Secret War

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Documentary, Historical, War

June 20th, 2011

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Secret War Season 1 Episodes

Season 1

While pretending to spy for the Germans during the war, a young Yugoslav offered his services to the British. Agent Tricycle also gathered intelligence about Japan's plans that the FBI tragically dismissed.

Christine Granville

January 5th, 2021

Beautiful, charismatic, and cunning, Winston Churchill's favorite spy was a Polish woman who seemed to thrive on adrenaline and beating the odds. For five years she did just that, risking ...

The Aristocrat and the Balkan Communists

January 5th, 2021

On Churchill's orders, an SOE agent parachuted into German-occupied Yugoslavia in 1943 to cut a deal with communist partisans who had an agenda far beyond defeating the Nazis. The prime ...

Agent Garbo

January 5th, 2021

A Spanish civilian spying for Germany was actually an intrepid enemy of fascism. Decorated by Germany and Britain alike, he ran an imaginary network of spies and produced fake intelligence that reached the desk of the FÃ¼hrer himself.

The Mafia Connection

January 5th, 2021

As Britain held out against the Nazis in Europe, the United States was desperate to keep supply lines open to its ally across the Atlantic. To do so, it needed help from an expert on the New York City docks: mobster Charles Luciano.

The French Triple Agent

January 5th, 2021

How did the Nazis penetrate the French Resistance? Why were so many British agents captured after landing in France? Part of the answer may lie with an agent who worked with the Germans and...

The Scholar and the Fight for Greece

June 20th, 2011

One SOE agent was an Oxford academic most interested in Greece's classical past. In the end, his work among local partisans not only helped liberate Greece from Axis occupation--it also sowed the seeds of the Greek civil war.

The SAS Italian Job

June 20th, 2011

With the Allied advance in northern Italy stalled in late 1944 the SOE prepared an attack on German military headquarters in the region. When London called the plans off at the last minute,...

The Dutch Disaster

June 20th, 2011

SOE missions in Holland during WWII were the most disastrous in British intelligence. Why did London continue to drop agents there only for them to be arrested by the Nazis? Was German ...

The Spymistress and the French Fiasco

June 20th, 2011

For much of WWII, the SOE waged a successful secret war in occupied France. But the woman at the heart of it all also presided over a series of bungled operations that delivered agents straight into the hands of the Gestapo.

The Banker, the Norwegians & the Bomb

June 1st, 2011

The actions of Charles Hambro, who as head of SOE oversaw two operations - Grouse and Gunnerside - that helped stop the Nazis from developing nuclear technology.

Hardy Amies and Operation Ratweek

June 1st, 2011

A celebrated postwar fashion designer and style icon, Hardy Amies was one of the most unlikely spymasters of World War II.

The Special Interrogation Group

June 1st, 2011

In 1942, the British army was locked in a deadly struggle in the North African desert with Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps. Few were as motivated as 40 or so German-speaking Jews of the Special Interrogation Group.