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Declassified: Untold Stories of American Spies
2016 - 2019 6.6 (5 votes) 3 Seasons
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Genres
Crime Documentary War & Politics
Networks
CNN
Created By
Aaron Saidman

Declassified: Untold Stories of American Spies

Overview

Explore the true stories of America's covert operations told firsthand by the agents who lived it, while getting unprecedented access to the riveting and secret world of espionage.

Key Crew

Producer: Cristina Bishai, Dana Boratenski

Top Cast

Mike Rogers

Himself - Host

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (2016)

No overview available.

8 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Trigon: KGB Chess Game
2016-06-19

The story of Aleksandr Ogorodnik, a Soviet diplomat with the codename Trigon, who was recruited by the CIA at the height of the Cold War to obtain valuable intelligence on the Soviet Union.

Runtime: 42 min
Episode 2: The Hunt for Saddam
2016-06-26

The U.S. military's search for missing Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein.

Runtime: 42 min
Episode 3: Zarqawi: Father of ISIS
2016-07-03

A report on efforts by President George W. Bush and the Joint Special Operations Command to stop violent Al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

Runtime: 42 min
Episode 4: Cuba: Traitor on the Inside
2016-07-10

The FBI and Defense Intelligence Agency team up to capture DIA Senior Analyst Ana Montes for allegedly passing sensitive intelligence to Cuba.

Runtime: 42 min
Episode 5: Cross International: The Billion Dollar Black Market
2016-07-17

Investigations begin on an undercover sting operation to stop illegal arms; led by ICE and Homeland Security.

Runtime: 42 min
Episode 6: The Taliban's Double Agent
2016-08-21

A Taliban double agent was instrumental in securing the release of foreign nationals held hostage in Afghanistan by the Taliban.

Runtime: 42 min
Episode 7: Red Strom Rising
2016-08-28

Engineer Chi Mak was allegedly leaking Naval secrets to the Chinese government back in 2004 and was pursued by the FBI and NCIS.

Runtime: 42 min
Episode 8: Hexagon: The Secret Satellite
2016-09-04

During the Cold War, the U.S. military races against time to recover classified footage from a top secret surveillance satellite that crashed into the Pacific Ocean before it falls into enemy hands.

Runtime: 42 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (2017)

No overview available.

8 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Operation Ghost Stories: The Spies Next Door
2017-07-22

Deep cover Russian sleeper agents have infiltrated the US and are living seemingly normal "American" lives. To neutralize this threat, the FBI begins one of the largest counter intelligence investigations in its history.

Runtime: 42 min
Episode 2: The Peacock: Merchant of War
2017-07-29

After trying for more than two decades to take down infamous arms trafficker Monzer Al-Kassar, the DEA's elite Special Operations Division devises a way to infiltrate his inner circle with an unprecedented and risky sting operation.

Runtime: 42 min
Episode 3: Hijacked: Terror in the Sky
2017-08-05

On November 23, 1985, Egypt Air Flight 648 left Athens, Greece bound for Cairo, Egypt. It would never reach its final destination. This is the story of that ill-fated flight, told firsthand by a passenger lucky enough to survive, a CIA officer who witnessed the event, and the FBI agents tasked with bringing the perpetrator to justice.

Runtime: 42 min
Episode 4: Haji Bagcho: The Godfather of Heroin
2017-08-12

Elite DEA agents hunt down the world's biggest heroin trafficker amidst the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan.

Runtime: 42 min
Episode 5: The Myers: Fidel's Personal Spies
2017-08-26

After arresting the most notorious Cuban spy of all time, the intelligence community is shocked to learn that classified information is still being transmitted to Cuba. A new investigation focused on The State Department uncovers a husband and wife team engaged in a sophisticated web of espionage.

Runtime: 42 min
Episode 6: Crack 99: Defense Secrets for Sale
2017-09-02

A group of Homeland Security Investigations special agents work together with the elite Defense Criminal Investigative Service to identify and capture a Chinese software pirate who threatens US national security.

Runtime: 42 min
Episode 7: Hunting The Order: An American Terrorist Story
2017-08-19

In 1984, a young charismatic leader, Bob Mathews, built an army of white supremacists with the goal of eliminating Jewish people from the face of the earth and overthrowing the U.S. government. The group, known as The Order, went on a crime spree- stealing millions and murdering an outspoken Jewish radio host. A group of FBI agents in the pacific northwest works to find and capture one of the largest domestic terrorist syndicates the US has ever seen.

Runtime: 42 min
Episode 8: The Nicholsons: A Spy and His Son
2017-09-09

In a story of betrayal against family and country - the FBI and CIA embark on a decade-long effort to catch the highest ranking CIA officer to ever commit espionage and his son, who also joined the spy game.

Runtime: 42 min
Season 3 poster
Season 3 (2019)

No overview available.

8 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Tracking Terror: The 9/11 Subway Plot
2019-09-29

The NSA and FBI work together to thwart an Al-Qaeda terrorist plot to blow up the New York City subway on the Anniversary of 9/11.

Runtime: 42 min
Episode 2: The Norte Valle Cartel
2019-10-06

A team of unconventional investigators works together to take down one of the most dangerous Colombian cartels of the 1990s.

Runtime: 42 min
Episode 3: The Terrorists Next Door: Operation Smokescreen
2019-10-13

The FBI discovers a terrorist cell in the suburbs of Charlotte, NC, leading to the first material support for terrorism prosecution in the US.

Runtime: 42 min
Episode 4: Hunting War Criminals
2019-10-20

After mass genocide during the Bosnian War, the US and NATO lead an effort to go after one of the world's most notorious war criminals.

Runtime: 42 min
Episode 5: The Spy Game: Russian Espionage
2019-10-27

The FBI has a national emergency on its hands when it discovers that the Russian government has planted a listening device in the State Department.

Runtime: 42 min
Episode 6: Buried Secrets, Unbreakable Codes
2019-11-03

The FBI works alongside the National Reconnaissance Office to stop a potential spy from selling classified secrets to an enemy nation.

Runtime: 42 min
Episode 7: The Merchant of Death: Viktor Bout
2019-11-10

With help from an undercover source, the Drug Enforcement Administration launches a manhunt to capture one of the most prolific Russian arms dealers.

Runtime: 42 min
Episode 8: Operation Firewall: The Takedown of Shadowcrew
2019-11-17

During the early years of the internet, the Secret Service conducts a groundbreaking mission to take down one of the first criminal hacker groups.

Runtime: 42 min

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