S2 E9 | Smoke and Mirrors

Some of history's boldest missions succeeded because the world was looking the wrong way; the CIA concealed covert missions behind Air America's civilian façade, British intelligence planted a falsified invasion plan on a corpse to mislead Hitler, and "Agent Sonya" blended into English suburbia while funneling atomic secrets to Moscow; David Duchovny takes us into the long-spun elaborate tales governments have employed to blanket their boldest missions, showing us how the illusion works.