Season 1

E1. High-Tech Surveillance and an Eye in the Sky

Jan 20, 2021 · 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.

E2. Deadly Poisons

Jan 20, 2021 · 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.

E3. Sexspionage

Jan 20, 2021 · 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.

E4. Clandestine Collection

Jan 20, 2021 · 36m

Methods for covertly capturing sensitive data have grown infinitely more advanced as the devices used to do so have become exponentially smaller.

E5. Covert Communication

Jan 20, 2021 · 33m

From old-school "dead drops" to high-tech digital transfers: Learn how intelligence officers actually acquire the information collected by sources.

E6. Special Ops and the Saboteur

Jan 20, 2021 · 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.

E7. The Code Breakers

Jan 20, 2021 · 36m

Encryption is a key tool for keeping valuable information secret — but some ingenious minds have managed to crack seemingly impenetrable codes.

E8. Recruiting the Perfect Spy

Jan 20, 2021 · 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.