BROADCAST LINKS
Spyscape Podcast: True Spies
SPYSCAPE
Part 1: BRINGING DOWN BATMAN (May 24, 2022)
Part 2: DARK INHERITANCE (May 30, 2022)
Spycraft 101 Podcast
Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) Q&A
Unsolved Mysteries’ Produces Podcast on Earth Liberation Front Fugitive Josephine Overaker
From 1996 to 2003, the Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front — sometimes the same people — sabotaged businesses and government enterprises they accused of despoiling the natural world. The ELF fell onto my primary beat at The Oregonian, and I covered every crime the group committed.
The ELF rang up more than $100 million in damages from 1995 to 2003 as its voluntary saboteurs firebombed or otherwise vandalized slaughterhouses, logging companies, SUV dealerships, luxury homes under construction and — in an astonishing attack — the Vail Ski Resort in Colorado, with damages exceeding $25 million. The most prolific group of saboteurs, based in the Pacific Northwest and sometimes known as The Family, rang up nearly half of that damage.
One by one, federal agents hunted down all but one of the culprits, Josephine Sunshine Overaker, who has been on the lam for nearly 25 years.
Bryan tells The Weekly Portland Podcast about The Spy's Son & Russia's latest aggressions
Greg Day, host of The Weekly Portland Podcast, is probably one of the nicest guys on the planet, and a very fine interviewer.
He popped into the home office to talk about The Spy's Son and the antagonistic state of affairs between the United States and Russia.
You can listen to the podcast here on SoundCloud . . . and here on Apple iTunes . . . and here on Stitcher.
(CNN) -- Surrounded by FBI agents and US marshals, Bryan Denson's first encounter with an ex-CIA spy nicknamed "Batman" came in 2009 in a Portland, Oregon, courtroom.
But as Jim Nicholson faced the judge, Denson noticed the ex-spy's expression bore little of the hero-like confidence that earned him his nickname during his 26 years serving the US government.
Denson says in 1997, Nicholson became the highest-ranking CIA officer ever convicted of espionage, after selling the identities of hundreds of CIA trainees and troves of highly classified files to Russia's foreign spy service.
On this January day, though, Nicholson entered court to answer new charges: that he had not only reconnected with the Russians from inside prison, but had enlisted his son, Nathan Nicholson, to serve as his intermediary.
To read more from CNN, including a Q&A with Bryan and an exclusive excerpt from The Spy's' Son, click here.
ABC 20/20: Archie Cabello’s Family Business
While a staff writer at The Oregonian newspaper Bryan wrote extensively about armored car driver Archie Cabello, who turned his family into a mini-crime syndicate as he staged heists and made off with millions.
NPR Snap Judgment, March 2016
Snap Judgment #707 first aired in mid-March 2016, an amazing episode titled, "The Promise."
