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True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

Operation Ivy Bells | DoD

True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

SPYSCAPE

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.62.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In 1970, Captain James Bradley had a daydream - a daydream that inspired one of the most audacious aquatic espionage missions of all time. Operation Ivy Bells gave the USA unprecedented access to Soviet undersea communications cables, and hastened the end of the nuclear stand-off between the two nations. Sophia Di Martino joins journalists Christopher Drew and Sherry Sontag for a thrilling and often claustrophobic tale of covert submarine warfare. From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producers: Gemma Newby, Joe Foley. Produced by Ashley Clivery. Music by Nick Ryan.

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From a Spice-Scape Podcast Network.

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It's one of the most iconic vehicles of the 20th century.

0:08.0

The 1963 Aston Martin DB5.

0:11.0

You can imagine yourself as Bond.

0:14.0

The star of the film Goldfinger.

0:16.0

You know, it had the machine guns

0:18.0

that had the ejector seated, had the smoke bombs.

0:21.0

It makes an impression.

0:22.0

The real-life story of this legendary car

0:25.0

twists like a spy movie thriller.

0:27.0

The car was stolen in 1997

0:30.0

from an airport hanger in Boatratton, Florida

0:32.0

and hasn't been seen since.

0:34.0

Jump in the passenger seat to find out how

0:37.0

and who would steal the most famous car in the world.

0:40.0

You know what this car is?

0:42.0

Too beautiful to destroy.

0:44.0

Missions.

0:45.0

The great James Bond car robbery.

0:47.0

With me, Elizabeth Hurley.

0:49.0

You never know who is eventually going to come forward

0:52.0

and say, I know where this car is.

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