Espionage Exchange

During World War II, British intelligence came up with an unusual plan to mislead Germany about the Allies’ invasion plans. We’ll look at how the operation was put together and why it became one of the war’s most famous deception missions.

In this episode, we take a look at one of the most unusual intelligence operations of the Cold War: a secret tunnel built under Berlin to access Soviet communications. We’ll go through how the mission came together, how it worked, and what happened when things started to go wrong. Spoiler Alert: there was a mole!

In this episode, we look at the real CIA operation that helped six Americans escape Iran by pretending they were a Canadian film crew making a fake Hollywood movie. We’ll also compare the real story with the 2012 film Argo and look at what actually happened.

This episode discusses the story of Ravindra Kaushik, an Indian intelligence operative who was sent undercover to Pakistan and spent years living under another identity. We’ll look at how his cover worked, what he reportedly did, how his identity was eventually discovered, and this mission's correlation with the blockbuster film Dhurandhar.