Recommended Documentaries: British and American Spies who got caught helping the USSR

Last night I posted a reading on YouTube focused on the situation in the UK with the upcoming elections and the report on the Russian influence in Brexit.

It raised the possibility that some in the current UK government might be, unwittingly or otherwise, helping Russians out. Which reminded me that this would not be the first time. Kim Philby came to mind. So for those of you who might not be familiar with these stories, I found the links to fascinating documentaries and series I had previously watched. Cambridge Five, Kim Philby, Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen.

Click here to watch great FREE Movies & TV: http://filmrise.com Learn more about the Cambridge Five and how they were secretly recruited by Soviet agents and became the most successful spy ring in history.

The Cambridge Five

The Secrets of War EP. 11: The Cambridge Five. This documentary gives a comprehensive overview of this group:

From Wikipedia: The Cambridge Spy Ring was a ring of spies in the United Kingdom, which passed information to the Soviet Union during World War II and was active from the 1930s until at least into the early 1950s.

Check out our new website for more incredible history documentaries: HD and ad-free. http://bit.ly/2O6zUsK Documentary exploring the murky circumstances behind the escape of one of Britain's most notorious spies. In 1963, at the height of the Cold War, a well-educated Englishman called Kim Philby boarded a Russian freighter in Beirut and defected to Moscow from under the nose of British Intelligence.

Kim Philby: The Spy Who Went Into The Cold

Kim Philby was the most famous among the Cambridge Five Spy ring, who defected to the USSR and died there as a hero.

The Assets (mini-series about catching CIA agent Aldrich Ames)

This is a 9-episode series that dramatizes what happened until Aldrich Ames he got caught. The very last episode is a documentary and interviews the women who finally caught him. The full series is great but I wasn’t able to find all the episodes online for free, you might have to rent them on Amazon which is what I did.

Retired agent Dell Spry served in the FBI for twenty years. During his career, he primarily worked counterintelligence, counterespionage, and counterterrorism investigations. While assigned to FBIHQ, Dell was a member of the National Security Council Counterterrorism Working Group. He was liaison to the CIA Counterintelligence Center, Counterespionage Group and was the lead investigator for the FBI in the Aldrich Ames case.

CIA Betrayal, Aldrich Ames

This is a podcast/audio interview with Dell Spry, an agent involved in catching and interrogating Aldrich Ames.

Click here to watch great FREE Movies & TV: http://filmrise.com Robert Hanssen was an FBI agent who sold secrets to the U.S.S.R., the K.G.B. and Russia for more than two decades in exchange for cash and diamonds. The documentary uses FBI records and interviews to tell a real-life spy thriller.

Robert Hanssen - Hanssen and the KGB

Hanssen was an FBI agent who sold secrets to the then USSR for more than 10 years until he got caught, arrested and is serving time at ADX Florence.