ÜBER DIESEN PODCAST 🔗
The Live Drop is a HUMINT experiment — long-form conversations with intelligence professionals, diplomats, historians, authors, and analysts from around the world who think seriously about information collection, espionage, geopolitics, and national security. Hosted by former Army officer and actor Mark Valley.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Hosts:
Aktualisierungshäufigkeit:
bimonthly
Durchschnittliche Audiolänge:
51 minutes
Gastinterviews
Hat Sponsoren
Englisch
Vereinigte Staaten
79 Folgen
seit 15. Juni 2018
episodic
AUDIENCE OF THIS PODCAST 🔗
~72.68% of listeners are from United States.
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US
72.68%
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FI
13.14%
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CA
3.60%
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SG
2.31%
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GB
1.80%
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IE
1.80%
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BE
1.28%
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DK
0.51%
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AU
0.51%
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BR
0.51%
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DE
0.51%
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XX
0.25%
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SI
0.25%
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NL
0.25%
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ES
0.25%
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BG
0.25%
Others
0.10%
* Data source: directly measured on Listen Notes. in Echtzeit
NEUESTE FOLGEN 🔗
Filmmaker Harry Stourton joins Mark from Kyiv, the morning after a heavy night of Russian strikes, to describe a war that has changed almost entirely since 2022. Stourton has produced feature films and documentaries, including Pizza Under Fire, which follows international volunteers who drive a con…
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FRÜHERE EPISODEN 🔗
Michael Sellers spent a decade as a CIA case officer, with postings in Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia. He landed in Cold War Moscow in 1984 under diplomatic cover where uhe worked on the Tolkachev operation - subject of the new film Billion Dollar spy starting Russell Crowe coming out soon. Seller…
LD077: In June 1949, the CIA and MI6 secretly agreed to overthrow Albania's communist dictator Enver Hoxha. The operation — codenamed BGFiend — would use exiled Albanian dissidents, paramilitary infiltration, propaganda broadcasts from a yacht in the Adriatic, and a network of émigré communities in…
Jack Beaumont, a former DGSE (French external intelligence) operative, focusing on Beaumont's experiences, his writing process, and the themes of his espionage novels. Beaumont explains that his writing began as a therapeutic exercise to cope with PTSD from his intelligence work, initially not inte…
In this interview, I had the pleasure of speaking with a Cold War expert--Shawnna Morris--about her fascinating book on the Cambridge Five spy ring. We talked about how her book has been received both in the UK and the US, and she shared some insights into the cultural attitudes around this famous …
This episode of The Live Drop, I talk with James Stejskal — a former U.S. Army Special Forces operator from Detachment “A” in Cold War Berlin who later worked in intelligence before turning to history and fiction. He’s the author of Special Forces Berlin and the Snake Eater Chronicles, and his late…
Episode 73 – The Invisible Spy: Ernest Cuneo and the Secret Machinations of American Power
This episode visits the untold life of Ernest Cuneo—a professional football player turned journalist, turned presidential fixer, turned invisible architect of wartime espionage. Before the CIA existed, …
Author John Lechner talks about his powerful new book, Death Is Our Business, a definitive investigation into Russia’s notorious private military company, the Wagner Group. With firsthand accounts, OSINT research, and a historian’s depth, Lechner traces Wagner’s evolution from covert operators in U…
🎙️ The Live Drop – Episode 71: Kit Turner on the Cuban Revolution, Espionage, and Historical Fiction
In this episode, I speak with former intelligence officer and historical fiction author Kit Turner, whose latest novel Children of Outer Darkness dives deep into the origins of the Cuban Revolution.…
My guest is a West Point classmate of mine, Chris Petty, a retired Brigadier General. He created the book and online resource Battle Digest to fill the gap in military history education, offering concise lessons from historic battles. A former Rugby player, he emphasizes how studying history builds…
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