1000 Years of Real and False Traitors

• The introduction to the long history of the British search from the real and alleged traitors executed in the Tower of London.

• The Tower of London has been the setting for many great events during its 900-year history as a royal palace and fortress, prison and place of execution of real and falsely accused spies.

The Tower of London and the Last Spy Executed

• The British XX Committee and the Double Cross System conducted by MI5 during World War II.

• The story behind the only World War II Nazi spy imprisoned and executed in the Tower of London.

An Introduction to “The Circus”: The British Security Service (MI5)

• Spies successfully recruited and handled by MI5

• Spies who penetrated MI5

Women in Espionage

• Through the American Revolutionary War, the US Civil War, World War I and World War II, the Cold War and the post-Cold War, women have played an important role in intelligence and espionage. Both British and American women have been spies, female traitors, heroines and espionage enablers.

• An introduction to who these women were, what they did and who they betrayed.

An Introduction to the Cambridge Five: Spies Who Bent History

• An timeline of when, where and how each of the Cambridge spies became Soviet agents.

• There is probably no more famous and influential spy ring in history than the Philby-Maclean-Burgess-Blunt-Cairncross group who were ideologically recruited at a young age by the KGB to penetrate the highest levels of British government. We’ll take an in-depth look at these spies and their impact on history, plus what VENONA revealed about their activities.

The First Three Cambridge Spies: Philby-Maclean-Burgess

• A British perspective on the importance and impact of each of the first three spies in the Cambridge Ring.

• An in-depth discussion of the story behind the story of the first three spies uncovered.

The Fourth And Fifth Men: Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross

• Insight into the least known of the Cambridge spies from a man who has interviewed both at length.

• The role of John Cairncross in compromising the most important code breaking centre during World War II: the famous Bletchley Park.

Spies in the Commonwealth: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and British View and Insight into Penetration Agents, Molehunts and Double Agentry

• The LONG KNIFE Penetration and GIDEON, a KGB Defector

• The GRIDIRON Molehunt and its Repercussions

• The TANGO Penetration and its Impact on the RCMP and Allied Services

• OBSTACLE COURSE and GOLD MINE: KGB and RCMP Double Agentry

George Blake: The British Ames

• The last MI6 officer arrested for espionage, 42 years ago

• The Berlin Tunnel, which eavesdropped on the Soviets, was one of the great technical achievements of Britain and America. Unfortunately British intelligence officer George Blake gave up the plans for it to the Russians before the tunnel was even built.

The Mitrokhin Archive: The Story Behind the Man and his Defection

• The most amazing and stunning counterintelligence source was an unknown KGB archivist who spent years in his office copying files and hiding them at his house. When the Cold War ended, he offered his notes to the Americans twice but was turned down—they weren’t interested in old cases.

• The British gladly took him and since then, no one who spied for the KGB in the 1960s, 70s and 80s can ever rest safely. British intelligence historian Christopher Andrew co-wrote, with the archivist Vasili Mitrokhin, the book on the files that could be revealed. He tells us this amazing story.

The STAKE KNIFE Case: A Breaking Story of Espionage and Betrayal

• The penetration of the Provisional IRA is a fascinating textbook example of how a terrorist organization can be penetrated and destroyed.

• Northern Ireland’s Republican movement has reacted with shock and anger to reports that a senior IRA figure and a trusted friend of its president, Gerry Adams, was in fact a British intelligence mole who was responsible for some 40 deaths of IRA activists.

• “The truth as it is known to date”