Gordon Corera

Gordon Corera is a journalist and writer on intelligence and security issues. He is the co-host of "The Rest is Classified" podcast which tells stories about spies and secrets. He spent twenty years as a security correspondent for BBC News, where he covered terrorism, cyber security, the work of intelligence agencies and other national security issues and continues to appear as a security analyst for the BBC. He has reported from across the United States, Asia, Africa and the Middle East and presented a number of programmes focusing on intelligence agencies including MI6, MI5, GCHQ, the CIA, the NSA and Mossad. He is the author of The Spy in the Archive - How one mad tried to kill the KGB; Russians Among Us, Ghost Stories, Sleeper Cells and the Hunt for Putin's Spies; Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe, Intercept: The Secret History of Computers and Spies (entitled Cyberspies in the US), MI6: Life and Death in the British Secret Service (also entitled The Art of Betrayal), and Shopping for Bombs. He was educated at Oxford and Harvard universities, and lives in London.