The Rest Is Classified takes you into the mysterious world of spies and espionage. Hosted by former CIA analyst now turned spy novelist, David McCloskey, and veteran security correspondent, Gordon Corera, they’ve experienced this field first-hand. It’s a world of shadows, shrouded in secrecy, but it affects every one of us. It’s time to bring it into the light.
109 episodes transcribedPrigozhin is now one of America’s most wanted but his star is only just on the rise. Realising Putin’s need for greater geopolitical power and influen...
*Declassified Club exclusive: SUBSCRIBE to listen to the full series* How did Vladimir Putin rise from a nobody in St Petersburg to the most...
How did Donald Trump win the 2016 US election? Was Russian interference really behind his unlikely success? And how does one man rock the electoral sy...
From Putin’s chef to Putin’s butcher, this is the story of Prigozhin. A man on the brink of oligarchical power who flew a little too close to the sun…...
THE REST IS CLASSIFIED LIVE 2026: Buy your tickets HERE on Friday 7th November at 12pm GMT. In the latter half of the twentieth century, the CIA an...
Over the past seventy-five years, the United States has developed an insatiable appetite for global surveillance. The stories exposed by Edward Snowde...
*Declassified Club exclusive: SUBSCRIBE to listen to the full series* Were the Cubans plotting to kill John F. Kennedy? Did Castro have it ou...
"It's personal now ." The CIA's failure at the Bay of Pigs does not end the fight with Cuba; instead, the heat's actually going to get turned up. The...
"It's personal now ." The CIA's failure at the Bay of Pigs does not end the fight with Cuba; instead, the heat's actually going to get turned up. The...
*Declassified Club exclusive: SUBSCRIBE to listen to the full series* Was the assassination of John F. Kennedy a Mafia plot? Or is this just an...
"We not only look like imperialists, we look like stupid ineffectual imperialists, which is worst of all." That was the assessment of one of Kenned...
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*Declassified Club exclusive: SUBSCRIBE to listen to the full series* Who really killed John F. Kennedy in Dallas on 22 November 1963? Did the CI...
"I think about it as little as possible ." That was President John F. Kennedy's revealing answer when asked about the impending "damned invasion" of C...
“I think that Senator Kennedy's policies and recommendations for the handling of the Castro regime are probably the most dangerously irresponsible rec...
*Declassified Club exclusive: SUBSCRIBE to listen to the full interview* This week Gordon and David are joined by Kent Walker, Google's President o...
When we left the team at Google's headquarters, they were deep inside their "war room," planning the counter-strike against the sophisticated adversar...
"Like many other well-known organisations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis." This was the striking public statement from G...
Hezbollah thought they’d found the perfect solution to Israeli surveillance: the pager. In the midst of their paranoia, they negotiated a cut-price de...
"The smartphone is a lethal collaborator. " This was the stark warning from Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah in February 2024. In the wake...
