Today just talks to Jan Stocklassa. Jan is an author and journalist focusing on large scale affairs in international politics. He served as a diplomat for Sweden in the Czech Republic from 1997 until 2003, and later helped found a newspaper paper in Prague. Jan spent more than a decade researching the 1986 murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, a case which is now officially closed but which still deserves a lot of attention and perhaps to be reopened and reinvestigated.

Connect with Jan:
stocklassa.com
Facebook: Jan Stocklassa
Watch Jan's documentary series, The Man Who Played with Fire, on Max, Discovery+, or PrimeVideo.
Check out the book here.

https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Played-Fire-Larssons/dp/1542092949/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.DIDldO-Hdk4FJqmz1iiXrliAr0WM-SCqw8Fjw90H1e5CMvGEWumPmmNHW3Zw-PnDs5fL9Df893JhB2wqNOrhX4KxROhwgkLiL9fcF7gqNlTPKPQROigCR9o3M9qZsbBYzMI25AiI_H8tdWva50p8InYTH2HzZE07IJygQr0ZyWRuNsC6JUPrf-iWA-7MNUGdD8zcknFrFyOXS57N97h37w.8tJgmDWDgm4pjKNlXXRacTm6Wjt-LCi7Qro1epveU5M&qid=1720403405&sr=1-1

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Today, Justin talks with returning guest James Stejskal. James enlisted in the U. S. Army in 1973 and served for more than 20 years, including with the now famous Special Forces Detachment A in Berlin in the 1970s and 80s, among many other assignments. He was severely wounded in Somalia in 1992 and medically retired from the Army in 1996, after which he joined the CIA as a case officer, where he spent nearly another 15 years. Now fully retired from government service, James has written several non fiction books as well as a new series of novels called The Snake Eater Chronicles. Today, he discusses the role Detachment A played in Operation Eagle Claw to rescue American hostages in Tehran in 1980. Although Eagle Claw is a very well known historic event, Detachment A's part has never been known in detail, until James now.

Check out James's first appearance on episode 98, Special Forces Detachment A in Berlin, here.

Connect with James:
LRDG@mac.com (for any books and signed copies!)
jamesstejskal.wordpress.com/
Facebook: James Stejskal Writer
Check out James's latest book on Operation Eagle Claw, Mission Iran, here.

https://www.amazon.com/Mission-Iran-Special-Forces-Operation/dp/1636243339

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Today Justin chats with Rose Mary Sheldon. This is her third time on the podcast. Rose Mary taught history as a professor at Virginia Military Institute for more than 25 years, and is a world renowned expert on intelligence activities in the ancient world. She earned her PhD from the University of Michigan in 1987 and has published several books and many articles over the years, as well as serving as an editor for the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence in Small Wars and Insurgencies and the Journal of Military History. Today she covers the lives and deaths of the emperors of the Flavian dynasty, who came after the Julio-Claudian emperors discussed last time, along with the internal security measures they put in place to protect themselves from assassination with varying degrees of success.

Check out episode 81, Espionage In Ancient Rome, here. And hear episode 119, Rampant Assassination in the Roman Empire, here.

Connect with Rose Mary:
vmi.academia.edu/RSheldon
Get your copy of Guarding the Caesars here.

https://amzn.to/3VY8N96

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Get Justin's latest book, Murder, Intrigue, and Conspiracy: Stories from the Cold War and Beyond, here.
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Find Justin's first book, Spyshots: Volume One, here.
Check out Justin's second book, Covert Arms, here.
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