Volume 030Power & Secrets
Dead Scientists, Secret Wars
A run of strange deaths among scientists working on Britain’s defence projects raised fears of a Cold War killing campaign.
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Power & Secrets
Espionage, covert operations and the disputed history of power behind closed doors.
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Snatched from Soviet Ice
Two American officers parachuted onto a deserted Soviet research camp adrift on the Arctic Ocean, searched it for submarine-hunting secrets and left dangling beneath a wartime bomber.
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Volume 024Power & Secrets
Who Really Shot Bobby Kennedy?
Robert Kennedy was shot moments after winning the California primary, but a conviction has never ended the argument over what happened in the hotel pantry.
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Guy Fawkes - The Fall Guy?
A plan to blow up King James and Parliament was foiled by an anonymous letter, but how much did the government know before it arrived?
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Captives of the Atomic Age
Britain secretly recorded Germany’s leading nuclear scientists at the end of the war, and what they said in private undermined the story they later told about Hitler’s bomb.
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Sixteen Typewriters That Talked
Soviet technicians hid transmitters inside the IBM typewriters of the American embassy in Moscow, reading diplomats’ drafts as they were typed until an X-ray exposed the trick.
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