Spies, Lies, and Secrets
48 Hours
CBS News
3.9 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Shane Todd, a high-tech engineer, was found dead in his Singapore apartment in 2012.. He was scheduled to leave the country in a matter of days when he was found dead. To the police in Singapore, he was just an American who killed himself. But his parents believed he was killed because he was unwilling to go along with a plan to share cutting-edge American technology with China. “48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant reports. This classic "48 Hours" episode last aired on 6/28/2014. Watch all-new episodes of “48 Hours” on Saturdays, and stream on demand on Paramount+.
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| 0:08.0 | Join me 48 hours correspondent Aaron Moriarty |
| 0:12.0 | on my podcast My Life of Crime, as I take on true crime |
| 0:16.6 | investigations like no other. |
| 0:19.7 | This season, I'm looking into the secrets within families cutting straight to the evidence and |
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| 0:38.5 | I'm CBS News correspondent Major Garrett, host of the podcast Agent of Betrayal, |
| 0:43.2 | the Double Life of Robert Hanson. |
| 0:44.9 | During the Cold War, FBI agent Robert Hanson |
| 0:47.4 | traded classified secrets to the Kremlin |
| 0:49.6 | in exchange for cash and jewels. |
| 0:51.5 | In the podcast, you'll hear from Hansen's closest |
| 0:54.0 | friends, family members, victims, and colleagues for the most comprehensive |
| 0:57.3 | telling of who Robert Hanson really was. |
| 0:59.7 | Binge the entire series Now, Agent of Betrayal. The Double Life of Robert Hanson is available on the Wondery App, Amazon Music, |
| 1:06.2 | or wherever you get your podcasts. Shane had a spirit of adventure and he wanted to do something different and I think he wanted to see the world. |
| 1:28.0 | Rick begged him not to go to Singapore in the first place. |
| 1:31.0 | I warned him, you say you got to be very, very careful. |
| 1:35.0 | I never in a million years thought that they'd actually kill my son. |
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