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Tales from the Sea of Espionage: Intelligence and Killing on the Secret Front
1,500 minutes of gripping spy stories
Completed · 27 episodes
Buy for ¥98.00
Audio in Chinese
Preface: How Did Unknown Secrets Shape the Twentieth Century? 01. Are the FBI and CIA Really as Lawless as Film and Television Suggest? 02. Under the Soviet “Political Curse,” the KGB Was More Than an Intelligence Service 03. From Spy Fiction to the Cuban Crisis: How Did British Intelligence Compete? 04. Aman, Shin Bet, and Mossad: How Israeli Intelligence Became Legendary 05. Paris, Capital of Espionage at the Storm's Center since the French Revolution 06. Was “Red Terror” an Achievement or a Crisis? | The Making of the Cheka 07. Nearly 1.5 Million Arrested in One Year, Half Executed | Yezhov, Stalin, and the Great Purge 08. How Did Soviet Spy Networks Penetrate the World? | The Fate of Red Army Intelligence 09. Secret Cold War Struggles: How Intelligence Shaped the Postwar Order 10. Seduction, Bribery, and Belief: How Did the KGB Recruit Western Spies? 11. From Purge Machine to Thought Police: The KGB Becomes Leviathan 12. The Ghost Remains in the Twenty-First Century: The KGB's End and Reincarnation 13. Shanghai's Bloody Intelligence Battlefield Held More Than Juntong and the Special Branch 14. As War Ebbed: The Secret History of “Peace Talks” among Chiang, Wang, and Japan 15. Juntong's Traitor Hunt: Assassination during China's War of Resistance 16. Why Did Chiang Kai-shek Create the Mysterious Blue Shirts Society in Crisis? 17. Power Struggles in the Blue Shirts and the Fate of the “Thirteen Guardians” 18. From the Bottom to “Father of Juntong”: How Did Spy King Dai Li Rise? 19. How Did the Cold War Produce the Best Spy Novels? A Tour of Espionage Culture 20. How Did MI6 Veteran John le Carré Reinvent Spy Fiction? 21. Why Did Former Allies Become Enemies? The Gouzenko Affair and the Cold War 22. East and West German Intelligence on the Front Line: Stasi and Gehlen Organization 23. The 1983 Crisis: A Panicked USSR and an Apocalypse Narrowly Avoided 24. Radio Offensive and Opinion Infiltration: How Cold War Propaganda Worked 25. Hunting bin Laden: A Decade-Long Intelligence Operation 26. Why Do Leaks Keep Happening? America's Tradition of Outsourced Intelligence