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Episodes (8)

Ep 1
High-Tech Surveillance and an Eye in the Sky
★6.7
2021-01-20•29m
In the spy game, if you can listen, you can learn, and gaining that crucial ability to eavesdrop has required some deeply creative ingenuity.

Ep 2
Deadly Poisons
★6.2
2021-01-20•31m
For some covert missions, the goal is not information, but assassination, and lethal toxins have been deployed by spy agencies to kill perceived foes.

Ep 3
Sexspionage
★6.3
2021-01-20•33m
As long as there has been espionage, sex and the promise of it have been powerful tools of persuasion and blackmail — practices that continue today.

Ep 4
Clandestine Collection
★6.2
2021-01-20•36m
Methods for covertly capturing sensitive data have grown infinitely more advanced as the devices used to do so have become exponentially smaller.

Ep 5
Covert Communication
★6.2
2021-01-20•33m
From old-school "dead drops" to high-tech digital transfers: Learn how intelligence officers actually acquire the information collected by sources.

Ep 6
Special Ops and the Saboteur
★6.2
2021-01-20•30m
Special ops require the very best people to execute them. But some of the most famous missions in modern history relied on elite technology as well.

Ep 7
The Code Breakers
★6.2
2021-01-20•36m
Encryption is a key tool for keeping valuable information secret — but some ingenious minds have managed to crack seemingly impenetrable codes.

Ep 8
Recruiting the Perfect Spy
★6.0
2021-01-20•38m
What leads someone to spy against their own nation? Motivations vary but tend to fall into one of four categories, as notorious cases demonstrate.