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Episode 21 - Spies: 1945-1990. Throughout the Cold War both sides sought intelligence about their opponents using spies, satellites and other means. For political reasons, scientists working on the Manhattan Project provided nuclear secrets to the Soviets. British agents George Blake and Kim Philby passed on to the Soviet Union the identities of Western intelligence assets, and the presence of the Berlin Tunnel. Conversely, Soviet Colonel Oleg Penkovsky gave the West vital details of Soviet nuclear vulnerabilities. Intelligence services are also used to silence dissent, in particular in East Germany. After the Cold War an investigation revealed the Soviet Union had been aware of a number of double agents operating in its midst from information provided by a CIA mole, Aldrich Ames. One such agent, Oleg Gordievsky, managed to flee the Soviet Union, but Adolf Tolkachev and Dmitri Polyakov were arrested, tried and executed. Interviewees include Markus Wolf, Ted Hall, Oleg Kalugin, George Blake, Yuri Modin and Aldrich Ames (who was serving a life sentence). (from wikipedia.org)

Episode 21 - Spies: 1945-1990


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Episode 01 - Comrades: 1917-1945
Episode 02 - Iron Curtain: 1945-1947
Episode 03 - Marshall Plan: 1947-1952
Episode 04 - Berlin: 1948-1949
Episode 05 - Korea: 1949-1953
Episode 06 - Reds: 1947-1953
Episode 07 - After Stalin: 1953-1956
Episode 08 - Sputnik: 1949-1961
Episode 09 - The Wall: 1958-1963
Episode 10 - Cuba: 1959-1962
Episode 11 - Vietnam: 1954-1968
Episode 12 - MAD: 1960-1972
Episode 13 - Make Love, Not War: 1960s
Episode 14 - Red Spring: 1960s
Episode 15 - China: 1949-1972
Episode 16 - Detente: 1969-1975
Episode 17 - Good Guys, Bad Guys: 1967-1978
Episode 18 - Backyard: 1954-1990
Episode 19 - Freeze: 1977-1981
Episode 20 - Soldiers of God: 1975-1988
Episode 21 - Spies: 1945-1990
Episode 22 - Star Wars: 1980-1988
Episode 23 - The Wall Comes Down: 1989
Episode 24 - Conclusions: 1989-1991