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Episodes

194. The KGB in Iran: Appeasing the Ayatollah with Ben Macintyre (Ep 2)

193. The KGB in Iran: Defecting to MI6 with Ben Macintyre (Ep 1)

192. 9/11: The War on Terror (Ep 6)

191. 9/11: The Twin Towers Fall (Ep 5)

190. 9/11: Could the Attacks Have Been Prevented? (Ep 4)

189. 9/11: How Much Did the Saudis Know? (Ep 3)

188. 9/11: How to Recruit a Hijacker (Ep 2)

The Man Who Briefed the President on 9/11

187. 9/11: The Rise of Osama bin Laden (Ep 1)

186. The Secret Spy Network: Can Five Eyes Survive Trump? (Ep 4)

185. The Secret Spy Network: How Snowden Nearly Destroyed Everything (Ep 3)

184. The Secret Spy Network: Kim Philby Threatens the Alliance (Ep 2)

183. The Secret Spy Network: How The US and UK Spy Together (Ep 1)

182. The Imitation Game: The Codebreakers Who Defeated Hitler (Ep 2)

181. The Imitation Game: How Alan Turing Broke Enigma (Ep 1)

180. Have the US and Israel Always Spied on Each Other? (Ep 2)

179. Did Israel Spy on Trump’s Iran Negotiations? (Ep 1)

178. The Plot to Destroy Russia’s Gas Empire (Ep 2)

177. Who Blew Up the Nord Stream Pipeline? (Ep 1)

176. The True Story of the Spies Held Hostage by China (Ep 2)

175. How China Downed a US Spy Plane (Ep 1)

174. The Murder of Litvinenko: Did the British State Hide the Truth? (Ep 6)

173. The Murder of Litvinenko: The Killers Escape (Ep 5)

172. The Murder of Litvinenko: Russia’s Nuclear Weapon (Ep 4)

171. The Murder of Litvinenko: Killed in Plain Sight (Ep 3)

170. The Murder of Litvinenko: Putin’s Plan To Kill (Ep 2)

169. The Murder of Litvinenko: Poisoned in London (Ep 1)

168. Trump's New Director of National Intelligence and the CIA's Missing Gold Bars

167. The Covid Origin Story: What the CIA Really Found (Ep 2)

166. The Covid Origin Story: Lab Leak or Animal Outbreak? (Ep 1)

165. Why England Didn't Win the 1970 World Cup (Ep 2)

164. Did the CIA Poison England's World Cup Goalkeeper? (Ep 1)

163. Argo: Smuggled Out of Khomeini's Iran (Ep 4)

162. Argo: How the CIA Made a Movie That Never Existed (Ep 3)

Is Iran Recruiting Spies to Conduct Anti-Semitic Attacks?

161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

160. Argo: The Secret Iranian Hostage Crisis (Ep 1)

159. Is NATO Prepared for a Russian Attack?

158. The Road to Iraq: George Bush's Unstoppable War (Ep 6)

157. The Road to Iraq: What the Spies Got Wrong (Ep 5)

156. The Road to Iraq: Tony Blair's Campaign for War (Ep 4)

155. The Road to Iraq: How 9/11 Changed Everything (Ep 3)

154. The Road to Iraq: Saddam Hussein's Fatal Error (Ep 2)

153. The Road to Iraq: Weapons of Mass Destruction (Ep 1)

152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

151. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: From Spy to Executioner (Ep 3)

Why Do Russian Spies Interfere in Global Politics?

150. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: How to Run a Killer (Ep 2)

149. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: The Truth Behind Stakeknife (Ep 1)

148. Can Europe Salvage its Relationship with Trump?