Special Relationships, Part 2/3: The Lisbon Connection | Historical

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🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 36 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 2, scholar and intelligence professional Dr. Anthony Wells takes us behind the scenes in WW2-era Lisbon, where rival spies work tirelessly to turn the tide of war. Among their number is Commander Ian Fleming, who mounts an operation that will provide the inspiration for a daring new American intelligence agency... Could YOU survive in the City of Spies? 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.
0:34.4	Room 39 was the centre of British naval intelligence in London.
0:39.6	Room 39 had to come up with plans to make sure that Portia would not fall into Nats' hands.
0:46.8	And so Room 39 came up with various clandestine means to do that.
0:51.2	And of course, he inflaming played a critical role in that.
0:54.4	I'm Vanessa Kirby and this is True Spies.
0:59.6	Special relationships part two, the Lisbon connection.
1:08.9	The year is 1940. And if you throw a rock in Lisbon chances are you'll hit a spy.
1:15.6	But we wouldn't recommend it. You'd draw far too much attention to yourself.
1:19.8	You see, Portugal is in the grip of a dictator. Antonio Salazar in the streets are crawling with secret police.
1:30.2	It was a state that was run by people looking over their shoulder and wondering
1:34.6	whether they're going to end up in jail or not because they hadn't said the right things or done the right things to support the Salazar government.
1:42.2	It was a fascist state.
1:43.8	Fascist maybe. But Salazar's Portugal is proud at the position of neutrality it's taken in the war.
1:50.6	As the Nazi war machine tears through the great powers of Europe, Salazar sells crucial materials
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