True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics
by SPYSCAPE · 352 episodes
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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 position? We explore and investigate real life thrillers, mysteries and crimes - stories that prove truth is stranger than fiction! These stories cover lies, murder, theft, sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll. You’ll meet experts from the top intelligence agencies including FBI, CIA, MI5, MI6 (SIS), KGB, GRU, Mossad and many...
Latest episodes
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45 min
True Spies Classic: The Wilderness of Mirrors | US Army CI
In the dying days of the Cold War, the West is on the verge of victory. But the Soviet Union's feared secret service, the KGB, won't give up without a fight. In this classic episod…
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1 h 02
The CIA Book Club | CIA
Journalist Charlie English is the author of The CIA Book Club - the story of how a courageous group of underground printers and publishers broke the iron grip of censorship on Cold…
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30 min
Brief Histories: Dark Arts - Assassination
In the third season of Brief Histories, True Spies producer Joe Foley is your guide to the fringes of spycraft's secret world. In this Brief History of Assassination, we'll uncover…
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51 min
True Spies Classic: The Josephine Baker Effect | Deuxieme Bureau
In this classic episode of True Spies, Sophia Di Martino and author Damian Lewis tell the story of triple-threat superstar Josephine Baker, who weaponized her unstoppable charisma…
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37 min
True Spies Debrief: Ayman Oghana on Mental Health, China, And The Spy Next Door
Content Warning: This episode contains references to violence and contains an extended discussion around mental health. Journalist Ayman Oghanna has reported from the heart of some…
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55 min
Stealing Hitler's Rocket | WW2
A deadly new weapon threatens to change the course of World War Two - a sub-orbital missile, years ahead of its time. It's called the V2 Rocket, and it's Adolf Hitler's best hope f…
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43 min
True Spies Classic: Undercover With The Nipsters | Investigation
Writer and researcher Julia Ebner makes a living out of infiltrating extremist groups. In the divided political landscape of the 21st century, some of those groups are making a pla…
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39 min
True Spies Debrief: Julia Ebner on Radicalization, the Internet and Linguistic Analysis
The fantastic Julia Ebner, researcher and author, returns to the True Spies Debrief to discuss with host Morgan Childs her latest findings - how proper analysis of the online langu…
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50 min
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 hottest flash points of the early Cold W…
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48 min
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 determined to secure their place in it. In…
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39 min
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 Cold War strategy against nuclear arms smu…
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54 min
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? Hear the story of Peter Ortiz - a legend o…
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43 min
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 why. Vanessa Kirby shares the story of…
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32 min
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 to the shadowy side of the world's espio…
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40 min
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 passed in to legend. Antonia's book, Sta…
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53 min
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 be liberated by an Allied advance. But o…
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45 min
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 is all too real. In this classic episod…
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37 min
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, classicists, and intellectual…
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43 min
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. Historian Stephen Long is your guide to Oper…
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34 min
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 to the shadowy side of the world's espio…