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True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics
True Spies takes you inside the world's greatest espionage and detective operations. Our hosts Hayley Atwell, Vanessa Kirby, Sophia Di Martino, Daisy Ridley and Rhiannon Neads talk to the real spies behind the missions. What do they know? What are their skills? And what would you do in their positio...
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339 episodes
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 archeologists,...
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.
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Brief Histories: Spy Cities - Berlin
Content Warning: This episode contains sex references.
In the second season of Brief Histories, True Spies producer Joe Fol...
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 figure wi...
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 Who Came...
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-terrorist....
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 Mowatt-Lar...
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 goals of th...
Brief Histories: Spy Cities - Beijing
Content Warning: This episode contains references to torture and mutilation.
In the second season of Brief Histories, True...
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 Bryan into t...
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 truth. In...
True Spies Debrief: Miles Johnson on Intelligence and Organised Crime
True Spies producer Morgan Childs joins author and Financial Times reporter Miles Johnson for a debrief on the international intelligence community's...
All Very Freddie | Private Security
Ever wondered how NOT to plan a coup?
In the first ever telling of this story, Private Security professional Julian Fisher...
Brief Histories: Spy Cities - Moscow
In the second season of Brief Histories, True Spies producer Joe Foley is your guide to the shadowy side of the world's Espionage capitals.
True Spies Classic: Operation Ajax | CIA & MI6
In the early 1950s, Iran elected a forward-thinking new leader. But where previous regimes had played ball with British and American oil companies in...
True Spies Debrief - Aaron Tracy on the Secret World of Roald Dahl
Writer Aaron Tracy joins Morgan Childs to discuss the complexities and controversies around Roald Dahl - a man whose reputation as a children's author...
Writer and Traitor | MI6
Content Warning: This episode contains sex references.
Author Robert Verkaik unpicks the complex and fascinating relationship between tw...
True Spies Classic: You Me, Same Same | CIA
Ryan Hillsberg can be whoever you want him to be. As a CIA case officer, he recruited assets for the Agency by transforming himself into their ideal c...
Brief Histories: Spy Cities - New York
a new season of Brief Histories, True Spies producer Joe Foley is your guide to the shadowy side of the world's Espionage capitals.
True Spies Debrief - Christina Hillsberg on the Women of the CIA
Former CIA officer Christina Hillsberg is the author of Agents of Change: The Women Who Transformed the CIA. In this conversation with True Spies prod...
The Family Affair | WW2
Christine Kuehn grew up believing that she was part of an ordinary, patriotic American family. But in 1994, a surprising letter revealed a darker side...
True Spies Classic: The Mouse at Pearl Harbor | WW2
A single spy can change the course of history - for better, or for worse.
In this Classic episode of True Spies, you'll meet one of the...
True Spies Debrief: Terry Stiastny on Britain's WW2 Propaganda Machine
Terry Stiastny, award winning author and journalist, takes on a deep dive into the world of the British wartime propaganda machine.
Brief Histories: Spy Cities - London
In a new season of Brief Histories, True Spies producer Joe Foley is your guide to the shadowy side of the world's Espionage capitals.
I...
Cold SNAP | CIA
High in the Himalayan mountains, a team of climbers are attempting to plant a device that will give them eyes on a growing threat. But they'll leave b...
True Spies Classic: Sister Spies | WW2
In this classic episode of True Spies, Vanessa Kirby meets Pat and Jean Owtram, two British sisters who played crucial roles as Allied codebreakers du...
True Spies Debrief: Robert Hannigan on Work at Bletchley Park
Robert Hannigan is the former director of the British Government Communications Headquarters or GCHQ, and the author of the recent book, Counterintel...
The Importance of Being Ernest | Historical
In the heart of New York City, a secret campaign of influence and espionage aimed to bring America in to a generational conflict. It was helped along...
True Spies Classic: The Boiling Frog | CIA
At the peak of his career, Jack Devine was one of the world's top spymasters. But everybody starts somewhere.
In this class...
True Spies Debrief: Gordon Corera on Vasili Mitrokhin
Gordon Corera, veteran security journalist and co-host of The Rest is Classified, joins Morgan Childs to discuss the central figure in his latest book...
The Melville Collective | FBI
During the turbulent 1960s, New York City faced the most destructive wave of domestic terror since the Anarchist bombings of the early 20th century.
Tradecraft, Part 11
The tools in a spy's arsenal are more varied than you might think. But they all come under one name: Tradecraft.
In our eleventh round of...
Tradecraft, Part 10
The tools in a spy's arsenal are more varied than you might think. But they all come under one name: Tradecraft.
In our tenth round of in...
True Spies Classic: The Real Sopranos | FBI
FBI agent Giovanni Rocco grew up playing in the back yards of New Jersey's criminal class. As an adult, he went undercover to take them down. In this...
True Spies Debrief: Anthony Vinci on the Fourth Intelligence Revolution
Anthony Vinci is a former DIA case officer who went on to serve at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency before entering the private sector. Hi...
The Wireless Operator, Part Two: The Derber Method | Historical
When Dr David Tuch started investigating his family tree, he found much more than he bargained for. A distant cousin. A sailor. A man who led a life o...
True Spies - Brief Histories: Double Agents
From ancient Babylon to the darkest depths of the Cold War, Double Agents have fascinated us for centuries.
In Brief Histories, the mont...
The Wireless Operator, Part One: The Trouble With Hyman | Historical
When Dr David Tuch started investigating his family tree, he found much more than he bargained for. A distant cousin. A sailor. A man who led a life o...
True Spies Classic: The Money Spy | FSB
How do you flee your country and join the other side? In this classic episode of True Spies, a former Russian intelligence agent gives Vanessa Kirby a...
True Spies Debriefs: Dr Amy Zegart on Entertainment, Policy and AI
Dr Amy Zegart works to bridge the divide between the worlds of policy and tech. In this Debrief, True Spies producer Morgan Childs joins Dr. Zegart T...