About this season
From Chile to Afghanistan, it’s a world within a world and CIA Declassified peels back the layers of secrecy to uncover what really happened in some of the most reported moments from history.
Episodes (10)
1. The Real Argo
Aired 6 February 2014
U.S. diplomats in Iran pose as a Canadian film crew to escape the 1979 hostage crisis.
2. The Real Zero Dark Thirty
Aired 13 February 2014
An insight into the CIA's decade-long hunt for the most wanted man on the planet - Osama bin Laden - who was eventually located in 2011.
3. The Hunt for Che Guevara
Aired 20 February 2014
Documentary recalling the hunt for Che Guevara. In 1967, the CIA recruited Felix Rodríguez, one of its former agents, to train and head a team to track down the Marxist guerilla, who was intent on overthrowing the Bolivian government. Following Guevara's capture, Rodríguez interrogated him, but was unable to prevent an order to execute the man who had earlier been a major force in the Cuban revolution.
4. Castro and the Cold Cream
Aired 27 February 2014
The story of an assassination attempt on Cuban communist revolutionary Fidel Castro, when the US security agency tried to turn his 19-year-old lover Marita Lorenz into a killer by placing poisoned face cream in his home.
5. Killing Mad Dog Gaddafi
Aired 6 March 2014 • 30 min
The story of Khalifa Haftar, who tried to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi and his Libyan regime in the 1980s.
6. The Hunt for the Bombers
Aired 13 March 2014
The hunt for the members of al-Qaeda responsible for the attack on the USS Cole in 2000, in which 17 sailors died.
7. The Deadly Phantom Coup
Aired 20 March 2014
Exploring the CIA's staged invasion of Guatemala in 1954, looking at how he country was tricked into believing a real threat was imminent.
8. The Beirut Bomb
Aired 27 March 2014
Documentary investigating the fate of a Lebanese cleric who CIA director William Casey mistakenly thought was the head of militant group Hezbollah, and in 1985 allegedly ordered his killing.
9. The Fortress of War
Aired 3 April 2014
How the CIA quashed a Taliban uprising in Afghanistan by teaming up with soldiers on the ground, despite being outnumbered.
10. Operation Celestial Balance
Aired 10 April 2014
Undercover agents bribe warlords to track down suspected al-Qaeda fighters after the US embassy bombing in Nairobi in 1998. Last in the series.