Sasha Ingber hosts SpyCast, the International Spy Museum’s flagship podcast on global intelligence, espionage, and covert operations. She is also the founder of HUMINT, where she explores the intelligence community through its people and the emotions that drive them. She has taken audiences inside a Chinese police station hidden above a ramen shop in New York, to a secret base in Ukraine where police officers were trained for the front, and to Qatar as hostage negotiations were underway. She was the national security correspondent for national TV network Scripps News, as well as a reporter at NPR, National Geographic, and Smithsonian. A Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting grantee, she has also told stories on the ground in Bangladesh, Iraq, and Cuba. She has been a guest on PBS NewsHour and The History Channel, and her reporting has been picked up by media outlets that include CNN, MSNBC, Breitbart, and Politico. Sasha holds a Master’s degree in nonfiction writing from Johns Hopkins University. Before starting a career in journalism, she worked in the U.S. State Department, debunking disinformation after Russia illegally seized Crimea from Ukraine.
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Enemies & Espionage: Inside Global Spy Games
What are America’s greatest adversaries doing behind the scenes?
SpyCast host and intelligence reporter Sasha Ingber delves into the covert operations of Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea. With firsthand reporting and insider access, she unpacks the secret strategies, backchannel deals, and shifting alliances shaping today’s global power dynamics.
Under Pressure: Mental Health in the World of Espionage
How do spies — and the journalists who cover them — handle the pressures of the job?
SpyCast host and intelligence reporter Sasha Ingber weaves together her groundbreaking reporting on mental health struggles in the intelligence community and how care has shifted over the years with her own experiences on the ground in Ukraine and in the Middle East.
