AFIO Now Interviews & Podcasts

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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AFIO NOW Video Series
Barry Broman, Former CIA Station Chief, on his newest historical novel: The Spy from Sukhumvit Road

Released to members on 6 Oct 2025

Run time: 15 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, 5 Aug 2025 with Barry Broman, author, producer, photographer. Former Marine, CIA Clandestine Service Officer, Station Chief, Diplomat, on his newest historical novel: The Spy from Sukhumvit Road.  This latest historical novel continues the story from Broman’s first novel, The Spy from Place Saint-Sulpice. Protagonist CIA Case Officer Richard “Rick” Blayne returns to Thailand to help support an anti-communist insurgency in Cambodia. Blayne's activities mirror the life of Barry Broman who spent time in Asia as an AP photographer, later as a Marine, and then with the CIA. Anyone who lived in the fetid jungles of Vietnam and stalked the dark alleys of Phnom Penh will be transported back.

AFIO NOW Video Series
Bruce Henderson on Midnight Flyboys - Crews & Secret Agents Who Aided the French Resistance in WWII

Released to members on 28 Oct 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.

 

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