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

The Real Sopranos | FBI

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

SPYSCAPE

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.62.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

FBI agent Giovanni Rocco grew up playing in the back yards of New Jersey's criminal class. As an adult, he went undercover to take them down. Vanessa Kirby follows Giovanni's descent into the violent world that inspired HBO's hit series, The Sopranos. Could YOU meet the Family - and live? From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producers: Gemma Newby, Joe Foley. Produced by Leo Hornak. Music by Nick Ryan.

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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 that position?

0:32.0

This is True Spies.

0:34.0

I would have made a damn good criminal.

0:35.6

I would have made a real good stand-up guy.

0:37.6

I'm capable of doing the deed. I'm a capable guy.

0:40.4

I just chose to be on the good guy side.

0:42.4

This is True Spies.

0:46.0

Episode 77. The Real Supranos.

0:49.2

To be an effective undercover or effective operative,

0:57.2

you have to have a certain level of addiction towards adrenaline.

1:01.2

My thing was, I love the challenge because I wanted the adrenaline.

1:05.2

I was attracted to it for the adrenaline.

1:07.2

Meet Giovanni Rocco.

1:09.2

Or if you were moving in mafia circles in the 2010s,

1:13.2

you might have known him as Giovanni Gatto.

1:17.2

As an FBI agent, he spent years deep undercover,

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