Declassified: Untold Stories of American Spies — Season 1
About this season
Explore the true stories of America's covert operations told firsthand by the agents who lived it, while getting unprecedented access to the riveting and secret world of espionage.
Episodes (8)
1. Trigon: KGB Chess Game
5.0Aired 19 June 2016 • 42 min
The story of Aleksandr Ogorodnik, a Soviet diplomat with the codename Trigon, who was recruited by the CIA at the height of the Cold War to obtain valuable intelligence on the Soviet Union.
2. The Hunt for Saddam
Aired 26 June 2016 • 42 min
The U.S. military's search for missing Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein.
3. Zarqawi: Father of ISIS
Aired 3 July 2016 • 42 min
A report on efforts by President George W. Bush and the Joint Special Operations Command to stop violent Al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
4. Cuba: Traitor on the Inside
Aired 10 July 2016 • 42 min
The FBI and Defense Intelligence Agency team up to capture DIA Senior Analyst Ana Montes for allegedly passing sensitive intelligence to Cuba.
5. Cross International: The Billion Dollar Black Market
Aired 17 July 2016 • 42 min
Investigations begin on an undercover sting operation to stop illegal arms; led by ICE and Homeland Security.
6. The Taliban's Double Agent
Aired 21 August 2016 • 42 min
A Taliban double agent was instrumental in securing the release of foreign nationals held hostage in Afghanistan by the Taliban.
7. Red Strom Rising
Aired 28 August 2016 • 42 min
Engineer Chi Mak was allegedly leaking Naval secrets to the Chinese government back in 2004 and was pursued by the FBI and NCIS.
8. Hexagon: The Secret Satellite
Aired 4 September 2016 • 42 min
During the Cold War, the U.S. military races against time to recover classified footage from a top secret surveillance satellite that crashed into the Pacific Ocean before it falls into enemy hands.