The Mole | Investigation

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

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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When health issues ended Ulrich Larsen's career in the kitchen, the Danish chef embarked on an altogether more dangerous livelihood - spying on North Korea. After gaining the trust of the Korean Friendship Association in Denmark, he was sent to the isolated dictatorship as an envoy, where he gathered evidence of sanction-busting deals in arms and narcotics. Could YOU become the Mole? From SPYSCAPE, the HQ of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Gemma Newby, Joe Foley. Produced by Diane Hope. Music by Nick Ryan.

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0:00.0	brought to you by Aspire MungFront on ITVX, a six-part drama of friendship and betrayal,
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0:17.0	Stream free on ITVX.
0:24.0	Incoming transmission.
0:26.0	Welcome. Welcome.
0:29.0	Welcome. Welcome to True Spies.
0:32.0	Week by week, mission by mission.
0:36.0	You'll hear the true stories behind the world's greatest espionage operations.
0:42.0	You'll meet the people who navigate this secret world.
0:47.0	What do they know? What are their skills?
0:51.0	And what would you do in their position?
0:55.0	This is True Spies.
0:58.0	They drove us through Pyongyang to know the showcase city of Pyongyang.
1:02.0	But suddenly we took a turn and we went into another part,
1:06.0	which they will never show people a really slum area.
1:09.0	And we were asked to go down in the basement in those buildings,
1:12.0	and I was like, okay, we are busted. They know why we are here.
1:16.0	This is True Spies.
1:19.0	Episode 94. The Mole.
1:29.0	What's it like to be a mole?
1:32.0	An undercover agent maintaining a fake persona,
1:35.0	covering up who you really are from your friends and closest family.
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