True Life Spy Stories

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Watch ⁠⁠⁠Philip Thompson's True-Life Spy Stories⁠⁠⁠ on YouTube. Watch this podcast on YouTube: ⁠ The Worst Intelligence Disaster in FBI History Support this podcast: ⁠⁠⁠Buy Me a Coffee⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠PayPal⁠⁠ In 1986, a chilling revelation sent shockwaves through the FBI's Soviet counterintelligence section in Washington. Two prized Soviet informants, Valery Martynov and Sergei Motorin, had been compromise...

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Watch ⁠Philip Thompson's True-Life Spy Stories⁠ on YouTube. Watch this podcast on YouTube: The CIA Mole Who Brought US Intelligence to its Knees Support this podcast: ⁠Buy Me a Coffee⁠ ⁠PayPal What motivates a person to become a spy and betray their own country? For some, it's a matter of principle and ideology, a belief in a cause that supersedes national loyalty. For others, it's all about the m...

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Watch Philip Thompson's True-Life Spy Stories on YouTube. Watch this podcast on YouTube: Moscow's Man On The Inside. Support this podcast: Buy Me a Coffee PayPal George Blake was the embodiment of the quintessential British gentleman. Charismatic, intelligent, and radiating charm, he was, to MI6, the very model of an intelligence officer. However, beneath this polished exterior lay a mastermind of...