Catch Me If You Can | BRIXMIS

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

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🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In the divided Germany of the 1980s, spying was a way of life. Dave Butler knows - he was there. As part of BRIXMIS, a British military liaison unit with an unofficial sideline in espionage, he ran missions deep inside Communist territory. But they didn't always go to plan. Vanessa Kirby tells a story of danger and disaster behind enemy lines. Could YOU go up against the Stasi? From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producers: Gemma Newby, Joe Foley. Produced by Mariana Des Forges. 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	In the heat of the moment,
0:35.6	pictures of rushing through a wood,
0:37.6	doing about 60 miles an hour down a wooded track.
0:40.6	You're trying to macroeede telling the driver when to turn left,
0:43.6	when to do... It was a bit like rally driving in really close proximity.
0:47.2	If we had have been shot at, we probably wouldn't have heard it anyway.
0:50.4	I mean, you never hear the bullet that kills you.
0:52.8	This is True Spies.
0:54.8	Episode 63.
0:57.6	Catch me if you can.
1:05.6	East Germany, February 1987.
1:08.8	The man being chased through dense forest is the British former Cold War spy, Dave Butler.
1:17.8	I served in Bricksmist, the British commander in chief's mission to group of Soviet forces in Germany.
1:24.4	From 1986 to 1989.
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