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This is true spies. The podcast that takes you deep inside the greatest secret missions of all time.

Week by week, you'll hear the true stories behind the

operations that have shaped the world we live in. You'll meet the people who live

life undercover. What do they know? who live life under cover.

What do they know?

What are their skills?

And what would you do in their position?

I'm Riana Needs, and this is True Sp true spies from Spiescape Studios.

I had been instructed by my Soviet handler to distance myself as far as

humanly possible from any hint of leftist associations or sympathies. Now I was ready to take

on the British establishment.

It's July 1937. The location is Spain. Civil war has been raging for over a year.

Nationalist forces have led an all-out assault on the left-wing Republican Coalition.

The country has become the focal point for the global clash between two ideological forces.

While fascist states Germany and Italy were funneling resources into Spain,

the Soviets were flooding the country with agents determined to bolster the cause of international communism.

Into this chaos arrived a 25 year old Englishman.

He'd been given a letter of accreditation from the London general press.

He quickly started writing articles that favored the nationalist side.

He sent one after another to the Times of London newspaper,

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