Operation: Bullwinkle | FBI

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🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Robert Wittman was a special kind of Special Agent. During his long career with the FBI, he went undercover to retrieve millions of dollars worth of stolen art. When a priceless Rembrandt was stolen from Sweden's National Gallery, Robert descended into Europe's criminal underworld to get it back. Vanessa Kirby narrates a high-stakes hunt for a truly unique prize. Would YOU accept the price of failure? From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producers: Gemma Newby, Joe Foley. Produced by Frank Palmer. 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	December 23rd, late evening, around 5pm.
0:37.2	Very close to Christmas, it was cold, it was dark.
0:40.0	These three individuals went into the museum in Stockholm, the state museum.
0:44.8	They had guns.
0:45.8	This is True Spies.
0:49.2	Episode 70.
0:50.8	Operation Bullwinkle.
0:58.0	Loud voices cut through the hushed atmosphere of Sweden's National Gallery.
1:04.0	They put everybody on the floor, they made them go down, and two of them stood guard.
1:08.0	While one of the other individuals went around the museum, they stole three artworks.
1:14.0	Sirens wail into the cold evening outside. But the robbers take their time. They aren't scared.
1:22.0	They had set up two car bombs in the city.
1:26.0	Those two car bombs actually stopped traffic leading to the peninsula where the museum is located.
1:32.8	As fire's blaze in the distance, the three armed men walked down the gallery's grand entrance steps
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