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Shadowy assassins who vanish into the
crowd.
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Double agents who sell their own
country's secrets.
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And coded messages hiding in plain
sight.
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Throughout history, spies have played a
unique role in shaping world events.
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And these secret agents work at the
behest of an organization, a government,
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perhaps even a single leader.
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Their covert orders could range from
simply collecting information or
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as deadly serious as assassinating an
enemy.
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Secrecy is critical to a spy's success.
So how do these masters of deception
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fulfill their assignments without
getting caught?
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Well, that is what we'll try and find
out.
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The CIA, MI6, and MSS.
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These are the foreign intelligence
services for some of the most powerful
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countries in the world.
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These agencies and hundreds of others
engage in clandestine operations to
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aid and protect their countries.
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For many, their mission is to gather the
most closely guarded secrets of their
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enemies. And their secret weapon are
often...
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Spies. Spies are utilized by states to
collect intelligence that is necessary
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advance policymaking.
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From figuring out whether an adversary
has nuclear weapons to figuring out
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whether a leader of a foreign state is
about to die.
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We have intelligence agencies that
specialize in visual intelligence. They
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satellite imagery.
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We have intelligence agencies that
specialize in the interception of
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communication.
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But there are spies that more commonly
comes to mind, which is the people at
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front line, the individuals who are
willing to put their lives at risk to
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information.
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At the end of the day, it's a life of
mystery and intrigue because the spy
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is kind of its own domain. It remains
this kind of puzzle or mystery that most
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people will not have exposure to beyond
those few moments we read about in the
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newspaper.
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Hollywood movies and books and TV have
made it seem like spies are some kind of
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superhero. That is nothing like real
espionage. The purpose of espionage is
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be so secret that nobody even knows
you're there.
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True professional espionage is in and
out without anyone ever even knowing it
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happened. That makes your average spy
much more like an average person.
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And what's required of a spy changes
from day to day.
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One day we're hunting terrorists.
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Sometime later, we're exchanging
information in secret.
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Someday we're fighting a war on drugs.
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Some days we're fighting a war on
misinformation.
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It's an incredible web of information
and impact that the average person is
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aware of.
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How can we ever hope to understand the
mysterious world of espionage?
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if it remains completely hidden from us?
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Well, every so often, information does
come to light that illustrates how a
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single spy can change the course of
history.
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Los Alamos, New Mexico, 1943.
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A massive scientific complex is
established in secret for the research
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development of a truly devastating
weapon.
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This laboratory becomes ground zero for
the most consequential, top -secret
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military program ever devised.
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It's called the Manhattan Project.
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The Manhattan Project was this top
-secret, federally funded, $2 billion
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to explore whether it was possible to
develop an atomic weapon in
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the midst of World War II.
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And they built this secret city in Los
Alamos, gathering together chemists and
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engineers and physicists and other
scientists into one spot so that these
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scientists can collaborate and fully
converse inside this secret city to
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this weapon.
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As history shows, these scientists would
prove successful in creating the atomic
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bomb.
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But little did they know at the time,
There was a spy among them, sharing the
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program's most intimate secrets.
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His codename was Rest, but his identity
has since been revealed to be a German
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physicist named Klaus Fuchs.
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Klaus came from Germany, and because of
his prior background as a physicist, he
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quickly got a job within the Manhattan
program in Los Alamos.
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And unknown to the people there, Fuchs
began to share information with the
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Soviets about the program.
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The U .S. counterintelligence program
that involved decrypting Soviet
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communications revealed the scope of the
information that Fuchs collected and
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shared with the Soviets.
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In his particular role as a lead
scientist within the program and access
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development of the bomb, He was able to
share pretty detailed technical
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information about the science that goes
into the generation and enrichment of
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plutonium, which served a huge deal in
advancing the Russians' capacities in
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those spaces.
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And he collected intelligence and shared
intelligence for about seven years
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until it was revealed.
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The greatest find in the history of
espionage...
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is the theft of the atomic secret.
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Klaus Fuchs pretty much shared the
recipe with the Soviet Union.
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The Soviet Union was able to get a
nuclear weapon roughly five years before
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could have done it on their own.
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The moment they had the nuke, they were
a world power.
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If one spy can alter the course of
atomic history, how else has espionage
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our world?
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Has secret intelligence informed nearly
every major event in human history?
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You have to assume that you only know
about 5 % of all espionage operations.
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Every negotiation, every diplomatic
agreement, every transition of power
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one president to another president. For
167 countries all over the world over
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the course of decades, intelligence had
a role to play in every one of those.
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So now when you start to ask yourself
about how the Soviet Union fell and you
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start to ask yourself about how the end
of Afghanistan happened and the winning
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of Gulf War II and the taking down of
Saddam Hussein, you start to see these
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major instances in history where
intelligence worked or failed.
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So when you try to consider the impact
that espionage has had over the long
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-term history of the world, You have to
remember that 95 % of what they've done,
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nobody knows about, except for need -to
-know secret circles.
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It's really pretty chilling if you think
about the effect that just a single spy
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or intelligence source can have on world
events.
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And the irony is that we often don't
know what that impact is until many
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or even decades later, or sometimes ever
at all.
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Even historians looking back on
historical events or geopolitical
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may never have access to the behind -the
-scenes intrigue and espionage
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that took place or the machinations of
various intelligence organizations.
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But for sure, spies really can change
the course of history.
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Washington, D .C., 2025.
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The International Spy Museum.
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This sleek, modern building houses over
7 ,000 unique artifacts from the history
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of espionage.
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Among them are ingenious devices created
to hide things, record secret
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conversations, and some are even meant
to kill.
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The International Spy Museum houses the
world's largest collection of
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intelligence and espionage -related
artefacts.
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We have all kinds of ingenious devices
to do all different types of stuff. So a
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lot of the gadgets that we see are there
to try to help to be a more effective
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agent, to recruit spies better, to steal
secrets better.
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And we've got a fantastic James Bond
collection.
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Some of the James Bond movies have
actually influenced the development of
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gadgets in the CIA.
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CIA directors come out of the movie
theatre and say, guys, do we have
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like this? And if we don't, can someone
get on it? So we know that there's a two
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-way interaction between the gadgets in
fiction and in reality.
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When you look at spy gadgets, a lot of
them are weapons of one thing or
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but you're always trying to come up with
new gadgets.
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So the KGB came up with a lipstick gun,
which was a little 4 .5 millimeter
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bullet that could be fired from a
lipstick tube.
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The CIA had an ice gun, which fired a
super cool needle of ice, preferably
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through your opponent's heart. That was
all around 1960.
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And then there are famous exploding
cigars, which they were going to blow
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Fidel Castro's head.
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But to the extent that secret weapons,
spy weapons programs exist, they're
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secret, which is why you don't know
about them, because you're not supposed
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Over the years, some spy gadgets have
either been declassified or leaked to
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public.
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However, what's less clear is whether
any of these fantastical and frankly
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bizarre devices
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were ever successfully put to use.
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But there is a curious instrument of
death that many believe was responsible
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one of the most infamous and unsolved
assassinations of the 20th century, the
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1978 murder of British journalist Georgi
Markov.
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Markov was a dissident in Bulgaria, and
he was loud.
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And he had to flee. He wound up in the
United Kingdom.
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And he got employed by the BBC and Radio
Free Europe,
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which we absolutely hated because it was
Western propaganda directed to the
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East. And he got louder and louder. And
the Bulgarians, I think it was the
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president, he wanted to get rid of this
guy.
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On September 7th, 1978, at around 1 .30
p .m., Markov is about to catch a bus
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on the Waterloo Bridge in London when
something very strange happens.
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Yogi Markov bumps into somebody at a bus
stop, and this individual is carrying
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an umbrella, and Yogi Markov feels some
pain in his leg.
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And the individual concerned mutters an
apology and climbs into a taxi.
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And Markov, from that moment onwards,
becomes ill. He goes to hospital later
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that night, and a few days later, he
succumbs to a very severe
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infection.
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Doctors who examined his body found red
swelling on the back of his thigh.
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And in a microscopic examination of the
flesh from the wound site, they
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discovered a tiny, tiny, less than two
millimeter size little ball,
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mostly made out of platinum, which had
holes drilled in it as a means
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to administer a poison.
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The poison, which has never been
officially identified, was most likely
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which is a highly toxic substance, which
is refined from castor beans.
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How was this deadly platinum ball
implanted into Georgie Markov?
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Answers were not easy to come by, but
then investigators remembered one
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seemingly minor detail that may provide
all the answers.
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Oh, that umbrella.
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What was that all about?
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And later we learned that one of the
things that both the KGB and the
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had come up with was an umbrella gun.
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They had a whole lab working on this.
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And there was a little tiny capsule that
was in the tip of the umbrella which
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had a needle on it.
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And you just poked somebody and then
walked away.
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How do you kill somebody in plain
daylight, in public, without anybody
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about it? And the answer is that you
find a way to create some sort of device
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like an umbrella.
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that blends in every day but can still
deliver a lethal dose when you need it
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to.
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This is exactly what makes spy agencies
and spy tech something of interest and
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renown, because there's a great deal of
effort, a great deal of investment
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that's put into making a clandestine
weapon.
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The umbrella suspected of killing
Georgie Marka was never recovered, so
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investigators had no way to definitively
confirm such a device was responsible
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for his murder.
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But as far as the identity of the
mysterious assassin who bumped into
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well, that's another mystery.
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When it comes to assassinating people,
we know that the KGB did quite a bit of
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that, and we know that the Russian
intelligence does it now, too.
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There's an arsenal of weapons, and
Markov was a very loud dissident, so he
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an enemy of the revolution, and he had
to be killed.
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But the man who was seen to stick that
umbrella into Markov's leg, I think he
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got away with this.
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What history says about the
assassination of Georgi Markov is a
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to who was Jack the Ripper, who killed
JFK, what's the final definitive story.
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Hopefully we'll know one day. Maybe we
never will.
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Today a replica of the notorious
umbrella hangs in the International Spa
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Museum's collection.
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And while it can never be proven that a
similar device was used to poison
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Georgie Markov, one thing is certain.
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The deadly tools of spycraft could be
made to look like anything.
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And you wouldn't know it until it's too
late.
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In terms of what could be future spy
weapons, secret spy gadgets they could
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up with, well, one of them is tiny, tiny
drones.
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They can fly inside you, perhaps,
administer poisons, carry tiny cameras.
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The use of frequency weapons might be
something else.
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Essentially some sort of energy beam
which is being directed at people,
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affecting the brain in some way.
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which would create feelings of
disorientation. And if it managed to
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discombobulate the right targets, it
could interfere with their ability to
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perform their duties.
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So energy weapons could be useful in the
world of spies.
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But yes, there's a secret war. You'll
always try to be one step ahead of your
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opponent by coming up with something
that they hadn't thought of yet.
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And it can be someone passing you by
with an umbrella.
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Was the assassination of Georgi Markov
the work of Soviet intelligence?
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Like the top secret nature of espionage
itself, there's a lot we may never know.
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But there is one spy mystery that has
intelligence officers worried even now.
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It involves a foreign asset who
infiltrated the American government
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stealing national secrets.
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Washington, D .C., 1947.
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President Harry Truman establishes the
Central Intelligence Agency.
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In the wake of World War II and with the
rise of atomic weaponry, a new covert
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war is about to begin between the United
States and the Soviet Union.
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This unprecedented era of espionage from
1947 to 1991
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as the Cold War.
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At the start of the Cold War, as we know
it in the 1950s, the U .S. realized
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that it needed to advance its internal
security measures.
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This is why Truman would ultimately
generate a presidential executive order
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confidential materials, which still to
this day is the way by which we set
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different degrees of confidentiality
around secret documents here in the
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States.
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During the Cold War, both the CIA and
the Soviet Union's KGB employed spies to
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steal each other's national secrets.
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And while any civilian could be
recruited to spy on their home country
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other side, even more valuable were
those already working in the
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community. These turncoats are known as
double agents.
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To be a double agent, for example, I'm
an agent. I'm working with the CIA over
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here, but also working with the KGB over
here.
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I'm a double agent in the middle.
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But it's quite often used in shorthand
to refer to anybody who works in this
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world who also works for the other side.
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There will be a closed universe of
individuals in the know about particular
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secrets, and you need to penetrate those
kinds of closed networks.
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And so the best way to do that is by
turning a double agent, a person, into
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information sharer.
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The U .S. intelligence community is made
up of 18 different agencies and
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organizations.
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So we have to wonder, are there double
agents among them sharing our most
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closely guarded secrets with our
enemies?
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Remarkably, the answer is yes.
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and many consider the most damaging
double agent ever discovered, was a 31
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veteran of the CIA named Aldrich Ames.
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Aldrich Ames was a counterintelligence
officer in the Directorate of
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and he was a senior individual who, in
1985, as a result of a bad divorce, was
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short of money, and he sold out to the
Soviets.
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He just simply went to the embassy.
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asked to speak to a KGB officer, and
then sold information through letters,
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which was highly classified operations
and a large number of identities
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who were people who had worked either
for the FBI or the CIA in the
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Soviet embassy in Washington, D .C.
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There were suspicions that there was a
spy within the CIA.
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Because in the 1980s, many of our
Russian sources in Russia
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started kind of dropping like flies.
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And this set off alarm bells at the CIA.
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And so an investigation was launched.
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But bizarrely, it took many, many years
to realize that it was Aldrich Ames.
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Even though Aldrich Ames displayed many
of the characteristics of...
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What would be a viable target for
recruitment?
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He had a known problem with alcohol.
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He had married a Colombian woman who had
very expensive taste.
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He bought a house in Virginia with cash
for $540 ,000.
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He bought a Jaguar.
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He started to dress really well. He got
new teeth.
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And all of these.
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are pretty obvious indicators that
someone is working for a foreign
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service because he couldn't afford all
that on his CIA salary.
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Aldrich Ames is one of the most famous
CIA compromises of all time. He went
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many, many years clandestinely acquiring
and giving information to the Russians
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until his ultimate arrest in the 1990s.
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It's very difficult to be able to
quantify the amount of damage that
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Ames did.
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We know that CIA spies were
systematically killed, and even to this
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always training new recruits to
understand Aldrich Ames to make sure
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don't have another instance like that
happen again.
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Aldrich Ames was sentenced to life in
prison, and his wife Rosario got five
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years for aiding her husband in his
crimes against the United States.
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But Ames was not the only double agent
discovered inside.
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an American intelligence agency.
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In 2001, an FBI agent named Robert
Hansen was arrested for selling
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highly classified information to Russia
for over 20 years.
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And it begs an urgent question.
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How many more double agents might be
operating within the American
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community right now that have never been
caught?
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It is very likely that there is a
Russian double agent within the U .S.
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government today.
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In the same way, it is very likely that
there is a double agent working for the
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Chinese government or the Iranian
government or the North Korean
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The United States has many enemies
around the world and those enemies are
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interested in gathering intimate
information about U .S. doings.
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It's very uncomfortable to admit But one
thing that CIA officers are taught
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right out of the gate is that you must
always assume at any given time that the
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CIA and the FBI are penetrated by a
foreign intelligence service.
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We have to assume that. If we're lucky,
there's only one.
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Probability -wise, there is more than
one.
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Could there really be a foreign spy
deeply embedded in a U .S. intelligence
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agency?
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Unraveling this mystery is truly a
matter of national security because...
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Gaining secret information on an enemy
can quickly shift the balance of global
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power. Such was the case in World War II
when Allied forces were convinced that
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a German double agent was leaking D -Day
plans to the Nazis, one letter at a
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time.
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France, 1942.
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As World War II raged across Europe,
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The Allied forces spent five months
planning a top -secret invasion to
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the French coastal town of Dieppe.
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But on August 19, as the Allies began
their surprise assault, it seemed that
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somehow the Germans knew they were
coming.
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The attack on Dieppe was a disaster for
the Allies.
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Something like half of the 6 ,000 troops
who land are either killed or taken
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prisoner. And so the concern was that
classified information was being sent
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to the Axis powers, to the Nazis, and
that using codebreakers or spies,
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the attack had been foiled, had been
discovered by the Axis powers.
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The Allies are repelled by the Nazis,
and the mission is a failure.
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And then people wanted to know why.
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The defeat was so stunning that British
intelligence, MI5, started looking for
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reasons.
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How did the Nazis know the invasion was
happening? So it was suspected that
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there could be a spy sending messages to
the Nazis to alert them of upcoming
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attacks.
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After the failed DF invasion, British
intelligence launched an investigation
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to find a potential Nazi spy in their
midst.
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And in the process, they noticed
something rather peculiar.
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Just two days before the surprise
invasion on Dieppe, in the British
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the Daily Telegraph, a curious clue
appeared in that day's crossword puzzle.
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Around August 18th, 1942, something very
strange happened in the Telegraph's
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crossword.
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The crossword puzzle clue was a French
port. The answer was Dieppe.
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The big question was, was the word
Dieppe in the crossword puzzle innocent,
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was it a warning to the Nazis, alerting
them that an attack was imminent?
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Is it possible that the Dieppe attack
failed because of that crossword puzzle
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answer?
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Was a spy sending top -secret Allied
intelligence to the Nazis through
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puzzles?
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After interrogating the creator of the
crossword, mild -mannered schoolteacher
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named Leonard Dahl, British intelligence
concluded that the puzzle's use of the
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word Dieppe was nothing more than a
remarkable coincidence.
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It seemed the case was closed until two
years later, when code words started to
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appear in the newspaper's puzzle again.
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In 1944, the Allies were planning the D
-Day invasion amidst a huge blanket of
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secrecy. And once again, the Daily
Telegraph crossword starts spitting
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out information that should not be in
the public domain.
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About three weeks before the invasion,
in the Daily Telegraph, in the crossword
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puzzle, the code word Utah appears.
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Then a few days later, the code word
Omaha appears.
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These are the two beaches where the
American forces will land.
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Then the next puzzle, the code word
Overlord appears.
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That's the name of the entire mission.
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This is becoming terrifying.
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Then the word Neptune appears.
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That's the code word for the British
warships for D -Day.
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And then the word Mulberry appears.
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That's the code word for the portable
docks that were built across the
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When these code words started appearing,
it was too much of a coincidence.
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MI5, we're going to get to the bottom of
it, especially after DF.
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Once again, their search eventually led
them to the author of the puzzle,
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Leonard Daw.
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Is this the Nazi spy?
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And finally it was determined that as a
reward for some of the boys at the boys'
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school, he would let them pick the word
to put in the crossword.
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And there just happened to be a lot of
Allied soldiers stationed nearby.
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The kids hear these weird words, Omaha,
Utah, and they say, let's put those in
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the puzzle, not realizing they're about
to give away the biggest invasion in
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history.
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Could the appearance of secret code
names in British crossword puzzles have
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simply an extraordinary coincidence?
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Or was it a clever spycraft tool? We may
never know for sure.
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Like in the case of another workplace 70
years after World War II that some
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believed was intended to have deadly
consequences.
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In 2012, in Venezuela, there was
speculation that a
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crossword puzzle in the daily paper,
contains coded messages that were meant
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to signal a threat against the brother
of President Hugo Chavez.
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There was asafin, which means to kill.
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There was rafagas, which means burst of
machine gun fire.
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And there was also the first name of
Chavez's brother.
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And so all of this led to the...
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conspiracy theory or conspiracy thought
that this must mean that an
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assassination attempt was on the horizon
of Chavez's brother.
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The government essentially accused the
newspaper and the designer of this
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crossword puzzle of a plot and of
transmitting this coded threat.
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Whether or not this actually was an
indication of an imminent threat against
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Chavez's brother.
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I don't know.
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No attempt on Adan Chavez's life was
made or at least publicly acknowledged.
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If spies really do send secret messages
via crossword puzzles, it's still a
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matter of speculation and perhaps an
ingenious method to share confidential
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information in plain sight.
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There are aspects of that that certainly
match typical tradecraft.
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So it's not preposterous to think, that
a crossword puzzle could be used to
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deliver a coded message.
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In fact, that's a very brilliant way
that you might convey a coded message to
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spy.
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Sending covert messages through
newspaper crossword puzzles is truly a
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way to share secret information.
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But there was also a simpler tool spies
used during the Second World War to
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communicate in code over vast distances
all you needed.
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was a radio.
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Chicago, Illinois, October 1978.
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With $10 ,000 in his pocket, 29 -year
-old Soviet spy Albrecht Dietrich
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in the United States.
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Using a stolen birth certificate, he
adopts the alias Jack Barsky and begins
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10 -year mission to spy on Americans as
a sleeper agent for the KGB.
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A sleeper agent is somebody who
establishes himself in enemy territory
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integrates in society and then waits for
the day when it's time to spring into
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action. My mission in the United States
focused on me getting close to people
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who make foreign policy decisions and or
influence foreign policy.
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This is towards the end of the Cold War.
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where there was a spy war going on
between the CIA and the KGB, and the
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were very high.
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After relocating to New York City,
Barsky married and began a family.
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He also took a job at an insurance
company to maintain his cover, working
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computer programmer.
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I had access to lots and lots of data,
and some of the data would have been
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important for the KGB.
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But there was never a meeting between me
and another KGB agent on the territory
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of the United States. I got my
instructions and answers to questions
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shortwave radio.
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Every Thursday at 9 .15, I had to turn
on my shortwave radio, dial my
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listen to the call signal, Morse code,
only digits, no letters, and then start
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writing down the numbers.
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And there you have your message.
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For nearly 10 years, Varsky's primary
tool for communicating with the KGB was
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through a kind of shortwave radio
broadcast known as a numbers station.
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Numbers stations are essentially pirate
radio stations. You need to register a
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radio station. Numbers stations are not
registered.
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They were discovered almost accidentally
during the Cold War.
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You had ham radio operators bouncing
around different frequencies, talking to
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each other all over the world.
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And then they would hit upon a certain
channel, and suddenly you hear a robotic
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voice repeating numbers.
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Or you hear some kind of music
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or flute or buzzing sound.
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It feels like you're eavesdropping on
something secret, but you don't know
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they're saying.
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Number stations can transmit signals to
sources globally, and they
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can do so undetected.
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Because to anyone else, it might just
sound like buzzing or like a series of
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noises.
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But what they're transmitting are coded
signals to a source in place or a spy.
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So even though they're very low -tech,
they're very effective
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because they're able to exist and to
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communicate under the radar.
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During the Cold War, both the United
States and the Soviet Union regularly
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00:35:04,060 --> 00:35:08,420
employed number stations to communicate
with their agents in the field.
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00:35:10,100 --> 00:35:14,229
But if anyone with a radio can tune in
to hear the broadcast, How are these
459
00:35:14,230 --> 00:35:16,310
coded spy messages kept secret?
460
00:35:16,530 --> 00:35:21,490
Well, according to experts, it's an
unbreakable method of encryption.
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00:35:21,810 --> 00:35:27,350
A simple piece of paper known as a one
-time pad.
462
00:35:28,130 --> 00:35:33,870
The one -time pad has little numbers on
him, and there's two identical versions.
463
00:35:33,970 --> 00:35:38,570
One is for the encoding of a message,
and the other one is for the decoding.
464
00:35:38,870 --> 00:35:45,759
Nice. So you would hear something like
9, 7, 6, 4, and
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00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:48,800
then you could use the decoder to
decrypt your message.
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00:35:49,540 --> 00:35:54,140
A one -time pad is a sheet of paper with
banks of numbers.
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00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:59,539
You use this, and someone else that
you're trying to communicate with uses
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00:35:59,540 --> 00:36:00,559
same pad.
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00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:04,939
The two of you can then communicate, but
it's called a one -time pad because
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00:36:04,940 --> 00:36:07,880
after you've used it, you then destroy
it.
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00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:13,600
assuming that you destroy it, you can
then go on to use the next one -time
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00:36:13,820 --> 00:36:19,740
and if you keep using it, sticking to
the protocol is uncrackable.
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00:36:20,820 --> 00:36:25,520
If number stations have proven so
effective in the past, the real question
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00:36:25,580 --> 00:36:30,220
are spies still sending and receiving
coded messages through them today?
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00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:38,639
Even today, you can flip through the
different channels and you can hear
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00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:40,690
over the radio that don't make any
sense.
477
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:45,399
Whether they're verses being read or
whether they're words being said
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00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:48,599
nonsensically or whether they're numbers
that are shouted out to the blindness
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00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:49,650
of space.
480
00:36:51,540 --> 00:36:56,979
So it's very possible somewhere in there
there's a spy message that's sent for a
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00:36:56,980 --> 00:37:00,350
very specific person at a very specific
time in a very specific way.
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00:37:01,060 --> 00:37:02,110
One, three.
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00:37:02,620 --> 00:37:07,599
If spies are still receiving messages
via number stations today, we'll
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00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:08,650
never know.
485
00:37:09,020 --> 00:37:13,419
But what many experts believe may be
even more concerning when it comes to
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00:37:13,420 --> 00:37:19,420
national security aren't relics from the
past, but the technologies of today.
487
00:37:23,900 --> 00:37:27,920
Wright -Pattison Air Force Base, Dayton,
Ohio, March 1998.
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00:37:29,900 --> 00:37:34,459
While doing routine computer
maintenance, the defense contractor
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00:37:34,460 --> 00:37:40,579
that Russian spies hacked into the
base's network to access top -secret
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00:37:40,580 --> 00:37:46,040
intelligence from the Pentagon, NASA,
and other U .S. agencies.
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00:37:46,780 --> 00:37:53,239
It is the first major cyber espionage
operation that we know of in modern
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00:37:53,240 --> 00:37:54,290
history.
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00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:59,619
One of the big advancements in
espionage... Something known as the
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00:37:59,620 --> 00:38:02,740
the spy who lives behind a digital wall
of some sort.
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00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:07,219
They can steal information. They can
sell information. They can live and hide
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00:38:07,220 --> 00:38:08,270
the dark web.
497
00:38:08,271 --> 00:38:12,159
This is a whole new development, and
with that development, there's new
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00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:14,020
opportunities and there's new risks.
499
00:38:15,060 --> 00:38:19,260
We have new technology that cyber spies
can use to meet in cyberspace.
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00:38:19,261 --> 00:38:23,139
You can meet with them on video game
platforms. You can meet with them in
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00:38:23,140 --> 00:38:27,359
rooms. You can meet with them using
commercially encrypted technology that
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00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:31,579
and I carry on our phone, which makes
everything that much more difficult to
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00:38:31,580 --> 00:38:35,959
track, not just for the FBI or for the
Internal Investigation Agency, but for
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00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:37,100
anyone to see anywhere.
505
00:38:38,460 --> 00:38:43,319
Advancing technology has empowered cyber
spies to not only hack government
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00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:48,660
secrets, but also exchange that
information in complete anonymity.
507
00:38:49,370 --> 00:38:54,709
But some cyber spies are not interested
in stealing information, but rather to
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00:38:54,710 --> 00:38:58,270
influence the very beliefs of their
adversaries.
509
00:38:59,710 --> 00:39:05,010
There's a place called the Internet
Research Agency in St. Petersburg,
510
00:39:05,250 --> 00:39:12,109
where there's a couple hundred nerds
that produce these artificial personas,
511
00:39:12,110 --> 00:39:15,870
then they go on social media and
befriend real people.
512
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:21,960
And they search out groups that are
ideologically oriented.
513
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:26,599
There could be, particularly in
politics, there could be the right wing
514
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:33,559
could be left. And what they're after is
to create confusion in enemy
515
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:34,610
territory.
516
00:39:36,740 --> 00:39:38,720
I can give you an example.
517
00:39:38,980 --> 00:39:41,570
When you're talking about election
interference...
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00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:43,540
They planted misinformation.
519
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:49,000
What they do is raising doubts about the
American system.
520
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:53,720
These cyber spies are extremely
dangerous.
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00:39:55,000 --> 00:40:01,460
According to America's cyber defense
agency, CISA, during the 2024 U .S.
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00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:06,299
presidential election, foreign
adversaries conducted influence
523
00:40:06,300 --> 00:40:11,000
intended to undermine the integrity of U
.S. election.
524
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:17,979
And while we can't say for sure how
espionage will continue to evolve, we
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00:40:17,980 --> 00:40:21,920
that as long as there are secrets, there
will be spies.
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00:40:23,100 --> 00:40:27,080
The future of secrets is in many ways
what will shape the future of espionage.
527
00:40:27,081 --> 00:40:30,139
But that doesn't mean that the history
of espionage is any less useful than it
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00:40:30,140 --> 00:40:31,129
was in the past.
529
00:40:31,130 --> 00:40:35,149
It's the foundation, it's the bedrock on
which everything else is built. And no
530
00:40:35,150 --> 00:40:38,649
matter where our future takes us, we
know that those building blocks of
531
00:40:38,650 --> 00:40:42,729
espionage, those core fundamentals, will
always be present and always be there.
532
00:40:42,730 --> 00:40:47,289
There will always be people meeting with
people in dark corners to share secrets
533
00:40:47,290 --> 00:40:48,490
that nobody knows about.
534
00:40:50,170 --> 00:40:53,650
In the world of spycraft, everything is
unexplained.
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00:40:54,050 --> 00:40:59,670
And your job as an intelligence officer
is to try to gather that information.
536
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:02,040
that will help explain it.
537
00:41:03,020 --> 00:41:09,739
The anomaly of spycraft is that you're
charged with seeking out the
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00:41:09,740 --> 00:41:16,659
truth. And the reality is you can never
be 100 % sure
539
00:41:16,660 --> 00:41:19,120
that you've gotten to the truth.
540
00:41:19,700 --> 00:41:21,960
You may never have the answers.
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00:41:23,700 --> 00:41:28,449
While it appears that the digital age
may be changing the art of spycraft,
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00:41:28,450 --> 00:41:33,169
pretty safe to say that as long as there
are secrets worth stealing, there will
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00:41:33,170 --> 00:41:34,970
be spies hard at work.
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00:41:35,530 --> 00:41:41,549
And although we are intrigued by the
elusive double agents at the CIA, or
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00:41:41,550 --> 00:41:47,469
the assassin who killed with the probe
of an umbrella, it's likely that most
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00:41:47,470 --> 00:41:53,269
tales of espionage and the covert agents
who operate undetected will stay
547
00:41:53,270 --> 00:41:56,310
top secret and remain.
548
00:41:57,770 --> 00:41:58,820
Unexplained.
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00:41:58,860 --> 00:42:03,410
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