Digging for Gold | Cold War

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4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Journalist and author Steve Vogel unravels the unlikely tale of George Blake, the cunning Cold War double-agent who betrayed one of the most ambitious wire-tapping operations of the 1950s - and made a name for himself as one of spycraft's greatest escapologists. From SPYSCAPE, the HQ of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Joe Foley. Produced by Frank Palmer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.4	This is True Spies.
0:30.5	The podcast that takes you deep inside the greatest secret missions of all time.
0:36.7	Week by week, you'll hear the true stories behind the operations that have shaped the world we live in.
0:43.3	You'll meet the people who live life undercover.
0:47.3	What do they know?
0:49.3	What are their skills?
0:51.3	And what would you do in their position?
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1:05.9	Digging for Gold April 22nd, 1956.
1:19.6	On newsstands around the world, papers are filled for the fourth day in a row with excited dispatches from London. At that time, Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader and Nikolai Bolganen were visiting London.
1:25.6	There was an effort to maybe cool down some of the tensions,
1:29.0	and the Soviets were perhaps trying to cozy up a little bit with the government of Anthony Eden.
1:34.8	While the Soviet leader and his premier cozy up to the British Prime Minister,
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