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Season 1

  • S01E01 Operation Celestial Balance

    • April 10, 2014
    • AHC

    Undercover agents bribe warlords to track down suspected al-Qaeda fighters after the US embassy bombing in Nairobi in 1998. Last in the series.

  • S01E02 The Hunt for the Bombers

    • March 13, 2014
    • AHC

    The hunt for the members of al-Qaeda responsible for the attack on the USS Cole in 2000, in which 17 sailors died.

  • S01E03 Castro and the Cold Cream

    • February 27, 2014
    • AHC

    The story of an assassination attempt on Cuban communist revolutionary Fidel Castro, when the US security agency tried to turn his 19-year-old lover Marita Lorenz into a killer by placing poisoned face cream in his home.

  • S01E04 The Real Argo

    • February 6, 2014
    • AHC

    Documentary revealing the story of Tony Mendez's rescue of six Americans who were trapped in Iran after the storming of a US embassy in November 1979.

  • S01E05 The Beirut Bomb

    • March 27, 2014
    • AHC

    Documentary investigating the fate of a Lebanese cleric who CIA director William Casey mistakenly thought was the head of militant group Hezbollah, and in 1985 allegedly ordered his killing.

  • S01E06 The Real Zero Dark Thirty

    • February 13, 2014
    • AHC

    An insight into the CIA's decade-long hunt for the most wanted man on the planet - Osama bin Laden - who was eventually located in 2011.

  • S01E07 The Fortress of War

    • April 3, 2014
    • AHC

    How the CIA quashed a Taliban uprising in Afghanistan by teaming up with soldiers on the ground, despite being outnumbered.

  • S01E08 The Hunt for Che Guevara

    • February 20, 2014
    • AHC

    Documentary recalling the hunt for Che Guevara. In 1967, the CIA recruited Felix Rodríguez, one of its former agents, to train and head a team to track down the Marxist guerilla, who was intent on overthrowing the Bolivian government. Following Guevara's capture, Rodríguez interrogated him, but was unable to prevent an order to execute the man who had earlier been a major force in the Cuban revolution.

  • S01E09 Killing Mad Dog Gaddafi

    • March 6, 2014
    • AHC

    The story of Khalifa Haftar, who tried to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi and his Libyan regime in the 1980s.

  • S01E10 The Deadly Phantom Coup

    • March 20, 2014
    • AHC

    Exploring the CIA's staged invasion of Guatemala in 1954, looking at how he country was tricked into believing a real threat was imminent.