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| Oct 22 | #157 | #145 | — |
| Oct 21 | #125 | #110 | — |
| Oct 20 | #151 | #137 | — |
| Oct 19 | #163 | #149 | — |
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Latest episodes
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S3E5 How To Interrogate A Monster: Saddam Hussein
October 19, 2026 · 1 hr 28 minIN THIS EPISODE In the previous two Spy Academy episodes, we talked about liars and how to spot them. Now it's time to put all that knowledge to good use as we deep dive into interrogating a true psychopath, the former leader of Iraq…
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S3E4 The Body Language of Lying
October 12, 2026 · 46 minIN THIS EPISODE SHOW NOTES If you're enjoying Dead Drop, podcast, please check out the rest of Costard & Touchstone's family of podcasts. They cover everything from journalism to Chinese medicine to culture to self help. Your next great…
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S3E3 Liars (And Lying) 101
October 5, 2026 · 47 minIN THIS EPISODE Welcome to John Kiriakou's Spy Academy! Whether chatting with someone informally or conducting a full-on interrogation, every spy needs to know whether or not the person they're talking to is being truthful with them. To…
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S3E2 The Whistleblower's Tiger Mom
September 28, 2026 · 53 minIN THIS EPISODE Every whistleblower should know one thing before they step forward with their secrets that demand exposing - at some point, the legal system will engage with you. When that happens, each and every whistleblowerl will need a…
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S3E1 Whistleblowers & Spies
September 21, 2026 · 45 minIN THIS EPISODE Welcome to Season 3! As the title of this episode suggests, season 3 will refocus the podcast on spying and, this season, on whistleblowing, too. We may be in a Golden Age of Corruption, but that's a future Golden Age of…
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S2E7 Letters From Loretto
June 29, 2026 · 28 minIN THIS EPISODE John arrived at Loretto Federal Prison having promised to write about his experiences for various independent news media outlets. He had no idea just how powerful that connection - John's prison experiences and the news…
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S2E6 Use Your Words
June 22, 2026 · 28 minTHE BLURB: Already a succesful, best-selling author when the CIA put John in prison, he quickly realized that his writing - his words - were going to be his super power. John wasn't worried about his fellow prisoners; his training as a spy…
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S2E5 The Abyss
June 15, 2026 · 47 minTHE BLURB: Frederich Nietsche warned us about staring into the abyss and becoming the monster we most feared. He could have been talking about being in prison. Or being a spy. In this episode, John tells how he increasingly relied on the…
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S2E4 With Friends Like These
June 8, 2026 · 33 minTHE BLURB: While, on the one hand prison is NOT the place you go to make friends, once you're there, you need to have (and be able to rely on) a tight circle of friends just to survive. In the last episode, John introduced you to some of…
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S2E3 Circle Of Friends
June 1, 2026 · 60 minTHE BLURB: In prison, nobody helps anybody. Except their friends. In this episode, John will introduce you to his circle of friends, some of whom remained his friend long after they all got out of prison. Relationships that would probably…
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S2E2 Rules Of The Game
May 25, 2026 · 35 minTHE BLURB: One thing about prison, there are rules upon rules. Upon rules. In this episode, John realizes that he's going to have to live by his own rules in order to survive. Those rules will be entirely based on the rules John learned…
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S2E1 Welcome To Loretto
May 18, 2026 · 31 minTHE BLURB: In season one, we told the story of how CIA counter terrorism officer John Kiriakou chose to tell ABC journalist Jonathan Ross the truth - that the CIA had tortured and waterboarded detainees like Abu Zubaydah. The CIA went on…
About the show
Join ex-CIA officer John Kiriakou on a very personal deep dive into what makes a spy tick. One of the most famous spies in the whole world, John - a spy with a conscience - blew the whistle on the CIA's torture program after the war on terror and spent 23 months in federal prison for it. As John explains, no spy is ever an "ex-spy". Why is that so? Listen to the podcast and you'll understand why. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.