https://youtu.be/0aI1MD4POfU Polish spy Marian Zacharski was escorted across the famed “Bridge of Spies” near Potsdam, East Germany in 1985 after spending the previous four years in prison on a life…
https://youtu.be/Ud3XqR7WuvY Army Special Forces Soldier David Arturo Baez Cruz defected to Nicaragua to fight alongside the Sandinista forces in 1980. David was born in Nicaragua into a fiercely patriotic family.…
https://youtu.be/wbR-Hu-cSQo Donald Nichols arrived in South Korea as a 23-year-old NCO fresh out of counterintelligence school. Despite a lack of education, he turned out to be an incredibly gifted intelligence…
https://youtu.be/dUtC_3QATY4 Three American contractors were held hostage in the Colombian jungle served for nearly 2,000 days in captivity. First captured when their Cessna crashed while on a reconnaissance mission over…
https://youtu.be/p__MopMY5pc Members of the US Military Liaison Mission frequently went on dangerous reconnaissance missions inside East Germany, in full uniform. From 1947 until 1990, each of the four major powers…
https://youtu.be/N7I39WJ4-Fw A U-2C reconnaissance aircraft known as Article 360 was shot down on May 1st, 1960 over the Soviet Union. The pilot, a former US Air officer named Gary Francis…
https://youtu.be/ZQiHsmk9QPI KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko and CIA case officer Jack Platt were inseparable as friends, despite their positions in opposing intelligence agencies. Against all odds the pair became as close…
Cuban counterintelligence photographed a suspected CIA case officer planting a dead drop outside of Havana. Fidel Castro’s Intelligence Directorate grew quickly in size and capability following the Cuban revolution. By…
Some of the greatest spies and saboteurs of all time were the shinobi no mono - trained agents of espionage in feudal Japan. Though depicted in most modern media as…
In the late 1960s the CIA began developing a small bird-like drone, intended for low-profile aerial reconnaissance. Still stinging from the infamous loss of the U-2 aircraft and pilot Francis…
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