Special Relationships, Part 1/3: The Zimmermann Telegram | Historical

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🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

After a shaky start, the friendship between Britain and America has blossomed in to one of the most important alliances on the world stage. In this anthology, Vanessa Kirby relates three crucial chapters in the evolution of the Special Relationship. In Part 1, scholar and intelligence professional Dr. Anthony Wells is your guide to the unprecedented carnage of World War One - and how a crafty British Naval Intelligence officer tipped the scales by bringing the USA in to the conflict. Could YOU adapt to a new reality? 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	So guess what he did?
0:36.0	He had a team of people tapping the American cables who carried all the encrypted,
0:40.8	now this is a critical thing, the encrypted German communications between Berlin and Washington DC.
0:47.6	I'm Vanessa Kirby and this is True Spies.
0:52.4	Special Relationships, part one.
0:54.8	The Zimmerman Telegram.
1:04.8	1917.
1:08.8	The Atlantic Ocean.
1:10.8	A battlefield.
1:12.8	German new boats lurk beneath the Black Waves, seeking easy prey in the hulking warships
1:20.0	and merchant vessels of the Allied fleets.
1:22.8	Deeper still.
1:24.8	Thick metallic tendrils carry signals from continent to continent.
1:30.8	The telegraph network is the first electronic messaging system to connect the globe.
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