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Have you ever wondered how someone can live one life in public while carrying an entirely different mission in secret? A conversation can hide an objective, a friendship can become an operation, and one misplaced detail can expose years of careful deception. Secret Agents Stories explores espionage, covert missions and the hidden decisions that shape intelligence work behind the scenes. Each episode follows spies, classified operations and the strategies used to gather information without being discovered. The stories focus on secrecy, betrayal and the pressure of operating where trust can be as dangerous as suspicion. When every identity may be constructed and every conversation could have another purpose, how do you know who is actually telling the truth?

  1. 3d ago

    The Night an Umbrella Smuggled the Bombsight That Changed Warfare

    The Night an Umbrella Smuggled the Bombsight That Changed Warfare Danger hid inside an ordinary umbrella: blueprints rolled into its lining on January 9, 1938, then handed to a German steward bound for Bremen - documents that reached Berlin within a week and helped reshape aerial warfare. How did a network of 33 ordinary Americans move classified gyroscope designs, blind-flying instruments, and convoy schedules under the FBI's nose, and who finally exposed the ring? In this episode, we tell the story of the Duquesne Spy Ring and the people who made it possible, from machinists and stewards to spies with long criminal histories, and we follow the single thread that broke the operation: an informant within the ring. What role did a shortwave radio controlled by the FBI and one unlikely double agent play in bringing thirty-three agents to justice? Case: Duquesne Spy Ring Date: January 9, 1938 (umbrella incident) People arrested: 33 Person: Fritz Joubert Duquesne (code name DUNN) Person: William Sebold (FBI informant) - Blueprints for blind-flying instruments and advanced autopilot plans were smuggled in an umbrella lining on January 9, 1938. - Thirty-three people were arrested in the largest U.S. espionage case to end in convictions. - Everett Roeder provided technical drawings for the Glenn Martin bomber and investigators found sixteen guns at his Long Island home. - Rene Emanuel Mezenen carried documents between New York and Lisbon within twenty-four hours and smuggled platinum to Portugal. - The FBI secretly controlled the ring’s shortwave radio for nearly two years without any agent knowing. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

  2. 4d ago

    He Lived a False Life: The Officer Who Loved and Betrayed

    He Lived a False Life: The Officer Who Loved and Betrayed A British state issued a real passport to a man who did not exist, and for seven years he built a fully lived undercover identity that led to arrests, relationships, and tapes that may have cleared six activists - so how far did the deception reach and who authorised it? The story hinges on withheld recordings and a tradecraft manual whose author allegedly practised what it prescribed. In this episode, we tell the sequence of events that turned an undercover deployment into a national scandal, tracing Mark Kennedy’s seven-year operation as Mark Stone, the legal collapse around missing evidence, and the institutional questions that remain unanswered. What will the long-running inquiry and the sealed documents ultimately reveal? Person: Mark Kennedy Alias: Mark Stone Unit: National Public Order Intelligence Unit (NPOIU) Deployment period: 2003-2010 Inquiry status: Open since 2015; final report unpublished as of December 2025 - Kennedy was deployed undercover from 2003 to 2010, a total of seven years. - He worked for the NPOIU and was used by police forces in 22 countries. - A state-issued passport was created in the name Mark Stone, a name that did not belong to any real person. - The Metropolitan Police apology in November 2015 described the conduct as "abusive, deceitful, manipulative, and wrong." - Documents in the 2018 case filed by Kate Wilson confirm Kennedy’s line manager knew of at least one sexual relationship and acquiesced to it. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

  3. 5d ago

    The Fake Company That Put an Anti‑Abortion Sting Across the Table

    The Fake Company That Put an Anti‑Abortion Sting Across the Table A fake procurement company, sham contracts offering $1,600 for fetal liver and thymus, and fourteen secretly filmed people: this undercover operation ran for three years and pivoted a grand jury in Texas from its original target. How did a nonprofit front and a nonexistent company get seated across from Planned Parenthood executives - and why was the man who built the fiction indicted for a prop driver's license instead of the recordings? In this episode, we lay out the timeline and the materials that placed Biomax Procurement Services at conference tables and private lunches with Planned Parenthood staff. We describe the nonprofit cover, the procurement paperwork, and the discrepancy between edited clips and the full footage - and ask what that gap changed about the story investigators and the public were told. Person: David Daleiden Organization: Center for Medical Progress Fake Company: Biomax Procurement Services Amount Offered: $1,600 People Filmed: 14 - The Center for Medical Progress was incorporated in 2013 as a tax-exempt biomedicine charity with a board including David Daleiden, Troy Newman, and Albin Rhomberg. - Biomax Procurement Services had no offices or employees and existed only on paperwork and a website used as a cover for meetings. - Sham procurement contracts on Biomax letterhead offered $1,600 for fetal liver and thymus tissue. - The operation produced recordings over roughly two years before the first edited video was released in July 2015. - A grand jury in Harris County, Texas, convened to investigate Planned Parenthood but later indicted David Daleiden for possession of a fake driver's license found in April 2016. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

  4. 6d ago

    Wax, Ribbon, Lie: How the Army Sealed Dreyfus's Fate

    Wax, Ribbon, Lie: How the Army Sealed Dreyfus's Fate A wax-sealed envelope with a silk ribbon and a coat of arms arrived at a general’s office on November 15, 1897 - and that single object, possibly never genuine, helped keep Alfred Dreyfus imprisoned on Devil’s Island for another year. Who inside the French Army manufactured the forgeries, exiled witnesses, and staged a courtroom so hollow it was called a comedy to protect a traitor and bury the truth? In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events and the players involved, from the bordereau and the petit bleu to the meetings at the War Office, and ask how an institutional effort succeeded in sustaining a wrongful conviction despite evidence to the contrary. Person: Alfred Dreyfus Date: November 15, 1897 Location: Devil’s Island (French Army) Event: Arrival of a triple-sealed envelope with wax and silk ribbon Person: Major Georges Picquart - The bordereau was a torn handwritten note listing French military secrets recovered from the German Embassy wastepaper basket in 1894. - Dreyfus was arrested within weeks of the bordereau’s discovery and convicted in a secret court martial, then stripped of rank in a public ceremony. - Major Picquart found in spring 1896 that a petit bleu addressed to Count Walsin Esterhazy matched the handwriting of the bordereau. - By summer 1897 Picquart was removed from his post and reassigned progressively farther from Paris, ultimately toward a dangerous Tripoli frontier. - On October 13, 1897, a War Office meeting chaired by General Gonse produced a plan involving Du Paty de Clam and Major Henry to counter Picquart and protect the established verdict. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

  5. Oct 24

    The Minister's Signature on a Hitman's Diplomatic Passport Revealed

    The Minister's Signature on a Hitman's Diplomatic Passport Revealed A diplomatic passport and an official police identity card signed by the serving Interior Minister were found on a man listed on Interpol’s red list - while three Beretta revolvers with silencers lay in the same wreckage. How did a fugitive end up traveling on minister-signed documents and weapons traced to a prior official weapons consignment? In this episode, we follow the facts from the crash in Balıkesir Province to the Onura Hotel in Kuşadası and the chain of official paperwork and missing weapons, asking how documents and arms tied to the state converged on a car carrying a wanted man and a parliamentarian; what were they transporting and where were they headed? Person: Abdullah Çatlı Person: Mehmet Ağar Person: Hüseyin Kocadağ Date: November 3, 1996 Location: Balıkesir Province - Three Beretta revolvers with silencers were recovered from the wreckage. - The wreckage contained a police identity card and a green diplomatic passport bearing Mehmet Ağar’s signature. - Abdullah Çatlı was on Interpol’s red list at the time of his death. - The vehicle was registered to Sedat Bucak, who survived with a broken leg and a fractured skull. - In September 1993, a weapons consignment to ÖHD documented as a donation by Hospro was audited with several items missing, including ten 9mm Micro Uzis and ten .22 Berettas with silencers. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

  6. Oct 23

    He Was Mossad's Secret Pawn - Ahmadinejad in Tehran's Funeral Crowd

    He Was Mossad's Secret Pawn - Ahmadinejad in Tehran's Funeral Crowd A former president of Iran, wounded months earlier and allegedly pulled out of his city by foreign operatives, stood in the funeral crowd for Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei-an image tied to an operation that included malware, a warehouse break-in, and a decades-long penetration of Tehran. How did Mahmoud Ahmadinejad become the central asset in an operation that moved from Stuxnet’s invisible sabotage to agents lifting 100,000 classified documents, and what did he know standing among mourners? In this episode, we lay out the documented record of two decades of operations inside Iran: the Stuxnet cyberattack at Natanz, a series of targeted killings of at least five nuclear scientists, the 2018 Mossad retrieval of over a hundred thousand AMAD Project files, and reporting on an operation codenamed Puss in Boots that named Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as its central figure-so what was the operation trying to achieve? Person: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Event: Funeral of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei Date: July 6, 2026 Operation: Puss in Boots Document source: The New York Times and Haaretz - Stuxnet malware at Natanz caused centrifuge rotors to misspin beginning around 2010, setting back Iran’s enrichment program. - Between 2010 and 2020, at least five Iranian nuclear scientists were killed, including Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in 2020 by a remote-controlled machine gun. - In 2018, agents removed more than 100,000 documents from a Tehran warehouse containing the AMAD Project files. - Mossad maintained safe houses inside Iran dating back to before 1979, enabling physical operations in Tehran. - Reporting by The New York Times and Haaretz identifies Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the central asset in an operation aiming to politically reshape Iran. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

  7. Oct 22

    The Twenty‑Megabyte Ghost: How Flame Watched Governments Unnoticed

    The Twenty‑Megabyte Ghost: How Flame Watched Governments Unnoticed Somewhere on a government computer in Tehran a twenty‑megabyte file watched microphones, photographed screens and logged keystrokes for years without triggering a single alarm-its internal module name was FROG.DefaultAttacks.A-InstallFlame, and by spring 2012 roughly one thousand machines had been compromised across the Middle East and beyond. How did an operation roughly twenty times more complex than Stuxnet stay hidden, erase its own traces on command, and keep a rebuilt version running after the world thought it gone? In this episode, we follow the discovery and technical anatomy of that operation, explaining who reported the problem, how researchers were tasked with a different threat, and what the mapped infections reveal about targets and methods. What did Flame take, who benefited, and why was no one looking in the right place until it was nearly too late? Person: Kaspersky Lab researchers Date: April 2012 (discovery reporting and investigation) Location: Tehran (initial infected government computer) Event: Discovery while investigating a separate Wiper incident Case: Approximately 1,000 infected machines mapped by spring 2012 - File size of the main component found on a Tehran government computer: 20 megabytes - Estimated complexity relative to Stuxnet: roughly 20 times more complex - Proportion of infections concentrated in Middle Eastern countries: 65% - Number of command-and-control servers supporting the operation: approximately 80 - Types of data collected and stored in encrypted SQLite databases: screenshots, audio recordings, keystrokes, AutoCAD files and PDFs To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

  8. Oct 21

    The Silent Agent beside Marlowe's Knife: Nicholas Skeres Exposed

    The Silent Agent beside Marlowe's Knife: Nicholas Skeres Exposed A single room, two silent witnesses, and thirty seconds between a knife and a dead poet - Christopher Marlowe died with a blade above his right eye while a jury accepted a story that ended with a royal pardon four weeks later. Who was Nicholas Skeres, the man whose name slips through conspiracies, warrants, and an extraordinary Star Chamber deposition, and why does his proximity to Marlowe still matter? In this episode, we trace the archival paper trail and sworn records that place Nicholas Skeres at the center of Elizabethan crime and state service, from Fleetwood’s list of criminals to a payment warrant signed by Sir Francis Walsingham and a candid Star Chamber testimony. What emerges is a life lived between fraud and government - and a set of gaps that force us to ask whether Skeres was a state agent, a professional swindler, or both. Person: Nicholas Skeres Date: May 1593 Location: Deptford Event: Death of Christopher Marlowe Document: Star Chamber deposition (April 1593) - Christopher Marlowe died with a knife above his right eye and was declared dead thirty seconds after witnesses said they could not move. - A jury accepted the self-defense account and a royal pardon was issued within four weeks of Marlowe’s death. - Nicholas Skeres testified in the Star Chamber that he had spent ten to twelve years running confidence schemes before age thirty. - A 1585 letter from William Fleetwood lists "Nicholas Skeeres" among London’s criminal element. - In 1589 a warrant signed by Sir Francis Walsingham recorded payment to Skeres for carrying confidential correspondence. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

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Have you ever wondered how someone can live one life in public while carrying an entirely different mission in secret? A conversation can hide an objective, a friendship can become an operation, and one misplaced detail can expose years of careful deception. Secret Agents Stories explores espionage, covert missions and the hidden decisions that shape intelligence work behind the scenes. Each episode follows spies, classified operations and the strategies used to gather information without being discovered. The stories focus on secrecy, betrayal and the pressure of operating where trust can be as dangerous as suspicion. When every identity may be constructed and every conversation could have another purpose, how do you know who is actually telling the truth?

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    2026
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