
Masters of disinformation: how British spies played dirty in the Cold War
From HistoryExtra podcast
Published 6/11/2026
They 'haunted' an Indonesian general with a talking ghost and planted fake hippies in a Bulgarian youth festival. But did they change the course of the Cold War? Rory Cormac introduces Spencer Mizen to the comically absurd – and dangerously controversial – tactics deployed by a group of misfits and…







