[Reporter to Christo Grozev]: Did you ever think you’d be investigating an assassination plot against yourself? Kill List: Hunted by Putin’s Spies II
Five British residents have been arrested suspected of surveilling Christo and his colleague, Roman Dobrokhotov. They await trial in London. ibid. TV news
Who paid these Bulgarians to spy on me? ibid. Grozev
While negotiations for a prisoner swap continue and his health deteriorates, Vladimir Kara-Murza is facing final sentencing. ibid. caption
12th August 2024: There is a prisoner swap underway right now between Russia, the United States and other countries. ibid. US TV news
In the end 16 people were released by the Kremlin. ibid. Grozev
Throughout time governments and the people who work for them have done strange and even terrible things in the name of national security. Secrets Declassified with David Duchovny s1e1: Secrets of the Skies, History 2025
‘So the government tasked Lockheed to build this spy plane. And their solution is essentially to make a giant glider, and to stick a jet engine on it.’
Lockheed’ engineers call its new creation The Angel [U-2 spyplane]. ibid.
The name of the U2’s secret test base is … Area 51. ibid.
Agent Ace seems to be a British engineer who is leaking [Concorde] information to the Soviets. ibid.
The Report: ‘In one of these incidents, a B-52 bomber had to jettison a 24-megaton bomb over North Carolina. The bomb fell in a field without exploding’. ibid.
‘Stealing a MiG: On 16 August 1966 an Iraqi air force MiG-21, then the most advanced fighter plane supplied by the Soviet Union to the Arab states, landed at an air base in northern Israel, bringing to a successful conclusion one of the most complex and brilliant clandestine operations ever mounted by the Mossad.’ ibid. report
Throughout time governments and the people they work with have done strange, even terrible, things in the name of national interest. Tonight, from a top-secret facility built to correct a US blind-spot to a bio-lab testing deadly toxins on US soil. And a city constructed beneath Arctic ice made with a sinister purpose. These places are all known as black sites. Secrets Declassified with David Duchovny s1e2: Black Sites
Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia: ‘It doesn’t take long for journalists to realise there’s a whole infrastructure up this mountain that isn’t on any map.’ ibid. comment
Mount Weather: It’s a top-secret doomsday bunker. ibid.
Kyshtym, Siberia, September 1957 : ‘Several hundred villages, several hundreds thousand people and they’re all being evacuated … The entire area was contaminated.’ ibid. comment
Medvedev reveals that the Kyshtym disaster was caused by an accident at the top-secret nuclear processing plant called Mayak, just eight miles away. ibid.
It’s constructed at breakneck speed by an unconventional workforce: prisoners. ibid.
Declassified documents show that the CIA knew all along and kept it secret. ibid.
Kyshtym, Siberia, September 1957 : ‘Several hundred villages, several hundreds thousand people and they’re all being evacuated … The entire area was contaminated.’ ibid.
Medvedev reveals that the Kyshtym disaster was caused by an accident at the top-secret nuclear processing plant called Mayak, just eight miles away. ibid.
It’s constructed at breakneck speed by an unconventional workforce: prisoners. ibid.
Declassified documents show that the CIA knew all along and kept it secret. ibid.
Missions so extreme they seem to defy belief. Like trying to extract a 1,750-ton Soviet submarine from the ocean floor using a giant claw in secret. Or sending paratroopers on a secret mission strapped to a nuclear bomb. And even stealing Soviet secrets 400 feet below the waves. Secrets Declassified with David Duchovny s1e3: Extreme Missions
On March 1st 1968 Soviet sub K-129 disappears from Soviet radar deep in the Pacific with 98 men aboard. ibid.
Operation Pimlico: When an undercover spy in Russia is compromised, the chances of his survival look slim. That is until a real-life Miss Moneypenny is given a mission to extract him … Meet KGB double-agent Oleg Gordievsky. ibid.
‘Part of the plan is to put Gordievsky in the back of a diplomatic trunk.’ ibid. comment
‘His arrival into London is headline news around the world.’ ibid.