Killing Lumumba | CIA
How did the coronation of a newly independent African nation, and it's democratically elected leader, Patrice Lumumba, turn into one of the...
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True Spies Classic: The Klaus Fuchs Effect | WW2
As a World War rages, humanity stands on the precipice of a new era in warfare. The atomic age is dawning - and Earth's great powers are det...
True Spies Debrief: Jim Chiles on Project Doorstop
Author and journalist James R. Chiles joins Morgan Childs to discuss the half-forgotten history of Project Doorstop - the US Government's Co...
Ortiz's War | OSS
In the days after D-Day, deep behind enemy lines in Occupied France, how does one man's personal battle, turn the tide of the entire war? He...
True Spies Classic: Seven Female Spies | WW2
During the Second World War, Vera Atkins sent hundreds of British spies into Occupied France. Some of them never came back - and nobody knew...
Brief Histories: Spy Cities - Washington D.C
Content Warning: This episode contains sex references. In the second season of Brief Histories, True Spies producer Joe Foley is your guide...
True Spies Debrief: Antonia Senior on De-Mythologising the Cambridge Five
Author Antonia Senior joins Morgan Childs to discuss the Cambridge Five - a British spy ring so notorious that aspects of their legacy have...
The Great Escapers | WW2
In September of 1943, thousands of British servicemen were being held in Italian PoW camps. When Mussolini fell, many stayed put, hoping to...
True Spies Classic: The Destroyed Man | Investigation
Betrayal. It's an important theme in spy fiction. But Steve Chao, investigative journalist, has seen it up close - and the price of betrayal...
True Spies Debrief: Stephan Talty on The American School of Spies
Beginning with the invasion by Mussolini's army in October 1940, Greece was pulled into the Second World War and with it came a band of arch...
Bitter Fruit and Black Ops | CIA/MI6
As the Iron Curtain descends across Eastern Europe, the West is determined to roll back the march of Communism - starting with Albania. Hist...
Brief Histories: Spy Cities - Berlin
Content Warning: This episode contains sex references. In the second season of Brief Histories, True Spies producer Joe Foley is your guide...
True Spies Classic: Hunting The Wolverine | CIA
In the desert of Southern Afghanistan, CIA Case Officer Douglas Laux is on the hunt. He's traced a number of deadly IED attacks to a shadowy...
True Spies Debrief: Ralf Little and David Eldridge on Staging Le Carré
True Spies producer Joe Foley speaks to Ralf Little and David Eldridge - the star and writer of the stage version of John Le Carré's The Spy...
An Extremely Violent Year | DEA
It's the summer of 2006, and former DEA Agent Jeffrey James Higgins is your guide to an audacious HUMINT operation against an Afghan narco-t...
True Spies Classic: New Russia, New Rules | CIA
It's 1993, and Russia is tearing itself apart. A violent coup is threatening to derail Boris Yeltsin's fragile post-Soviet government. Rolf...
True Spies Debrief: Sean Wiswesser on Russian Intelligence Strategy
True Spies producer Morgan Childs joins ex-CIA officer and Russia expert Sean Wiswesser to go deep on the strategy, ideology and political g...
Brief Histories: Spy Cities - Beijing
Content Warning: This episode contains references to torture and mutilation. In the second season of Brief Histories, True Spies producer Jo...
Red Rag to a Grey Bull | Private Sector
Bryan Stern and his team at Grey Bull are specialists in exfiltrating Americans from highly volatile contexts. In this episode, we follow Br...
True Spies Classic: White Traitor | ANC
To her colleagues, South African journalist Sue Dobson appeared to be a pro-Apartheid conservative. Nothing could have been further from the...