Season 1
10 episodes · Feb 6, 2014
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- S1E1
The Real Argo
Feb 6, 2014U.S. diplomats in Iran pose as a Canadian film crew to escape the 1979 hostage crisis.
- S1E2
The Real Zero Dark Thirty
Feb 13, 2014An insight into the CIA's decade-long hunt for the most wanted man on the planet - Osama bin Laden - who was eventually located in 2011.
- S1E3
The Hunt for Che Guevara
Feb 20, 2014Documentary recalling the hunt for Che Guevara. In 1967, the CIA recruited Felix Rodríguez, one of its former agents, to train and head a team to track down the Marxist guerilla, who was intent on overthrowing the Bolivian government. Following Guevara's capture, Rodríguez interrogated him, but was unable to prevent an order to execute the man who had earlier been a major force in the Cuban revolution.
- S1E4
Castro and the Cold Cream
Feb 27, 2014The story of an assassination attempt on Cuban communist revolutionary Fidel Castro, when the US security agency tried to turn his 19-year-old lover Marita Lorenz into a killer by placing poisoned face cream in his home.
- S1E5
Killing Mad Dog Gaddafi
Mar 6, 201430mThe story of Khalifa Haftar, who tried to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi and his Libyan regime in the 1980s.
- S1E6
The Hunt for the Bombers
Mar 13, 2014The hunt for the members of al-Qaeda responsible for the attack on the USS Cole in 2000, in which 17 sailors died.
- S1E7
The Deadly Phantom Coup
Mar 20, 2014Exploring the CIA's staged invasion of Guatemala in 1954, looking at how he country was tricked into believing a real threat was imminent.
- S1E8
The Beirut Bomb
Mar 27, 2014Documentary investigating the fate of a Lebanese cleric who CIA director William Casey mistakenly thought was the head of militant group Hezbollah, and in 1985 allegedly ordered his killing.
- S1E9
The Fortress of War
Apr 3, 2014How the CIA quashed a Taliban uprising in Afghanistan by teaming up with soldiers on the ground, despite being outnumbered.
- S1E10
Operation Celestial Balance
Apr 10, 2014Undercover agents bribe warlords to track down suspected al-Qaeda fighters after the US embassy bombing in Nairobi in 1998. Last in the series.