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

Surviving NXIVM | Investigation | Spy Sisters

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

SPYSCAPE

History, Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.73K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In 2005, actress Sarah Edmondson joined NXIVM, a company offering 'personal development' coaching. 12 years later, she realized that she had been brainwashed into a dangerous sex-trafficking cult. She borrowed techniques from the world of spy tradecraft to bring down the man behind the curtain - Keith Raniere. Vanessa Kirby joins Sarah on a journey that forced her to question everything she thought she knew. Could YOU take back control? From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Gemma Newby. Produced by Joe Foley. Music by Nick Ryan.

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0:00.0

Disclaimer, this episode features strong language throughout.

0:04.6

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0:06.6

Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome to True Spies.

0:13.6

Week by week, mission by mission. You'll hear the true stories behind the world's greatest espionage operations.

0:23.6

You'll meet the people who navigate this secret world.

0:28.6

What do they know? What are their skills? And what would you do in their position?

0:35.6

This is True Spies.

0:38.6

Everything in my body was a full, hyper-vigilant alert.

0:42.6

I could barely eat, I could barely sleep. All I knew was I had to get out, I had to save these women.

0:47.6

Most of them had given very damaging pictures.

0:50.6

This is True Spies.

0:53.6

Episode 46. Surviving next to him.

1:00.6

Some people, most of them, in fact, become spies by choice.

1:07.6

Perhaps they're motivated by patriotism. Maybe it's cash.

1:12.6

For this week's True Spies, it was personal.

1:16.6

My mama bear instinct to protect and destroy this motherfucker was so enraged in me I can't even tell you.

1:24.6

And that's what set me on this warpath of trying to expose them and take them down.

1:29.6

I know she's not a spy in the traditional sense, but she's a shining example of how ordinary people can use espionage techniques to manage extraordinary situations.

1:41.6

Leaving a cult, for example, or more accurately, burning one down.

1:47.6

I explained to them that there was possibly sex trafficking involved because women were being blackmailed to then have sex under the auspices of this personal growth program.

1:59.6

If you've heard Sarah Edmonds' name before, there's a good chance that it was in the same sentence as Nexium.

2:06.6

Nexium was a cult in pyramid scheme, led by a self-styled guru named Keith Ranieri.

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