Secrets & Spies Podcast: Global Affairs | Intelligence

Pete Turner served in US Army intelligence in Germany, Bosnia, Iraq & Afghanistan, recruiting spies from the Mujahideen, Taliban and other groups. On our latest podcast, Pete shares his philosophy for agent recruitment. Links in comments below 👇👇👇

Boy who stabbed girl at school was radicalised online, says father www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Two charged over alleged plot to assist Iran in RAF Fairford incident www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘Autonomy, not flesh’: RAF chief outlines AI drone-powered future (Question: With this growing reliance on drones, are we not concerned that they could be hacked and rendered useless en masse, or worse, turned against us?) www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Though the Trump administration is full of bombast, the US has lost this war with Iran. You want to see why? The region is moving on without the USA. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/w...

British Type 31 Frigate Variant Offered To The U.S. Navy www.twz.com/sea/british-...

Yury's Admission A Kremlin official lets slip an inconvenient truth for Trump macspaunday.substack.com/p/yurys-admi...

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

Anthropic has warned artificial intelligence could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity" as it unveiled details of its planned blockbuster stock market listing in the US. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

US has plans for major Iran strikes if Trump chooses www.cnn.com/2026/10/26/p...

The Dark Triad: Trump, Musk, Putin broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-dark-t...

Need a podcast for your Sunday? Check out our latest interview with Pete Turner, former US Army intelligence.

Need a podcast for your Sunday? Check out our latest interview with Pete Turner, former US Army intelligence.

Covid was good for something. I haven’t been to National Archives in London, yet. But then you were allowed to download. I found many files about German #Communists, some of them active for Comintern or Soviet intteligence. I have made a draft manuscript, which I plan to polish on.

A file release from MI5 Over 100 Security Service (MI5) files are being released at The National Archives today covering a wide range of subjects and individuals. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...

Spies Suspected at Russian Embassy and OSCE Mission in Vienna. Austria Orders Four Diplomats to Leave united24media.com/world/spies-...

Who Really Pays for Starshield? Elon Musk’s military satellite service is back online over Ukraine after a week-plus outage, but no one in Washington will say who cut it off—or why. puck.news/who-really-p...

Musk and Trump have done so much damage to the reputation of US systems with this episode. I remember last year there was a lot of fearmongering that US-made weapon systems could be switched off at the whim of the US. This was dismissed as not possible. Then we have this Starlink episode.

Two Finnish firms progress satellite plans for Ukraine Ukraine is urgently seeking alternatives to Elon Musk's Starlink internet service which recently capped its connection speed in the country. yle.fi/a/74-20253000

No nation or company or anyone should ever trust Starlink again.

russia kept attacking Ukrainian cities overnight. Strikes hit apartment buildings, an elderly care home, and a shopping center. 3 people were killed and 25 injured, including an 11-year-old girl. Help protect civilian lives. u24.gov.ua/sky-defense?...

On The Brink Of Epic Fury Round Two? From @twz.com www.twz.com/news-feature...

"Musk says SpaceX restricted Ukraine's Starlink connection as service was restored" (Musk is a US government contractor. His actions caused deaths for an ally of the US. Will there be an enquiry? There should be.) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Our latest podcast is out. Pour yourself a drink, sit back and check out our conversation with Pete Turner discussing his time in US Army intelligence

FBI arrests CIA contractor for allegedly leaking classified material www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice...

Seven shot dead by gunmen at church funeral in Jordan, officials say www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So why is Trump's administration giving away a key gas deal to Russians? The CEO of a US energy company tells the NY Times he resigned when he discovered financial backing from the UAE was actually from a partly-sanctioned Russia firm. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

How reliant is Ukraine on US support – and could Kyiv carry on without it? (Trump bad for allies, good for foes) www.cnn.com/2026/10/24/e...

Arrest made after fire at Hitler's mountaintop Eagle's Nest retreat www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

THE NEW SUBTERRANEAN FRONT As drones fill the skies over the war zone, the fighting in Ukraine has moved into a network of gas pipelines deep belowground. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

A Russian exile known as “Foma” says he runs a roughly 30-person network tracking Russian officers for Ukraine. A BBC documentary says the group’s surveillance helped set up the Dec. 2025 car-bomb killing of Russian Gen. Fanil Sarvarov in Moscow. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

With the return of Jack Carr's The Terminal List, we're revisiting an uncomfortable question about cancer among America's Special Operations Forces. www.linkedin.com/pulse/termin...

Rumour has it the final candidates to play James Bond are filming their screen tests this weekend. Will white smoke emerge from Amazon HQ on Monday, with an announcement to follow in the coming weeks? And what about M, Q and Moneypenny? I’m assuming a clean sweep of the EON-era cast.

Chinese-made cars rented by Norwegian military automatically recorded and stored video footage during military exercises www.techradar.com/pro/chinese-...

Putin, same sh*t, different day

As expected, talks on ending Russia's war against Ukraine have shifted to talks on a new division of Europe. In his statement on 22 October, Putin said that future negotiations should determine guarantees for Russia as well as the broader rules of European security.

How do you recruit agents and get information from them? Well on tomorrow’s podcast Pete Turner joins us to tell us about his time recruiting people for US Army intelligence in Iraq, Afghanistan and other locations around the world. I think its a really good interview. Hope you do too 🍸🍸🍸

I want my House speaker setting the groundwork for this traitorous crook to die in prison—utterly broken, penniless, and recognized as the shitstain on American history that he is—not meeting with him to talk about bipartisan legislation.

This seems bad: "The internet could be on the verge of a total meltdown" writes Matteo Wong www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

The AfD wants the theft of 421,000 emails investigated. Quite right. Though I suspect the really interesting question isn't who hacked them, but what German prosecutors might find if they start looking closely enough at the contents. Türen auf, bitte.

⚡️ "It is wrong and unacceptable that he pins Russia’s aggression and Russia’s killings on me," Zelenskyy regarding Trump's statements.

Hackers steal 421,000 emails belonging to members of Germany's far-right AfD party www.euronews.com/2026/10/20/h...

Q: Zelenskyy said these new Russian strikes overnight is proof that nothing has changed with Putin and he doesn't want peace? TRUMP: Well, we'll see how it works out. That's been happening a lot. *walks away*

Was there EVER a more appropriate metaphor for the state of the union?

Of great interest

The Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations—Including More Than $700 Million in Transfers www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...