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FILE 013: PART II - The Side of the Argo Mission You’ve Never Heard – Exfiltration
PART TWO: EXFILTRATION. In this conclusion to the two-part finale of The Langley Files Season Two, Dee and Walter follow the thread of the “Argo” operation to rescue s...
FILE 013: PART I - The Side of the Argo Mission You’ve Never Heard - Infiltration
PART ONE: INFILTRATION. In this two-part finale of the second season of The Langley Files, Dee and Walter open up the Agency’s vault on one of the most famous declassi...
FILE 012 - The Art of Deception: CIA’s Disguise Experts Take You Behind the Scenes
You might’ve seen spies use disguises in movies, but for real-life CIA officers, masks, wigs, makeup, and clothing are just the beginning. So what else do Agency offic...
FILE 011 - How an Ops Officer and an Industry Expert Drove a New Focus on Wellbeing at CIA
CIA’s workforce has a mission unlike any other, where mental and physical resiliency are often put to the test. So how does an organization like CIA best take care of ...
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!