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William Ramsey Investigates

To Catch a Spy: How the Spycatcher Affair Brought MI5 in from the Cold, the New Book by Author Tim Tate.

William Ramsey Investigates

William Ramsey Investigates

True Crime, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.5728 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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To Catch a Spy: How the Spycatcher Affair Brought MI5 in from the Cold, the New Book by Author Tim Tate.

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https://timtate.co.uk/about/

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0:00.0

Okay, we are live. Hi, this William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on today's show.

0:05.0

I have a very special guest or returning guest. This will be our sixth show. He comes to us from the UK. His name is Tim Tate, last name, Tate, and if you're watching this on Rumble, Rockfin or X, you will see the cover of his new book.

0:21.4

Full title of the new book is To Catch a Spy,

0:24.1

How the Spycatcher Affair brought MI5 in from the cold.

0:27.6

I'm old enough to remember this story.

0:29.8

It was big news internationally.

0:31.8

It's really about this book that was published by Peter Maurice Wright,

0:36.9

or attempted to publish, eventually published, titled Spycatcher, and it was about his memoirs.

0:42.4

But Tim and I have done a lot of other shows.

0:44.8

I recommend people go back and check those out.

0:47.6

One is Hitler's Secret Army, a hidden history of spies, savateurs, and traitors in World War II.

0:53.5

We also did one, the murder of childhood,

0:55.6

inside the mind of one of Britain's most notorious child murders. The other is, I think, our most

1:00.5

recent, which is spy was left out in the cold, the secret history of Agent Golanuski. We also did

1:06.1

one, the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, crime conspiracy, and cover-up, a new investigation,

1:12.7

so check that out. And then the documentary, Dirty Little Secrets about German Warfare.

1:17.4

He's not in Korea. He's not just an author. He's done many, many, 80 documentary films for

1:24.6

British and several international networks, and he's written for national and regional newspapers.

1:29.5

So he definitely wears a lot of different hats for people here in the states who are

1:34.2

familiar with the Franklin scandal.

1:37.4

He also directed the conspiracy of silence, which was never, I think, formally shown on

1:42.2

American TV, although clips of it bounced around the Internet,

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