CASSIA Spy Ring, Pt. 1/2: The Priest and the CEO | Historical | WW2

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🗓️ 22 August 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In the face of an historical evil, would YOU have the courage to resist? It's a question that weighed heavily on the members of the CASSIA spy ring - a civilian resistance operation based out of a church in occupied Vienna. Vanessa Kirby joins ex-CIA officer Christopher Turner and Austrian intelligence expert Siegfried Bier to uncover a story of extreme courage in the face of insurmountable odds. In Part 1, we meet clergyman Heinrich Maier and rubber tycoon Franz Messner - unlikely friends who became the core of a new movement. Together, they recruited like-minded individuals to strike back at the Nazi regime. From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producers: Gemma Newby, Joe Foley. Produced by Morgan Childs. Music by Nick Ryan.

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0:00.0	Incoming transmission.
0:05.2	Welcome. Welcome to True Spies.
0:09.6	Week by week, mission by mission.
0:12.4	You'll hear the true stories behind the world's greatest espionage operations.
0:19.2	You'll meet the people who navigate this secret world.
0:24.4	What do they know? What are their skills?
0:27.6	And what would you do in their position?
0:32.0	This is True Spies.
0:34.0	There is no other group that got as far as Kassia.
0:38.0	This group really had a plan.
0:40.0	This group really wanted to prove that there are Austrians who are against this regime
0:46.0	and then also to improve the information flow.
0:49.6	To let the Americans know whatever they wanted to know.
0:52.4	I'm Vanessa Kirby and this is True Spies. Kassia Spiring.
0:59.6	Part 1. The Priest and the CEO.
1:08.9	This is a story of espionage with the highest possible stakes.
1:13.3	A true tale of cunning and deceit, international alliances and fatal betrayals.
1:19.6	An unparalleled act of civilian resistance.
1:23.2	Yet it all begins quietly on a verdant square in the 18th district of Vienna, Austria in 1943.
1:32.0	In a church.
1:42.0	It looks like a typical what we would call a parish church, a neighborhood church.
1:46.4	It has a broad courtyard in front of it.
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