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Mission Implausible

Jon Stern

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. New episodes every week. Watch Mission Implausible on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MissionImplausiblePod

Executive Producers: Adam Davidson, John Sipher, Jerry O'Shea & Jonathan Stern. Producer: Rachel Harner

A production of Honorable Mention and Abominable Pictures

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134 эпизода

  1. Operation Snow White: Scientology's Intelligence Operation (with Tony Ortega) 42:29
  2. So You Want to Join the CIA (with Jim Burke) 36:41
  3. This Week in Conspiracy Theories: Pedophile Cannibals and Much Much More 37:29
  4. It Was Never About Oil: Iraq, Afghanistan and the Conspiracy Theories That Followed (Toby Harnden) 51:09
  5. Why Americans Are Such Suckers for Conspiracy Theories (with Jesse Walker) 46:23
  6. Tulsi Gabbard and The Guru: Inside Her Cult (with Rebecca Saltzburg) - Part Two 41:30
  7. Tulsi Gabbard and The Guru: Inside Her Cult (with Rebecca Saltzburg) - Part One 35:06
  8. Operation Sparrow: Three Americans Who Wanted to Be Captured by the Nazis (with Jason Bell) 51:22
  9. When Did We Lose Faith in Our Institutions? (with Garrett Graff) - ENCORE 45:02
  10. What the Steele Dossier Got Right—and Why It Still Matters (with Christopher Steele) - ENCORE 1:02:38
  11. The Five Eyes: Can It Survive (with Richard Kerbaj) 49:35
  12. No More Secrets: AI and the Future of Espionage (with Adam Davidson) 37:02
  13. The Corruption of American Intelligence (with Julia Curlee) 32:54
  14. The National Security Council Purge (with Julia Curlee) 32:51
  15. CIA's Best-Kept Secret: It Was Fun (with Paul Kolbe & Doug Wise) 33:35
  16. Trump’s Presidential Payday (with Adam Davidson) 29:45
  17. Did the CIA Poison the World’s Best Goalkeeper at the 1970 World Cup? (with Gabriel Gatehouse) - Part 2 31:53
  18. Did the CIA Poison the World’s Best Goalkeeper at the 1970 World Cup? (with Gabriel Gatehouse) - Part 1 35:51
  19. Inside the Kremlin's Playbook: How Russia Really Works (with Michael Carpenter) 44:51
  20. What the CIA Knows About Iran That Washington Keeps Getting Wrong (with Mark Fowler) 52:01
  21. Swinging at Curveball: When You Want It Bad, You Get It Bad (with Bob Drogin) 53:17
  22. How Everyone Else Sees America (with Gabriel Gatehouse) - ENCORE 41:32
  23. The Hawaiian Cult that raised Tulsi Gabbard (with Christine Gralow) - ENCORE 37:06
  24. Hunting Weapons of Mass Destruction (with Andy Weber) 42:19
  25. How the CIA Decides What’s Legal (with James Petrila) 49:36
  26. Crypto: The Trump Family Business (with Zach Everson) 48:12
  27. Serving in the Middle East, then Writing About It (with Ilana Berry) 42:22
  28. Modern Conspiracy Culture: How Real Scandals Fueled False Narratives (with Kathryn Olmsted) 39:09
  29. The Terrible Thing People Say When They Think No One Is Listening (with Ben Palmer) 37:24
  30. Havana Syndrome Is Real - and They Tried to Bury It (with Michael Weiss) - Part Two 27:53
  31. Havana Syndrome Is Real - and They Tried to Bury It (with Michael Weiss) - Part One 34:09
  32. The CIA Analyst Who Knows Why Intelligence Fails (with David McCloskey) 41:00
  33. The Singularity War and How to Hack Minds (w/ Anthony Vinci) 38:21
  34. The Art of the Pardon: How The Dept. of Justice Became a Favor Bank (with Liz Oyer) 48:51
  35. The Midterm Power Grab (w/ Will Sommer) 36:43
  36. What Ghislaine Maxwell Knows and Why She’s Being Protected (with Tara Palmeri & Adam Davidson) 33:17
  37. Alex Jones and the Conspiracy Economy (with Jordan Holmes) 37:14
  38. Eating Bugs, Shooting Bobby Kennedy, The Deadly Double: Conspiracy Theory Grey Areas (with Adam Tod Brown) 34:56
  39. The Overlooked Radicalization Crisis: How Women Become Extremists (with Leah Sottile) 49:54
  40. From Hollywood to Human Rights: The Real Cost of Conspiracy Thinking (with Stephanie March) 39:42
  41. Wellness to Weaponization: How Women Are Drawn into Conspiracy Extremism (with Noelle Cook) 34:00
  42. What Fresh Hell: 2025 in Conspiracy Theories and Disinformation 50:25
  43. How We're Targets for Influence Operations (with Tamsin Shaw) 51:26
  44. Human Organs and Wellness Scams (with Scott Carney) 38:23
  45. How to Escape the Maga Cult (with Rich Logis & Erica Roach) 45:01
  46. MKUltra: CIA’s Secret Mind Control Experiments (with Stephen Kinzer) 1:00:01
  47. Epstein International (with Tara Palmeri & Adam Davidson) 53:47
  48. Bigfoot and Bigfoot Erotica (with Laura Krantz) 38:41
  49. How Are Comedians Such Threats to Authoritarians (with Trae Crowder) 43:30
  50. The Abuse of the Department of Justice (with Ken Dilanian) 38:15