1 00:00:10,410 --> 00:00:15,830 Tonight on Secrets Declassified, we reveal the global manhunts that cornered 2 00:00:15,830 --> 00:00:17,130 the world's most wanted. 3 00:00:18,350 --> 00:00:22,450 From the 17-year chase for the Unabomber. It's one of the biggest 4 00:00:22,450 --> 00:00:24,650 manhunts in the history of the FBI. 5 00:00:25,210 --> 00:00:29,030 To the Eastern European warlord hiding in plain sight. 6 00:00:29,330 --> 00:00:33,530 He ends up becoming the face of a U.S.-based vitamin company and even 7 00:00:33,530 --> 00:00:35,350 writes for a well-being magazine. 8 00:00:36,150 --> 00:00:39,450 And the covert hunt for the world's greatest revolutionary. 9 00:00:40,250 --> 00:00:44,690 In a moment, Che Guevara was smoking cigars in Cuba. The next, he vanished. 10 00:00:45,370 --> 00:00:49,610 These are some of the secret pursuits carried out in the shadows by 11 00:00:49,610 --> 00:00:51,810 governments and the people who work for them. 12 00:00:52,290 --> 00:00:54,510 It's time to bring them to light. 13 00:01:03,190 --> 00:01:06,590 The best way to catch your prey is to set a trap. 14 00:01:07,310 --> 00:01:11,490 That's what the USDA does to catch one of the underworld's biggest arms 15 00:01:11,490 --> 00:01:17,530 traffickers. To lay the bait, they don't turn to a spy, but a retired Bush pilot. 16 00:01:21,490 --> 00:01:26,890 In the early 2000s, U.S. intelligence analysts start to notice a very worrying 17 00:01:26,890 --> 00:01:27,890 trend. 18 00:01:28,370 --> 00:01:33,590 Insurgent groups and militias around the world suddenly have way more advanced 19 00:01:33,590 --> 00:01:34,590 weapons. 20 00:01:34,830 --> 00:01:36,910 For the U.S., this is a massive... 21 00:01:37,150 --> 00:01:41,090 problem because a lot of these groups are openly hostile to western interests 22 00:01:41,090 --> 00:01:46,450 u.s intelligence services want to find out where the weapons are coming from 23 00:01:46,450 --> 00:01:52,050 and cut the flow off at the source it's revealed that many of these weapons are 24 00:01:52,050 --> 00:01:57,470 soviet issue illegal traffickers are funneling stockpiles of ex-soviet arms 25 00:01:57,470 --> 00:02:02,330 into rebel hands making big money by tracking shipment and speaking to 26 00:02:02,330 --> 00:02:07,020 informants it becomes clear that the king of these traffickers is one man, 27 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:13,300 Victor Boot, better known by his nickname, the Merchant of Death. 28 00:02:14,420 --> 00:02:19,400 Boot is a former Soviet military officer. He's running a fleet of about 29 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:23,860 60 aircraft, and he's selling everything from assault rifles to helicopter 30 00:02:23,860 --> 00:02:30,720 gunships. In 2002, Interpol releases a red notice for Boot, and he becomes 31 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:31,720 a wanted man. 32 00:02:32,430 --> 00:02:35,750 Problem is, he's got friends in very high places. 33 00:02:36,390 --> 00:02:41,010 Boot rarely leaves Russia, where he's widely believed to be protected by 34 00:02:41,010 --> 00:02:46,310 Moscow. When he does travel, he only goes to other rogue regimes that won't 35 00:02:46,310 --> 00:02:47,310 extradite him. 36 00:02:47,930 --> 00:02:51,610 In 2007, the DEA decides enough is enough. 37 00:02:52,170 --> 00:02:55,510 Top the ante, they'll lure Boot into a trap. 38 00:02:55,890 --> 00:02:57,930 The DEA comes up with a plan. 39 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:02,260 They're going to pose as buyers, offering him a multi-million dollar 40 00:03:02,260 --> 00:03:07,760 weapons deal. But to steal it, they're going to insist that he has to leave 41 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:10,260 Russia. That way, they can grab him. 42 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:14,780 They name their plan Operation Relentless. 43 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:19,560 For it to work at all, they need just the right front man to place the bait. 44 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:25,260 This person needs to be of Boots World, but also someone the DEA trusts. 45 00:03:26,700 --> 00:03:32,560 There's only one guy who ticks both boxes, Mike Snow, a British pilot 46 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:34,120 working out of South Africa. 47 00:03:34,540 --> 00:03:39,880 Mike Snow is a former commando who has spent over a decade flying bush planes 48 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:45,700 across Africa. He's no gunrunner. But Snow has spent years touching down on 49 00:03:45,700 --> 00:03:48,320 the same runways that Boot flies into. 50 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:55,420 He has met many of Boot's cohorts, so they know him, they know of him, and 51 00:03:55,420 --> 00:03:56,420 they trust him. 52 00:03:56,540 --> 00:03:59,940 The DEA reaches out to Snow and asks him to help. 53 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:06,340 Snow is initially reluctant, but he's seen what Boot's weapons can do, the way 54 00:04:06,340 --> 00:04:09,100 that they destroy communities and the way that they shatter lives. 55 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:12,500 And he wants to do something to prevent that from happening in the future. 56 00:04:13,660 --> 00:04:19,220 Eventually, he agrees, and the U.S. pays him $25,000 for his help. 57 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:25,540 In November 2007, Snow reaches out to Boot to dangle the bait. 58 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:31,080 Snow tells Boot's people this concocted backstory, that he recently flew a 59 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:35,560 representative of a Colombian guerrilla group, and they're looking for a serious 60 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:36,560 arms supplier. 61 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:42,000 Given Snow's straight-laced reputation, this feels a little out of the blue. 62 00:04:42,380 --> 00:04:46,640 Boot actually makes jokes that Snow's U.S. phone number must be a direct line 63 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:47,640 to the CIA. 64 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:53,440 But Boot looks into the guy, doesn't see anything that gives him suspicion, and 65 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:58,820 listen. The size of this deal is just a little too tempting for Boot to give up. 66 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:01,660 Snow's got Boot on the hook. 67 00:05:02,140 --> 00:05:05,000 Now the DEA needs to reel him in. 68 00:05:05,300 --> 00:05:11,480 Snow puts Boot into contact with two supposed Colombian rebel commanders, but 69 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:13,440 they're really just undercover DEA agents. 70 00:05:14,540 --> 00:05:19,140 The agents with Snow tell Boot they need to meet him face-to-face at a location 71 00:05:19,140 --> 00:05:20,840 that they all feel is secure. 72 00:05:21,930 --> 00:05:28,010 They suggest Romania, Ghana, Morocco, Montenegro, but they can't seem to find 73 00:05:28,010 --> 00:05:29,670 anywhere that Boot feels safe. 74 00:05:30,590 --> 00:05:34,090 Then, as a last ditch, the agents suggest Thailand. 75 00:05:34,610 --> 00:05:39,750 It doesn't have an extradition treaty with the U.S., but the DEA believes that 76 00:05:39,750 --> 00:05:41,970 Thai authorities will agree to the deal. 77 00:05:42,390 --> 00:05:46,150 Boot recognizes that Thailand is convenient, it's easy for him to get 78 00:05:46,150 --> 00:05:49,950 there, and he is operating under the misapprehension. 79 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:53,420 that the United States can't get to him in Thailand. 80 00:05:53,940 --> 00:05:55,340 Boot gets on a plane. 81 00:05:55,740 --> 00:05:57,860 The trap is ready to be sprung. 82 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:01,140 But the DEA doesn't just need their target in Thailand. 83 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:05,700 To extradite him, they also need Boot to acknowledge he knows the weapons he's 84 00:06:05,700 --> 00:06:07,940 selling will be used on U.S. citizens. 85 00:06:11,850 --> 00:06:15,850 In a private conference room at the Sofitel Hotel, Boot meets the two 86 00:06:15,850 --> 00:06:19,450 undercover agents. Now, they have bugged this entire room with hidden 87 00:06:19,450 --> 00:06:23,690 microphones. When the meeting begins, one of the undercover agents asks for 88 00:06:23,690 --> 00:06:29,230 dozens of Igla launchers. Then the agent drops the line that could blow the whole 89 00:06:29,230 --> 00:06:30,230 thing apart. 90 00:06:30,390 --> 00:06:33,830 These missiles are to shoot down American pilots. 91 00:06:34,730 --> 00:06:36,670 Everyone's hanging on his next words. 92 00:06:37,470 --> 00:06:41,680 Finally, he nods and says, We have the same enemy. 93 00:06:42,580 --> 00:06:45,940 Just like that, boom, it's the clincher. 94 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:49,600 Proof, Boot is conspiring to kill U.S. citizens. 95 00:06:49,940 --> 00:06:55,440 Doors burst open, agents rush in. After a global hunt spanning nearly a decade, 96 00:06:55,780 --> 00:06:58,000 the merchant of death is caught. 97 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:04,920 In 2011, Boot is convicted of conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals and provide 98 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:07,260 material support to a terrorist organization. 99 00:07:08,460 --> 00:07:10,400 He's sentenced to 25 years. 100 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:17,780 Meanwhile, Mike Snow vanishes, taking his heroic story with him. 101 00:07:18,140 --> 00:07:21,920 Mike and his family flee Africa for a witness protection program. 102 00:07:22,180 --> 00:07:25,040 And for years, his story remains hidden. 103 00:07:25,940 --> 00:07:31,860 Then in 2014, journalist Nicholas Schmidl sits down repeatedly with Victor 104 00:07:31,860 --> 00:07:34,320 Boot and publishes a detailed expose. 105 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:40,900 In it, he lays bare the incredible tale of Operation Relentless and how one bush 106 00:07:40,900 --> 00:07:44,460 pilot helped bring down the world's biggest arms dealer. 107 00:07:45,700 --> 00:07:47,780 Victor Boot sheltered out of reach. 108 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:50,400 Other fugitives hide in plain sight. 109 00:07:50,660 --> 00:07:56,180 For three years, locals in one Eastern European dive bar drink alongside a 110 00:07:56,180 --> 00:07:59,580 mystic healer called Dr. Dragan Davich. 111 00:08:00,430 --> 00:08:04,410 What they don't know is he's really the most wanted warlord on the planet. 112 00:08:08,490 --> 00:08:14,310 In the mid-90s, the newly formed nation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is being torn 113 00:08:14,310 --> 00:08:19,090 apart by civil war. The two biggest ethnic groups, mostly Muslim Bosniaks 114 00:08:19,090 --> 00:08:22,810 and mostly Christian Bosnian Serbs, are in a bitter fight for power. 115 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:28,480 Leading the Bosnian Serb forces is one of modern history's most brutal leaders, 116 00:08:29,020 --> 00:08:30,360 Radovan Karadzic. 117 00:08:30,780 --> 00:08:34,799 Radovan Karadzic is a former psychiatrist who is now the political 118 00:08:34,799 --> 00:08:38,900 and military leader of the Bosnian Serbs, and he is truly an extreme 119 00:08:38,900 --> 00:08:44,640 nationalist. During the war, he carries out a horrific genocide. He has Bosniak 120 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:49,060 cities surrounded and starved, and carries out dozens of brutal mass 121 00:08:49,060 --> 00:08:50,060 killings. 122 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:54,900 When the war ends in 1995, the world cries out for justice. 123 00:08:55,620 --> 00:08:58,700 Karadzic is indicted for genocide by the UN. 124 00:08:59,100 --> 00:09:02,280 But at first, nothing happens at all. 125 00:09:02,580 --> 00:09:06,900 For the first few months after the end of the conflict, Karadzic is living 126 00:09:06,900 --> 00:09:11,400 openly. But as time passes, he can sense a change. 127 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:16,620 Karadzic feels that local support is waning and that his arrest may be 128 00:09:16,620 --> 00:09:17,599 imminent. 129 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:21,540 Sometime in 1997, Radovan Karadzic disappears. 130 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:28,500 To find him, NATO peacekeeping troops begin a huge manhunt, working closely 131 00:09:28,500 --> 00:09:29,900 with U.S. intelligence forces. 132 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:34,440 American analysts comb tiny settlements along the border between Bosnia and 133 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:38,340 Serbia. They're looking for things like late-night Internet logins in villages 134 00:09:38,340 --> 00:09:41,840 that don't normally have power or even subscriptions to newspapers. 135 00:09:43,470 --> 00:09:48,190 As pressure to enforce the UN indictment grows, so does the size of the manhunt. 136 00:09:48,410 --> 00:09:54,390 Soon, it's deploying teams of CIA officers, Delta Force, and even SEAL 137 00:09:54,390 --> 00:09:55,390 Team 6. 138 00:09:55,610 --> 00:09:58,350 For eight years, every lead comes up empty. 139 00:09:58,970 --> 00:10:02,970 But as investigators comb Eastern Europe, they miss one crucial 140 00:10:02,970 --> 00:10:07,930 development. The sudden appearance of a mystical healer in the neighboring 141 00:10:07,930 --> 00:10:09,150 country of Serbia. 142 00:10:12,750 --> 00:10:18,490 In 2005, Dr. Dragan Dabic appears in the capital of Serbia, Belgrade, and he 143 00:10:18,490 --> 00:10:23,330 practices acupuncture and old traditional remedies. He's gentle. Kids 144 00:10:23,330 --> 00:10:24,770 on the street call him Santa Claus. 145 00:10:25,090 --> 00:10:27,630 But this mystical healer is no saint. 146 00:10:28,310 --> 00:10:32,910 In fact, he's the world's most wanted warlord, Radovan Karajic. 147 00:10:33,490 --> 00:10:35,850 Weirdly, the disguise kind of adds up. 148 00:10:36,270 --> 00:10:40,490 Karajic studied medicine when he was young, so he knows exactly how to be 149 00:10:40,490 --> 00:10:41,770 convincing as a healer. 150 00:10:42,220 --> 00:10:45,600 You'd think he'd keep his head down, but that's not his style. 151 00:10:46,140 --> 00:10:49,360 Pretty soon he's built up enough of a profile that he ends up becoming the 152 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:54,720 face of a U.S.-based vitamin company and even writes a weekly column for a well 153 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:55,720 -being magazine. 154 00:10:56,420 --> 00:10:58,440 Then he gets even bolder. 155 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:03,140 He starts going to a local bar that's a haunt of Serbian nationalists, and at 156 00:11:03,140 --> 00:11:07,660 one point the disguised Karadzic grabs a fiddle and plays a heroic Serbian ballad 157 00:11:07,660 --> 00:11:09,780 beneath a picture of himself. 158 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:14,060 By now, Karadzic believes he's truly untouchable. 159 00:11:15,420 --> 00:11:18,320 Then someone in his inner circle makes a mistake. 160 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:23,620 Eleven years after he first disappears, Karadzic gets a phone call from his 161 00:11:23,620 --> 00:11:28,400 brother. But his brother uses an old SIM card that investigators are still 162 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:32,220 tracking. Officers start looking into the man who picked up the phone. 163 00:11:32,620 --> 00:11:36,260 But soon they figure out he's not who he says he is at all. 164 00:11:37,610 --> 00:11:40,490 This time, Karajic has got nowhere to run. 165 00:11:40,710 --> 00:11:46,930 In July 2008, on a crowded city bus, one of history's worst war criminals is 166 00:11:46,930 --> 00:11:51,830 finally cornered. He takes his seat on the bus, and two plainclothes agents 167 00:11:51,830 --> 00:11:56,090 take seats behind him. At that point, he knows that he's been caught. 168 00:11:57,650 --> 00:12:03,530 In 2016, Karajic is found guilty of genocide and war crimes and sentenced to 169 00:12:03,530 --> 00:12:04,590 40 years in prison. 170 00:12:06,350 --> 00:12:11,430 That year, British war reporter Julian Borger uncovers the full story of how 171 00:12:11,430 --> 00:12:13,050 this historic moment happened. 172 00:12:13,650 --> 00:12:18,510 Borger publishes an extraordinary tell-all account built from dozens of 173 00:12:18,510 --> 00:12:20,630 interviews with spies and officials. 174 00:12:20,950 --> 00:12:25,870 These interviews reveal the details of how intense this chase had been and just 175 00:12:25,870 --> 00:12:29,090 how close carriages came to disappearing forever. 176 00:12:32,250 --> 00:12:35,630 Some manhunts cross continents. This one? 177 00:12:36,110 --> 00:12:37,110 Never leaves the building. 178 00:12:37,650 --> 00:12:42,090 When the CIA suspects a mole at Langley, they send in an operative to root him 179 00:12:42,090 --> 00:12:47,050 out, triggering one of the most unique spy versus spy hunts in the agency's 180 00:12:47,050 --> 00:12:48,050 history. 181 00:12:52,710 --> 00:12:58,870 In 1995, a Russian source drops a bombshell that blindsides the CIA. 182 00:12:59,430 --> 00:13:00,490 They have a mole. 183 00:13:01,710 --> 00:13:05,990 This source claims the Russians know details of secret U.S. operations that 184 00:13:05,990 --> 00:13:08,790 could only have been leaked by an insider. 185 00:13:09,290 --> 00:13:12,730 This warning sends shockwaves through Washington. 186 00:13:13,270 --> 00:13:19,370 The FBI handles counterintelligence inside the U.S., so it falls to them to 187 00:13:19,370 --> 00:13:22,430 work with the CIA to figure out who this mole might be. 188 00:13:22,850 --> 00:13:25,970 They begin an urgent hunt inside the agency. 189 00:13:26,990 --> 00:13:31,090 The FBI narrows the search to just a handful of officers who have access to 190 00:13:31,090 --> 00:13:34,790 the information that the Russians claim to have. And as that list narrows 191 00:13:34,790 --> 00:13:37,110 further and further, one name stands out. 192 00:13:37,990 --> 00:13:39,050 James Nicholson. 193 00:13:39,950 --> 00:13:42,110 The FBI decides to check him out. 194 00:13:43,030 --> 00:13:47,430 Nicholson is polygraphed several times as part of these routine security 195 00:13:47,430 --> 00:13:52,110 checks. The polygraph examiner actually sees that Nicholson is not only showing 196 00:13:52,110 --> 00:13:55,710 signs of deception, he's actually showing signs of trying to cheat the 197 00:13:55,710 --> 00:13:56,710 test. 198 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:00,480 They let him think that he's passed, and he leaves none the wiser. 199 00:14:00,820 --> 00:14:05,400 But he's just become their prime target. And catching an agent this experienced 200 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:07,120 comes with high stakes. 201 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:12,100 Nicholson is a 45-year-old intelligence officer. He's trained in catching spies, 202 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:15,440 which makes him a formidable opponent in and of itself. 203 00:14:15,780 --> 00:14:20,520 But the bigger worry is his current job. His current posting is as an instructor 204 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:22,680 in the CIA's training academy. 205 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:29,380 This is a big problem because every future and upcoming covert officer is 206 00:14:29,380 --> 00:14:33,880 going through the same training regiments that Nicholson is leading. He 207 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:38,660 could potentially compromise an entire generation of intelligence officers 208 00:14:38,660 --> 00:14:41,480 before they've even left the training facility. 209 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:47,720 After the FBI starts surveillance on Nicholson, they spot a chance to slip an 210 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:49,880 undercover agent right under his nose. 211 00:14:53,770 --> 00:14:57,530 A short while into the investigation, Nicholson needs a deputy. 212 00:14:57,770 --> 00:15:02,630 He's given a stack of personnel files to choose from, and one stands out, John 213 00:15:02,630 --> 00:15:07,550 McGuire. To Nicholson, he looks like the perfect sidekick. He's a field officer 214 00:15:07,550 --> 00:15:11,030 who's recently been sidelined and stuck in an administrative post. 215 00:15:12,450 --> 00:15:16,890 What Nicholson doesn't know is John McGuire's placement is no accident. 216 00:15:17,270 --> 00:15:22,050 The FBI has put McGuire directly in his path with orders to spy on him. 217 00:15:22,540 --> 00:15:27,900 What happens next is the only spy versus spy mission to ever play out inside the 218 00:15:27,900 --> 00:15:28,900 CIA. 219 00:15:30,300 --> 00:15:33,980 McGuire becomes Nicholson's indispensable right-hand man, and 220 00:15:33,980 --> 00:15:35,300 gradually he wins his trust. 221 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:39,620 Piece by piece, he starts feeding evidence back to the FBI. 222 00:15:40,420 --> 00:15:42,120 First, forensics. 223 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:46,640 After a meeting, McGuire slips Nicholson's coffee cup into his bag 224 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:50,100 because the DNA on it gives investigators a way to tie him to any 225 00:15:50,100 --> 00:15:51,100 stolen documents. 226 00:15:51,690 --> 00:15:53,430 Then, a house sweep. 227 00:15:53,770 --> 00:15:58,230 With McGuire's help, using a duplicate key, a covert team breaks into 228 00:15:58,230 --> 00:16:00,030 Nicholson's house while Nicholson is away. 229 00:16:00,270 --> 00:16:04,390 And inside, they hit the jackpot. They find a scanner and a laptop computer 230 00:16:04,390 --> 00:16:08,370 chock full of clandestine CIA documents supplied by Nicholson. 231 00:16:08,830 --> 00:16:10,450 Finally, the surveillance. 232 00:16:11,010 --> 00:16:14,850 The investigative team is able to put hidden cameras inside of Nicholson's 233 00:16:14,850 --> 00:16:18,850 office. They record him taking pictures of classified CIA files. 234 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:22,060 It's a damning stack of evidence. 235 00:16:22,380 --> 00:16:27,360 But to make their case bulletproof, the FBI wants to catch Nicholson red-handed, 236 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:31,240 heading to his handler with classified documents in his possession. 237 00:16:31,820 --> 00:16:36,340 After several months of investigation, McGuire alerts the FBI to the fact that 238 00:16:36,340 --> 00:16:39,120 Nicholson is arranging a secret meeting in Switzerland. 239 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:40,700 This is the perfect moment. 240 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:45,080 Once Nicholson goes through airport security, he'll be unarmed, but he'll 241 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:47,700 also likely be carrying the sensitive material. 242 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:53,860 On the day of the flight, agents follow Nicholson through the airport. 243 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:59,400 A team posing as passengers surround him, then out on the tarmac, they take 244 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:00,400 him down. 245 00:17:01,540 --> 00:17:06,839 The bag he is carrying is full of stolen intelligence found for Moscow. 246 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:13,900 Nicholson is sentenced to 23 years, the highest ranking CIA officer ever to be 247 00:17:13,900 --> 00:17:15,619 convicted of espionage. 248 00:17:16,250 --> 00:17:18,730 James Nicholson is a true American traitor. 249 00:17:18,970 --> 00:17:23,790 He sold out his own colleagues and U.S. secret operations to the Russians for a 250 00:17:23,790 --> 00:17:25,730 sum total of $300,000. 251 00:17:26,990 --> 00:17:31,370 McGuire's undercover role in Nicholson's capture stays hidden for years. 252 00:17:31,610 --> 00:17:35,710 But in 2011, one reporter uncovers the full story. 253 00:17:36,190 --> 00:17:40,610 A journalist named Brian Denson manages to befriend Nicholson's family and gains 254 00:17:40,610 --> 00:17:45,510 access to reams of private correspondence, along with Nicholson's 255 00:17:45,510 --> 00:17:46,760 own. Prison Journal. 256 00:17:48,860 --> 00:17:54,280 These documents reveal in detail the incredible story of how the CIA quietly 257 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:58,260 planted one of its own to track a traitor inside Langley. 258 00:18:00,020 --> 00:18:04,320 How do you track down a terrorist no one has seen in 17 years? 259 00:18:04,940 --> 00:18:10,780 That's the challenge the CIA faces in 1994 as it hunts a man who spread a wave 260 00:18:10,780 --> 00:18:14,040 of violence across Europe in the 1970s and 80s. 261 00:18:18,220 --> 00:18:23,880 In Vienna in 1975, the biggest names in the global oil industry are gathered in 262 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:26,140 a single room for their annual OPEC summit. 263 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:34,140 Around midday, six armed militants burst inside. They kill three and capture over 264 00:18:34,140 --> 00:18:35,140 60 hostages. 265 00:18:36,580 --> 00:18:41,160 They force Austrian TV to broadcast their demands every two hours, and their 266 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:44,060 message is on behalf of liberation for Palestine. 267 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:46,020 Incredibly, they escape. 268 00:18:46,490 --> 00:18:48,830 by demanding a jet bound for Algeria. 269 00:18:49,390 --> 00:18:53,090 The world's press go wild over the audacity of the attack. 270 00:18:53,390 --> 00:18:57,670 Who could pull off a strike like this and get away with it? The militants 271 00:18:57,670 --> 00:19:00,850 claim they belong to a group called Arm the Arab Revolution. 272 00:19:01,670 --> 00:19:05,450 Investigators recognize one of the men from the photos and footage as a known 273 00:19:05,450 --> 00:19:10,470 militant, the wanted terrorist already nicknamed Carlos the Jackal. 274 00:19:11,850 --> 00:19:15,410 Carlos is the pseudonym for Ilich Ramirez Sanchez. 275 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:20,820 the son of a wealthy Venezuelan who has drifted into radical politics during his 276 00:19:20,820 --> 00:19:21,820 world travels. 277 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:25,940 He's previously been linked to bombings and killings across Europe in the early 278 00:19:25,940 --> 00:19:29,280 70s, but until now, he's flown largely under the radar. 279 00:19:30,100 --> 00:19:31,100 Not anymore. 280 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:35,400 The OPEC attack catapults Carlos straight to the front pages. 281 00:19:35,980 --> 00:19:40,480 Western intelligence services launch a renewed manhunt to bring him to justice. 282 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:45,620 Problem is, Carlos' fame has won him powerful new protection. 283 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:50,820 Soviet bloc states see Carlos as someone with a common enemy, the West. 284 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:56,400 They also see him as someone who can inflict chaos on this enemy with 285 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:57,400 terrorist attacks. 286 00:19:57,460 --> 00:20:02,340 So, they begin to shelter him. He bounces from East Berlin to 287 00:20:02,340 --> 00:20:04,480 Czechoslovakia, even down to Syria. 288 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:09,600 While in East Berlin, Carlos is given a support staff of 75 people. 289 00:20:10,120 --> 00:20:14,680 It's almost like he has gone from below the radar to a state-supported 290 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:20,420 terrorist. For over 15 years, no Western authorities get so much as a shot at 291 00:20:20,420 --> 00:20:26,080 him. In that time, Carlos unleashes wave after wave of terror on the West. 292 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:30,320 Bombing attacks and hit jobs that claim almost 80 lives. 293 00:20:31,020 --> 00:20:33,900 Then, a revolution changes everything. 294 00:20:34,940 --> 00:20:39,860 When the Soviet Union collapses, Many of the Soviet-friendly regimes that once 295 00:20:39,860 --> 00:20:44,600 sheltered Carlos begin to ally with the United States. So overnight, his safe 296 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:48,900 havens start to disappear. It's not a good look to be protecting Carlos, 297 00:20:49,100 --> 00:20:51,460 especially if you want to get into the Americans' good graces. 298 00:20:52,260 --> 00:20:55,920 Eventually, the CIA are approached by an unlikely ally. 299 00:20:56,520 --> 00:21:00,320 Bruno Breguet is a trusted lieutenant Carlos has relied on for years. 300 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:02,340 He reaches out to the Americans. 301 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:08,120 He feels Carlos' terror is no longer guided by his ideology, but by his ego. 302 00:21:08,380 --> 00:21:12,780 The growing brutality inside Carlos' group has left him disillusioned. 303 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:17,080 Now, he offers to help the CIA hunt his former comrade. 304 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:21,860 The CIA gets Breguet to meet one of Carlos' couriers for lunch in Zurich. 305 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:24,760 Now, the courier is completely unaware that Breguet is working with the CIA. 306 00:21:25,140 --> 00:21:28,960 Intelligence teams track the courier all the way to Khartoum, the capital of 307 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:29,849 Sudan. 308 00:21:29,850 --> 00:21:34,350 The problem is Khartoum has about 2.5 million residents, and they need to find 309 00:21:34,350 --> 00:21:35,350 one man. 310 00:21:35,750 --> 00:21:40,750 Added to that, the few images they have of Carlos are 17 years out of date. 311 00:21:41,090 --> 00:21:44,350 So to find Carlos, the CIA brings in Billy Waugh. 312 00:21:44,570 --> 00:21:46,990 He's 64 and a veteran tracker. 313 00:21:48,290 --> 00:21:52,130 Billy Waugh launches a huge surveillance sweep across the city. 314 00:21:52,780 --> 00:21:56,980 Then, one day while he's eating pizza, he sees someone that he had seen beside 315 00:21:56,980 --> 00:21:59,780 Carlos before, his former bodyguard. 316 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:03,840 Later, he trails the bodyguard's car to a walled property. 317 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:07,620 He sits, and he waits. 318 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:13,960 And then suddenly, a man he believed to be Carlos steps into view. 319 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:19,820 Wall gets the first confirmed pictures that the CIA has of Carlos in more than 320 00:22:19,820 --> 00:22:20,820 a decade. 321 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:26,000 Now the CIA has his exact location, but they don't bring him in themselves. 322 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:31,360 Carlos's biggest crimes have occurred in Europe, and the French authorities have 323 00:22:31,360 --> 00:22:33,540 the biggest stack of evidence against him. 324 00:22:33,940 --> 00:22:36,440 So the CIA lets them step in. 325 00:22:37,360 --> 00:22:42,040 In August 1994, Carlos goes into the hospital for minor surgery. 326 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:46,560 But the moment he begins to wake, a security guard steps in and sedates him 327 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:47,560 again. 328 00:22:47,980 --> 00:22:50,620 He wakes up to a good news, bad news situation. 329 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:55,500 The good news is that the surgery went swimmingly. The bad news, he's actually 330 00:22:55,500 --> 00:23:00,500 on a French military aircraft on his way to Paris where he's going to be charged 331 00:23:00,500 --> 00:23:01,500 for his crimes. 332 00:23:01,980 --> 00:23:07,660 On August 14, 1994, after two decades on the run, the world's most wanted 333 00:23:07,660 --> 00:23:09,500 terrorist is in custody. 334 00:23:09,940 --> 00:23:15,380 He's found guilty of a string of murders and bombings. He's sentenced to life in 335 00:23:15,380 --> 00:23:16,800 prison three times over. 336 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:19,720 The story doesn't end there. 337 00:23:19,980 --> 00:23:25,380 In the 1990s, former Soviet states declassify records from their secret 338 00:23:25,380 --> 00:23:30,720 police. They shed new light on why so many nations were willing to shelter 339 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:31,720 Carlos. 340 00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:37,540 Page after page of files reveal Eastern Bloc states were terrified of the 341 00:23:37,540 --> 00:23:41,560 reprisals Carlos might launch against their nations if they refused to shelter 342 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:45,560 him. It wasn't a shared ideology that led them to cooperate with Carlos. 343 00:23:45,900 --> 00:23:46,960 It was fear. 344 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:52,320 Very few people terrified communist intelligence services like Batasi, but 345 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:56,320 in his prime, Carlos was one of those people. 346 00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:03,380 The best spies don't just disappear, they start over. Like this next pair, 347 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:09,900 two KGB agents who give the FBI the slip in New York, only to resurface 3,000 348 00:24:09,900 --> 00:24:11,760 miles away as an entirely new couple. 349 00:24:11,980 --> 00:24:16,300 Exactly how they were caught was kept secret for more than 50 years. 350 00:24:22,120 --> 00:24:27,160 At a political rally, Lona Petka and American-born communist activists meet 351 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:32,960 Morris Cohen from Harlem. They hit it off, and by July 1941, they're married. 352 00:24:33,140 --> 00:24:38,720 It's only after they're married that Morris reveals to Lona that he is not 353 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:43,700 just a fellow believer. He has actually been working as a spy for the Soviet 354 00:24:43,700 --> 00:24:45,520 Union since 1937. 355 00:24:46,420 --> 00:24:51,000 For most people, Finding out your partner is part of a spy network would 356 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:52,600 be a marriage ender. 357 00:24:52,980 --> 00:24:54,100 But not Lona. 358 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:56,720 She agrees to give Morris her silence. 359 00:24:56,980 --> 00:24:59,400 And soon, he asks for even more. 360 00:25:00,140 --> 00:25:04,500 When America enters the war, Morris is called up to serve in the U.S. Army. 361 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:09,820 But before he leaves, he asks Lona to take over stealing intelligence from 362 00:25:09,820 --> 00:25:12,380 military factories all along the East Coast. 363 00:25:14,030 --> 00:25:19,310 Lona readily agrees. After all, she believes in the cause, and it turns out 364 00:25:19,310 --> 00:25:20,310 she's pretty good. 365 00:25:20,650 --> 00:25:24,770 During this time, she meets a scientist who is working in the Manhattan Project, 366 00:25:24,930 --> 00:25:29,830 and he provides her with blueprints for the U.S. atomic program, which are 367 00:25:29,830 --> 00:25:31,670 immediately shared with the Russian government. 368 00:25:32,350 --> 00:25:37,690 After the war, Lona and Morris return to New York and live under the radar, until 369 00:25:37,690 --> 00:25:42,150 a sensational arrest in 1950 sets the authorities onto their trail. 370 00:25:42,670 --> 00:25:46,710 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, two American-born Soviet spies, are 371 00:25:46,710 --> 00:25:50,150 convicted of passing atomic secrets about the Manhattan Project. 372 00:25:50,730 --> 00:25:53,570 They're electrocuted at New York's Sing Sing prison. 373 00:25:55,610 --> 00:25:59,250 This unnerves the Coens. They knew the Rosenbergs. 374 00:25:59,750 --> 00:26:04,690 And there's proof now that if your name comes up in association with sharing 375 00:26:04,690 --> 00:26:08,150 nuclear secrets with the Soviet Union, you could face the electric chair. 376 00:26:09,310 --> 00:26:10,930 With help from the KGB. 377 00:26:11,420 --> 00:26:14,400 The Coens flip out of the U.S. and into Poland. 378 00:26:16,260 --> 00:26:21,300 As the FBI digs into the Rosenbergs' network, they discover links to the 379 00:26:21,300 --> 00:26:26,500 Coens. The FBI goes to the Coens' house and interrogates neighbors, only to 380 00:26:26,500 --> 00:26:28,360 learn that the couple is long gone. 381 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:31,880 There's nothing. It's as if this couple simply disappeared. 382 00:26:32,660 --> 00:26:37,840 The only thing that the FBI can cough up is the enlistment record from Morris 383 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:39,940 entering the Army during the Second World War. 384 00:26:40,430 --> 00:26:42,710 It gives them some fingerprints and it gives them a photograph. 385 00:26:43,190 --> 00:26:49,210 The FBI sends word to all NATO embassies that Morris is a wanted man, but nothing 386 00:26:49,210 --> 00:26:50,210 comes back. 387 00:26:50,290 --> 00:26:56,510 The case goes cold until a year later when these two spies resurface 3,000 388 00:26:56,510 --> 00:26:59,310 miles away, but not as Morris and Lona. 389 00:27:00,450 --> 00:27:04,950 In 1954, the Coens arrive in a village just outside of London. 390 00:27:05,190 --> 00:27:07,990 Now they are Peter and Helen Kroger. 391 00:27:09,360 --> 00:27:12,860 Peter and Helen have established a bookshop where they're interested in 392 00:27:12,860 --> 00:27:13,719 antique books. 393 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:17,200 This bookshop is the key to a new top-secret mission. 394 00:27:17,580 --> 00:27:21,800 The KGB is running the spy ring targeting the HM Naval Base Portland, 395 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:26,520 which is building the UK's very first nuclear-armed submarine. 396 00:27:27,100 --> 00:27:31,300 The Coens are passing information about the construction of that submarine on to 397 00:27:31,300 --> 00:27:35,040 Moscow, and the method that they're using to do that is ingenious. 398 00:27:36,460 --> 00:27:42,160 They shrink secret documents into micro dots, tiny photos the size of a period. 399 00:27:42,340 --> 00:27:46,580 Then they replace real periods in the books with these micro dots. 400 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:53,960 Just imagine you're reading A Tale of Two Cities, and this period on page 57 401 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:56,380 is in fact a secret document. 402 00:27:57,060 --> 00:28:00,340 That copy of the book then finds its way to the Soviets. 403 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:04,280 The Coens send off their antique books for six years. 404 00:28:04,910 --> 00:28:06,690 Feeding Mother Russia with secrets. 405 00:28:07,290 --> 00:28:11,550 Then the British get a new lead that puts the Coens back on the radar. 406 00:28:11,970 --> 00:28:17,610 In 1960, MI5 gets a tip that a naval attaché working in London is spying on 407 00:28:17,610 --> 00:28:18,630 behalf of the Soviet Union. 408 00:28:19,170 --> 00:28:23,270 MI5 puts him under tight surveillance and realizes that he's handing over 409 00:28:23,270 --> 00:28:27,410 documents to the home of Peter and Helen Kroger, the Coens. 410 00:28:27,810 --> 00:28:33,290 Over nine months, MI5 pieces together the entire Soviet spy ring. 411 00:28:33,580 --> 00:28:34,700 including the Coens. 412 00:28:35,180 --> 00:28:40,220 Then, on January 7, 1961, they raid the Coens' home. 413 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:44,960 The second they walk in, it hits them. This isn't a normal home. 414 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:46,620 It's a spy nest. 415 00:28:47,140 --> 00:28:52,160 They find passports, covert communication tools, and the equipment 416 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:54,260 to make and read microdots. 417 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:56,860 It's about as incriminating as it gets. 418 00:28:57,740 --> 00:29:03,060 MI5 arrest Peter and Helen Kroger, but their true identities are only uncovered 419 00:29:03,580 --> 00:29:04,920 After they take their prints. 420 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:09,620 MI5 can't match the fingerprints to anything in their database. However, 421 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:12,900 they then get a tip that perhaps the Kroger's are in fact Americans. 422 00:29:13,460 --> 00:29:17,160 They share the fingerprints with the United States government, and they get a 423 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:21,660 match. The man that they're dealing with is actually Morris Cohen, and he is 424 00:29:21,660 --> 00:29:22,780 wanted for spying. 425 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:28,220 After two decades in the field with two spy rings, the Coens are finally caught. 426 00:29:29,100 --> 00:29:33,640 They're sentenced to 20 years for espionage, but freed after eight in a 427 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:34,640 prisoner swap. 428 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:39,460 Meanwhile, MI5's operation stays locked away until 2017. 429 00:29:40,380 --> 00:29:45,360 Only then are files declassified, including the details of the microdots 430 00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:48,560 found in Lona Cohen's handbag upon her arrest. 431 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:53,880 Those microdots reveal the extent to which this couple, this duo, functioned 432 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:57,460 as one of the most prolific spy teams during the Cold War. 433 00:29:59,370 --> 00:30:03,010 Che Guevara is the Marxist revolutionary who helps reshape Cuba. 434 00:30:03,390 --> 00:30:06,970 Then, in 1965, he suddenly vanishes. 435 00:30:07,430 --> 00:30:11,670 The CIA races to find him before he can ignite his next revolution. 436 00:30:15,930 --> 00:30:20,170 Che Guevara is an Argentinian revolutionary who is one of the 437 00:30:20,170 --> 00:30:23,210 masterminds behind Castro's communist takeover of Cuba. 438 00:30:23,980 --> 00:30:28,220 After their victory, Guevara travels through Latin America and Africa, 439 00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:29,540 pushing communism. 440 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:33,540 But in 1965, he stops speaking at public events. 441 00:30:33,820 --> 00:30:39,340 This man who at one point had been the darling of the Marxist world now can't 442 00:30:39,340 --> 00:30:40,340 be found anywhere. 443 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:45,500 That's a problem because CIA see Che Guevara as someone with a truly unique 444 00:30:45,500 --> 00:30:48,900 power to single-handedly ignite revolutions. 445 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:52,840 Che becomes a ghostly figure, haunting the CIA. 446 00:30:53,660 --> 00:30:57,060 They chase his shadow in Africa and Southeast Asia. 447 00:30:57,380 --> 00:31:03,440 Then a breakthrough in Bolivia refocuses their manhunt. In March of 1967, 448 00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:08,580 the Bolivian military realizes that there is some sort of new resistance 449 00:31:08,580 --> 00:31:10,800 group in the interior of their country. 450 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:16,500 They send some of their soldiers to check it out, and seven of them are 451 00:31:16,500 --> 00:31:17,500 killed in an ambush. 452 00:31:19,020 --> 00:31:23,090 Later... two of the insurgents come forward and surrender themselves to the 453 00:31:23,090 --> 00:31:28,030 Bolivian army. The Bolivian army is very surprised when they learn that that 454 00:31:28,030 --> 00:31:31,250 insurgent group is being led by Che Guevara. 455 00:31:31,770 --> 00:31:36,790 The Bolivians alert the CIA that Che might be fomenting a new revolution in 456 00:31:36,790 --> 00:31:37,790 the Bolivian jungle. 457 00:31:38,430 --> 00:31:42,130 After so many false leads, the CIA isn't convinced. 458 00:31:42,810 --> 00:31:46,870 So they decide to send a U.S. field operative to find out. 459 00:31:47,500 --> 00:31:49,520 But that creates a different problem. 460 00:31:49,980 --> 00:31:54,620 The Bolivian government doesn't want a U.S. operative running this hunt. It 461 00:31:54,620 --> 00:31:58,080 would make them look weak. And the United States doesn't want it either. If 462 00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:02,260 Che can point to CIA involvement, it becomes proof that he is fighting 463 00:32:02,260 --> 00:32:06,780 American imperialism. So the U.S. and Bolivian authorities decide to put a CIA 464 00:32:06,780 --> 00:32:09,340 operative on the ground, but undercover. 465 00:32:09,900 --> 00:32:15,740 The CIA already has the perfect man in mind, 26-year-old Felix Rodriguez. 466 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:20,560 He's a Cuban exile who knows Guevara's playbook back to front. 467 00:32:20,940 --> 00:32:25,300 Rodriguez is given a position in the Bolivian army, and he goes by the name 468 00:32:25,300 --> 00:32:26,300 Captain Ramos. 469 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:31,000 His first task is to identify if the rebel leader really is Che. 470 00:32:32,180 --> 00:32:34,700 Rodriguez gets a break in August. 471 00:32:34,940 --> 00:32:38,640 Troops catch the guerrillas off guard at a river crossing and capture a prisoner, 472 00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:40,280 and he gives the same answer. 473 00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:42,500 Che is in charge. 474 00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:45,640 That same month, another break. 475 00:32:46,250 --> 00:32:51,390 When Bolivian troops raid a camp, they discover cigar butts, fake passports, 476 00:32:51,550 --> 00:32:55,950 photos, and even fingerprints belonging to Che Guevara. 477 00:32:57,270 --> 00:32:58,970 Rodriguez has confirmation. 478 00:32:59,450 --> 00:33:05,070 The world's most iconic revolutionary is back, leading rebels in Bolivia. 479 00:33:05,450 --> 00:33:10,890 Now his mission intensifies, from intelligence gathering to a hunt. 480 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:16,320 Rodriguez leaves his office in La Paz and goes out in the field with the 481 00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:20,860 troops. They're hunting down the insurgent group in a remote jungle area 482 00:33:20,860 --> 00:33:22,740 that's characterized by deep valleys. 483 00:33:24,780 --> 00:33:31,040 On October 8th, Bolivian forces run into 17 rebels at a nearby stream, and a four 484 00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:32,380 -hour gunfight erupts. 485 00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:37,380 During that gun battle, one of them tries scrambling up a hillside only to 486 00:33:37,380 --> 00:33:38,380 be shot through the calf. 487 00:33:39,050 --> 00:33:42,870 Bolivian soldiers rushed to that individual, and only after flipping him 488 00:33:42,870 --> 00:33:46,290 over did they realize that the man that's been shot is Che Guevara. 489 00:33:48,530 --> 00:33:53,550 Che is moved to a nearby schoolhouse, and Felix Rodriguez, still undercover, 490 00:33:53,910 --> 00:33:55,250 rushes to the site. 491 00:33:55,870 --> 00:34:01,090 Six months after the search in Bolivia began, he's standing next to Che. 492 00:34:01,610 --> 00:34:03,790 Rodriguez wants to take Che alive. 493 00:34:04,070 --> 00:34:07,050 They want to interrogate him. This is the CIA's objective. 494 00:34:08,969 --> 00:34:13,870 He also knows the Bolivians are ready to kill him. They don't want a public trial 495 00:34:13,870 --> 00:34:16,050 or the protests that might spark. 496 00:34:16,870 --> 00:34:21,469 Rodriguez urgently sends word to the CIA station chief, asking the U.S. Embassy 497 00:34:21,469 --> 00:34:24,489 to pressure the Bolivians to keep Che alive. 498 00:34:25,550 --> 00:34:26,670 It's too late. 499 00:34:27,030 --> 00:34:32,389 On the morning of October 9th, 1967, Rodriguez himself takes a call. 500 00:34:32,610 --> 00:34:35,610 The orders come direct from the Bolivian president. 501 00:34:36,030 --> 00:34:37,530 Che is to be shot. 502 00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:40,340 staged to look like he died in combat. 503 00:34:41,380 --> 00:34:45,739 Rodriguez knows the best he can do now is get whatever intel that he can. So 504 00:34:45,739 --> 00:34:50,020 Rodriguez sits with Che for an hour, talking through his life and everything 505 00:34:50,020 --> 00:34:51,520 he's been doing since leaving Cuba. 506 00:34:52,100 --> 00:34:55,780 And then Rodriguez informs Che of his fate. 507 00:34:56,380 --> 00:35:01,200 Che Guevara turns white. Then he says, it's better this way. I should have died 508 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:02,200 in combat. 509 00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:09,260 Two days later, images of Che's body appear on front pages worldwide. 510 00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:12,540 His death cements his iconic status. 511 00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:17,900 For more than 20 years, many challenged the official story that Che died in 512 00:35:17,900 --> 00:35:24,000 battle. Then, in 1989, Rodriguez decides to share his truth with the world. 513 00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:30,840 At the age of 48, Rodriguez publishes this memoir that narrates the final 514 00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:32,340 chapter of the life of Che Guevara. 515 00:35:32,890 --> 00:35:38,010 but also the extent to which the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency was involved 516 00:35:38,010 --> 00:35:40,410 in his pursuit and his death. 517 00:35:42,630 --> 00:35:47,450 One of the longest manhunts in FBI history stretched for 17 years, 16 518 00:35:47,450 --> 00:35:51,030 bombs, three deaths, and dozens of injuries. 519 00:35:51,590 --> 00:35:55,670 And it was all sparked by a homemade explosive so simple it gave 520 00:35:55,670 --> 00:35:57,950 investigators nothing to trace at all. 521 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:06,160 The spring of 1978, and a nondescript package has been delivered to 522 00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:10,940 Northwestern University as a member of campus security investigates it. The 523 00:36:10,940 --> 00:36:11,940 package explodes. 524 00:36:12,780 --> 00:36:17,540 It turns out to be a crude bomb made from scrap metal and bits of wood. 525 00:36:17,700 --> 00:36:19,980 Thankfully, it only causes minor injuries. 526 00:36:21,180 --> 00:36:22,200 A year later. 527 00:36:22,570 --> 00:36:26,170 Another blast rips through the cargo hold of an American Airlines flight. 528 00:36:26,330 --> 00:36:30,310 Now, again, no one's killed, but investigators notice it's the same style 529 00:36:30,310 --> 00:36:34,510 as the Northwestern University package, and maybe from the same maker. 530 00:36:35,230 --> 00:36:39,470 The FBI opens a manhunt to find the sender and gives it the codename 531 00:36:39,470 --> 00:36:43,750 Unabomber, short for University and Airline Bomber. 532 00:36:44,010 --> 00:36:46,130 But they have very little to go on. 533 00:36:46,460 --> 00:36:48,420 There are no traceable parts in these bombs. 534 00:36:48,720 --> 00:36:53,380 Everything has been taken from junkyards, scrapyards, and they're put 535 00:36:53,380 --> 00:36:56,960 together in a way that the FBI cannot trace. 536 00:36:57,420 --> 00:37:01,860 Over the next five years, more bombs follow at university halls, computer 537 00:37:01,860 --> 00:37:03,760 shops, and airline factories. 538 00:37:04,220 --> 00:37:09,540 These bombs get more sophisticated until, after ten attacks, the spree 539 00:37:09,540 --> 00:37:10,540 turns deadly. 540 00:37:10,990 --> 00:37:15,410 In 1985, a computer store owner in California is killed when a device 541 00:37:15,410 --> 00:37:18,850 rigged with shrapnel detonates. The press goes wild. 542 00:37:19,630 --> 00:37:24,530 Soon, the Unabomber Task Force has over 150 people working the case, becoming 543 00:37:24,530 --> 00:37:27,230 one of the biggest manhunts in the history of the FBI. 544 00:37:27,710 --> 00:37:32,190 They go through every fragment of every device and conduct thousands of 545 00:37:32,190 --> 00:37:34,250 interviews, but still, they come up empty. 546 00:37:35,570 --> 00:37:39,150 Despite little evidence, the FBI builds a profile of the bomber. 547 00:37:39,930 --> 00:37:46,010 They think he's probably white, male, solitary, maybe some academic 548 00:37:46,010 --> 00:37:48,230 background, maybe an engineering background. 549 00:37:48,590 --> 00:37:53,190 The FBI investigates more than 2,000 people, but still, they've got nothing. 550 00:37:53,830 --> 00:37:56,590 Nine years after the first bomb, they get a break. 551 00:37:56,850 --> 00:38:00,810 A man is spotted leaving a box in a Salt Lake City parking lot. And when a nearby 552 00:38:00,810 --> 00:38:04,450 computer store owner goes to check it out, it detonates, severing all the 553 00:38:04,450 --> 00:38:05,450 nerves in his arm. 554 00:38:05,710 --> 00:38:08,910 The description of the man, though, helps the sketch artist produce the 555 00:38:08,910 --> 00:38:11,370 first widely circulated drawing of the suspect. 556 00:38:12,130 --> 00:38:14,990 It appears the bomber is spooked by this close call. 557 00:38:15,230 --> 00:38:17,070 For six years, nothing. 558 00:38:17,670 --> 00:38:21,090 Then suddenly, new and deadlier devices appear. 559 00:38:21,430 --> 00:38:25,770 This time, though, the bomber isn't just sending bombs, but a message. 560 00:38:26,770 --> 00:38:33,210 In 1995, the bomber sends a 35,000-word manifesto to the New York Times and the 561 00:38:33,210 --> 00:38:34,210 Washington Post. 562 00:38:34,430 --> 00:38:39,290 The manifesto itself is a diatribe against industry, against modern life, 563 00:38:39,450 --> 00:38:41,650 and especially against technology. 564 00:38:42,230 --> 00:38:43,810 He also makes this demand. 565 00:38:44,110 --> 00:38:49,030 He says, if you don't publish this manifesto in your newspapers, I'll kill 566 00:38:49,030 --> 00:38:53,870 again. The journalists agonize over the decision. Should they refuse to cave to 567 00:38:53,870 --> 00:38:55,610 blackmail or protect the public? 568 00:38:55,830 --> 00:38:57,690 But the FBI sees an opportunity. 569 00:38:58,490 --> 00:39:02,810 The unique writing style, like the British spelling of analyze, give 570 00:39:02,810 --> 00:39:06,410 investigators something to work with. It's filled with clues to who the 571 00:39:06,410 --> 00:39:07,910 Unabomber might actually be. 572 00:39:09,770 --> 00:39:15,430 The FBI winds up pressuring news outlets to publish the manifesto because they're 573 00:39:15,430 --> 00:39:20,490 hoping that someone will recognize the terminology, the ideas, the concepts 574 00:39:20,490 --> 00:39:24,810 that are contained within it. It worked better than they ever believed. 575 00:39:25,720 --> 00:39:27,640 Thousands of people come forward with clues. 576 00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:30,980 One of them is a teacher named David Kaczynski. 577 00:39:31,220 --> 00:39:35,980 David's scared because the writing feels eerily like that of his brother, Ted. 578 00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:40,900 Ted Kaczynski had a Midwestern upbringing, but he was always known to 579 00:39:40,900 --> 00:39:43,540 be a genius. He was a Berkeley professor. 580 00:39:44,020 --> 00:39:46,200 But one brother's hunch isn't enough. 581 00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:48,620 The FBI needs something solid. 582 00:39:49,190 --> 00:39:54,150 David hands over an old essay that Ted wrote back in 1971, and it is a heart 583 00:39:54,150 --> 00:39:58,830 -stopper because you've got 23 pages that are just brimming with exactly the 584 00:39:58,830 --> 00:40:04,210 same ideas and obsessions as they see in the manifesto. For the first time in U 585 00:40:04,210 --> 00:40:09,450 .S. criminal history, linguistics are brought to bear in getting a major 586 00:40:09,450 --> 00:40:10,450 search warrant. 587 00:40:11,070 --> 00:40:15,430 After thousands of dead ends, the investigation finally has its first 588 00:40:15,430 --> 00:40:18,030 promising suspect, Ted Kaczynski. 589 00:40:18,590 --> 00:40:20,210 But the FBI doesn't rush in. 590 00:40:20,770 --> 00:40:24,990 The FBI go to Ted's remote cabin in Montana, but they have to act carefully. 591 00:40:25,150 --> 00:40:30,390 If the Uta bomber really is Ted, then he's highly intelligent, likely armed, 592 00:40:30,490 --> 00:40:32,550 and may have the whole place rigged with explosives. 593 00:40:33,030 --> 00:40:39,050 As the FBI is moving in on the cabin, the cabin door opens, and Kaczynski just 594 00:40:39,050 --> 00:40:43,130 walks out onto the porch and surrenders himself into their custody. 595 00:40:43,850 --> 00:40:47,030 Inside the cabin is a cache of undeniable evidence. 596 00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:53,340 They find 40,000 pages of notes, they find bomb-making experiments, and even 597 00:40:53,340 --> 00:40:55,900 one finished bomb ready to be mailed. 598 00:40:57,340 --> 00:41:02,760 The longest and most expensive manhunt for a serial killer in U.S. history is 599 00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:03,760 over. 600 00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:10,120 Ultimately, Kaczynski pleads guilty to carrying out the attacks in 1998, and he 601 00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:13,800 receives four life sentences without the possibility of parole. 602 00:41:14,410 --> 00:41:20,470 For decades, the full details about the case remain classified, until 2012, when 603 00:41:20,470 --> 00:41:24,930 the FBI releases a wave of new documents, including the very writings 604 00:41:24,930 --> 00:41:27,830 and words Ted wrote that were used to convict him. 605 00:41:29,230 --> 00:41:35,770 From double agents hiding inside the CIA to warlords lurking in plain sight, the 606 00:41:35,770 --> 00:41:39,970 world's most dangerous players go to extreme lengths to stay one step ahead. 607 00:41:40,770 --> 00:41:42,450 But no one hides forever.