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#1. How Austria became Europe’s spy capital

#1. How Austria became Europe’s spy capital

FromForeign Office with Michael Weiss


#1. How Austria became Europe’s spy capital

FromForeign Office with Michael Weiss

ratings:
Length:
24 minutes
Released:
Sep 21, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In our pilot episode, Michael interviews Anton Shekhovtsov, an expert on the European far-right and the Russian government's ties to it. They discuss their  jointly written essay for The Daily Beast, drawn from a still-classified KGB training manual, about the false-flag recruitment of an adviser to the Austrian chancellery in the late 1950s and early 1960s by a particularly resourceful Soviet double agent "Safo." Also, the stunning revelations about a Wirecard executive, Austria's first expulsion of a Russian intelligence officer, and why Vienna has the well-earned reputation of being the spy capital of Europe.
Released:
Sep 21, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (90)

Foreign Office is a weekly interview podcast hosted by Michael Weiss, from New Lines Magazine and Free Russia Foundation, dedicated to those ever-relevant subjects of Russian intelligence operations and active measures. Featured guests include prominent historians and scholars, journalists, diplomats, and ex-spies.