Sexpionage, Part 2/3: Russian Doll | SVR

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

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Throughout history, spies have used sex, seduction and emotional manipulation to achieve their shadowy aims. In this 3-part anthology, Vanessa Kirby joins espionage authors Henry Schlesinger and Michael Smith to uncover the real stories behind some of history's most explosive honeytrap operations. In Part 2, Henry Schlesinger reveals the unlikely life and times of a celebrity spy. In 2010, Russian property entrepreneur Anna Chapman was exposed as one of 10 deep-cover agents working on US soil. Armed with SVR tradecraft, nightlife connections and charm to spare, she was linked to a variety of rich and influential men as she rose through the upper echelons of Western society - waiting for the moment to strike. Could YOU play the long game ? From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producers: Gemma Newby, Joe Foley. Produced by Joe Foley. 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	She was portrayed as a sex part and very promiscuous and that kind of thing.
0:41.2	And that's standard when these people are caught and put in the press and they're portrayed as the new Monta Hari.
0:48.0	I'm Vanessa Kirby and this is True Spies.
0:52.4	Sex be an arched part two.
0:54.4	Russian Doll.
1:02.4	New York, New York, after dark.
1:04.4	Downtown below 14th Street or below 23rd Street on the west side.
1:10.4	It's 2010. We're on the dance floor of one of the city's elite nightclubs.
1:16.4	It's teaming with the great, the good and the merely very rich.
1:20.4	Pretty tight security at the door.
1:24.4	If it didn't look like you had enough money to spend you work coming in.
1:28.4	Some hip hop artists, Wall Street people.
1:32.4	Truthfully, they're all pretty much the same.
1:36.4	It's in that rare-ified milieu that we find a young woman.
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