The Impeccable Spy | WW2

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🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

For a womanizing Soviet spy, wartime Tokyo is both playground and prison. Surrounded by the enemy, he's got to keep his wits about him - and with an increasingly paranoid leader in the Kremlin, the line between friend and foe is thin indeed. Daisy Ridley joins author Owen Matthews to tell the story of one the USSR's most formidable spies - Richard Sorge. A Communist true-believer, he provided crucial intelligence to Moscow before and during World War 2. But for Stalin's top spies, loyalty comes with no guarantee of reward... From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Joe Foley. Produced by Morgan Childs. Music by Nick Ryan.

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0:00.0	This is True Spies, the podcast that takes you deep inside the greatest
0:12.2	secret missions of all time. Week by week, you'll hear the true stories behind
0:18.1	the operations that have shaped the world we live in.
0:22.1	True Spies. You'll meet the people who live life undercover.
0:28.0	What do they know? What are their skills? And what would you do in their position?
0:35.6	This is True Spies. In the bi of the Imperial Hotel,
0:39.5	with an audience composed literally of German officers, Nazis.
0:44.7	The Zorgate gets up on a chair, completely drunk and says,
0:47.6	this is the end of Hitler. Stalin will bury you.
0:50.9	I'm Daisy Ridley, and this is True Spies from Spicecape Studios.
0:58.4	The Impeccable Spy.
1:09.0	The year is 1941. Hitler has invaded Poland.
1:14.2	War is raging in Europe. But the non-aggression packed between Germany and
1:19.3	the Soviet Union appears to be holding. But on the ground in Tokyo,
1:25.0	one Soviet spy knows that the tide of the war is about to turn.
1:30.5	By some measures, he might just be one of the most powerful men in the world.
1:35.8	He has a direct line to Joseph Stalin, a direct line to Japanese Prime Minister
1:40.8	Fumimaro Konoye, and a direct line to Adolf Hitler.
1:45.7	But Stalin doesn't want to hear what his uniquely placed asset has to say.
1:50.4	The Japanese are catching wind of some suspicious radio broadcasts,
1:54.1	the sort that could only result from illegal espionage activity,
1:58.1	and the spy is growing frantic.
	...

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