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True CIA Spy Missions | Espionage | Detective | Politics

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Get to know the men and women of the Central Intelligence Agency in this curated collection of True Spies stories. Hosts Hayley Atwell and Vanessa Kirby enter a shadow-world of cunning manipulators, Cold Warriors and cutting-edge gadgetry as we meet the incredible operatives behind some of the Agency's most memorable missions.

If you’d like to dig deeper into the world of secrets, and test your own secret intelligence skills, head over to spyscape.com for articles, games, experiences, puzzles and videos. A Cup & Nuzzle production. Series producers: Gemma Newby, Joe Foley. Music: Nick Ryan.

Documentary Society & Culture History True Crime
Update frequency
every day
Average duration
46 minutes
Episodes
19
Years Active
2021
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Introducing: A History of the World in Spy Objects

Introducing: A History of the World in Spy Objects

The Enigma Machine. The B2 stealth bomber. The poisoned-tipped umbrella. Napoleon’s Briefcase of Secrets. As long as there has been conflict, there have been spies, and as long as there have been spi…

00:01:30  |   Wed 08 Nov 2023
Introducing: Daisy Ridley And Edward Norton in True Spies: The Oswald Project

Introducing: Daisy Ridley And Edward Norton in True Spies: The Oswald Project

A new season of True Spies kicks off with Daisy Ridley as the Narrator and Edward Norton as Lee Harvey Oswald. The Oswald Project tells the shocking story of Oswald – the alleged assassin of Presiden…

00:04:56  |   Thu 06 Jul 2023
True Spies: A New Era

True Spies: A New Era

Prepare for a new era of True Spies stories, told by Sophia Di Martino. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

00:01:09  |   Thu 27 Oct 2022
Allied with Al-Qaeda | CIA

Allied with Al-Qaeda | CIA

CIA Operations Officer Doug London had one shot to recruit one of Al-Qaeda's key facilitators. Doug has to find common ground with a man with a vastly different background and belief system. Lives ha…

00:44:43  |   Tue 09 Nov 2021
You Me, Same Same

You Me, Same Same

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 companion - a confidante par excellence. But maint…
00:44:30  |   Thu 21 Oct 2021
The Sociopathic Spy

The Sociopathic Spy

Location - unknown. Time period - classified. Hero? You decide. Jim Lawler is one of the CIA's most successful recruiters of foreign spies. But even he had to start somewhere. Vanessa Kirby joins Jim…
00:46:55  |   Thu 21 Oct 2021
The Boiling Frog

The Boiling Frog

At the peak of his career, Jack Devine was one of the world's top spymasters. But everybody starts somewhere. Vanessa Kirby follows Jack to Chile on his first overseas assignment. It's 1971, and the …
00:42:27  |   Thu 21 Oct 2021
New Russia, New Rules

New Russia, New Rules

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-Larssen, Deputy Chief of Station for the CIA in Mosc…
00:45:28  |   Thu 21 Oct 2021
How To Make Friends and Stage Coups

How To Make Friends and Stage Coups

Damascus, 1949. A plot to bring down the Syrian government is brewing. Stewart Copeland voices the jazz musician, raconteur, and CIA agent pulling the strings - his father Miles Copeland. Vanessa Kir…
00:45:36  |   Thu 21 Oct 2021
The 'Dreams-Come-True' Business

The 'Dreams-Come-True' Business

Vanessa Kirby meets Barry Broman, a CIA case officer who recruited foreign spies for the USA. Working alongside a suave MI6 officer, Barry was tasked with bringing a high-ranking Communist over to th…
00:44:53  |   Thu 21 Oct 2021
Justice For Leon Klinghoffer

Justice For Leon Klinghoffer

Vanessa Kirby follows CIA veteran Bob Dougherty as he seeks justice for the kidnap and killing of an American war veteran aboard a cruise ship in the Mediterranean. Bob had to wait nearly 20 years fo…
00:50:01  |   Thu 21 Oct 2021
Blinking Red

Blinking Red

CIA analyst Gina Bennett shows Vanessa Kirby the origins of America's most infamous enemy. Throughout the 1990s, Osama bin Laden launched a series of attacks on American interests at home and abroad.…
00:53:20  |   Thu 21 Oct 2021
The Nuclear Superhighway

The Nuclear Superhighway

Undercover CIA agent James Olson takes Vanessa Kirby on a nail-biting mission behind the Iron Curtain. In the late 1970s, James was tasked with tapping an underground communications line between Mosc…
00:55:18  |   Thu 21 Oct 2021
Exit Strategy

Exit Strategy

CIA analyst Sarah Carlson drops Vanessa Kirby into the pressure-cooker of post-revolutionary Libya. In 2011, the Arab Spring swept Colonel Gaddafi from office, leaving a deadly power vacuum. Three ye…
00:48:46  |   Thu 21 Oct 2021
The Targeter

The Targeter

Former CIA targeting officer Nada Bakos takes Vanessa Kirby on the controversial hunt for one of the Iraq War's deadliest terrorists. Abu Musab Al-Zaqarwi was a two-bit criminal until the US governme…
00:56:17  |   Thu 21 Oct 2021
The Billion Dollar Spy

The Billion Dollar Spy

`Hayley Atwell tells the story of Adolph Tolkachev, one of the CIA's most prolific Russian assets, with his handler David Rolph. David's task was to keep this priceless information flowing, but first…
00:53:01  |   Thu 21 Oct 2021
The Art Of Disguise

The Art Of Disguise

Hayley Atwell explains how an effective disguise can save your life, with former CIA Head Of Disguise Jonna Mendez. On a mission to bring in a notorious terrorist on foreign soil, Jonna found herself…
00:54:42  |   Thu 21 Oct 2021
The Rookie And Bin Laden

The Rookie And Bin Laden

Hayley Atwell shares what went on during 9/11 inside The Vault, the CIA's top secret bunker, with Tracy Walder, a rookie operative who was there. 9/11 was only the second day of Tracy's first real CI…
00:52:12  |   Thu 21 Oct 2021
True CIA Spy Missions: Teaser

True CIA Spy Missions: Teaser

Hayley Atwell and Vanessa Kirby narrate true stories from the incredible operatives behind the Central Intelligence Agency's greatest espionage operations. What do they know? What are their skills? A…
00:01:00  |   Tue 19 Oct 2021
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