Spies of War

August 29, 1949: four years after the US drops the first atomic bomb, the Soviets drop one. No-one expected it so soon. Behind the scenes of this major event of the cold war, the Soviets developed one of the biggest networks of moles of the century. In this episode of 'Spies of War', you will discover how and why brilliant scientists divulged the secrets of the atomic bomb to the sworn enemy of the US, and how US counter-intelligence services cracked their codes to expose the leaks.

August 29, 1949: four years after the US drops the first atomic bomb, the Soviets drop one. No one expected it so soon. Behind the scenes of this major event of the cold war, the Soviets developed one of the biggest networks of moles of the century. In this episode of 'Spies of War', you will discover how and why brilliant scientists divulged the secrets of the atomic bomb to the sworn enemy of the US, and how US counter-intelligence services cracked their codes to expose the leaks.

July 10, 1943: The Allied troops land in Sicily and open a new breach in the Nazi empire. Two months earlier, the corpse of a British officer was discovered on a Spanish beach, carrying confidential documents that revealed a military landing in the Balkans. The Germans immediately seized this valuable information... It was, in fact, a British ruse to deceive them about the real landing. In this episode of 'Spies of War,' you will relive all the details of this extraordinary darkly humorous ploy.