Excusive: Passing along this confidential information: CNN and BBC Studios have reteamed on a new docuseries that details the inner workings of Cold War operatives in the 1980s. The news network will air Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game at 10 p.m. Sunday, June 2. Watch the trailer above.
Produced by BBC Studios, the four-part CNN Original Series tracks the spies operating behind the scenes in the Reagan Era as two superpowers move to the brink of nuclear war. It follows the shakiness of global geopolitics during the Cold War through the lens of two notorious double agents: Oleg Gordievsky and Aldrich Ames. As President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher maneuver on the world stage, their agents are pulling the strings.
Gordievsky, the top Kgb double agent for the British, proves invaluable by giving insight into the Soviet mindset. In the West, Aldrich is the head of the Soviet Desk...
Produced by BBC Studios, the four-part CNN Original Series tracks the spies operating behind the scenes in the Reagan Era as two superpowers move to the brink of nuclear war. It follows the shakiness of global geopolitics during the Cold War through the lens of two notorious double agents: Oleg Gordievsky and Aldrich Ames. As President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher maneuver on the world stage, their agents are pulling the strings.
Gordievsky, the top Kgb double agent for the British, proves invaluable by giving insight into the Soviet mindset. In the West, Aldrich is the head of the Soviet Desk...
- 5/7/2024
- by Dominic Patten and Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
The third episode of the Netflix documentary series Spy Ops was about Oleg Gordievsky, a Kgb operative who worked for MI6. He was eventually rescued by British intelligence when Oleg’s cover was about to be blown. Operation Pimlico was a daring mission to extract Oleg from Moscow and resettle him in England. Spy Ops Episode 4 is about the unsuccessful assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II in 1981 and the countless theories that emerged that connected agencies with this attempted murder.
Who Is Mehmet Ali Ağca?
Spy Ops Episode 4 begins with Mehmet Ali Ağca, who talks about why he wanted to shoot Pope John Paul II. In the year 1981, Pope John Paul II was standing on his open motorcade at St. Peter’s Square doing his routine meet and greet with the followers. There is a clear image of Ali pointing a gun at the Pope. Ali admits to having...
Who Is Mehmet Ali Ağca?
Spy Ops Episode 4 begins with Mehmet Ali Ağca, who talks about why he wanted to shoot Pope John Paul II. In the year 1981, Pope John Paul II was standing on his open motorcade at St. Peter’s Square doing his routine meet and greet with the followers. There is a clear image of Ali pointing a gun at the Pope. Ali admits to having...
- 9/11/2023
- by Smriti Kannan
- Film Fugitives
The second episode of the Spy Ops was about “Operation Just Cause,” which deposed Manuel Noreiga after American forces invaded Panama. The episode, in detail, spoke about the incidents that led the CIA and the American government to take such drastic steps to safeguard their power in the region. The next episode revolves around ‘Operation Pimlico,’ launched to safely extract a Kgb spy working for MI6 from Moscow. The episode takes us through the incidents that led the British to bring back their biggest asset.
Who is Oleg Gordievsky?
Spy Ops Episode 3 takes one through the peak of the spy network, the Cold War era. The Soviet Union and the United States were hardly looking eye to eye, but there were plenty of spies on both sides who leaked information. Oleg Gordievsky was one of the many Kgb officers who was considered one of the greatest spies that worked for British intelligence,...
Who is Oleg Gordievsky?
Spy Ops Episode 3 takes one through the peak of the spy network, the Cold War era. The Soviet Union and the United States were hardly looking eye to eye, but there were plenty of spies on both sides who leaked information. Oleg Gordievsky was one of the many Kgb officers who was considered one of the greatest spies that worked for British intelligence,...
- 9/10/2023
- by Smriti Kannan
- Film Fugitives
Exclusive: A Spy Among Friends, the story of British spies Kim Philby and Nicholas Elliott that stars Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce, recently premiered on MGM+.
The series, which is produced by Sony Pictures Television, is based on Ben Macintyre’s eponymous book. Alexander Cary, who exec produced Lewis-fronted Homeland, created the A Spy Among Friends TV series.
Cary and Lewis, who also exec produced the MGM+ period drama, were at Deadline TV Contenders to talk up the show. They are now turning their attention to more Macintryre books for the small screen.
First up is an adaptation of The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War. The book tells the story of Oleg Gordievsky, a former Kgb colonel who became a bureau chief in London and was a double agent, providing information to the British secret intelligence service MI6.
It tells the story of how,...
The series, which is produced by Sony Pictures Television, is based on Ben Macintyre’s eponymous book. Alexander Cary, who exec produced Lewis-fronted Homeland, created the A Spy Among Friends TV series.
Cary and Lewis, who also exec produced the MGM+ period drama, were at Deadline TV Contenders to talk up the show. They are now turning their attention to more Macintryre books for the small screen.
First up is an adaptation of The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War. The book tells the story of Oleg Gordievsky, a former Kgb colonel who became a bureau chief in London and was a double agent, providing information to the British secret intelligence service MI6.
It tells the story of how,...
- 4/16/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
The film of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy keeps alive the myth that cold war spies actually mattered
John le Carré doesn't like it. "I don't watch Spooks," he said at his Tinker Tailor cinema launch. "It's crap." Too many fast women and fast shoot-outs: too much playing fast and loose with the routines he remembers. But then, in the elusive world of espionage, crap flows commodiously in many shapes and forms. As it does, frankly, through Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
Leave Spooks in its BBC Sunday slot, locked in mortal battle with Downton Abbey. Both, put politely, are superior tosh. But Le Carré's masterwork and masterly movie? It's great to see the old London back: no speed bumps or CCTV cameras. It's a downbeat delight for film buffs who love pregnant pauses, inscrutable looks and 127 screen minutes without a joke. Yet the point to grapple with here is rather more...
John le Carré doesn't like it. "I don't watch Spooks," he said at his Tinker Tailor cinema launch. "It's crap." Too many fast women and fast shoot-outs: too much playing fast and loose with the routines he remembers. But then, in the elusive world of espionage, crap flows commodiously in many shapes and forms. As it does, frankly, through Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
Leave Spooks in its BBC Sunday slot, locked in mortal battle with Downton Abbey. Both, put politely, are superior tosh. But Le Carré's masterwork and masterly movie? It's great to see the old London back: no speed bumps or CCTV cameras. It's a downbeat delight for film buffs who love pregnant pauses, inscrutable looks and 127 screen minutes without a joke. Yet the point to grapple with here is rather more...
- 9/18/2011
- by Peter Preston
- The Guardian - Film News
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