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Jim Stovall 51 - British Intelligence Networks, Part 2: “Wellington’s Peninsula Intelligence System”

This podcast presents true stories from the history of espionage. Interesting characters, tradecraft techniques, fascinating stories -- all are dealt with in this semi-weekly podcast. Espionage fiction and their authors are also topics of this podcast. The website for this podcast and related material is https://www.Spy-Story.com, and the author's website is https://www.JPROF.com.

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Spy Story

Episodes

British Intelligence Networks, Part 2: “Wellington’s Peninsula Intelligence System”

British Intelligence Networks, Part 1: “The Gold Road - Financing Resistance Across Europe”

Anne-Jean-Marie-René Savary, Part 2

Anne-Jean-Marie-René Savary, Part 1

Sir Robert Wilson

Colquhoun Grant

Charles Talleyrand, Part 2

Joseph Fouché, Part 2

Joseph Fouché, Part 1

Welcome to Spy Story: Meet Your Host, Sophie Baumann

Charles Talleyrand, Part 1

Somerset Maugham: The Art of Literary Espionage

Somerset Maugham: The Writer Who Spied

Charles Talleyrand: The Ultimate Betrayal - part 2

Charles Talleyrand: The Making of a Master Betrayer (part 1)

The Master of Disguise: Sarah Emma Edmonds

Karl Ludwig Schulmeister: The Smuggler's Gambit: Napoleon's Master Spy

Josephine Baker (part 2)

Josephine Baker: From Entertainer to Resistance Hero

The Black Chamber: Origins of Code-Breaking

Wilhelm Stieber: The Father of Modern Intelligence

Wilhelm Stieber: Bismarck's Master Spy

Erskine Childers: From Author to Revolutionary

Erskine Childers: The Man Who Created the Modern Spy Novel

Francis Walsingham: Defeating the Spanish Armada

Francis Walsingham: The Babington Plot and the Fall of Mary Queen of Scots

Francis Walsingham: The Birth of English Intelligence

Karl Lody: The First German Spy to Die in Britain

Marthe McKenna: The Belgian Nurse Behind Enemy Lines

T.E. Lawrence: Intelligence and the Arab Revolt

Room 40 and the Zimmermann Telegram: The Code-Breakers Who Changed History

Sidney Reilly: The Ace of Spies

Fritz Joubert Duquesne: The Boer Who Became Germany's Master Saboteur

Louise de Bettignies: The French Resistance Leader

Edith Cavell: The Nurse Who Defied an Empire

Mata Hari: The Dancer Who Became History's Most Famous Spy

Intelligence and Victory

Enoch Crosby

Ann Bates

James Armistead Lafayette

Lydia Darragh

The Culper Spy Ring

John André: The Gentleman Spy's Fatal Mission

Benedict Arnold: The Ultimate Betrayal

Nathan Hale: 'I Only Regret That I Have But One Life

The Secret Messages - Civil War Cryptography

Elizabeth Van Lew - The Union's Secret Weapon in Richmond

Belle Boyd: The Rebel Spy of the Shenandoah

General Grenville Dodge: Intelligence That Won the War

General Grenville Dodge: The Union's Secret Spymaster