The best operatives never get caught—but some spies and insurgents did. They were people who had big plans, but were stopped in their tracks: caught in the act…rolled up…shut down…and even terminated.
A fascinating 4-part series shares the stories of notable arrests, captures, executions, and expulsions from the 1960s through today. Explore ingenuous entrapments and false-flag operations with the people who developed and used them, as well as experts familiar with these maneuvers. Discover how far-reaching some operations are and the lengths both the good guys and the bad will go to outwit their adversaries.
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Uranium Centrifuges “R” Us
Marc Ruskin knows a trapped spy when he sees one: He was essential to many FBI operations that snared traitors and other criminals. Author of The Pretender: My Life Undercover for the FBI, Ruskin spent more than 20 years as an undercover agent, employing his unique skills to infiltrate criminal organizations, including a New York Mafia family. Ruskin describes how the FBI assembles a false-flag operation—and specifically how it worked to ensnare traitor Roy Lynn Oakley. Oakley was seeking to sell secret materials utilized for enriching uranium, making it suitable for manufacturing nuclear weapons.
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