Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring

Carole Cadwalladr & Peter Jukes with Ruth Abrahams
Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring

Journalists Carole Cadwalladr and Peter Jukes – with the help of Conservative party whistleblower Sergei Cristo – expose an alleged secret spy ring operating at the very heart of the British political system. This is the untold story of the most audacious Russian influence operation in British history. It involves honey traps, Russian agents and information warfare. Russian wealth and glamour collide with a wild west of new digital landscapes. And as Sergei tries and fails to raise the alarm, this intoxicating cocktail – shaken and stirred from within the Russian Embassy in London – masks the tightening iron fist of Vladimir Putin inside Russia and murder of traitors on foreign soil. All while MPs, intelligence officers and the police turn a blind eye. Not since the reach of the Cambridge spy ring in the second half of the 20th century has the Kremlin aimed so high and gone so unnoticed in penetrating the highest echelons of British politics.  Together, Conservative whistleblower Sergei Cristo, Orwell Prize-winning journalist Carole Cadwalladr and creator of the hit podcast, Untold: The Daniel Morgan Murder, Peter Jukes, uncover a story that forms one small corner of Vladimir Putin’s plot against the West. It’s a story we’re still living, where the stakes couldn’t be higher. This podcast seeks to shine a light in the dark corners of a Westminster spy ring hidden in plain sight and search for the answers we all deserve. A Project Citizen & The Citizens production. Sign up for exclusive content, events and more at www.the-citizens.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes

  1. Follow the Money

    EPISODE 8

    Follow the Money

    Carole, Peter and Sergei are closing on the core of the Russian Westminster plot as they untangle the secrets around the parliamentary Russia Report. With Dominic Grieve, the former Conservative Attorney General and chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament, which produced the groundbreaking report, and two of the Committee’s key witnesses, Edward Lucas and Christopher Steele, they discover almost everything we need to know to answer some of the big questions about the significance of the Russia covert interference operation in the British democratic processes. And about the lengths to which the powers that be, for their own political reasons, went to cover this whole thing up from the watchful eye of the British electorate. In this episode you also hear the voices of journalist and author, Catherine Belton, writer and historian, Anne Applebaum and former Intelligence and Security Committee members Stewart Hosie and Kevan Jones. Sergei and the Westminster Spy Ring will be taking a short break and will return soon to conclude this season. A Project Citizen production To find out more about the story and issues it raises visit www.the-citizens.com Presented by: Carole Cadwalladr and Peter Jukes Written by: Carole Cadwalladr and Peter Jukes Producer and Sound Design: Ruth Abrahams Studio Producer: Sean Byrne Roberts Location Producers: Sheridan Flynn and Manasa Narayanan Original Music: Phil Channell Mixed: Nigel Appleton Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    44 min
  2. I Cannot Help

    EPISODE 10

    I Cannot Help

    As this tale of spies and influence at the heart of Westminster draws to a close, Carole, Peter and Sergei reflect on the story they’ve fought to uncover for so long. Meanwhile, The Guardian’s international correspondent Luke Harding shares his analysis of what Russian diplomats were up to in London. From the world of shadows, the former head of Estonian intelligence service, Rainer Saks, offers his perspective about the highly sociable “diplomat” Sergey Nalobin, and the whole Russian secret operation to interfere in the British democratic process. And we talk about what we can do to learn the whole truth. The highly important “impact case” at the ECHR brought by The Citizens and MPs to force a proper enquiry into the Russian interference in British politics. Our legal team shares their views about the urgency for this action.  Plus Carole and Peter have one more call to make… A Project Citizen production To find out more about the story and issues it raises visit www.the-citizens.com Presented by: Carole Cadwalladr and Peter Jukes Written by: Carole Cadwalladr and Peter Jukes with Ruth Abrahams Producer and Sound Design: Ruth Abrahams Studio Producer: Sean Byrne Roberts Location Producers: Sheridan Flynn and Manasa Narayanan  Original Music: Phil Channell Mixed: Nigel Appleton Sergei continues to confront the West’s complacency towards oppressive regimes. Please consider supporting his self-funded research into how hundreds of European sustainable funds were misused to invest in the Putin regime just before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine: gofund.me/4358bf68 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    47 min

About

Journalists Carole Cadwalladr and Peter Jukes – with the help of Conservative party whistleblower Sergei Cristo – expose an alleged secret spy ring operating at the very heart of the British political system. This is the untold story of the most audacious Russian influence operation in British history. It involves honey traps, Russian agents and information warfare. Russian wealth and glamour collide with a wild west of new digital landscapes. And as Sergei tries and fails to raise the alarm, this intoxicating cocktail – shaken and stirred from within the Russian Embassy in London – masks the tightening iron fist of Vladimir Putin inside Russia and murder of traitors on foreign soil. All while MPs, intelligence officers and the police turn a blind eye. Not since the reach of the Cambridge spy ring in the second half of the 20th century has the Kremlin aimed so high and gone so unnoticed in penetrating the highest echelons of British politics.  Together, Conservative whistleblower Sergei Cristo, Orwell Prize-winning journalist Carole Cadwalladr and creator of the hit podcast, Untold: The Daniel Morgan Murder, Peter Jukes, uncover a story that forms one small corner of Vladimir Putin’s plot against the West. It’s a story we’re still living, where the stakes couldn’t be higher. This podcast seeks to shine a light in the dark corners of a Westminster spy ring hidden in plain sight and search for the answers we all deserve. A Project Citizen & The Citizens production. Sign up for exclusive content, events and more at www.the-citizens.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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