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James Pearson @pearswick.press · 6d

The latest episodes of the @restisclassified.bsky.social podcast with @gordoncorera.bsky.social and David McCloskey is a fascinating look inside Mossad's sprawling campaign to infiltrate and weaponise pagers used by Hezbollah.

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Gordon Corera @gordoncorera.bsky.social · 14d

October 7th I'm talking to @jasonburke2.bsky.social
about his new book "The Revolutionists: The Remarkable True Story of The Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s" Come along to the Kiln Theatre, London if you want to hear some crazy stories about wild plots

intelligencesquared.com/events/the-r...

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · Aug 20

Putin, the once and future Chekist | @gordoncorera.bsky.social

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Putin, the once and future Chekist

It is only by understanding the phenomenon of Chekism that you can truly understand the Russian leader.

engelsbergideas.com

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Gordon Corera @gordoncorera.bsky.social · Aug 11

This week on @restisclassified.bsky.social podcast we look at the remarkable story of sabotaging the Nazi nuke effort. Operation Gunnerside was organised by SOE but carried out by Norwegians and led by Joachim Rønneberg - one of the bravest, most impressive people I've had the fortune to meet

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Gordon Corera @gordoncorera.bsky.social · Jul 19

Putin had 'rather sinister looking eyes' and said: ‘It’s the duty of people like you to stand between the terrorist and their victim. And you failed.’
"So it wasn’t a successful meeting," Eliza Manningham-Buller recalls.
A taster of the interview is here for non-members. linktr.ee/triclassified

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Gordon Corera @gordoncorera.bsky.social · Jul 19

Who was the first foreign leader to visit Britain's COBR crisis room? The surprising answer is Putin. In 2005 he was briefed on the 7/7 terror attack and criticised MI5 head Eliza Manningham-Buller for not stopping it. Full interview with Eliza for club members therestisclassified.supportingcast.fm

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Gordon Corera @gordoncorera.bsky.social · Jul 7

Thanks George for the comments. And I will definitely pass that on to Mr McCloskey…….

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Gordon Corera @gordoncorera.bsky.social · Jun 27

More detail on the MI6 molehunt I first revealed in my book "The Spy in the Archive' coming out of the Guardian today...... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

UK launched huge operation to find suspected Russian double agent in MI6

Exclusive: Operation Wedlock lasted up to 20 years and took MI5 teams across world amid panic about ‘another Philby’

www.theguardian.com

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · Jun 17

I had a great chat with @gordoncorera.bsky.social about his latest book #thespyinthearchive.

@coldwarpod.bsky.social episode comes out this Saturday!

Buy the book here and support @coldwarpod.bsky.social uk.bookshop.org/a/1549/97800...

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Gordon Corera @gordoncorera.bsky.social · Jun 16

Blaise Metreweli appointed next Chief of MI6. With field experience in the Middle East (and Whitehall) and focus on tech (she’s currently running the Q tech division) it’s a sign that in turbulent times an understanding of professional spy skills and how to maintain them in the digital age are vital

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Gordon Corera @gordoncorera.bsky.social · Jun 2

Always a bit nervous for first book reviews and particularly when I saw this one was by Prof. Christopher Andrew who worked with Mitrokhin so something of a relief to read it......the picture (from the book) is of Mitrokhin and his son during their exfiltration.
www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...

The KGB man who betrayed the USSR and smuggled secrets to Britain

The Spy in the Archive, a new biography of Vasily Mitrokhin by Gordon Corera, relates his daring deception and flight to the West

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Gordon Corera @gordoncorera.bsky.social · May 30

REVEALED: MI6 ran a molehunt in the 1990s after a CIA lead the Russians may have recruited an MI6 officer. Fears were of 'another Philby'. The hunt went on for years and was ultimately labelled 'inconclusive'. More details in the "The Spy in the Archive" - out in the UK next week

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Gordon Corera @gordoncorera.bsky.social · May 28

How did MI6 exfiltrate former KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin using a yellow minibus? And how did it nearly go wrong? The story - told for the first time on @restisclassified.bsky.social
this week with the full detail in "The Spy in the Archive" out in the UK next week. linktr.ee/triclassified

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Gordon Corera @gordoncorera.bsky.social · May 28

Thanks for enjoying the podcast! The US version of the book is not out till January so you may have to hang on a little!

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Gordon Corera @gordoncorera.bsky.social · May 26

This week on @restisclassified.bsky.social a very special story for me - that of Vasili Mitrokhin, the archivist who escaped with the KGB's deepest secrets thanks to a wild MI6 exfiltration. It's the subject of my book "The Spy in the Archive" out in the UK next week. linktr.ee/triclassified

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Rest Is Classified @restisclassified.bsky.social · May 21

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨

The Legacy of Edward Snowden (Ep 6)

Join David McCloskey and @gordoncorera.bsky.social in the final instalment of their incredible series of the life and legacy of Edward Snowden...

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Gordon Corera @gordoncorera.bsky.social · May 7

I also get the chance to reveal a small clandestine mission of my own. The first two episodes are out now for everyone but if you want to binge all 6 (!) then we've just launched the 'The Declassified club' where early access is one of the many benefits. therestisclassified.supportingcast.fm

The Rest Is Classified | The Declassified Club

therestisclassified.supportingcast.fm

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Gordon Corera @gordoncorera.bsky.social · May 7

Snowden's actions left a lasting legacy inl the relationship between citizens, governments and tech companies. And his own journey ends up in Moscow.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pAI...

How Edward Snowden Hacked The NSA (Snowden Episode 1)

YouTube video by The Rest Is Classified

www.youtube.com

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Gordon Corera @gordoncorera.bsky.social · May 7

This week on "The Rest is Classified" we start a series on Edward Snowden. As my discussion with David reveals, he can be a controversial subject. But more than a decade on, his story remains consequential in what it tells us about privacy, technology and surveillance linktr.ee/triclassified

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Gordon Corera @gordoncorera.bsky.social · Apr 17

What connects Michael Caine and Frank Sinatra? They both delved into the world of spies and mind control in The Manchurian Candidate and The Ipcress File.This week on @restisclassified.bsky.social podcast we finish our journey into the dark world of the CIA’s MKULTRA program linktr.ee/triclassified

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Rest Is Classified @restisclassified.bsky.social · Apr 14

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨

CIA Mind Control: Sex, Drugs and Mysterious Deaths

In the third episode of our mind-bending MK Ultra series, David and @gordoncorera.bsky.social explore the bizarre story of how the CIA:

🏠Funded a brothel in San Francisco
☕️Spiked coffee with LSD

Link in replies👇

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Gordon Corera @gordoncorera.bsky.social · Mar 21

His intelligence helped the West understand the paranoia in Moscow at a dangerous time in the 1980s. There was a risk of unintended conflict and Gordievsky's intelligence helped both Thatcher and Reagan take a more nuanced approach. He would later meet Reagan in the Oval Office

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Gordon Corera @gordoncorera.bsky.social · Mar 21

I was fortunate enough to get to know him over the years and talk to him about his remarkable life. He did not decide to betray the KGB for money or out of petty grievance but from a deep seated belief that he did not want to serve what he saw as a 'criminal' regime.

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Gordon Corera @gordoncorera.bsky.social · Mar 21

Farewell to one of the most important spies of the Cold War. Oleg Gordievsky has died in the UK. A KGB officer who spied for MI6, he supplied vital intelligence that helped manage tensions between the West and the Soviet Union in the 80s. Nothing suspicious to his passing, I understand.

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Gordon Corera @gordoncorera.bsky.social · Mar 1

What's so important about Greenland? This week on "The Rest is Classified" podcast @restisclassified.bsky.social we look at its secret history, a wild story featuring under ice bases, crashed nuclear bombers and an early warning radar station which I visited back in 2008 - linktr.ee/triclassified

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