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Tonight on Secrets Declassified, we
reveal the global manhunts that cornered

the world's most wanted.

From the 17-year chase for the
Unabomber. It's one of the biggest

manhunts in the history of the FBI.

To the Eastern European warlord hiding
in plain sight.

He ends up becoming the face of a
U.S.-based vitamin company and even

writes for a well-being magazine.

And the covert hunt for the world's
greatest revolutionary.

In a moment, Che Guevara was smoking
cigars in Cuba. The next, he vanished.

These are some of the secret pursuits
carried out in the shadows by

governments and the people who work for
them.

It's time to bring them to light.

The best way to catch your prey is to
set a trap.

That's what the USDA does to catch one
of the underworld's biggest arms

traffickers. To lay the bait, they don't
turn to a spy, but a retired Bush pilot.

In the early 2000s, U.S. intelligence
analysts start to notice a very worrying

trend.

Insurgent groups and militias around the
world suddenly have way more advanced

weapons.

For the U.S., this is a massive...

problem because a lot of these groups
are openly hostile to western interests

u.s intelligence services want to find
out where the weapons are coming from

and cut the flow off at the source it's
revealed that many of these weapons are

soviet issue illegal traffickers are
funneling stockpiles of ex-soviet arms

into rebel hands making big money by
tracking shipment and speaking to

informants it becomes clear that the
king of these traffickers is one man,

Victor Boot, better known by his
nickname, the Merchant of Death.

Boot is a former Soviet military
officer. He's running a fleet of about

60 aircraft, and he's selling everything
from assault rifles to helicopter

gunships. In 2002, Interpol releases a
red notice for Boot, and he becomes

a wanted man.

Problem is, he's got friends in very
high places.

Boot rarely leaves Russia, where he's
widely believed to be protected by

Moscow. When he does travel, he only
goes to other rogue regimes that won't

extradite him.

In 2007, the DEA decides enough is
enough.

Top the ante, they'll lure Boot into a
trap.

The DEA comes up with a plan.

They're going to pose as buyers,
offering him a multi-million dollar

weapons deal. But to steal it, they're
going to insist that he has to leave

Russia. That way, they can grab him.

They name their plan Operation
Relentless.

For it to work at all, they need just
the right front man to place the bait.

This person needs to be of Boots World,
but also someone the DEA trusts.

There's only one guy who ticks both
boxes, Mike Snow, a British pilot

working out of South Africa.

Mike Snow is a former commando who has
spent over a decade flying bush planes

across Africa. He's no gunrunner. But
Snow has spent years touching down on

the same runways that Boot flies into.

He has met many of Boot's cohorts, so
they know him, they know of him, and

they trust him.

The DEA reaches out to Snow and asks him
to help.

Snow is initially reluctant, but he's
seen what Boot's weapons can do, the way

that they destroy communities and the
way that they shatter lives.

And he wants to do something to prevent
that from happening in the future.

Eventually, he agrees, and the U.S. pays
him $25,000 for his help.

In November 2007, Snow reaches out to
Boot to dangle the bait.

Snow tells Boot's people this concocted
backstory, that he recently flew a

representative of a Colombian guerrilla
group, and they're looking for a serious

arms supplier.

Given Snow's straight-laced reputation,
this feels a little out of the blue.

Boot actually makes jokes that Snow's
U.S. phone number must be a direct line

to the CIA.

But Boot looks into the guy, doesn't see
anything that gives him suspicion, and

listen. The size of this deal is just a
little too tempting for Boot to give up.

Snow's got Boot on the hook.

Now the DEA needs to reel him in.

Snow puts Boot into contact with two
supposed Colombian rebel commanders, but

they're really just undercover DEA
agents.

The agents with Snow tell Boot they need
to meet him face-to-face at a location

that they all feel is secure.

They suggest Romania, Ghana, Morocco,
Montenegro, but they can't seem to find

anywhere that Boot feels safe.

Then, as a last ditch, the agents
suggest Thailand.

It doesn't have an extradition treaty
with the U.S., but the DEA believes that

Thai authorities will agree to the deal.

Boot recognizes that Thailand is
convenient, it's easy for him to get

there, and he is operating under the
misapprehension.

that the United States can't get to him
in Thailand.

Boot gets on a plane.

The trap is ready to be sprung.

But the DEA doesn't just need their
target in Thailand.

To extradite him, they also need Boot to
acknowledge he knows the weapons he's

selling will be used on U.S. citizens.

In a private conference room at the
Sofitel Hotel, Boot meets the two

undercover agents. Now, they have bugged
this entire room with hidden

microphones. When the meeting begins,
one of the undercover agents asks for

dozens of Igla launchers. Then the agent
drops the line that could blow the whole

thing apart.

These missiles are to shoot down
American pilots.

Everyone's hanging on his next words.

Finally, he nods and says, We have the
same enemy.

Just like that, boom, it's the clincher.

Proof, Boot is conspiring to kill U.S.
citizens.

Doors burst open, agents rush in. After
a global hunt spanning nearly a decade,

the merchant of death is caught.

In 2011, Boot is convicted of conspiracy
to kill U.S. nationals and provide

material support to a terrorist
organization.

He's sentenced to 25 years.

Meanwhile, Mike Snow vanishes, taking
his heroic story with him.

Mike and his family flee Africa for a
witness protection program.

And for years, his story remains hidden.

Then in 2014, journalist Nicholas
Schmidl sits down repeatedly with Victor

Boot and publishes a detailed expose.

In it, he lays bare the incredible tale
of Operation Relentless and how one bush

pilot helped bring down the world's
biggest arms dealer.

Victor Boot sheltered out of reach.

Other fugitives hide in plain sight.

For three years, locals in one Eastern
European dive bar drink alongside a

mystic healer called Dr. Dragan Davich.

What they don't know is he's really the
most wanted warlord on the planet.

In the mid-90s, the newly formed nation
of Bosnia and Herzegovina is being torn

apart by civil war. The two biggest
ethnic groups, mostly Muslim Bosniaks

and mostly Christian Bosnian Serbs, are
in a bitter fight for power.

Leading the Bosnian Serb forces is one
of modern history's most brutal leaders,

Radovan Karadzic.

Radovan Karadzic is a former
psychiatrist who is now the political

and military leader of the Bosnian
Serbs, and he is truly an extreme

nationalist. During the war, he carries
out a horrific genocide. He has Bosniak

cities surrounded and starved, and
carries out dozens of brutal mass

killings.

When the war ends in 1995, the world
cries out for justice.

Karadzic is indicted for genocide by the
UN.

But at first, nothing happens at all.

For the first few months after the end
of the conflict, Karadzic is living

openly. But as time passes, he can sense
a change.

Karadzic feels that local support is
waning and that his arrest may be

imminent.

Sometime in 1997, Radovan Karadzic
disappears.

To find him, NATO peacekeeping troops
begin a huge manhunt, working closely

with U.S. intelligence forces.

American analysts comb tiny settlements
along the border between Bosnia and

Serbia. They're looking for things like
late-night Internet logins in villages

that don't normally have power or even
subscriptions to newspapers.

As pressure to enforce the UN indictment
grows, so does the size of the manhunt.

Soon, it's deploying teams of CIA
officers, Delta Force, and even SEAL

Team 6.

For eight years, every lead comes up
empty.

But as investigators comb Eastern
Europe, they miss one crucial

development. The sudden appearance of a
mystical healer in the neighboring

country of Serbia.

In 2005, Dr. Dragan Dabic appears in the
capital of Serbia, Belgrade, and he

practices acupuncture and old
traditional remedies. He's gentle. Kids

on the street call him Santa Claus.

But this mystical healer is no saint.

In fact, he's the world's most wanted
warlord, Radovan Karajic.

Weirdly, the disguise kind of adds up.

Karajic studied medicine when he was
young, so he knows exactly how to be

convincing as a healer.

You'd think he'd keep his head down, but
that's not his style.

Pretty soon he's built up enough of a
profile that he ends up becoming the

face of a U.S.-based vitamin company and
even writes a weekly column for a well

-being magazine.

Then he gets even bolder.

He starts going to a local bar that's a
haunt of Serbian nationalists, and at

one point the disguised Karadzic grabs a
fiddle and plays a heroic Serbian ballad

beneath a picture of himself.

By now, Karadzic believes he's truly
untouchable.

Then someone in his inner circle makes a
mistake.

Eleven years after he first disappears,
Karadzic gets a phone call from his

brother. But his brother uses an old SIM
card that investigators are still

tracking. Officers start looking into
the man who picked up the phone.

But soon they figure out he's not who he
says he is at all.

This time, Karajic has got nowhere to
run.

In July 2008, on a crowded city bus, one
of history's worst war criminals is

finally cornered. He takes his seat on
the bus, and two plainclothes agents

take seats behind him. At that point, he
knows that he's been caught.

In 2016, Karajic is found guilty of
genocide and war crimes and sentenced to

40 years in prison.

That year, British war reporter Julian
Borger uncovers the full story of how

this historic moment happened.

Borger publishes an extraordinary
tell-all account built from dozens of

interviews with spies and officials.

These interviews reveal the details of
how intense this chase had been and just

how close carriages came to disappearing
forever.

Some manhunts cross continents. This
one?

Never leaves the building.

When the CIA suspects a mole at Langley,
they send in an operative to root him

out, triggering one of the most unique
spy versus spy hunts in the agency's

history.

In 1995, a Russian source drops a
bombshell that blindsides the CIA.

They have a mole.

This source claims the Russians know
details of secret U.S. operations that

could only have been leaked by an
insider.

This warning sends shockwaves through
Washington.

The FBI handles counterintelligence
inside the U.S., so it falls to them to

work with the CIA to figure out who this
mole might be.

They begin an urgent hunt inside the
agency.

The FBI narrows the search to just a
handful of officers who have access to

the information that the Russians claim
to have. And as that list narrows

further and further, one name stands
out.

James Nicholson.

The FBI decides to check him out.

Nicholson is polygraphed several times
as part of these routine security

checks. The polygraph examiner actually
sees that Nicholson is not only showing

signs of deception, he's actually
showing signs of trying to cheat the

test.

They let him think that he's passed, and
he leaves none the wiser.

But he's just become their prime target.
And catching an agent this experienced

comes with high stakes.

Nicholson is a 45-year-old intelligence
officer. He's trained in catching spies,

which makes him a formidable opponent in
and of itself.

But the bigger worry is his current job.
His current posting is as an instructor

in the CIA's training academy.

This is a big problem because every
future and upcoming covert officer is

going through the same training
regiments that Nicholson is leading. He

could potentially compromise an entire
generation of intelligence officers

before they've even left the training
facility.

After the FBI starts surveillance on
Nicholson, they spot a chance to slip an

undercover agent right under his nose.

A short while into the investigation,
Nicholson needs a deputy.

He's given a stack of personnel files to
choose from, and one stands out, John

McGuire. To Nicholson, he looks like the
perfect sidekick. He's a field officer

who's recently been sidelined and stuck
in an administrative post.

What Nicholson doesn't know is John
McGuire's placement is no accident.

The FBI has put McGuire directly in his
path with orders to spy on him.

What happens next is the only spy versus
spy mission to ever play out inside the

CIA.

McGuire becomes Nicholson's
indispensable right-hand man, and

gradually he wins his trust.

Piece by piece, he starts feeding
evidence back to the FBI.

First, forensics.

After a meeting, McGuire slips
Nicholson's coffee cup into his bag

because the DNA on it gives
investigators a way to tie him to any

stolen documents.

Then, a house sweep.

With McGuire's help, using a duplicate
key, a covert team breaks into

Nicholson's house while Nicholson is
away.

And inside, they hit the jackpot. They
find a scanner and a laptop computer

chock full of clandestine CIA documents
supplied by Nicholson.

Finally, the surveillance.

The investigative team is able to put
hidden cameras inside of Nicholson's

office. They record him taking pictures
of classified CIA files.

It's a damning stack of evidence.

But to make their case bulletproof, the
FBI wants to catch Nicholson red-handed,

heading to his handler with classified
documents in his possession.

After several months of investigation,
McGuire alerts the FBI to the fact that

Nicholson is arranging a secret meeting
in Switzerland.

This is the perfect moment.

Once Nicholson goes through airport
security, he'll be unarmed, but he'll

also likely be carrying the sensitive
material.

On the day of the flight, agents follow
Nicholson through the airport.

A team posing as passengers surround
him, then out on the tarmac, they take

him down.

The bag he is carrying is full of stolen
intelligence found for Moscow.

Nicholson is sentenced to 23 years, the
highest ranking CIA officer ever to be

convicted of espionage.

James Nicholson is a true American
traitor.

He sold out his own colleagues and U.S.
secret operations to the Russians for a

sum total of $300,000.

McGuire's undercover role in Nicholson's
capture stays hidden for years.

But in 2011, one reporter uncovers the
full story.

A journalist named Brian Denson manages
to befriend Nicholson's family and gains

access to reams of private
correspondence, along with Nicholson's

own. Prison Journal.

These documents reveal in detail the
incredible story of how the CIA quietly

planted one of its own to track a
traitor inside Langley.

How do you track down a terrorist no one
has seen in 17 years?

That's the challenge the CIA faces in
1994 as it hunts a man who spread a wave

of violence across Europe in the 1970s
and 80s.

In Vienna in 1975, the biggest names in
the global oil industry are gathered in

a single room for their annual OPEC
summit.

Around midday, six armed militants burst
inside. They kill three and capture over

60 hostages.

They force Austrian TV to broadcast
their demands every two hours, and their

message is on behalf of liberation for
Palestine.

Incredibly, they escape.

by demanding a jet bound for Algeria.

The world's press go wild over the
audacity of the attack.

Who could pull off a strike like this
and get away with it? The militants

claim they belong to a group called Arm
the Arab Revolution.

Investigators recognize one of the men
from the photos and footage as a known

militant, the wanted terrorist already
nicknamed Carlos the Jackal.

Carlos is the pseudonym for Ilich
Ramirez Sanchez.

the son of a wealthy Venezuelan who has
drifted into radical politics during his

world travels.

He's previously been linked to bombings
and killings across Europe in the early

70s, but until now, he's flown largely
under the radar.

Not anymore.

The OPEC attack catapults Carlos
straight to the front pages.

Western intelligence services launch a
renewed manhunt to bring him to justice.

Problem is, Carlos' fame has won him
powerful new protection.

Soviet bloc states see Carlos as someone
with a common enemy, the West.

They also see him as someone who can
inflict chaos on this enemy with

terrorist attacks.

So, they begin to shelter him. He
bounces from East Berlin to

Czechoslovakia, even down to Syria.

While in East Berlin, Carlos is given a
support staff of 75 people.

It's almost like he has gone from below
the radar to a state-supported

terrorist. For over 15 years, no Western
authorities get so much as a shot at

him. In that time, Carlos unleashes wave
after wave of terror on the West.

Bombing attacks and hit jobs that claim
almost 80 lives.

Then, a revolution changes everything.

When the Soviet Union collapses, Many of
the Soviet-friendly regimes that once

sheltered Carlos begin to ally with the
United States. So overnight, his safe

havens start to disappear. It's not a
good look to be protecting Carlos,

especially if you want to get into the
Americans' good graces.

Eventually, the CIA are approached by an
unlikely ally.

Bruno Breguet is a trusted lieutenant
Carlos has relied on for years.

He reaches out to the Americans.

He feels Carlos' terror is no longer
guided by his ideology, but by his ego.

The growing brutality inside Carlos'
group has left him disillusioned.

Now, he offers to help the CIA hunt his
former comrade.

The CIA gets Breguet to meet one of
Carlos' couriers for lunch in Zurich.

Now, the courier is completely unaware
that Breguet is working with the CIA.

Intelligence teams track the courier all
the way to Khartoum, the capital of

Sudan.

The problem is Khartoum has about 2.5
million residents, and they need to find

one man.

Added to that, the few images they have
of Carlos are 17 years out of date.

So to find Carlos, the CIA brings in
Billy Waugh.

He's 64 and a veteran tracker.

Billy Waugh launches a huge surveillance
sweep across the city.

Then, one day while he's eating pizza,
he sees someone that he had seen beside

Carlos before, his former bodyguard.

Later, he trails the bodyguard's car to
a walled property.

He sits, and he waits.

And then suddenly, a man he believed to
be Carlos steps into view.

Wall gets the first confirmed pictures
that the CIA has of Carlos in more than

a decade.

Now the CIA has his exact location, but
they don't bring him in themselves.

Carlos's biggest crimes have occurred in
Europe, and the French authorities have

the biggest stack of evidence against
him.

So the CIA lets them step in.

In August 1994, Carlos goes into the
hospital for minor surgery.

But the moment he begins to wake, a
security guard steps in and sedates him

again.

He wakes up to a good news, bad news
situation.

The good news is that the surgery went
swimmingly. The bad news, he's actually

on a French military aircraft on his way
to Paris where he's going to be charged

for his crimes.

On August 14, 1994, after two decades on
the run, the world's most wanted

terrorist is in custody.

He's found guilty of a string of murders
and bombings. He's sentenced to life in

prison three times over.

The story doesn't end there.

In the 1990s, former Soviet states
declassify records from their secret

police. They shed new light on why so
many nations were willing to shelter

Carlos.

Page after page of files reveal Eastern
Bloc states were terrified of the

reprisals Carlos might launch against
their nations if they refused to shelter

him. It wasn't a shared ideology that
led them to cooperate with Carlos.

It was fear.

Very few people terrified communist
intelligence services like Batasi, but

in his prime, Carlos was one of those
people.

The best spies don't just disappear,
they start over. Like this next pair,

two KGB agents who give the FBI the slip
in New York, only to resurface 3,000

miles away as an entirely new couple.

Exactly how they were caught was kept
secret for more than 50 years.

At a political rally, Lona Petka and
American-born communist activists meet

Morris Cohen from Harlem. They hit it
off, and by July 1941, they're married.

It's only after they're married that
Morris reveals to Lona that he is not

just a fellow believer. He has actually
been working as a spy for the Soviet

Union since 1937.

For most people, Finding out your
partner is part of a spy network would

be a marriage ender.

But not Lona.

She agrees to give Morris her silence.

And soon, he asks for even more.

When America enters the war, Morris is
called up to serve in the U.S. Army.

But before he leaves, he asks Lona to
take over stealing intelligence from

military factories all along the East
Coast.

Lona readily agrees. After all, she
believes in the cause, and it turns out

she's pretty good.

During this time, she meets a scientist
who is working in the Manhattan Project,

and he provides her with blueprints for
the U.S. atomic program, which are

immediately shared with the Russian
government.

After the war, Lona and Morris return to
New York and live under the radar, until

a sensational arrest in 1950 sets the
authorities onto their trail.

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, two
American-born Soviet spies, are

convicted of passing atomic secrets
about the Manhattan Project.

They're electrocuted at New York's Sing
Sing prison.

This unnerves the Coens. They knew the
Rosenbergs.

And there's proof now that if your name
comes up in association with sharing

nuclear secrets with the Soviet Union,
you could face the electric chair.

With help from the KGB.

The Coens flip out of the U.S. and into
Poland.

As the FBI digs into the Rosenbergs'
network, they discover links to the

Coens. The FBI goes to the Coens' house
and interrogates neighbors, only to

learn that the couple is long gone.

There's nothing. It's as if this couple
simply disappeared.

The only thing that the FBI can cough up
is the enlistment record from Morris

entering the Army during the Second
World War.

It gives them some fingerprints and it
gives them a photograph.

The FBI sends word to all NATO embassies
that Morris is a wanted man, but nothing

comes back.

The case goes cold until a year later
when these two spies resurface 3,000

miles away, but not as Morris and Lona.

In 1954, the Coens arrive in a village
just outside of London.

Now they are Peter and Helen Kroger.

Peter and Helen have established a
bookshop where they're interested in

antique books.

This bookshop is the key to a new
top-secret mission.

The KGB is running the spy ring
targeting the HM Naval Base Portland,

which is building the UK's very first
nuclear-armed submarine.

The Coens are passing information about
the construction of that submarine on to

Moscow, and the method that they're
using to do that is ingenious.

They shrink secret documents into micro
dots, tiny photos the size of a period.

Then they replace real periods in the
books with these micro dots.

Just imagine you're reading A Tale of
Two Cities, and this period on page 57

is in fact a secret document.

That copy of the book then finds its way
to the Soviets.

The Coens send off their antique books
for six years.

Feeding Mother Russia with secrets.

Then the British get a new lead that
puts the Coens back on the radar.

In 1960, MI5 gets a tip that a naval
attaché working in London is spying on

behalf of the Soviet Union.

MI5 puts him under tight surveillance
and realizes that he's handing over

documents to the home of Peter and Helen
Kroger, the Coens.

Over nine months, MI5 pieces together
the entire Soviet spy ring.

including the Coens.

Then, on January 7, 1961, they raid the
Coens' home.

The second they walk in, it hits them.
This isn't a normal home.

It's a spy nest.

They find passports, covert
communication tools, and the equipment

to make and read microdots.

It's about as incriminating as it gets.

MI5 arrest Peter and Helen Kroger, but
their true identities are only uncovered

After they take their prints.

MI5 can't match the fingerprints to
anything in their database. However,

they then get a tip that perhaps the
Kroger's are in fact Americans.

They share the fingerprints with the
United States government, and they get a

match. The man that they're dealing with
is actually Morris Cohen, and he is

wanted for spying.

After two decades in the field with two
spy rings, the Coens are finally caught.

They're sentenced to 20 years for
espionage, but freed after eight in a

prisoner swap.

Meanwhile, MI5's operation stays locked
away until 2017.

Only then are files declassified,
including the details of the microdots

found in Lona Cohen's handbag upon her
arrest.

Those microdots reveal the extent to
which this couple, this duo, functioned

as one of the most prolific spy teams
during the Cold War.

Che Guevara is the Marxist revolutionary
who helps reshape Cuba.

Then, in 1965, he suddenly vanishes.

The CIA races to find him before he can
ignite his next revolution.

Che Guevara is an Argentinian
revolutionary who is one of the

masterminds behind Castro's communist
takeover of Cuba.

After their victory, Guevara travels
through Latin America and Africa,

pushing communism.

But in 1965, he stops speaking at public
events.

This man who at one point had been the
darling of the Marxist world now can't

be found anywhere.

That's a problem because CIA see Che
Guevara as someone with a truly unique

power to single-handedly ignite
revolutions.

Che becomes a ghostly figure, haunting
the CIA.

They chase his shadow in Africa and
Southeast Asia.

Then a breakthrough in Bolivia refocuses
their manhunt. In March of 1967,

the Bolivian military realizes that
there is some sort of new resistance

group in the interior of their country.

They send some of their soldiers to
check it out, and seven of them are

killed in an ambush.

Later... two of the insurgents come
forward and surrender themselves to the

Bolivian army. The Bolivian army is very
surprised when they learn that that

insurgent group is being led by Che
Guevara.

The Bolivians alert the CIA that Che
might be fomenting a new revolution in

the Bolivian jungle.

After so many false leads, the CIA isn't
convinced.

So they decide to send a U.S. field
operative to find out.

But that creates a different problem.

The Bolivian government doesn't want a
U.S. operative running this hunt. It

would make them look weak. And the
United States doesn't want it either. If

Che can point to CIA involvement, it
becomes proof that he is fighting

American imperialism. So the U.S. and
Bolivian authorities decide to put a CIA

operative on the ground, but undercover.

The CIA already has the perfect man in
mind, 26-year-old Felix Rodriguez.

He's a Cuban exile who knows Guevara's
playbook back to front.

Rodriguez is given a position in the
Bolivian army, and he goes by the name

Captain Ramos.

His first task is to identify if the
rebel leader really is Che.

Rodriguez gets a break in August.

Troops catch the guerrillas off guard at
a river crossing and capture a prisoner,

and he gives the same answer.

Che is in charge.

That same month, another break.

When Bolivian troops raid a camp, they
discover cigar butts, fake passports,

photos, and even fingerprints belonging
to Che Guevara.

Rodriguez has confirmation.

The world's most iconic revolutionary is
back, leading rebels in Bolivia.

Now his mission intensifies, from
intelligence gathering to a hunt.

Rodriguez leaves his office in La Paz
and goes out in the field with the

troops. They're hunting down the
insurgent group in a remote jungle area

that's characterized by deep valleys.

On October 8th, Bolivian forces run into
17 rebels at a nearby stream, and a four

-hour gunfight erupts.

During that gun battle, one of them
tries scrambling up a hillside only to

be shot through the calf.

Bolivian soldiers rushed to that
individual, and only after flipping him

over did they realize that the man
that's been shot is Che Guevara.

Che is moved to a nearby schoolhouse,
and Felix Rodriguez, still undercover,

rushes to the site.

Six months after the search in Bolivia
began, he's standing next to Che.

Rodriguez wants to take Che alive.

They want to interrogate him. This is
the CIA's objective.

He also knows the Bolivians are ready to
kill him. They don't want a public trial

or the protests that might spark.

Rodriguez urgently sends word to the CIA
station chief, asking the U.S. Embassy

to pressure the Bolivians to keep Che
alive.

It's too late.

On the morning of October 9th, 1967,
Rodriguez himself takes a call.

The orders come direct from the Bolivian
president.

Che is to be shot.

staged to look like he died in combat.

Rodriguez knows the best he can do now
is get whatever intel that he can. So

Rodriguez sits with Che for an hour,
talking through his life and everything

he's been doing since leaving Cuba.

And then Rodriguez informs Che of his
fate.

Che Guevara turns white. Then he says,
it's better this way. I should have died

in combat.

Two days later, images of Che's body
appear on front pages worldwide.

His death cements his iconic status.

For more than 20 years, many challenged
the official story that Che died in

battle. Then, in 1989, Rodriguez decides
to share his truth with the world.

At the age of 48, Rodriguez publishes
this memoir that narrates the final

chapter of the life of Che Guevara.

but also the extent to which the U.S.
Central Intelligence Agency was involved

in his pursuit and his death.

One of the longest manhunts in FBI
history stretched for 17 years, 16

bombs, three deaths, and dozens of
injuries.

And it was all sparked by a homemade
explosive so simple it gave

investigators nothing to trace at all.

The spring of 1978, and a nondescript
package has been delivered to

Northwestern University as a member of
campus security investigates it. The

package explodes.

It turns out to be a crude bomb made
from scrap metal and bits of wood.

Thankfully, it only causes minor
injuries.

A year later.

Another blast rips through the cargo
hold of an American Airlines flight.

Now, again, no one's killed, but
investigators notice it's the same style

as the Northwestern University package,
and maybe from the same maker.

The FBI opens a manhunt to find the
sender and gives it the codename

Unabomber, short for University and
Airline Bomber.

But they have very little to go on.

There are no traceable parts in these
bombs.

Everything has been taken from
junkyards, scrapyards, and they're put

together in a way that the FBI cannot
trace.

Over the next five years, more bombs
follow at university halls, computer

shops, and airline factories.

These bombs get more sophisticated
until, after ten attacks, the spree

turns deadly.

In 1985, a computer store owner in
California is killed when a device

rigged with shrapnel detonates. The
press goes wild.

Soon, the Unabomber Task Force has over
150 people working the case, becoming

one of the biggest manhunts in the
history of the FBI.

They go through every fragment of every
device and conduct thousands of

interviews, but still, they come up
empty.

Despite little evidence, the FBI builds
a profile of the bomber.

They think he's probably white, male,
solitary, maybe some academic

background, maybe an engineering
background.

The FBI investigates more than 2,000
people, but still, they've got nothing.

Nine years after the first bomb, they
get a break.

A man is spotted leaving a box in a Salt
Lake City parking lot. And when a nearby

computer store owner goes to check it
out, it detonates, severing all the

nerves in his arm.

The description of the man, though,
helps the sketch artist produce the

first widely circulated drawing of the
suspect.

It appears the bomber is spooked by this
close call.

For six years, nothing.

Then suddenly, new and deadlier devices
appear.

This time, though, the bomber isn't just
sending bombs, but a message.

In 1995, the bomber sends a 35,000-word
manifesto to the New York Times and the

Washington Post.

The manifesto itself is a diatribe
against industry, against modern life,

and especially against technology.

He also makes this demand.

He says, if you don't publish this
manifesto in your newspapers, I'll kill

again. The journalists agonize over the
decision. Should they refuse to cave to

blackmail or protect the public?

But the FBI sees an opportunity.

The unique writing style, like the
British spelling of analyze, give

investigators something to work with.
It's filled with clues to who the

Unabomber might actually be.

The FBI winds up pressuring news outlets
to publish the manifesto because they're

hoping that someone will recognize the
terminology, the ideas, the concepts

that are contained within it. It worked
better than they ever believed.

Thousands of people come forward with
clues.

One of them is a teacher named David
Kaczynski.

David's scared because the writing feels
eerily like that of his brother, Ted.

Ted Kaczynski had a Midwestern
upbringing, but he was always known to

be a genius. He was a Berkeley
professor.

But one brother's hunch isn't enough.

The FBI needs something solid.

David hands over an old essay that Ted
wrote back in 1971, and it is a heart

-stopper because you've got 23 pages
that are just brimming with exactly the

same ideas and obsessions as they see in
the manifesto. For the first time in U

.S. criminal history, linguistics are
brought to bear in getting a major

search warrant.

After thousands of dead ends, the
investigation finally has its first

promising suspect, Ted Kaczynski.

But the FBI doesn't rush in.

The FBI go to Ted's remote cabin in
Montana, but they have to act carefully.

If the Uta bomber really is Ted, then
he's highly intelligent, likely armed,

and may have the whole place rigged with
explosives.

As the FBI is moving in on the cabin,
the cabin door opens, and Kaczynski just

walks out onto the porch and surrenders
himself into their custody.

Inside the cabin is a cache of
undeniable evidence.

They find 40,000 pages of notes, they
find bomb-making experiments, and even

one finished bomb ready to be mailed.

The longest and most expensive manhunt
for a serial killer in U.S. history is

over.

Ultimately, Kaczynski pleads guilty to
carrying out the attacks in 1998, and he

receives four life sentences without the
possibility of parole.

For decades, the full details about the
case remain classified, until 2012, when

the FBI releases a wave of new
documents, including the very writings

and words Ted wrote that were used to
convict him.

From double agents hiding inside the CIA
to warlords lurking in plain sight, the

world's most dangerous players go to
extreme lengths to stay one step ahead.

But no one hides forever.