125. From the SAS to the World of Private Intelligence with Robert Lancaster

12/11/23 • 66 min

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This week Justin talks with Robert Lancaster. Robert served in the British Army from 1977 until 1989, including time spent with 22nd SAS, and then in the Australian Army as a reserve special forces soldier. In 1991, he founded Lancaster's Global Risk Consultancy based in Australia, which has offered a wide variety of security surveillance, business intelligence, and counterintelligence services all over the world. His previous clients include governments, multinational corporations, publicly listed companies, law firms, and major industrial and mining concerns. Today Robert explores the world of privatized intelligence gathering and how it relates to and differs from the actions of national organizations and agencies.
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IG: @plantagenet_manor
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124. Double Agent: How I Caught a Russian Spy with Naveed Jamali

This week Justin sits down with Naveed Jamali. Naveed is currently an editor at large for Newsweek, where he reports on national security issues. Naveed grew up in New York City, where his parents owned a small business selling technical journals and other hard to find publications. This inadvertently put them in touch with Russian agents working under diplomatic cover at the Soviet mission to the United Nations, who were constantly seeking information on American research and development across a wide variety of issues. And it led Naveed himself to become the linchpin in an amazing FBI operation to catch one of these Russian agents in an act of espionage. Today he discusses his time as a double agent working for both the FBI and the Russian GRU.
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Twitter: @NaveedAJamali
IG: @navjamali
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Catch Unconventional here.
https://www.newsweek.com/unconventional/naveedjamali
Check out Naveed's book, How To Catch a Russian Spy, here.
https://www.amazon.com/How-Catch-Russian-Spy-American/dp/1476788820#:~:text=How%20to%20Catch%20a%20Russian%20Spy%20is%20the%20one%2Dof,Miami%20Vice%20and%20Magnum%20P.I.

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126. The Arab Section: Israel's First Spies with Matti Friedman

Justin's guest this week is Matti Friedman. Matti has worked as a correspondent for the Associated Press and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Smithsonian Magazine, and elsewhere. He's also the author of four nonfiction books covering subjects related to the formation of Israel and the conflicts that followed the birth of that nation. Today Matti tells the story of four men who worked undercover as part of the Arab Section, a tiny group of Jewish spies who operated with no support, no funding, and facing almost impossible odds during the tumultuous months in 1948 when Israel declared independence and faced the combined armies of the Arab nations surrounding it.
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Twitter: @MattiFriedman
Check out Matti's book, Spies of No Country, here.
https://www.amazon.com/Spies-No-Country-Secret-Israel/dp/1616207221
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Check out Justin's latest release, Covert Arms, here.spycraft101.com
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Find Justin's first book, Spyshots: Volume One, here.
Download the free eBook, The Clandestine Operative's Sidearm of Choice, here.