Spy Wars - Season 1 (2019)

He was the most dangerous mole in intelligence history, an FBI security specialist who supplied the KGB with the identities of hundreds of U.S. double agents in Russia and thousands of pages of America's most closely guarded secrets. This is the story of Robert Hanssen, who systematically compromised every single operative the FBI had working in Russia. Host Damian Lewis reveals how Hanssen's actions pitted the CIA against the FBI and triggered a mole hunt that brought the American intelligence services to their knees.

In November 1979, 53 American employees of the U.S. Embassy in Iran were taken hostage by Islamic revolutionaries. Six diplomats managed to escape, but getting out of the country seemed impossible. Enter CIA officer Tony Mendez, who used inspiration from Hollywood to school six frightened diplomats in the art of assuming false identities and pulled off a bold rescue mission during one of the darkest moments in American foreign policy history.

The story of Vladimir Vetrov, originally a high ranking KGB Officer stationed in Paris during the Cold War which later became a secret operative for the French intelligence service.

It was called Operation Relentless, a secret intelligence plot devised by the United States' Drug Enforcement Administration to bring down the most deadly arms dealer in history: the Kremlin-backed Viktor Bout. Host Damian Lewis reveals how a team of undercover operatives pitted their wits against the notorious illegal arms trader, posing as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia and putting their lives on the line to stop him and his international drug-armament empire.

It was called Operation Brothers, a 1980s covert Mossad mission to rescue 12,000 Ethiopians, Jewish descendants of the lost tribe of Israel, from Sudan. The mission would take five years to pull off, involving an audacious plot, a maverick field agent, and a small group of deep cover operatives who ran a fake scuba diving resort so convincingly, they actually turned a profit. Host Damian Lewis guides us through the improbable rescue mission.