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The Shadow Dossier episodes
- The Shadow Dossier — Episode 8: Operation Nighthawk
A covert exfiltration across the Glienicke Bridge brings a tense field operation to its conclusion -- and tests whether tradecraft holds under pressure.
1 hr 18 min - The Shadow Dossier — Episode 31: Operation ABLE ARCHER 83 & The Nuclear Brink
Operation ABLE ARCHER 83: the NATO exercise the Soviets mistook for a real first strike, and the days the world came closest to accidental nuclear war.
1 hr 16 min - The Shadow Dossier — Episode 30: Operation ARCHERY & The Stasi Cipher Breaches
Operation ARCHERY and the breach of Stasi ciphers that cracked open East Germany's surveillance state.
1 hr 13 min - The Shadow Dossier — Episode 29: Operation FAREWELL & The Soviet Tech Theft Ring
Operation FAREWELL exposes a massive Soviet campaign to steal Western technology piece by piece.
1 hr 15 min - The Shadow Dossier — Episode 28: Operation IVY BELLS & The Sea of Okhotsk Wiretap
Operation IVY BELLS: a submarine mission to tap a Soviet undersea communications cable in the Sea of Okhotsk.
1 hr 13 min - The Shadow Dossier — Episode 27: Operation GOLD & The Berlin Subterranean Wiretap
Operation GOLD: the Berlin wiretap tunnel dug beneath Soviet lines to intercept their communications.
1 hr 9 min - The Shadow Dossier — Episode 26: Operation RUBICON & The Crypto AG Penetration
Operation RUBICON and the decades-long secret penetration of Crypto AG's encryption devices.
1 hr 15 min - The Shadow Dossier — Episode 25: The Petrov Affair & Canberran Defection
The Petrov Affair: a Soviet defection in Canberra that exposed an entire intelligence apparatus.
1 hr 15 min - The Shadow Dossier — Episode 24: The Rosenbergs & Atomic Espionage
The Rosenberg case and the atomic espionage network that changed the nuclear balance of power.
1 hr 10 min - The Shadow Dossier — Episode 23: The Cambridge Five Unmasked
The unraveling of the Cambridge Five, one of history's most damaging spy rings.
1 hr 16 min
About The Shadow Dossier
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Declassified intelligence files from the shadow war nobody won cleanly. Each episode reconstructs a Cold War-era espionage operation -- dead drops, double agents, defector exfiltrations, and the…
quiet people whose names never made the history books. From Checkpoint Charlie to Moscow, from Vienna safehouses to Vatican archives, these are the files they never wanted published.