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Do you want to know the truth behind the world’s wildest conspiracy theories? Former CIA officers John Sipher & Jerry O’Shea try to determine where misinformation is coming from, when we’re being lied to and when a conspiracy theory is an actual real conspiracy. In the world of espionage, they were part of creating conspiracies. Now they and their circle of experts probe what’s true and when we’re being manipulated.
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- 3 days ago36 min
So You Want to Join the CIA (with Jim Burke)
The Oscar-winning producer turns the tables on John & Jerry and interviews them about their early life in CIA, from recruitment to training to assignment. With a digression into the moral components of their job.Watch Mission Implausible on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MissionImplausiblePod
- 2 weeks ago37 min
This Week in Conspiracy Theories: Pedophile Cannibals and Much Much More
Jerry & John’s thoughts on the latest malfeasance (Ilhan Omar’s home raid, intel on the U.S. airbase attack in England, James Talarico, the Germany spy scandal, Russian bots, etc.) and their predictions of what will come next, including potential October Surprises.Watch Mission Implausible on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MissionImplausiblePod
- 3 weeks ago51 min
It Was Never About Oil: Iraq, Afghanistan and the Conspiracy Theories That Followed (Toby Harnden)
The former Royal Navy officer, war correspondent for the Telegraph and the Sunday Times, and author of the Orwell Prize-winning Dead Men Risen and First Casualty — joins to discuss his new book, his covering of Northern Ireland, and the recent history of America’s time in Afghanistan.Watch Mission Implausible on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MissionImplausiblePod
- Oct 4, 202646 min
Why Americans Are Such Suckers for Conspiracy Theories (with Jesse Walker)
The author of The United States of Paranoia and the editor of Reason sees the enemies within, outside, above and below. The true believers and the manipulators. Every religion and political affiliation in American is uniquely credulous. But maybe there’s good reason to be.Watch Mission Implausible on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MissionImplausiblePod
- Sep 27, 202641 min
Tulsi Gabbard and The Guru: Inside Her Cult (with Rebecca Saltzburg) - Part Two
Former Science of Identity Foundation insider Rebecca Saltzburg, a source for the Washington Post's investigation into Tulsi Gabbard, goes deeper into how its guru Chris Butler shaped Gabbard's political career. Then, as Director of National Intelligence, who was she working for? Why was the deal with her and Syria, China and Russia?Watch Mission Implausible on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MissionImplausiblePod
- Sep 20, 202635 min
Tulsi Gabbard and The Guru: Inside Her Cult (with Rebecca Saltzburg) - Part One
Rebecca Saltzburg spent years living with Tulsi Gabbard’s family, inside the Science of Identity Foundation, and in the inner circle of Chris Butler, the leader of its Hawaiian sect, of which Tulsi and her parents were long-time members. Years after leaving, Saltzburg took here archives - emails, encrypted memoranda, internal communications - and gave more than 25,000 pages to the Washington Post, which published its investigation in June 2026 — days after Gabbard resigned as Director of National Intelligence. But Saltzburg has more to say that didn’t make it into The Washington Post. The big questions: Who really wanted Tulsi to be DNI? What was their agenda? And how could she take that post without being able to pass a security clearance?Watch Mission Implausible on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MissionImplausiblePod
- Sep 13, 202651 min
Operation Sparrow: Three Americans Who Wanted to Be Captured by the Nazis (with Jason Bell)
In March 1944, three American OSS officers parachuted into Hungary on a mission to be taken prisoner. A story that was classified for decades, the team — a Dartmouth graduate, a World War I fighter pilot and a former New York Giants lineman who became an advertising executive — planned to get caught, tortured by The Gestapo, and “confess” to an Allied invasion that was a complete fiction. The OSS (the precursor to the CIA) knew what Hitler wanted to hear and how he’d react. This is what it looks like when an actual conspiracy of deception works.Watch Mission Implausible on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MissionImplausiblePod
- Aug 17, 202649 min
The Five Eyes: Can It Survive (with Richard Kerbaj)
Investigative journalist and BAFTA-winning filmmaker Richard Kerbaj discusses The Defector, his book on Oleg Lyalin — the KGB officer who walked into a North London police station in 1971 and exposed over 200 Soviet spies in Britain, partly to escape his marriage. He and the hosts trace how MI5's decision to withhold him from the CIA broke James Angleton's decade of paranoia, then take apart the Five Eyes: its origins, its budget imbalance, and whether it survives the current moment.Watch Mission Implausible on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MissionImplausiblePod
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