Ear Candy: The Rest is Classified
At least, that was the case in 1951, when the CIA carried out its first coup in Iran at the request of an oil-thirsty British government. This audacious Anglo-American venture makes for the perfect introduction to a podcast on espionage co-presented by a British journalist and an ex-CIA agent.
Armed with redacted documents and candid memoirs, Gordon Corera and David McCloskey drolly transport us to a time of analogue tradecraft, when coded messages were delivered via BBC radio programmes – and chased with a vodka lime or three.