Spies and Intelligence: From the OSS to the CIA

Spies and Intelligence: From the OSS to the CIA

A collection of military programs for the purpose of training U.S. spies. Includes instructional and dramatized films on body searches, investigations, interrogations, and overall espionage.
202011 episodesTV-14
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Episodes

  1. S2 E1 - Counter-Intelligence Special Operations - Checkpoint Charlie

    January 1, 2020
    37min
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    This film explains surveillance techniques, Checkpoint Charlie, and cooperation with proper civil authorities.
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  2. S2 E2 - Science of Spying

    January 1, 2020
    53min
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    This film presents an account of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) activities that had previously been covert, including actions in Iran, Vietnam, Laos, the Congo, Cuba, and Guatemala. The film includes interviews with CIA director Allen Dulles and Dick Bissel.
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  3. S2 E3 - Symposium on Intelligence and the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

    January 1, 2020
    41min
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    The panel discussion presented at the CIA's first intelligence History Symposium held at CIA Headquarters in Virginia on October 19, 1992. The panelists were prominent members of the Intelligence community.
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  4. S2 E4 - Communist Imperialism

    January 1, 2020
    35min
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    This film contains the second part of a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) documentary on the history of communism. Included in the film are background details related to the historic rise of communism, the Communist Manifesto, former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, and activity in the Asian nations of China and North and South Korea.
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  5. S2 E5 - Military Intelligence Specialists

    January 1, 2020
    22min
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    This film focuses on the interviewers, interpreters, and photo reviewer specialists that comprise G-2 military intelligence.
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  6. S2 E6 - Security Risk

    January 1, 2020
    27min
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    This filmed teleplay, produced by Warner Brothers, tells the story of an American diplomat in Poland who was ensnared by Polish intelligence into providing classified information to the Communists.
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  7. S2 E7 - Listening Post East

    January 1, 2020
    54min
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    This film focuses on anti-U.S. propaganda intercepted by western news reporters who received mainland China news from Hong Kong.
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  8. S2 E8 - The Enemy Agent and You

    January 1, 2020
    26min
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    This U.S. Army film discusses security awareness and responsibilities in relation to overseas travel.
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  9. S2 E9 - Car Surveillance

    January 1, 2020
    29min
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    This film explores techniques used by surveillance teams, specifically the use of three cars to monitor the subject.
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  10. S2 E10 - Answering Soviet Propaganda

    January 1, 2020
    16min
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    This film explores Soviet political viewpoints and shows ways in which the U.S. countered Soviet propaganda, including the use of the U.S. Information Agency (USIA).
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  11. S2 E11 - Espionage Target - You

    January 1, 2020
    31min
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    Exposes the worldwide operation of the Sino-Soviet espionage system and shows how Communist agents used any means to obtain vital information from military personnel. Reconstructs three real cases to demonstrate various facets of espionage techniques. Explains how agents of different nationalities probe for vulnerable areas, such as loneliness, indebtedness, fast money, sex and the sporting life.
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