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Welcome. Welcome to True Spies.

Week by week, mission by mission.

You'll hear the true stories behind the world's greatest espionage operations.

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

What do they know? What are their skills?

And what would you do in their position?

This is True Spies trade craft, part one.

It was as close to mission impossible or Q as you could get and not be in Hollywood.

You're about to pair inside a folder of espionage industry secrets

with some of the world's most qualified agents. Are you ready?

This is your first installment of True Spies trade craft.

You've seen it in movies and you read about it in books.

A gifted bright young thing is swept away from the path they thought they were heading down

and recruited into a life of secrets, danger, deception.

They're tools. That will depend on the assignment.

But one thing that each and every operative brings with them into whatever mission awaits

is a foundation of skills and intuition.

Some of it innate, some of it very much learnt.

It's this that the spies are referring to when they talk about trade craft.

We had to learn all of the trade craft of all of the spies

who might operate in the United States so that we could determine

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