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The CIA, America's elite corps of espionage artists, fighting an

war around the globe.

The KGB, communist Russia's secret police, reign of terror,

left nations marred with blood.

Who is deadliest?

To find out, our world -class fighters are testing history's most lethal

weapons.

Using 21st century science, we'll see what happens when the

two warriors go toe -to -toe.

No rules, no safety, no mercy.

It's a duel to the death to decide who is the deadliest warrior.

Welcome to the Fight Club.

And to a deadly game of Spy vs. Spy.

Here our team of scientists, trauma doctors, and weapons experts will

test the unique arsenals of two of the world's most secret intelligence

agencies.

The KGB.

Kremlin's army of enforcers who sought to annihilate the West.

And stain the world red with communism.

Versus the CIA.

America's Cold War operatives who fought an international battle with undercover

assault and top secret tactics.

The men and women of both agencies conducted a covert war on a shadowy

battlefield for over 40 years.

Even today, many of their run -ins remain classified.

Now, to bring this undercover battle into the light of day, computer whiz Max

Geiger will run a simulation between two squads of Cold War warriors.

Our combatants today are the CIA and the KGB circa 1979.

This being the height of the Cold War and the height of their abilities.

These are two of the most feared and ruthless intelligence agencies of the

century. They're going to use every dirty trick in the book.

Biomedical engineer Jeff Damon Lynn.

will test the effectiveness of each spy agency's clandestine weaponry.

This is an episode where bigger doesn't necessarily mean better. When you're

concealing a weapon, it's going to have to be small. I have to rely heavily on

my high -speed footage to see if these warriors can actually carry out their

covert kill.

The opposition, Armand Doria, will examine the mortal wounds caused by this

War arsenal.

KGB versus the CIA. They're bringing James Bond to us.

Weapons that we've never experienced before.

KGB agents

are tough as they come. Not only are they physically

prepared, but their mental training takes them far beyond the capabilities

regular human being.

trained in lethal KGB tactics.

A KGB agent is trained to risk his or her life always because

mission accomplished.

By the KGB's deadly reputation, Team CIA shows no fear.

Representing the agency, former CIA officer Mike Baker.

Mike has 15 years of experience in counterterrorism and covert operations

the globe.

Whether it was Vietnam, whether it was post -World War II, whether it was

Afghanistan, the military is coming in behind you, special forces. You need to

gather as much intelligence as possible to support that force.

Also weighing in for the CIA, Frank Dowse, an ex -Marine who served in the

Defense Intelligence Agency, the military counterpart to the CIA.

The CIA is responsible for a wide range of operations to include intelligence

collection, paramilitary operations, sabotage, also influencing events in

foreign countries depending on the threat.

United States use of the atomic bomb brought a quick end to World War II.

But a new kind of war would soon follow.

The Cold War.

Soviet spies successfully stole details of the bomb's construction.

With two nuclear -armed superpowers threatening the other's survival, a

war was launched between their most secretive branches.

The Soviets acquiring the atomic weapon was a significant wake -up call and it

just only increased the sense of urgency for preventing the spread of communism

around the globe.

Founded by President Harry Truman in 1947.

The CIA's sole mission was to counteract Soviet activity that Washington feared

could trigger a nuclear showdown.

But halfway around the globe, the Kremlin was determined to match U .S.

missile, and missile.

To help win the Cold War, the Soviets formed a new spy agency, the KGB,

or Committee for State Security, in 1954.

The KGB was the eyes, the ears, hands, and legs of the communist regime.

Interrogation, murder, kidnapping, they were never bothered with collateral

damage. Inside the Soviet states, they aggressively suppressed dissent.

Outside its borders, they quietly worked to extend Soviet influence around the

globe. KGB was everywhere.

Hong Kong, Beijing, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Washington, D .C., everywhere.

point, half of the staff of the Soviet embassy in Washington, D .C., were KGB

agents. And when the KGB set their sights on weaker countries, a hostile

takeover was imminent.

One of their most audacious actions occurred in Afghanistan in 1979.

KGB special forces infiltrated Kabul, executed the president,

and took control of the city in less than 24 hours.

The CIA responded with an equally bold action.

They secretly armed and trained Afghani Mujahideen fighters to resist the Soviet

forces.

The Soviets suffered heavy casualties and retreated.

The Afghans claimed victory.

The KGB and the CIA.

Battled each other for decades in the shadows.

But in a head -to -head battle to the death, who would win?

I'm giving the edge to the KGB. With less respect for human life, I think the

KGB are that much more ruthless.

The CIA are badasses in a three -piece suit and a college education.

This is going to be a close fight, but I've got to give my initial edge to the

CIA. And the Cold War era CIA needed fierce firepower.

They turn to a portable pulverizer, the MAC -10 Submachine Gun.

Delivering dead, 900 rounds a minute.

MAC -10, built early 60s. It quickly became co -opted by criminal

and narco -traffickers. You can see up here, not a lot up front.

Very easy to get your hand around the front here when you're on full auto. A

of guys walking around Latin America right now with no thumb.

It's 45 rounds. A lot of stopping power. What does the CIA need this firepower

for? We've got a situation where we've got to extract somebody. We've got to

have the type of firepower, if necessary.

This is the weapon of choice.

KGB has a submachine gun that's just as deadly.

Scorpion.

A sleek way to slaughter.

All right, this Corbin is 20 rounds, .32 caliber.

The speed is 850 per minute. Very nice, slick design.

Sexy design, I'd call it. And the precision of this gun is the best.

That might be the first time I've ever heard the words precision and KGB in the

same sentence.

Both machine guns can be outfitted with suppressors for undercover agency

operations.

But which gun can more quickly and more precisely take out multiple targets?

We have five bone torsos. You guys are going to come up in this van.

You're going to hop out. You'll each have one clip in your respective guns.

You're going to fire, you're going to get back in the van, and you're going to

peel out. And you will be timed for this whole event.

KGB, you guys will be up first.

And let's let these guys have the last miserable drink of their terrible,

terrible lives.

No problem.

Okay, guys, on my go.

Three, two, one, roll out!

Team KGB takes 12 seconds to shoot.

And how much damage did they leave in their wake?

Okay, so let's break it down here. You've got a dead center chest shot.

guy's going to be down. It's going straight to the heart. This is a kill.

got a shot through the neck and one in the face. This is going in the brain.

This is a kill.

This is an interesting shot, actually. You're going above the heart. You're

going to miss the heart here. You're going to puncture a lung. This guy's

actually going to still be alive.

He's still going to have time to get his gun and shoot back.

This one's obvious.

You don't get shot, you don't get killed.

Let's look at the guy in the back.

This guy's riddled across the belly. This is an instant kill right here. So

do we have? Three kills, one wounded, and one walking away.

Unscathed. So three kills in 12 seconds.

Do our CIA experts think you can do better with a MAC -10? You know what, in

word, yes.

Coming up, CIA fires back with their own stealthy undercover weaponry.

KGB or CIA, who will be that deadliest warrior?

Back inside the Fight Club, we're fitting the two top spymasters of the

against each other, the Soviet KGB and the American CIA.

Both were lethal, but played by different rules.

The KGB used anything that is required to perform the mission.

Intimidation, persecution, assassination, kidnapping, pretty much

that is outlawed by the Geneva Convention has been implemented.

The KGB operated in a totalitarian environment, so that allowed them to

in a thuggish manner. They just really won't care about the extent of the

done aside from their target.

The requirement for us is to be off the radar screen. A good operation is when

no one knows it even took place.

The CIA needs a coup for all their missions.

The KGB, on the other hand, they do not have to answer.

They are autonomous enough to accomplish the mission without checking every five

times with Daddy.

To fight an unconventional war, each agency developed an arsenal of

and often mission -specific weapons. In this battle, KGB wields the Scorpion

submachine gun, dead drop spike,

camera gun, and the shoe knife.

The CIA returns fire with the MAC -10 submachine gun, exploding cigar,

brie case gun, and the Dorot. Our KGB experts have already demonstrated that

Scorpion can kill quickly and efficiently.

Now Team CIA is determined to outshoot them with the MAC -10.

All right, guys.

Three, two, one, hammer down.

Okay, let's go take a look.

Star spangled my banner. These boys pulled it off.

But you're almost eight seconds slower.

Well, let's see if that difference is actually important.

Head, chest, all the way through. These are definite kills. Here, again, you got

head, chest.

This is a kill. Again, you got head, chest.

Am I being redundant here?

Look at that. No head, but look at this.

Two dead through the chest.

This is a kill. I think the blood explains what happened to the guy in the

Five kills.

No question.

It looked like you were picking your targets a lot more than the KGB did. We

up our fields of fire. We knew exactly which targets we were going to go for.

And if that takes 18 seconds or 16 seconds, I'd rather be 16 seconds and

than 12 seconds and dead.

Which submachine gun will take the edge?

The CIA's MAC -10 or the KGB's Scorpion?

I'm going to give the advantage to the MAC -10. Larger caliber, faster rate of

fire, and for me, it was more deadly on actor.

The long -range weapons, the edge goes to the CIA for the MAC -10 submachine

gun.

The KGB is not easily taken out from the fight.

They receive hardcore training from Russian Spetsnaz special forces.

including systemic martial arts and paramilitary drill.

This helped them develop tolerance to incredible brutality.

You were trained to ignore pain, you were trained to survive in any

and you were trained to think with only one goal in mind, to accomplish the

mission. The KGB's method transformed their operatives into unstoppable Soviet

killing machines.

But the CIA were equally deadly.

Many people in the intelligence community are working in hostile

and sometimes those hostile environments can turn on you. And the ability to be

able to defend yourself is absolutely imperative.

Agents were trained in a variety of combat, survival, and intelligence

-gathering techniques at Camp Perry in Williamsburg, Virginia, known as The

Farm.

Training is performed with the U .S. military, though details remain

We all sign documents that say we're not going to talk about sources and

methods. We're not going to open our yaps and talk about things we're not

supposed to talk about. And I honor that commitment very seriously.

Coming up, both the KGB and CIA reveal their most secretive explosive killer.

Inside the Fight Club, experts on covert operations.

Square off in a death match to determine which Cold War operative is more

lethal.

American CIA or the Soviet KGB?

The intelligence business is a dirty business. It's a rough business.

That's been the case since the invention of intelligence.

One of the Cold War's most chilling moments came in 1962 when the CIA

Soviet nuclear warheads being installed in Cuba.

The missile crisis made Cuban dictator Fidel Castro a prime target and inspired

one weapon that was harmless in appearance.

Part of the skill of an intelligence officer is being able to read people, be

able to understand what their weaknesses and what their motivations are.

Some weaknesses can be a simple habit.

Big, bloating cigar.

Death wrapped in a cubit.

Sometimes a cigar is not a cigar. You've got a small piece of C4 embedded inside

the cigar itself.

It has a thermite explosive in as well to light it. So there's no detonator

involved, and it's going to explode, and it's going to mess up somebody's day.

But how do you get the cigar to the man?

And there is a great deal of operational work that has to go into lining

everything up just right so that it becomes effective.

In the case of Fidel Castro, the operational side was never successful.

But to check how CIA experts claim that the cigar bomb can kill, Chance has

prepared a test.

We've got our gel bus set up. He is your target. And what's different about this

one, teeth, eyeballs, tongue.

So the injury that we're going to see here is a great representation of real

human injury.

Mike, you ready to get it going?

Let's do it. Let's light it up.

Former CIA operative Mike Baker.

positions a cigar rigged with a pea -sized piece of C4 and a thermal

It's set for a four -minute smoke.

Yo!

Eat that! Worth the wait, Danny.

His face has been meloned out.

You have no idea. This is the smallest charge we've seen on this show to date,

and no fragmentation, but look at the damage it's done. It's enough to tear

your face and the bones within it. This guy's dead.

Look at the damage to the neck. Almost nothing. Arms, nothing.

So, if there's even another person in the room, he's untouched. You use just

what you need. But you have to admit that the odds of getting all this...

The circumstances together are very low.

I mean, he could have left the cigar over there. He could have got a call and

just went out.

Prior planning prevents piss -poor performance.

This concept has worked in the past.

Oh, man.

That is some serious trauma. Except, you know, it's still too small, and the

chances it's wanted against one million.

KGB has more sophisticated ways to get the target like this. You think you can

do better? Sure.

I can show you a weapon that will blow not only your head off, but your balls

with hole inside.

The KGB had their own powerful weapon with hidden high explosions.

Cold War era agents use small containers to secretly pass information to their

handlers, including... That dead drop spike.

A tiny cylinder with a killer twist.

Since they contain valuable intelligence, a dead drop is a prime

enemy interception.

To protect their private papers from prying eyes.

The KGB developed a deadly modification.

It's a good way to take out, let's say, double agents. Because if you don't know

how to open it the right way, it's going to explode in your hand.

Boom. So it's an information protector, but it's also a weapon to your enemies.

Exactly. It uses a very high explosive, Semtex.

Okay, but how would your team know how to open this?

It could be as simple as clockwise versus counterclockwise.

Okay, so righty -tighty, lefty -kablooey. That's an insurance policy

I want to see this in action.

The team sets up a dead -drop interception to see what happens when an

agent tries to open it the wrong way.

Shockwave patches will record the high explosive impact.

This purple one here trips at 37 G. That's roughly getting into a 30 -mile

-hour car accident.

This green one here, that's 100 G. If it trips red, this guy's dead.

All right, well, we've got everything set up, so Stas wants to go ahead and

plant the device.

The rest of us will clear out.

Three, two, one, fire!

That permits to blow off his balls, right?

Yeah, you cut this guy in two.

I mean, look at the inside of this stall.

Oh, crap.

And as far as any documents are concerned, I see absolutely no evidence.

Have a look here.

Our Hunter G shock watch patch, drip red.

The frag didn't get him.

The shock wave sure as hell did.

That's what I like to see. I have to admit, though, guys, I'm seeing a bit of

PR nightmare here. The more collateral damage, the better.

Therein lies the difference between the A to Z and the KGB.

Ooh.

And any time you get high explosives inside an enclosed space like that, it

increases the pressure, increases the heat, increasing the effectiveness of

high explosive.

You can even see the sides of the stall bowing out. They're struggling to

contain that blast.

So which explosive booby trap is more effective?

And what do we see with the exploding cigar?

It took the guy's face off, but there is a chance it could go off in his hand,

or worse yet, in the ashtray. The KGB dead drop spike got the job done, and in

my opinion, it would get the job done every time.

An explosive weapon? The edge goes to the KGB for the dead drop spike.

Coming up.

how Cold War warriors reveal tools of their trade to pull off an undercover

kill.

Inside our fight cards, the Cold War heats up as experts on the world's top

agencies reveal secrets to determine who is deadlier, American CIA

or Soviet KGB.

These agencies gathered intel in very different ways.

KGB will find out information firsthand.

If that means interrogation, they will interrogate. If that means elimination,

they will eliminate.

CIA had a different philosophy.

It preferred to get information from persuasion, not intimidation.

Definitely money, it has to play a role. One of the things that money buys you

is better opportunities to collect intelligence.

When more aggressive tactics were called for, the CIA had a no -nonsense

method to pack a deadly surprise.

The briefcase gun.

Doing business with a bang.

Got the Walder PPK, which is the classic.

spy handgun it's a 380 seven rounds it's got a suppressor on here the briefcase

itself there's nothing special about it you could buy it any country that you

happen to land in but how does it fire you've got a ring right here attached to

a wire which runs around a roller attached to a pulley on the trigger and

very simple you pull it up and off goes your shot

Can a briefcase gun actually deliver an accurate kill?

Here's the scenario.

We're in a foreign country on a street corner.

You'll be advancing in this direction, and our warlord, identified by the suit

and his two bodyguards, will be advancing towards you, crossing the

Your job, take out the warlord without hitting any innocent people.

You ready to get this started? Absolutely. Let's do it. Let's do it.

On three, two, one.

Was the briefcase gun able to make the covert kill?

Let's take a look. First shot was right here, okay? This one's in the arm, and

if we lift that arm up, boom, drop the left lung coming out the back side here.

Great shot.

Not potentially a kill, but let's take a look at the second shot.

Center of mass, this is where the liver's sitting, and you tore right

outside this side here.

In combination, I would say this is a kill.

Were any pedestrians shot in the crossfire?

Nothing. Feeling nothing.

This silhouette target completely clean.

This guy's good. This guy's good.

What do you think?

First of all, it's not clear he's dead.

We already got that ruling. He's dead.

This is either going to make it or not. Because you can't aim? You can aim.

Once again, it comes down to practice.

And Mike, I have to hand it to you, man. We've seen people shoot from the hip,

or you're shooting from the knee, and you got the job done.

The KGB also had covert weaponry that could pull off a public assassination.

The camera gun.

Dead at the click of a shutter.

This is a 1950s -made Czechoslovakian 8mm camera.

It's fully functional. You can shoot film with it. You put the film in here,

comes up rather nice, actually.

However, upon further inspection, it has an actual 22mm pistol inside the lens.

This is the actual barrel of the weapon. Wow.

That's a sneaky weapon.

That's the place where you would actually chamber the round and put it in

So the whole assembly of the weapon is within the lens. This is the trigger,

inside you have the firing pin.

So the whole assembly of the weapon is within these two inches.

We had a cyanide capsule with him. If there was any chance of an agent being

discovered after the mission is complete, he would take the cyanide

before he would be captured and interrogated. How close do you have to

your target to effectively use it?

The effective range on this weapon is 10 feet. 10 feet? 10 feet, definitely.

Okay.

Well, we've got our setup right here of visiting foreign dignitary or perhaps

some other political undesirable.

So why don't you go ahead, line it up, and show us why freedom of the press

wasn't so big in the Eastern Bloc.

All right, Pavel, are you ready?

Ready. All right, light!

This looks really cool.

Okay, when we're saying surgical precision, we really meant it. This is

the way we would want to get to a brain. This is a procedure we use. There's a

plate called the crib reform plate.

That's how you remove a pituitary tumor and heat it with a bullet. But the true

kill is from the bullet that's hitting to the bottom portion of the brain.

That's an instant kill.

This killer is so cool.

Even at 1 ,000 frames per second, the impact takes a trained eye to see.

Oh, Mike, that's the

difference

between CIA and KGB.

We will do anything that gets the job done.

I like the concept of the camera gun, but the fact that you've got...

A barrel that's less than an inch long, one round, that's a risk I wouldn't want

to take. When you put a real firearm inside a briefcase with multiple rounds

it, I've got to give it to the briefcase gun.

For mid -ring weapons, the edge goes to the CIA for the briefcase gun.

Coming up, KGB and CIA bring out their stoppiest killers.

Cold War era CIA.

or Soviet superpower KGB.

Our team of experts is recording every lethal takedown of these clandestine

killers to determine who is that deadliest warrior.

KGB did not pull their punches with their fists or

their feet.

The Q9.

A swift kick of death.

This is a very small push knife. It goes through the leather jacket, through the

armor, and it becomes a shoe knife very easily.

Ooh. Ooh, cool.

Okay, but how would it actually be used in the field?

This is not easy to detect when it's concealed, so this would be something

you would have not only go on a mission to eliminate somebody, but also to have

an offensive weapon with you at all times.

Can a shoe knife really be lethal, even if it hits a major artery?

To find out, a tic -tac will simulate an enemy agent.

An accelerometer will measure the force of their kick's impact.

Toc, are you ready?

Yeah. It all goes on, boys.

Das, nice work, man.

So your kick force off this that I measured with the accelerometer is about

pounds. And that shoe knife turns you into something deadly.

Yeah, I mean, let's talk about death here. Now, the locations where he kicks,

you're going to get some arteries, some veins that are going to bleed. So this

can definitely kill.

It's bloody.

It's brutal.

Right down the KGB line.

Because of this concealed weapon.

A deadly one? Who knows what happened to the target?

Well, you just follow the bloody footprints, and that'll help out, I

There's the first tick.

Boom. So if you kick like that and actually hit the kidneys, they will

die, and it won't be that bad, because it'll be inside the body.

Lots and lots of blood. We're going to put the clandestine back in the

clandestine service.

The CIA preferred a quieter method to silence the time.

And go rot.

A stealthy way to strangle.

It is simply one of the most effective weapons out there with something as

simple as sticks and some piano wire. The object here would be to sever or cut

the carotid artery or perhaps even the trachea. Very, very quick, very, very

clean, very, very powerful. Or if you wanted to use a cloth garrote, something

that you could do like this, a scarf, very discreet.

This would be a blood choke. They choke at the carotid artery. Within about six

to nine seconds, they're out.

The grip of piano wire, truly kill.

High speed is up an arm. On three, two, one, chuck him out!

Yeah!

That's it.

This spine doesn't have the type of ligaments set up like a human body, but

is as close as you're going to get. What we see here is a clear demonstration of

how this weapon is... Perfect to go straight through the skin and get right

through to these carotid arteries.

And, you know, you get the jugular veins. I mean, it's an instant kill. And

gory part about this is as the head is just about to flop off, that heart is

still pumping. Though he's unconscious, that heart is spurting this blood.

They're hitting the floor dead.

No rocket science involved in the garage.

This is a very lethal, very stealthy, very quiet weapon.

You have to devise the whole thing to get behind the target. Who knows? I'm

free. You know, behind, from the start, from the front.

I think we can all agree that this was very impressive.

So which weapon will prove more deadly?

One weakness I saw in the garage was the requirement for surprise.

If you lose the element of surprise, you're done with that weapon. For me,

differing variable is the fact that with the garage, you can't come head on. But

with a shoe knife, you can come both from front and from the back. Edge and

knife. For short -range weapons, the edge goes to the KGB for their shoe

Our experts have completed their tests.

But there's one more thing to consider. An X -Factor.

KGB had less restrictions on their operation.

One distinguishing factor between these two warriors is the oversight that the

American people have through certain safety checks over the CIA.

KGB has no restraints. Because of that, they might have that extra brutality

which will carry the day for them.

But the CIA, having won the Cold War, has history as an X -Factor.

I think I'm going to give the edge to the CIA because the United States

ended up dissolving the Soviet Union.

Having said that, I would never want to face the KGB or have them hear that I

went against them.

Coming up, CIA, KGB, the battle begins.

The moment of truth has arrived.

It's time to find out which Cold War spy is deadliest.

CIA or KGB?

For explosive weapons, we pitted the KGB's dead drop spike against the

CIA's exploding cigar.

Advantage goes to the dead drop spike. It works 100 % of the time.

The cigar is variable.

Is it in his mouth? Is it in his hand? Is he putting out the cigar?

Edge KGB.

At long range, the KGB Scorpion submachine gun, rivaled at CIA's MAC

I'm giving my edge to MAC -10. It has a larger magazine and holds higher caliber

bullets than the Scorpion. It's just able to do more damage.

Edge CIA.

Mid -range weapons. The KGB's one -shot camera went up against the CIA's killer

briefcase.

With the Walter P .P .K. in your briefcase, multiple shots, larger

bullet, it's going to get the job done.

Edge. CIA.

At close range, we compared the KGB's shoe knot and the CIA's garrotte.

Both are great special ops weapons, but the disadvantage of the garrotte is that

you have to sneak up on your opponent. So I've got to give it to the shoemaker.

Edge, KGB.

The Wadon Squad battle will be run 1 ,000 times in a fight simulation program

developed by Slytherin Studios.

We've got all the results from our tests, and the simulation is locked and

loaded. There's only one thing left to do, and that's fire the sucker up.

After a thousand battles, the CIA won 550, the KGB's 450.

So it's due in large part to the reliability of the CIA's firearms.

I thought the KGB were going to carry this battle originally because of their

brutality, but I'm proud to have been proved wrong.

This is a computer -generalized result.

In the real world, the KGB will outgun and outman the CIA.

It was a good challenge, but quite honestly, I think the better

the CIA, won.