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Justin Black

SPYCRAFT 101

This week, Justin revisits episode 61 with trial lawyer Michael Pullara. Michael is a practicing trial lawyer from Texas who has spent more than 40 years representing an incredibly wide variety of clients. In the courtroom, he squared off against Italian mobsters, the U.S. Department of Defense, and giant telecom companies, among many others. He's here to talk about one of his most incredible endeavors: when he represented the family of Freddie Woodruff, a CIA case officer who was shot to death while on assignment in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia in 1993.

This became a personal crusade for Michael as he was embroiled in the search for the truth behind Freddie's death for more than 10 years. As he dug further and further into the shooting, the capture of the alleged murderer, and his subsequent prosecution and conviction, Michael found that almost every single thing reported by Georgian authorities about what happened to Freddie was false. Michael's work eventually led him to personally confront the president of Georgia about Freddie's death in order to shed light on the event and try to bring the perpetrators to justice. In 2018, he published a book about his investigation into what really happened that day.

Connect with Michael:

simonandschuster.com/authors/Michael-Pullara

By his book, The Spy Who Was Left Behind, here.

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1501152149?tag=simonsayscom

Connect with Spycraft 101:
Get Justin’s latest book, Murder, Intrigue, and Conspiracy: Stories from the Cold War and Beyond, here.
spycraft101.com
IG: @spycraft101
Shop: shop.spycraft101.com
Substack: spycraft101.substack.com
Patreon: Spycraft 101
Find Justin’s first book, Spyshots: Volume One, here.
Check out Justin’s second book, Covert Arms, here.
Download the free eBook, The Clandestine Operative’s Sidearm of Choice, here.

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257. [ARCHIVE] Solving the Murder of a CIA Case Officer with Michael Pullara

Today, Justin sits down with Michael Walsh. Mike served in the US Navy for more than twenty-six years, most of it spent as a SEAL. He completed five tours of duty in Vietnam, including working on the Phoenix Program, running agents and targeting Viet Cong infrastructure. He also participated in the invasion of Grenada and was involved in Panama during the rein of Manuel Noriega. Mike spent years operating throughout Central and South America, Europe, and the Middle East. He's here discuss his career and the lessons he learned along the way, which he wrote about in his autobiography, first published in 1994.

Connect with Mike:
Check out the book, SEAL!: From Vietnam's Phoenix Program to Central America's Drug Wars, here.
https://a.co/d/05Al9E8g

Connect with Spycraft 101:
Get Justin’s latest book, Murder, Intrigue, and Conspiracy: Stories from the Cold War and Beyond, here.
spycraft101.com
IG: @spycraft101
Shop: shop.spycraft101.com
Substack: spycraft101.substack.com
Patreon: Spycraft 101
Find Justin’s first book, Spyshots: Volume One, here.
Check out Justin’s second book, Covert Arms, here.
Download the free eBook, The Clandestine Operative’s Sidearm of Choice, here.

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256. The Operational Life of a SEAL from Vietnam to Central America with Michael Walsh

Today's guest is Charles Finfrock. Charles served in the Navy for four years as a military policeman and investigator. He then joined the Central Intelligence Agency in the summer of 2001 and was in training when the September 11th attacks took place. He spent the next 18 years with the agency as a case officer working primarily overseas. After leaving the agency, he worked as a senior manager at Tesla's insider threat program for three years before he founded his own company in 2021, Vigilance. Charles join the podcast to discuss his career as a CIA officer and what it's like to transition from government service into private business.

Connect with Charles:

vcci.io

charlesfinfrock.com 

myprivacylife.com

Connect with Spycraft 101:
Get Justin’s latest book, Murder, Intrigue, and Conspiracy: Stories from the Cold War and Beyond, here.
spycraft101.com
IG: @spycraft101
Shop: shop.spycraft101.com
Substack: spycraft101.substack.com
Patreon: Spycraft 101
Find Justin’s first book, Spyshots: Volume One, here.
Check out Justin’s second book, Covert Arms, here.
Download the free eBook, The Clandestine Operative’s Sidearm of Choice, here.

Kruschiki
The best surplus military goods delivered right to your door. Use code SPYCRAFT101 for 10% off!
https://kruschiki.com/

Clandestine Laboratories
Your new favorite fragrance is here. I'm partial to Novochoc.
https://www.clandestinelaboratories.com/fragrances

 
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255. CIA Case Officer to Tesla's Security Innovator with Charles Finfrock

Today's guest is

today is Dr. Greg Barnhisel. Greg is a graduate of Reed College, New York University, and the University of Texas at Austin. He is now a professor of English at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook to Cold War Literary Cultures, Pressing the Fight: Print, Propaganda, and the Cold War, and the scholarly journal Book History. Greg has written three books as well, including Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy, and James Laughlin: New Directions and the Remaking of Ezra Pound. He's here discuss his newest book, Code Name Puritan, which is available now from the University of Chicago Press. It's about the life of Norman Pearson, an author, poet, professor, and member of the Office of Strategic Services during World War II.

Connect with Greg:
Bluekky: @gbarnhisel.bsky.app
Instagram: @gbarnhisel
Check out the book, Code Name Puritan, here.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo233208318.html

Connect with Spycraft 101:
Get Justin’s latest book, Murder, Intrigue, and Conspiracy: Stories from the Cold War and Beyond, here.
spycraft101.com
IG: @spycraft101
Shop: shop.spycraft101.com
Substack: spycraft101.substack.com
Patreon: Spycraft 101
Find Justin’s first book, Spyshots: Volume One, here.
Check out Justin’s second book, Covert Arms, here.
Download the free eBook, The Clandestine Operative’s Sidearm of Choice, here.

Kruschiki
The best surplus military goods delivered right to your door. Use code SPYCRAFT101 for 10% off!
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254. Code Name Puritan: The Legacy of Norman Holmes Pearson with Dr. Greg Barnhisel

Today Justin talks with Josh Ireland. Josh has a master's degree in history from the University of York. After graduating, he worked as an editor at Headline and Quercus, two of Great Britain's leading publishing companies. Josh has ghostwritten numerous books for A-list celebrities, sports stars, politicians, oligarchs, and adventurers, including five Sunday Times bestsellers. He's also the author of two previous nonfiction titles under his own name. Josh is here todY to discuss his third and newest book,The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin's Greatest Enemy which is available now from Penguin Random House.

Connect with Josh:
joshireland.co.uk
Twitter/X: @JoshJohnIreland
Check out the book, The Death of Trotsky, here.
https://a.co/d/08n7PeB3

Connect with Spycraft 101:
Get Justin’s latest book, Murder, Intrigue, and Conspiracy: Stories from the Cold War and Beyond, here.
spycraft101.com
IG: @spycraft101
Shop: shop.spycraft101.com
Substack: spycraft101.substack.com
Patreon: Spycraft 101
Find Justin’s first book, Spyshots: Volume One, here.
Check out Justin’s second book, Covert Arms, here.
Download the free eBook, The Clandestine Operative’s Sidearm of Choice, here.

Kruschiki
The best surplus military goods delivered right to your door. Use code SPYCRAFT101 for 10% off!
https://kruschiki.com/

Clandestine Laboratories
Your new favorite fragrance is here. I'm partial to Novochoc.
https://www.clandestinelaboratories.com/fragrances

 
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253. The Plot Against Trotsky with Josh Ireland

Today Justin sits down with Sam McKnight. Sam is a graduate student at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He's also the founder and director of Khthon, a non-governmental organization that uses open source intelligence, satellite imagery, and digital analysis to document war crimes and locate mass graves in conflict zones. Sam founded Khthon in 2022, and since then, it has grown to include more than 100 volunteers dedicated to uncovering and reporting mass graves. He's here to discuss Khthon’s work worldwide, their successes, and their plans for the future.

Connect with Sam and Khthon:
khthon.org
Substack: McKnight Reports
IG: @khthonorg
IG: @mcknight.reports

Connect with Spycraft 101:

Get Justin’s latest book, Murder, Intrigue, and Conspiracy: Stories from the Cold War and Beyond, here.

spycraft101.com

IG: @spycraft101

Shop: shop.spycraft101.com

Substack: spycraft101.substack.com

Patreon: Spycraft 101

Find Justin’s first book, Spyshots: Volume One, here.

Check out Justin’s second book, Covert Arms, here.

Download the free eBook, The Clandestine Operative’s Sidearm of Choice, here.

Kruschiki

The best surplus military goods delivered right to your door. Use code SPYCRAFT101 for 10% off!

https://kruschiki.com/

 
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252. Unearthing War Crimes and Mass Graves Through Geospatial Intelligence with Sam McKnight

Today Justin sits down with Dr. Niccolò Petrelli. Niccolò is a research scholar at the Center for International and Strategic Studies at LUISS in Rome, Italy. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Political Science, his Master's degree in International Relations, and his PhD in Political Science, all from Roma Tre University. He has also published many papers and journal articles on counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, and intelligence matters. He's here to discuss the relationship between US and Italian intelligence during the Cold War, and in particular, the Gladio operation, which armed, trained, and funded personnel intended to operate behind enemy lines in the event that World War III broke out in Europe. The Gladio teams were also suspected of being employed to suppress communism in Italy.

Connect with Niccolò:

LinkedIn: Niccolò Petrelli

Connect with Spycraft 101:

Get Justin’s latest book, Murder, Intrigue, and Conspiracy: Stories from the Cold War and Beyond, here.

spycraft101.com

IG: @spycraft101

Shop: shop.spycraft101.com

Substack: spycraft101.substack.com

Patreon: Spycraft 101

Find Justin’s first book, Spyshots: Volume One, here.

Check out Justin’s second book, Covert Arms, here.

Download the free eBook, The Clandestine Operative’s Sidearm of Choice, here.

Kruschiki

The best surplus military goods delivered right to your door. Use code SPYCRAFT101 for 10% off!

https://kruschiki.com/

Clandestine Laboratories

Your new favorite fragrance is here. I'm partial to Novochoc.

https://www.clandestinelaboratories.com/fragrances

 
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251. Unveiling Gladio: Cold War Secrets and Italian Intelligence with Niccolò Petrelli

Today’s guest is Dr. Stephen Long. Stephen earned a PhD in US foreign policy and intelligence from the University of Birmingham and is an assistant professor of international relations at Shan Xiaotong Liverpool University. He's published articles in many professional journals, including Intelligence and National Security, International History Review, Cold War History, H-Diplo, and American History. He was also a lead contributor to the BBC Radio 4 program, "The Albania Operation," for the BBC's Document series. He's here today discuss the story of one of the CIA's first covert action operations performed jointly with MI6 in the late 1940s and the lessons they learned from it, often at great cost to the operatives themselves.

Connect with Steven:
steve.long@xjtlu.edu.cn
Check out the book, A Rich Harvest of Bitter Fruit, here.
https://amzn.eu/d/01R8Udo1

Connect with Spycraft 101:

Get Justin’s latest book, Murder, Intrigue, and Conspiracy: Stories from the Cold War and Beyond, here.

spycraft101.com

IG: @spycraft101

Shop: shop.spycraft101.com

Substack: spycraft101.substack.com

Patreon: Spycraft 101

Find Justin’s first book, Spyshots: Volume One, here.

Check out Justin’s second book, Covert Arms, here.

Download the free eBook, The Clandestine Operative’s Sidearm of Choice, here.

 
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250. CIA and MI6 in Post-War Albania with Dr. Stephen Long

Today Justin speaks with Luis Baptistella. Luis is a specialist in intelligence and counterintelligence, and a retired officer of the Brazilian Navy, where he attained the rank of captain during a distinguished 35-year career. He also served on a US Navy ship in the late 1990s during the conflict in the Balkans, studied at the National Defense University in China, and served as a military attaché in West Africa.

In November 2020, he founded Bravus Consultoria, a consulting firm focused on business intelligence and corporate counter intelligence for the Brazilian market. He’s here to discuss his career in the Navy and his later work as a private intelligence consultant. He has also written about intelligence threats, history, and strategies in his book, which is available now.

Connect with Luis:
IG:@luisfernandobaptistella
LinkedIn: Luis Fernando Baptistella
Check out the book, Counter & Intelligence 4.0, here.
https://a.co/d/06Pk1jOb

Connect with Spycraft 101:

Get Justin’s latest book, Murder, Intrigue, and Conspiracy: Stories from the Cold War and Beyond, here.

spycraft101.com

IG: @spycraft101

Shop: shop.spycraft101.com

Substack: spycraft101.substack.com

Patreon: Spycraft 101

Find Justin’s first book, Spyshots: Volume One, here.

Check out Justin’s second book, Covert Arms, here.

Download the free eBook, The Clandestine Operative’s Sidearm of Choice, here.

 
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249. From the Brazilian Navy to Strategic Intelligence with Luis Fernando Baptistella

This week Justin talks with Rory Cormac. Rory is a professor of International Relations at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom, specializing in covert action and secret statecraft. He's also given presentations at Number 10 Downing Street, the UK Ministry of Defense, the US State Department, and the Pentagon. Besides his teaching career, he has authored or co-authored many books focusing on British history, covert action, and statecraft. You might remember Rory from his first appearance here on the podcast when we discussed his book Disrupt and Deny. Now, Rory is back to talk about his newest book, Fakers, which covers the British government's Information Research Department, a Cold War era organization dedicated to producing and disseminating black propaganda worldwide.

Check out Rory's first appearance in Ep 107: British Covert Action.

Connect with Rory:

LinkedIn: Rory Cormac

Check out his book, Fakers, here.

https://a.co/d/08lUc74v

Connect with Spycraft 101:

Get Justin’s latest book, Murder, Intrigue, and Conspiracy: Stories from the Cold War and Beyond, here.

spycraft101.com

IG: @spycraft101

Shop: shop.spycraft101.com

Substack: spycraft101.substack.com

Patreon: Spycraft 101

Find Justin’s first book, Spyshots: Volume One, here.

Check out Justin’s second book, Covert Arms, here.

Download the free eBook, The Clandestine Operative’s Sidearm of Choice, here.

 
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255. CIA Case Officer to Tesla's Security Innovator with Charles Finfrock

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