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The AFIO Now series offers the association’s members and the public prerecorded interviews and presentations that feature intelligence experts, historians and officers from the U.S. intelligence community. Content includes historical reviews and analyses of past and current domestic and global events, career insight, intelligence related author and national security reporter interviews.
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Released to members on 11 Nov 2025
Run time: 24 minutes with several Q&As
AFIO Now Series Host: James Hughes, AFIO President and former CIA Operations Officer, and Former NSA Associate Deputy Director of Operations.
Interview of Thursday, 2 October 2025 of Bruce Henderson, journalist and author, magazine editor, on Midnight Flyboys: The American Bomber Crews and Allied Secret Agents Who Aided the French Resistance in World War II.
TOPIC: In this episode Henderson and Hughes discuss his 2025 book: Midnight Flyboys: The American Bomber Crews and Allied Secret Agents Who Aided the French Resistance in World War II -- the untold story of a top-secret operation in the run-up to D-Day in which American flyers and Allied spies carried out some of the most daring cloak-and-dagger operations of World War II.
Released to members on 11 Nov 2025
Run time: 55 minutes with several Q&As
AFIO Now Series Host: James Hughes, AFIO President and former CIA Operations Officer, and Former NSA Associate Deputy Director of Operations.
Interview of Tuesday, 14 October 2025 of Alexander Rose PhD, author and historian, on Phantom Fleet: The Hunt for Nazi Submarine U-505 and World War II’s Most Daring Heist. Host: James Hughes, AFIO President, a former CIA Operations Officer and Former NSA Associate Deputy Director of Operations.
TOPIC: In this episode Rose and Hughes discuss Rose's 2025 book: Phantom Fleet: The Hunt for Nazi Submarine U-505 and World War II’s Most Daring Heist -- which draws on long-classified encrypted documents and intercepted German transmissions to reveal how an owlish egghead and a glory-seeking buccaneer teamed up to score the richest prize on the high seas during WWII.
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"AFIO Now" Interviews and Podcasts are sponsored by Northwest Financial Advisors. Read the Press Release on this new Joint Arrangement.