Spy Stories

True Crime

Beyond the headlines and the silver screen, the world of espionage is far stranger and more compelling than fiction. Spy Stories uncovers the true tales of spies, secret agents, and covert operations that shaped history and continue to influence...

Episodes

The Accountant Who Planted a Mine: One Letter, One Resistance

Ambassador Kept in the Dark: The Vadim Kirpichenko Story

She Wore Two Birthdays: How a Stasi Agent Borrowed a Woman's Life

Basement Darkroom Secrets: How Silvermaster Fed Soviet Ciphers

A KGB agent blackmailed a disgraced German general with a document the general himself created

The Analyst Who Leaked Top‑Secret Papers and Split Five Eyes Trust

He Got Silenced by a Federal Letter - The NSL That Broke Privacy

The Abbey Street Wire: Was Ireland's Police Watchdog Secretly Bugged?

When Artists Became Spies: The Ligue's Deadly Intellectual Conspiracy

The Embassy Bugged: How Assange's Private Room Became CIA Intel

The Defector Who Broke NATO: How Martel Unmasked France's Leak

The Secret Treaty That Let Democracies Spy on Their Own Citizens

Stabs, $25,000: The Betrayal That Should Have Bought Protection

He Wore the Patch - Then Secret Recordings Brought Him Down

He Gave the FBI Pearl Harbor's Warning - They Ignored It

She Smuggled Microfilm in a Deodorant Can - Why?

The Honey Jar: How a Pacifist Outsourced Hitler's Orders to Moscow

The man who ran Britain's counter-Soviet spy operation was its most damaging Soviet spy

The Minox, the Park, and the Recruit Who Betrayed Britain

Tania's Last Crossing: How an Address Book and a Guide Betrayed Her