Spycraft

Season 12021

The spy game is a serious business, and throughout history, the tools and technologies developed for it have mattered as much as the spies themselves.

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8 Episodes

E01 High-Tech Surveillance and an Eye in the Sky

In the spy game, if you can listen, you can learn, and gaining that crucial ability to eavesdrop has required some deeply creative ingenuity.

January 20, 2021

E02 Deadly Poisons

For some covert missions, the goal is not information, but assassination, and lethal toxins have been deployed by spy agencies to kill perceived foes.

January 20, 2021

E03 Sexspionage

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.

January 20, 2021

E04 Clandestine Collection

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

January 20, 2021

E05 Covert Communication

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

January 20, 2021

E06 Special Ops and the Saboteur

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.

January 20, 2021

E07 The Code Breakers

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

January 20, 2021

E08 Recruiting the Perfect Spy

What leads someone to spy against their own nation? Motivations vary but tend to fall into one of four categories, as notorious cases demonstrate.

January 20, 2021

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