INTELLEGENCE PODCASTS
Stories About Spies: Ambush on the River Prut
The next episode of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine’s podcast “Stories About Spies” is about the Cossack army led by Hetman Yakiv Borodavka-Neroda. Perhaps for the first time in the history of the Ukrainian army, he resorted to the tactics of using numerous reconnaissance units not only to collect information but also to impose battles on the enemy's advance units.
5/19/2025
Stories About Spies: Cossack Self-Sacrifice
The work of a spy is partly not only about collecting the necessary information. Quite often, he has to deliberately pass disinformation to the enemy in order to win a battle, and sometimes – to change the course of history. One of the first such spies was the Ukrainian national hero Mykyta Galagan.
5/14/2025
Stories About Spies: Jan Kazimierz’s Kamerger
The next “Story About Spies” tells about Vasyl Vereshchaka, who turned from a brave registered Cossack into the personal kamerger of the Polish King Jan Kazimierz. The Ukrainian nobleman directly participated in secret meetings of the Rzeczpospolita leadership. He sent all the extremely important military and political information through confidential channels and couriers to Bohdan Khmelnytskyi.
4/26/2025
Stories About Spies: Military Patrol on Savur-Mohyla
Stories About Spies: Military Patrol on Savur-Mohyla
4/4/2025
“Stories About Spies” – a new podcast for the youngest fans of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine
At different times, such people were called scouts, infiltrators, watchmen, spies... Nowadays, they are called intelligence officers, and their work is shrouded in a halo of mystery, romance, and what is hidden behind seven seals. The first story – “Through the Pecheneg Camp” – dates back to ancient times and tells the story of Malomyr, a spy-defender of Kyiv.
3/31/2025
Osyp Tiushka. 40 Years With Stepan Bandera
The Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine continues the series of the podcast “Unveiled History” based on the materials of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine’s Branch State Archive. The new episode is about Osyp Tiushka, one of Stepan Bandera’s closest friends and sworn brothers.
2/17/2025
Petro Filonenko. On the Instructions of Ukrainian Intelligence
On the eve of the Day of Foreign Intelligence, the FISU’s archival funds reveal new classified pages of the struggle for Ukraine. Another story is about the insurgent Otaman and deep-cover intelligence officer Petro Filonenko, who, on the instructions of the Partisan-Insurgent Staff of the State Center of the UPR in exile, headed by Khorunzhyi General Yurko Tyutyunnyk, repeatedly crossed the Polish-soviet border with his detachment and defeated red army and chekist detachments in the depths of occupied Ukraine.
1/23/2025
Khorunzhyi General Petro Lipko: “Lies Are the Greatest Achievement of the soviet power”
The next episode of the podcast of the FISU’s “Unveiled History” is about an experienced officer of the tsarist army Petro Lipko, who chose to serve the young Ukrainian state. Listen to the new story to find out why the Khorunzhyi General of the UPR Army, who was involved in the development of the Ukrainian Army and intelligence in particular, was shot dead by the Chekists in 1930
12/17/2024
Mykola Hlushchenko. A Painter Sealed As a soviet Agent
His life was full of dramatic twists of fate and mysteries. In correspondence with the Center, he was “Artist”, – after the title of the operational case against him, and “Yarema”– that was his agent codename. Declassified archival documents of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine unfold only some secret pages of the life of the artist Mykola Hlushchenko.
10/8/2024
To Turn Ivan Bahrianyi into Ivan “Red”. The kgb’s Modus Operandi
The archives of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine contain a lot of materials about how in the 1950s and 1960s of the 20th century the mgb/kgb of the ussr tried to persuade Ukrainian cultural, scientific and literary figures in exile to cooperate, abandon anti-soviet activities. But they did not always succeed. And then they developed measures to compromise and even liquidate those people. Ivan Bahrianyi, a Ukrainian poet, novelist, playwright, publicist, journalist, and head of the UNRada, was one of those figures.
9/17/2024
Dmytro Andriyevskyi. An Architect of Ukraine’s Independence
His name constantly appears in the documents of the nkvd/mdb/kgb of the ussr, which relate to the fundamental moments of the creation and activities of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. He is mentioned as one of the main theorists and ideologists of Ukrainian nationalism and the struggle for restoration of Ukraine’s independence. In November 1927, Dmytro Andriyevskyi was elected to the Provid of Ukrainian Nationalists and did a lot to convene its First Congress. Declassified documents from the Branch State Archive of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine now give the answer to the question: why Dmytro Andriyevskyi was so dangerous for the kremlin leadership.
8/23/2024
Yakiv Makohin. Philanthropist, Adventurer, Ambassador of Ukraine during the UPR
The Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine continues the series of podcasts “Unveiled History”, dedicated to active figures of Ukrainian emigration of the 20th century. The second story is aboutYakiv Makohin, the founder of the Ukrainian Press Bureau in London, who was considered an American, English or some other spy. In the documents of soviet secret services, he was listed as “a Ukrainian nationalist figure in the service of the British Intelligence Service”.
7/20/2024
