Spycraft — Season 1
8 episodesFirst aired 20 January 2021
E1High-Tech Surveillance and an Eye in the Sky
6.7Jan 202129m
In the spy game, if you can listen, you can learn, and gaining that crucial ability to eavesdrop has required some deeply creative ingenuity.
E2Deadly Poisons
6.2Jan 202131m
For some covert missions, the goal is not information, but assassination, and lethal toxins have been deployed by spy agencies to kill perceived foes.
E3Sexspionage
6.3Jan 202133m
As long as there has been espionage, sex and the promise of it have been powerful tools of persuasion and blackmail — practices that continue today.
E4Clandestine Collection
5.4Jan 202136m
Methods for covertly capturing sensitive data have grown infinitely more advanced as the devices used to do so have become exponentially smaller.
E5Covert Communication
6.2Jan 202133m
From old-school "dead drops" to high-tech digital transfers: Learn how intelligence officers actually acquire the information collected by sources.
E6Special Ops and the Saboteur
6.2Jan 202130m
Special ops require the very best people to execute them. But some of the most famous missions in modern history relied on elite technology as well.
E7The Code Breakers
6.2Jan 202136m
Encryption is a key tool for keeping valuable information secret — but some ingenious minds have managed to crack seemingly impenetrable codes.
E8Recruiting the Perfect Spy
6.0Jan 202138m
What leads someone to spy against their own nation? Motivations vary but tend to fall into one of four categories, as notorious cases demonstrate.