabakh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://megaphone.fm/adchoices

  24. #7. The View from Europe

    As Joe Biden crept to victory, Estonia's former President Toomas Henrik Ilves explained how much of Europe saw this election -- and what it expects and (doesn't expect) from America going forward Learn more about your ad choices. Visit http

  25. #6. Thumping Out Sandworm

    FireEye's John Hultquist explains the U.S. government's newly unsealed indictment about the GRU's devastating hacking operations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://megaphone.fm/adchoices

  26. #5. CIA v KGB: How American and Russian political warfare differs -- and how it doesn't

    Tim Weiner, the acclaimed historian of the CIA, discusses his new book on American-Russian political warfare, from the Cold War till now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://megaphone.fm/adchoices

  27. #4. Second Time As Farce: How a Russian-Backed Operation in Ukraine to Sway the 2020 U.S. Election Came Undone

    Time magazine's Simon Shuster discusses the ongoing Kremlin disinformation campaign involving individuals sanctioned by the U.S. Government Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://megaphone.fm/adchoices

  28. #3. Double Trouble: Who and What Poisoned Vladimir Kara-Murza?

    In this episode, Vladimir Kara-Murza, vice president of Free Russia Foundation, recounts his own poisoning (twice) while traveling in Russia and what the FBI will has and hasn't told him about what it knows. Learn more about your ad choices

  29. #2. Russia's history of poisonings

    Russian journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan discuss Russia's history of poisonings in light of the Navalny case and why the use of a signature toxin such as Novichok implicates Vladimir Putin. Learn more about your ad choices. Vis

  30. #1. How Austria became Europe’s spy capital

    In our pilot episode, Michael interviews Anton Shekhovtsov, an expert on the European far-right and the Russian government's ties to it. They discuss their jointly written essay for The Daily Beast, drawn from a still-classified KGB trainin

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