Oleg Penkovsky, a Soviet spy who switched allegiances to the West during the Cold War, helped to avert nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

A weapon of covert action wielded by governments around the world, black propaganda straddles the fine line between fact and fiction, letting its secret sources instigate chaos with impunity.

Was there any hint that the was going to fall when Rory Maclean was there in the spring of 1989? How important was Moscow and the decision that Gorbachev made?<br/>
The Fall of the Berlin Wall with Rory Maclean, Part 2

In 1950's the war between North Korea and South Korea displaced 100,000 orphans. The North Korean government decided to send some of them to Eastern Europe. On today's episode of Kult America we are visiting some of those orphanages...

Russia is accused of trying to influence the US election, which led to the Trump presidency. In a rare interview one of the Soviet Union's highest-ranking KGB spies talks about the long-standing practice of subverting Western democracy.

Does Putin feel like he is in a position of strength or is his troublemaking a profound weakness? Does Rory MacLean think we might be looking back at our failure of underestimating the Putin regime? The Fall of the Berlin Wall with Rory...

What became of Rory Macleans optimism of those days when the wall fell? What are his thoughts on what went wrong in Russia?<br/>
The Fall of the Berlin Wall with Rory Maclean, Part 3

What was West Berlin like just before the wall fell? When in West Berlin, how obvious was the wall at the time?<br/>
The Fall of the Berlin Wall with Rory Maclean, Part 1