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True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

Searching For The Soldier | NSA

True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

SPYSCAPE

History, Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.73K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

From the Australian outback, a top-secret NSA signals station intercepts intelligence concerning America and her allies. It's 1995, and a US fighter pilot is shot down over the former Yugoslavia. The team at Pine Gap must locate his distress signal before it's too late. Vanessa Kirby joins signals analyst David Rosenberg on an international race against time. Could YOU save a life at 8000 miles? From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Gemma Newby. Produced by Claire Crofton. Music by Nick Ryan.

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Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome to True Spies.

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Week by week, mission by mission.

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You'll hear the true stories behind the world's greatest espionage operations.

0:18.0

You'll meet the people who navigate this secret world.

0:22.0

What do they know? What are their skills?

0:27.0

And what would you do in their position?

0:31.0

This is True Spies.

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As each hour goes by, that the pilot is shut down.

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You're waiting for that signal to transmit.

0:39.0

You're waiting and waiting and waiting.

0:41.0

Several days went by.

0:43.0

Was he killed? Was he captured?

0:45.0

Did his transmitter fail?

0:47.0

We simply didn't know.

0:49.0

Episode 54. Searching for the soldier.

0:59.0

This story takes us back to 1995, into the middle of a messy conflict being fought in the former Yugoslavia.

1:07.0

We're heading behind the scenes of an incredible rescue operation.

1:13.0

His fighter was hit with the surfacer missile.

1:17.0

And he simply is thinking of surviving.

1:23.0

And he needs to get out of that aircraft.

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He would have ejected.

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