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One of the main topics discussed in this section of the documentary is plausible deniability, and how high officials are able to claim it by being kept out of the loop on certain topics. Within a few years of its creation, the CIA become one of the most powerful institutions within the United States. After its creation the National Security Council passed a law that allowed the CIA to conduct programs that were officially nonexistent and therefore bypassed needing congressional approval. The National Security Council ordered these programs to be "planned and executed that any US Government responsibility for them is not evident to unauthorized persons and that if uncovered the US Government can plausibly disclaim any responsibility for them." This gave the United States and the top leaders the ability to disavow that certain actions were done at the behest of the president himself. By doing this, there was no connection between the United States government and the acts that were to occur.

The second section of the documentary focuses on the incarceration of people for profit and the expanding prison population of which the majority are incarcerated for drug related crimes. This section also looks at the "War on Drugs" and the criminal networks that have been involved in it for example mafias and gangs. - The third section of the documentary discusses the history of false flag operations that were used for propaganda, war, and psychological operations, also known as "psy-ops". Two examples that are given in this portion of the documentary are Operation Northwoods and Operation Gladio. These operations are used to show the clandestine nature of the planning and execution of operations.

The fourth portion of the documentary examines torture, war crimes, and the abuses of authority that occur during times of protest and war. This section of the documentary discusses the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the effects that those attacks had on the people. The documentary also discusses other scenarios that the U.S. could have pursued when planning the bombings, and the possible outcomes of those scenarios are also discussed. Ultimately the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the final decisions on that matter.

The fifth and final portion of the documentary discusses the 2011 NDAA, the National Defense Authorization Act. In 2011, the act was changed from only applying to "Enemy Combatants" to American citizens themselves. The Act allows for U.S. citizens in addition to enemy combatants to be arrested on American soil and to be detained for an indefinite amount of time. This section of the documentary looks at how the U.S. gets intelligence of "enemy combatants" and how drones are used.

This movie briefly covers NSA analyst-turned whistleblower Edward Snowden and his escape from American authorities to Hong Kong and later to Russia, after leaking classified information about global surveillance programs used by the American government to spy on people around the world and other nations activities. The movie also presents the journalists who had an exclusive access to Snowden and also the members of WikiLeaks, who helped him in moments of his escape.

Office of Strategic Service (OSS) training film that analyzes the preparation, arrival, establishment, and "prevalent cover" for secret agents by presenting one movie within another, as introduced by Col. Robertson, chief of Schools and Training at the OSS.

The film gives examples of agents discovered because of inattention to details, good cover versus bad cover, and emphasises proper attitude, study, and importance of support staff. Explains ways to infiltrate territory. Illustrates effective and ineffective spy methods by comparing two agents. Ways to camouflage or dispose of revealing evidence are discussed. Explains techniques of blending into other cultures and preparing for sudden departure, how to choose residence and how to avoid suspicion in a foreign country.

Originally aired on BBC2 in 1992, 'Operation Gladio' reveals 'Gladio', the secret state-sponsored terror network operating in Europe, a far-right secret army, operated by the CIA and MI6 through NATO, which killed hundreds of innocent Europeans and attempted to blame the deaths on Baader Meinhof, Red Brigades and other left wing groups. Known as 'stay-behinds' these armies were given access to military equipment which was supposed to be used for sabotage after a Soviet invasion. Instead it was used in massacres across mainland Europe as part of a CIA Strategy of Tension. Gladio killing sprees in Belgium and Italy were carried out for the purpose of frightening the national political classes into adopting U.S. policies.

The Mossad or 'Institute of Special Tasks', is one of the most feared and fabled security services in the world. It has been lauded for daring operations and accused of cold-blooded murder. It is widely thought to have been behind the assassination of a leading member of the group Hamas. In this documentary, the BBC's Security Correspondent Gordon Corera talks to key figures from The Mossad, which was founded after the Arab-Israeli war in 1948.

The programme includes interviews with a Ephraim Halevy - former head of The Mossad and confidant of Israeli Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak and Ariel Sharon - as well as Rafi Eitan, leader of the team which captured the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in the sixties.

Other former Mossad members talk about their recruitment and training as well as covert operations in the Middle East. They insist they follow a strict ethical code but others question whether their methods are in breach of international law.

In late June of 2013, as United States leaders were publicly labeling him as a "coward" and a "traitor", Edward Snowden was hiding from authorities in Hong Kong. Terminal F: Chasing Edward Snowden dramatizes the pulse pounding moments prior to and in the aftermath of this moment.

Sabrina De Sousa is one of nearly two-dozen CIA officers who was prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced by Italian courts in absentia in 2009 for the role she allegedly played in the rendition of a radical cleric named Abu Omar. It was the first and only criminal prosecution that has ever taken place related to the CIA's rendition program, which involved more than 100 suspected terrorists and the assistance of dozens of European countries.

But De Sousa, a dual US and Portuguese citizen, said she had nothing to do with the cleric's abduction and has been wrongly accused. For the past decade, she has been on a global quest to clear her name. VICE News met up with De Sousa in Lisbon, Portugal--and other key figures connected to the case--for an exclusive interview about the steps she's now taking in an effort to hold the CIA accountable for one of the most notorious counterterrorism operations in the history of the agency.

Every year, Hollywood producers ask the Pentagon for help in making films, seeking everything from locations and technical advice to Blackhawk helicopters and nuclear-powered submarines. The military will happily oblige, it says in an army handbook, so long as the movie "aid - Sibel Edmonds was hired as a translator by the FBI shortly after the “terrorist” attacks of September 11, 2001 because of her knowledge of Middle Eastern languages. She was fired 6 months later in March 2002 in retaliation for reporting shoddy work and security breaches to her supervisors that could have prevented those attacks.

John Ashcroft invoked State Secrets Privilege at the request of the Defense Department to retroactively classify her statements and prevent her testimony to the 9/11 Commission and Congress from being used. She may be the most gagged whistle blower in U.S. history.

[Counter-Intelligence: I - The Company](https://vimeo.com/65148608) - One of the main topics discussed in this section of the documentary is plausible deniability, and how high officials are able to claim it by being kept out of the loop on certain topics. Within a few years of its creation, the CIA become one of the most powerful institutions within the United States. After its creation the National Security Council passed a law that allowed the CIA to conduct programs that were officially nonexistent and therefore bypassed needing congressional approval. The National Security Council ordered these programs to be "planned and executed that any US Government responsibility for them is not evident to unauthorized persons and that if uncovered the US Government can plausibly disclaim any responsibility for them." This gave the United States and the top leaders the ability to disavow that certain actions were done at the behest of the president himself. By doing this, there was no connection between the United States government and the acts that were to occur.   [Counter-Intelligence: II - The Deep State](https://vimeo.com/65942057) - The second section of the documentary focuses on the incarceration of people for profit and the expanding prison population of which the majority are incarcerated for drug related crimes. This section also looks at the "War on Drugs" and the criminal networks that have been involved in it for example mafias and gangs.[3] Colombia is mentioned when discussing "The War on Drugs" due to the drug trafficking that occurs in the state and the fighting that happens because of the trafficking. The documentary also mentions how the drug trafficking affects the people of Colombia.   [Counter-Intelligence: III - The Strategy of Tension](https://vimeo.com/66019647) - The third section of the documentary discusses the history of false flag operations that were used for propaganda, war, and psychological operations, also known as "psy-ops". Two examples that are given in this portion of the documentary are Operation Northwoods and Operation Gladio. These operations are used to show the clandestine nature of the planning and execution of operations.   [Counter-Intelligence: IV - Necrophilous](https://vimeo.com/67633913) - The fourth portion of the documentary examines torture, war crimes, and the abuses of authority that occur during times of protest and war. This section of the documentary discusses the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the effects that those attacks had on the people. The documentary also discusses other scenarios that the U.S. could have pursued when planning the bombings, and the possible outcomes of those scenarios are also discussed. Ultimately the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the final decisions on that matter.   [Counter-Intelligence: V - Drone Nation](https://vimeo.com/66183267) - The fifth and final portion of the documentary discusses the 2011 NDAA, the National Defense Authorization Act. In 2011, the act was changed from only applying to "Enemy Combatants" to American citizens themselves. The Act allows for U.S. citizens in addition to enemy combatants to be arrested on American soil and to be detained for an indefinite amount of time. This section of the documentary looks at how the U.S. gets intelligence of "enemy combatants" and how drones are used.   [Anonymous - Chasing Edward Snowden](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YkLS95qDjI) - This movie briefly covers NSA analyst-turned whistleblower Edward Snowden and his escape from American authorities to Hong Kong and later to Russia, after leaking classified information about global surveillance programs used by the American government to spy on people around the world and other nations activities. The movie also presents the journalists who had an exclusive access to Snowden and also the members of WikiLeaks, who helped him in moments of his escape.   [Undercover - 1940's American Secret Agent Training](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4jyfaA9teg) - Office of Strategic Service (OSS) training film that analyzes the preparation, arrival, establishment, and "prevalent cover" for secret agents by presenting one movie within another, as introduced by Col. Robertson, chief of Schools and Training at the OSS. The film gives examples of agents discovered because of inattention to details, good cover versus bad cover, and emphasises proper attitude, study, and importance of support staff. Explains ways to infiltrate territory. Illustrates effective and ineffective spy methods by comparing two agents. Ways to camouflage or dispose of revealing evidence are discussed. Explains techniques of blending into other cultures and preparing for sudden departure, how to choose residence and how to avoid suspicion in a foreign country.   [Operation Gladio](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXavNe81XdQ) - Originally aired on BBC2 in 1992, 'Operation Gladio' reveals 'Gladio', the secret state-sponsored terror network operating in Europe, a far-right secret army, operated by the CIA and MI6 through NATO, which killed hundreds of innocent Europeans and attempted to blame the deaths on Baader Meinhof, Red Brigades and other left wing groups. Known as 'stay-behinds' these armies were given access to military equipment which was supposed to be used for sabotage after a Soviet invasion. Instead it was used in massacres across mainland Europe as part of a CIA Strategy of Tension. Gladio killing sprees in Belgium and Italy were carried out for the purpose of frightening the national political classes into adopting U.S. policies.   [The Mossad](http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2010/08/100805_the_mossad.shtml) - The Mossad or 'Institute of Special Tasks', is one of the most feared and fabled security services in the world. It has been lauded for daring operations and accused of cold-blooded murder. It is widely thought to have been behind the assassination of a leading member of the group Hamas. In this documentary, the BBC's Security Correspondent Gordon Corera talks to key figures from The Mossad, which was founded after the Arab-Israeli war in 1948. The programme includes interviews with a Ephraim Halevy - former head of The Mossad and confidant of Israeli Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak and Ariel Sharon - as well as Rafi Eitan, leader of the team which captured the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in the sixties. Other former Mossad members talk about their recruitment and training as well as covert operations in the Middle East. They insist they follow a strict ethical code but others question whether their methods are in breach of international law.   [Edward Snowden - Terminal F](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd6qN167wKo) - In late June of 2013, as United States leaders were publicly labeling him as a "coward" and a "traitor", Edward Snowden was hiding from authorities in Hong Kong. Terminal F: Chasing Edward Snowden dramatizes the pulse pounding moments prior to and in the aftermath of this moment.   [An Ex-CIA Officer Speaks Out: The Italian Job](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wwgx0DwhPiY) - Sabrina De Sousa is one of nearly two-dozen CIA officers who was prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced by Italian courts in absentia in 2009 for the role she allegedly played in the rendition of a radical cleric named Abu Omar. It was the first and only criminal prosecution that has ever taken place related to the CIA's rendition program, which involved more than 100 suspected terrorists and the assistance of dozens of European countries. But De Sousa, a dual US and Portuguese citizen, said she had nothing to do with the cleric's abduction and has been wrongly accused. For the past decade, she has been on a global quest to clear her name. VICE News met up with De Sousa in Lisbon, Portugal--and other key figures connected to the case--for an exclusive interview about the steps she's now taking in an effort to hold the CIA accountable for one of the most notorious counterterrorism operations in the history of the agency.   [Operation Hollywood: How The Pentagon Shapes And Censors The Movies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPZL5WTilRE) - Every year, Hollywood producers ask the Pentagon for help in making films, seeking everything from locations and technical advice to Blackhawk helicopters and nuclear-powered submarines. The military will happily oblige, it says in an army handbook, so long as the movie "aid[s] in the recruiting and retention of personnel." The producers want to make money; the Defense Department wants to make propaganda. Former Hollywood Reporter staffer Robb explores the conflicts resulting from these negotiations in this illuminating though sometimes tedious study of the military-entertainment complex over the last 50 years. Robb shows how, in the Nicholas Cage film Windtalkers, the Marine Corps strong-armed producers into deleting a scene where a Marine pries gold teeth from a dead Japanese soldier (a historically accurate detail). At its worst, the author argues, the Pentagon unscrupulously targets children; Robb reveals how the Defense Department helped insert military story lines into the Mickey Mouse Club. To help, Robb suggests a schedule of uniform fees by which producers could rent aircraft carriers, F-16s & the like. It's an intriguing idea, though producers can go it alone: as Robb points out, blockbusters Forrest Gump, An Officer & a Gentleman & Platoon were all made without military assistance.   [Sibel Edmonds - Kill The Messenger](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6azJ67ematI) - Sibel Edmonds was hired as a translator by the FBI shortly after the “terrorist” attacks of September 11, 2001 because of her knowledge of Middle Eastern languages. She was fired 6 months later in March 2002 in retaliation for reporting shoddy work and security breaches to her supervisors that could have prevented those attacks. John Ashcroft invoked State Secrets Privilege at the request of the Defense Department to retroactively classify her statements and prevent her testimony to the 9/11 Commission and Congress from being used. She may be the most gagged whistle blower in U.S. history.  

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A Story on post 9/11 spying on domestic soil. Narus, Nora and Total Information Awareness. There is even a domestic spying program operated by the NSA in San Francisco which is uncovered by Mark Klein of ATT.

North Korea has just tested a nuclear bomb which is believed to be 10 times more powerful than the one used on Hiroshima. Kim Jong Un versus Donald Trump is the most dangerous stand off seen in decades and people are no longer asking if the hermit kingdom can be stopped from developing nuclear weapons, but rather it can be prevented from using them. So how did North Korea achieve it’s nuclear ambitions, in this BBC special we see how their spies have been trying to steal blueprints for missiles and insiders who worked for the regime tell us how North Korea uses secret front companies to fund it’s weapons program. In this film we see reporter Jane Corbin investigate how North Korea has managed to dodge sanctions and thwarted international efforts to stop it becoming a nuclear power. She also asks if it is possible for the two leaders to pull back from the brink and resolve their differences, and how likely nuclear war is?

In the Northern Irish conflict spying was a very dangerous game, through recordings obtained by Panorama the IRA’s chief interrogator explains how he extracted information from informers before they were shot. This may seem typical given the circumstances of war except that for years the interrogator himself was one of Britain’s most important spies. Codenamed Stakeknife, he was unmasked in 2003 as Freddie Scappaticci, he rose through the ranks of the IRA to run their internal security unit but now Stakeknife and his spy masters are the subject of a major criminal inquiry. This Panorama special investigates if fellow spies sacrificed so he could continue to spy himself? Over the course of Panoramas investigation they uncovered classified reports that link Scappatici to at least 18 murders. Some of these victims were themselves agents and informers and now a new £35 million criminal enquiry has been launched to get to the bottom of it.

When NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked details of massive government surveillance programs in 2013, he ignited a raging debate over digital privacy and security. That debate came to a head this year, when Apple refused an FBI court order to access the iPhone of alleged San Bernardino Terrorist Syed Farook. Meanwhile, journalists and activists are under increasing attack from foreign agents. To find out the government's real capabilities, and whether any of us can truly protect our sensitive information, VICE founder Shane Smith heads to Moscow to meet the man who started the conversation, Edward Snowden.

In the 1970s and 80s, hundreds, possibly thousands, of men, women and children were abducted by North Korea’s Secret Service on the orders of Kim Jung II. The majority of these victims came from Japan and South Korea but it’s believed that nationals from at least 11 other countries, including Thailand, Romania, Holland and France were also taken. Some were abducted to teach North Korean spies their language and culture so that their spies could integrate more easily in foreign countries. Others were taken to provide wives for American deserters or North Korean army officers. The fate of most of these hostages is still unknown. Some were held hostage in the totalitarian dictatorship for 40 years before finally being released. Others died or were killed in captivity. However some may still be alive and being held against their will. We investigate the phenomenon of the North Korean abductees.

Bradley Manning was responsible for leaking more than half a million classified documents via the webisite WikiLeaks back in 2010. Manning was an Army intelligence analyst and in this film which was originally aired in 2011 FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith manages to gain exclusive access to those who were closest to to him in order to tell his story and why he decided to leak the documents he did. The film also examines the role in which Julian Assange, owner of WikiLeaks played in publishing this classified material. We also learn of the struggles facing the U.S. government with regards to protecting it’s national security intelligence in a post 9/11 world.

Documentary exploring the murky circumstances behind the escape of one of Britain’s most notorious spies. In 1963, at the height of the Cold War, a well-educated Englishman called Kim Philby boarded a Russian freighter in Beirut and defected to Moscow from under the nose of British Intelligence. For the best part of thirty years he had been spying for the Soviet Union, much of that time while holding senior jobs in MI6. Fifty years on, more questions than answers still surround his defection. Had he really confessed before he went? Was his escape from justice an embarrassing mistake or part of the plan? This film, shot in Beirut, London and Moscow, sets out to find the answers, revealing the blind spots in the British ruling class that made it so vulnerable to KGB penetration.

George Carey (the much-garlanded former BBC man credited with founding Newsnight) has made many documentaries about Russia, the former Soviet Union and the Cold War. All three were at the heart of his fascinating Storyville: Masterspy of Moscow – George Blake (BBC Four), about the life of the notorious MI6 double agent who, having betrayed a large part of Britain’s Cold War spy network to the KGB, made a dramatic prison break from Wormwood Scrubs in 1966 and fled to exile in Russia. Carey certainly knows how to hook a viewer, starting out with the moment he finally tracked down the now 92-year-old Blake at a snow-encrusted dacha outside Moscow. “And there he was. The spy who got away.” With this tease firmly in place, we flipped back to the beginning, and the fact that George was born not in Britain but Rotterdam, the son of a Dutch protestant mother and a British-Egyptian father. Carey put Blake’s mix of ethnicity and religion, and early years disrupted and scarred by the death of his father and the Second World War, at the heart of his disloyalty. That, and a shadowy encounter with communist recruiters in war-torn North Korea after he was sent to that conflict zone by MI6. Blake emerged as a product of postwar global paranoia and skewed idealism. Perhaps Carey’s most significant finding was that, despite being held responsible for the deaths of many agents, most of those Blake double-crossed appear to have survived – and apparently at Blake’s specific request. But that was hardly the point of this stately film. Rather we were left with an intense, almost nostalgic wondering at what all that and febrile Cold War spy activity achieved in the long run. Not for the global powers but for Blake himself, whose refusal – when we did meet him, finally – to talk about present day Russia and Vladimir Putin in particular, betrayed a keener sense of disillusion than words ever could.

Her Majesty's Secret Service is the world's oldest and most famous spy agency. Delve into Her Majesty's Secret Service, also known as MI6, the world's most legendary spy agency.

Former KGB, CIA and FBI agents analyze six recent high-profile cases where double agents compromised America's security.

Sexpionage tells the stories of two women who were seduced by secret agents working for the East German intelligence service, the Stasi. At the height of the Cold War the Stasi would regularly despatch their agents to the West German capital, Bonn, armed with the task of forming long term relationships with single women working at embassies or government ministries. These women were unwittingly tapped for top secret information which was then passed on to the East. Both Gabriele Kliem and Margaret Hike had no idea that their lovers were spies until both women were arrested for treason. This film tells the story of the years they spent with their secret agent lovers and explores the feelings they are left with after the most significant relationships of their lives were revealed to be a sham.

The Senate Intelligence Committee has released a blistering, 500-page report on the CIA’s controversial detention and interrogation program, a document that committee chairwoman Dianne Feinstein said represents the most significant oversight effort in the history of the US Senate. The $40 million, five-year study concluded that CIA officials exaggerated the value of the intelligence they gleaned from dozens of “high-value detainees” held at black site prisons, where they were subjected to so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” such as sleep deprivation and waterboarding. The committee reviewed more than 6 million pages of top-secret CIA documents and found that the architect of the interrogation program was a retired Air Force psychologist named James Mitchell, an agency contractor who — according to news reports — personally waterboarded alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The Senate report does not identify Mitchell by name. Mitchell has a signed a non-disclosure agreement with the CIA and was unable to discuss his alleged role in the agency's enhanced interrogation program, but VICE News met up with him in suburban Florida to discuss the Senate's report and one of the darkest chapters of the war on terror. This is the first time Mitchell has ever appeared on camera.

War on Whistleblowers is a 2013 documentary film made by Robert Greenwald and it highlights several recent cases where employees of the United States government and contractors such as Edward Snowden took steps to release or leak sensitive material in order to expose the fraud or abuse being carried out within the administration of government. Even with president Obama commuting to improving the governments overall transparency and giving hope that such whistleblowers would have increased protection by passing the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, this film reveals that, things have actually never been worse in regards to security whistleblowers.

A 36-year veteran of America’s Intelligence Community, William Binney resigned from his position as Director for Global Communications Intelligence (COMINT) at the National Security Agency (NSA) and blew the whistle, after discovering that his efforts to protect the privacy and security of Americans were being undermined by those above him in the chain of command. The NSA data-monitoring program which Binney and his team had developed -- codenamed ThinThread -- was being aimed not at foreign targets as intended, but at Americans (codenamed as Stellar Wind); destroying privacy here and around the world. Binney voices his call to action for the billions of individuals whose rights are currently being violated. William Binney speaks out in this feature-length interview with Tragedy and Hope's Richard Grove, focused on the topic of the ever-growing Surveillance State in America.

The Committee for State Security, more commonly known by its transliteration “KGB” was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its collapse in 1991. The committee was a direct successor of such preceding agencies as Cheka, NKGB, and MGB. It was the chief government agency of “union-republican jurisdiction”, acting as internal security, intelligence, and secret police. Similar agencies were instated in each of the republics of the Soviet Union aside from the Russian SFSR and consisted of many ministries, state committees and state commissions. The KGB also has been considered a military service and was governed by army laws and regulations, similar to the Soviet Army or MVD Internal Troops. While most of the KGB archives remain classified, two on-line documentary sources are available. Its main functions were foreign intelligence, counterintelligence, operative-investigatory activities, guarding the State Border of the USSR, guarding the leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Soviet Government, organization and ensuring of government communications as well as fight against nationalism, dissent, and anti-Soviet activities. After breaking away from the Republic of Georgia in the early 1990s with Russian help, the self-proclaimed Republic of South Ossetia established its own KGB (keeping this unreformed name).

On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War, Panorama reveals how key aspects of the secret intelligence used by Downing Street and the White House to justify the invasion were based on fabrication, wishful thinking and lies. Peter Taylor tracks down some of those responsible and reports on the remarkable story of how, in the months before the war, two highly-placed sources – close to Saddam Hussein – talked secretly to the CIA and MI6. Their intelligence said Iraq did not have an active WMD programme – but it was simply dismissed.

[Frontline: Spying on the Home Front](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KnrgAclNWQ) - A Story on post 9/11 spying on domestic soil. Narus, Nora and Total Information Awareness. There is even a domestic spying program operated by the NSA in San Francisco which is uncovered by Mark Klein of ATT.   [North Korea’s Nuclear Trump Card](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw33zxhrYX0) - North Korea has just tested a nuclear bomb which is believed to be 10 times more powerful than the one used on Hiroshima. Kim Jong Un versus Donald Trump is the most dangerous stand off seen in decades and people are no longer asking if the hermit kingdom can be stopped from developing nuclear weapons, but rather it can be prevented from using them. So how did North Korea achieve it’s nuclear ambitions, in this BBC special we see how their spies have been trying to steal blueprints for missiles and insiders who worked for the regime tell us how North Korea uses secret front companies to fund it’s weapons program. In this film we see reporter Jane Corbin investigate how North Korea has managed to dodge sanctions and thwarted international efforts to stop it becoming a nuclear power. She also asks if it is possible for the two leaders to pull back from the brink and resolve their differences, and how likely nuclear war is?   [The Spy in the IRA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rihJviC9oA0) - In the Northern Irish conflict spying was a very dangerous game, through recordings obtained by Panorama the IRA’s chief interrogator explains how he extracted information from informers before they were shot. This may seem typical given the circumstances of war except that for years the interrogator himself was one of Britain’s most important spies. Codenamed Stakeknife, he was unmasked in 2003 as Freddie Scappaticci, he rose through the ranks of the IRA to run their internal security unit but now Stakeknife and his spy masters are the subject of a major criminal inquiry. This Panorama special investigates if fellow spies sacrificed so he could continue to spy himself? Over the course of Panoramas investigation they uncovered classified reports that link Scappatici to at least 18 murders. Some of these victims were themselves agents and informers and now a new £35 million criminal enquiry has been launched to get to the bottom of it.   [State of Surveillance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucRWyGKBVzo) - When NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked details of massive government surveillance programs in 2013, he ignited a raging debate over digital privacy and security. That debate came to a head this year, when Apple refused an FBI court order to access the iPhone of alleged San Bernardino Terrorist Syed Farook. Meanwhile, journalists and activists are under increasing attack from foreign agents. To find out the government's real capabilities, and whether any of us can truly protect our sensitive information, VICE founder Shane Smith heads to Moscow to meet the man who started the conversation, Edward Snowden.   [Abducted by North Korea](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjkrY8WrsgU) - In the 1970s and 80s, hundreds, possibly thousands, of men, women and children were abducted by North Korea’s Secret Service on the orders of Kim Jung II. The majority of these victims came from Japan and South Korea but it’s believed that nationals from at least 11 other countries, including Thailand, Romania, Holland and France were also taken. Some were abducted to teach North Korean spies their language and culture so that their spies could integrate more easily in foreign countries. Others were taken to provide wives for American deserters or North Korean army officers. The fate of most of these hostages is still unknown. Some were held hostage in the totalitarian dictatorship for 40 years before finally being released. Others died or were killed in captivity. However some may still be alive and being held against their will. We investigate the phenomenon of the North Korean abductees.   [WikiSecrets: Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, and WikiLeaks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsYwH162L48) - Bradley Manning was responsible for leaking more than half a million classified documents via the webisite WikiLeaks back in 2010. Manning was an Army intelligence analyst and in this film which was originally aired in 2011 FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith manages to gain exclusive access to those who were closest to to him in order to tell his story and why he decided to leak the documents he did. The film also examines the role in which Julian Assange, owner of WikiLeaks played in publishing this classified material. We also learn of the struggles facing the U.S. government with regards to protecting it’s national security intelligence in a post 9/11 world.   [The Spy Who Went Into The Cold](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw_0cgO2JKE) - Documentary exploring the murky circumstances behind the escape of one of Britain’s most notorious spies. In 1963, at the height of the Cold War, a well-educated Englishman called Kim Philby boarded a Russian freighter in Beirut and defected to Moscow from under the nose of British Intelligence. For the best part of thirty years he had been spying for the Soviet Union, much of that time while holding senior jobs in MI6. Fifty years on, more questions than answers still surround his defection. Had he really confessed before he went? Was his escape from justice an embarrassing mistake or part of the plan? This film, shot in Beirut, London and Moscow, sets out to find the answers, revealing the blind spots in the British ruling class that made it so vulnerable to KGB penetration.   [George Blake, Masterspy of Moscow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34QGsEFTQ20) - George Carey (the much-garlanded former BBC man credited with founding Newsnight) has made many documentaries about Russia, the former Soviet Union and the Cold War. All three were at the heart of his fascinating Storyville: Masterspy of Moscow – George Blake (BBC Four), about the life of the notorious MI6 double agent who, having betrayed a large part of Britain’s Cold War spy network to the KGB, made a dramatic prison break from Wormwood Scrubs in 1966 and fled to exile in Russia. Carey certainly knows how to hook a viewer, starting out with the moment he finally tracked down the now 92-year-old Blake at a snow-encrusted dacha outside Moscow. “And there he was. The spy who got away.” With this tease firmly in place, we flipped back to the beginning, and the fact that George was born not in Britain but Rotterdam, the son of a Dutch protestant mother and a British-Egyptian father. Carey put Blake’s mix of ethnicity and religion, and early years disrupted and scarred by the death of his father and the Second World War, at the heart of his disloyalty. That, and a shadowy encounter with communist recruiters in war-torn North Korea after he was sent to that conflict zone by MI6. Blake emerged as a product of postwar global paranoia and skewed idealism. Perhaps Carey’s most significant finding was that, despite being held responsible for the deaths of many agents, most of those Blake double-crossed appear to have survived – and apparently at Blake’s specific request. But that was hardly the point of this stately film. Rather we were left with an intense, almost nostalgic wondering at what all that and febrile Cold War spy activity achieved in the long run. Not for the global powers but for Blake himself, whose refusal – when we did meet him, finally – to talk about present day Russia and Vladimir Putin in particular, betrayed a keener sense of disillusion than words ever could.   [Secrets Of Her Majesty's Secret Service](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WBF2z_lB1w) - Her Majesty's Secret Service is the world's oldest and most famous spy agency. Delve into Her Majesty's Secret Service, also known as MI6, the world's most legendary spy agency.   [Traitors Within - Spies Who Sold Out America](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfi8FIh7tsU) - Former KGB, CIA and FBI agents analyze six recent high-profile cases where double agents compromised America's security.   [Sexpionage](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G2qqI8k3do) - Sexpionage tells the stories of two women who were seduced by secret agents working for the East German intelligence service, the Stasi. At the height of the Cold War the Stasi would regularly despatch their agents to the West German capital, Bonn, armed with the task of forming long term relationships with single women working at embassies or government ministries. These women were unwittingly tapped for top secret information which was then passed on to the East. Both Gabriele Kliem and Margaret Hike had no idea that their lovers were spies until both women were arrested for treason. This film tells the story of the years they spent with their secret agent lovers and explores the feelings they are left with after the most significant relationships of their lives were revealed to be a sham.   [The Architect](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmNUi0itl-8) - The Senate Intelligence Committee has released a blistering, 500-page report on the CIA’s controversial detention and interrogation program, a document that committee chairwoman Dianne Feinstein said represents the most significant oversight effort in the history of the US Senate. The $40 million, five-year study concluded that CIA officials exaggerated the value of the intelligence they gleaned from dozens of “high-value detainees” held at black site prisons, where they were subjected to so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” such as sleep deprivation and waterboarding. The committee reviewed more than 6 million pages of top-secret CIA documents and found that the architect of the interrogation program was a retired Air Force psychologist named James Mitchell, an agency contractor who — according to news reports — personally waterboarded alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The Senate report does not identify Mitchell by name. Mitchell has a signed a non-disclosure agreement with the CIA and was unable to discuss his alleged role in the agency's enhanced interrogation program, but VICE News met up with him in suburban Florida to discuss the Senate's report and one of the darkest chapters of the war on terror. This is the first time Mitchell has ever appeared on camera.   [War On WhistleBlowers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRdiG4h5QuU) - War on Whistleblowers is a 2013 documentary film made by Robert Greenwald and it highlights several recent cases where employees of the United States government and contractors such as Edward Snowden took steps to release or leak sensitive material in order to expose the fraud or abuse being carried out within the administration of government. Even with president Obama commuting to improving the governments overall transparency and giving hope that such whistleblowers would have increased protection by passing the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, this film reveals that, things have actually never been worse in regards to security whistleblowers.   [NSA Whistleblower William Binney: The Future of Freedom](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3owk7vEEOvs) - A 36-year veteran of America’s Intelligence Community, William Binney resigned from his position as Director for Global Communications Intelligence (COMINT) at the National Security Agency (NSA) and blew the whistle, after discovering that his efforts to protect the privacy and security of Americans were being undermined by those above him in the chain of command. The NSA data-monitoring program which Binney and his team had developed -- codenamed ThinThread -- was being aimed not at foreign targets as intended, but at Americans (codenamed as Stellar Wind); destroying privacy here and around the world. Binney voices his call to action for the billions of individuals whose rights are currently being violated. William Binney speaks out in this feature-length interview with Tragedy and Hope's Richard Grove, focused on the topic of the ever-growing Surveillance State in America.   [Inside the KGB - Terror of the Soviet Union](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E52HmSQxlBY) - The Committee for State Security, more commonly known by its transliteration “KGB” was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its collapse in 1991. The committee was a direct successor of such preceding agencies as Cheka, NKGB, and MGB. It was the chief government agency of “union-republican jurisdiction”, acting as internal security, intelligence, and secret police. Similar agencies were instated in each of the republics of the Soviet Union aside from the Russian SFSR and consisted of many ministries, state committees and state commissions. The KGB also has been considered a military service and was governed by army laws and regulations, similar to the Soviet Army or MVD Internal Troops. While most of the KGB archives remain classified, two on-line documentary sources are available. Its main functions were foreign intelligence, counterintelligence, operative-investigatory activities, guarding the State Border of the USSR, guarding the leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Soviet Government, organization and ensuring of government communications as well as fight against nationalism, dissent, and anti-Soviet activities. After breaking away from the Republic of Georgia in the early 1990s with Russian help, the self-proclaimed Republic of South Ossetia established its own KGB (keeping this unreformed name).   [The Spies Who Fooled the World](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOsHLA1CMPI) - On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War, Panorama reveals how key aspects of the secret intelligence used by Downing Street and the White House to justify the invasion were based on fabrication, wishful thinking and lies. Peter Taylor tracks down some of those responsible and reports on the remarkable story of how, in the months before the war, two highly-placed sources – close to Saddam Hussein – talked secretly to the CIA and MI6. Their intelligence said Iraq did not have an active WMD programme – but it was simply dismissed.

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