All Episodes
Displaying episodes 1 - 11 of 11 in total
FILE 010: CIA Travel Safety 101
How do CIA officers stay safe while traveling to some of the most dangerous places in the world? And how can you apply the CIA’s best practices to help stay safe durin...
FILE 009 - CIA's First Line of Defense: Security Protective Officers
CIA is known as America's first line of defense - but who protects CIA? On this episode, Dee and Walter sit down with a member of CIA's protective service - the unit c...
FILE 008 - CIA's Analytic Chief on the Tradecraft Behind the Agency's Assessments
In this episode of The Langley Files, Deputy Director of CIA for Analysis, Linda Weissgold, joins Dee and Walter to discuss what makes a good CIA analyst, the unusual ...
FILE 007 - CIA's First Chief Technology Officer Talks Start-Up Culture vs. Spy Culture
In 2022, CIA announced its first-ever Chief Technology Officer: Nand Mulchandani, a Silicon Valley executive with 25 years of industry experience. Since then, he’s bee...
Episode 6 - Reel vs. Real: CIA's Second in Command Sorts Spy Fact from Fiction
Rogue operatives. Off the books programs. Hood-sliding CIA officers single-handedly saving the world. Is there any fact behind the spy fiction we see all the time? For...
Episode 5 - The Greatest Museum You'll Never See
A top secret mission to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. A legendary CIA officer who postponed retirement to lead the Agency's response to 9/11. An entire building tur...
Episode 4 - Into the Archives: Why Does CIA Have Historians?
On this episode of The Langley Files, CIA's Chief Historian joins Walter and Dee to talk about the Agency's cadre of in-house historians. They'll discuss how these off...
Episode 3 - The Recruiter: What Does it Take to Join CIA?
On this episode, Dee and Walter sit down with an Agency recruitment leader to learn what characteristics CIA is looking for when selecting candidates, how CIA differs ...
Episode 2 - CIA: 75 Years and Counting
2022 marks the Central Intelligence Agency's 75th Anniversary. On this episode, our hosts Dee and Walter talk with two Agency officers who are leading efforts to comme...
Episode 1 - CIA Director Bill Burns Brings the Agency Out from the Shadows
On this debut episode of The Langley Files, CIA Director Bill Burns joins our hosts, Dee and Walter, to dispel some common misconceptions about the CIA, provide insigh...
The Langley Files: A CIA Podcast (Trailer)
At the Central Intelligence Agency, there are truths we can share, and stories we can tell. CIA's official podcast, The Langley Files, is coming soon!