Behind the Bamboo Curtain | CIA

In the dying days of the Cold War, the West is on the verge of victory. But the Soviet Union's feared secret service, the KGB, won't give up without a fight. In this classic episode of True Spies, Sophia Di Martino and former US Army Intelligence officer Aden Magee tell the story ...  Show more

Journalist Charlie English is the author of The CIA Book Club - the story of how a courageous group of underground printers and publishers broke the iron grip of censorship on Cold War Poland. In this episode of True Spies, Charlie is your guide to the life of Mirosław Chojecki - ...  Show more

Two young CIA agents were flown to northern China in 1952, part of a bizarre Cold War operation to overthrow Mao Zedong. The plane crashed. The two Americans were arrested, and jailed for 20 years. We fast forward to today and turn the tables: How does China spy on the US now? Wh ...  Show more

Will Tolkachev fall at the final hurdle and land in the hands of the KGB? How do the CIA go about protecting their assets in the field? And, does it really take a spy to catch a spy? As we reach the final instalment of the story of Adolf Tolkachev, the plot reaches its dramatic ...  Show more

How did Cold War paranoia fuel the CIA's mind control experiments? What did popular films like The Manchurian Candidate have to do with the agency's secret programs? And did the CIA really help shape the counterculture of the 1960s? In the shadowy world of espionage, the line bet ...  Show more