The spy game is a serious business, and throughout history, the tools and technologies developed for it have mattered as much as the spies themselves.
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- Episodes aired
- 8
- Latest aired
- S01E01
- Total runtime
- 4h 26min
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S01E01 High-Tech Surveillance and an Eye in the Sky
January 20 · 29min find the promo
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In the spy game, if you can listen, you can learn, and gaining that crucial ability to eavesdrop has required some deeply creative ingenuity.
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S01E02 Deadly Poisons
January 20 · 31min find the promo
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For some covert missions, the goal is not information, but assassination, and lethal toxins have been deployed by spy agencies to kill perceived foes.
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S01E03 Sexspionage
January 20 · 33min find the promo
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As long as there has been espionage, sex and the promise of it have been powerful tools of persuasion and blackmail — practices that continue today.
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S01E04 Clandestine Collection
January 20 · 36min find the promo
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Methods for covertly capturing sensitive data have grown infinitely more advanced as the devices used to do so have become exponentially smaller.
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S01E05 Covert Communication
January 20 · 33min find the promo
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From old-school "dead drops" to high-tech digital transfers: Learn how intelligence officers actually acquire the information collected by sources.
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S01E06 Special Ops and the Saboteur
January 20 · 30min find the promo
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Special ops require the very best people to execute them. But some of the most famous missions in modern history relied on elite technology as well.
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S01E07 The Code Breakers
January 20 · 36min find the promo
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Encryption is a key tool for keeping valuable information secret — but some ingenious minds have managed to crack seemingly impenetrable codes.
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S01E08 Recruiting the Perfect Spy
January 20 · 38min find the promo
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What leads someone to spy against their own nation? Motivations vary but tend to fall into one of four categories, as notorious cases demonstrate.