Sexpionage, Part 3/3: The Lover, the Ax, and Leon Trotsky | NKVD

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🗓️ 20 June 2022

⏱️ 31 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 3, Michael and Henry tell the real spy story behind one of history's most famous murders. When Ramón Mercader attacked Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky at his home in Mexico, the evidence suggested a crime of passion. In reality, it was the culmination of a long and intricate honeypot operation by Stalin's secret service. Could YOU get close enough to kill? 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 that position?
0:32.0	This is True Spies.
0:34.4	So they needed a way to kill Trotsky silently.
0:37.2	So he could leave the house and then just walk out and be buzzed out by a guard.
0:42.4	They had originally planned on using an iron bar.
0:46.0	At the last minute, they find this climbing axe.
0:50.0	It's an ice axe used for mountain climbing.
0:53.0	A very nasty looking tool.
0:54.8	I'm Vanessa Kirby and this is True Spies.
0:59.6	Sex binage part three.
1:02.0	The lover, the axe and Leon Trotsky.
1:08.8	It's the spring of 1940, the 24th of May.
1:12.8	Dawn is breaking in the historic Mecherskirsi neighbourhood of Koyakam.
1:19.6	In bed beside his wife, Leon Trotsky, the great Marxist revolutionary,
1:24.4	stares to the sound of fireworks.
1:27.2	A national holiday, perhaps.
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