The Secret Struggle for Cold War Dominance

What is a life of a spy like? Not the James Bond kind, but of a real-life spy? In episode 2 of the Secret Struggle for Cold War Dominance podcast we unveil the secret lives of one man, whose identity of a spy has never been discovered, that is until now. In fact, this ‘man of no country’ by the name of Dennis Phombeah worked for multiple agencies across the Cold War divide. How did he manage to ge...

How do you get access to historical, top secret documents? Intelligence scholars and historians ask this question a lot. How do they conduct their research and acquire declassified, secret files? What questions do they need to ask themselves as they sit down to write up stories that have not been told before? And why are there so many newly-declassified documents pouring out of the former Soviet-b...

The Secret Struggle for Cold War Dominance is a podcast that goes behind the scenes of the Cold War. We go beyond the traditional narrative to unveil how the ‘East’ and the ‘West’ struggled for dominance in the Third World. And we find that, in fact, the Cold War was a very ‘hot’ and global conflict. Thanks to recently declassified and neglected documents, we shed new light on the most secretive a...