DECLASSIFIED takes you deeper into the secrets and stories that have shaped our world.

Declassified

Motivations leading people to spy against their own nations tend to fall into one of four categories, as notorious cases demonstrate.

Spycraft

Recruiting the Perfect Spy

Encryption is a key tool for keeping valuable information secret, but some ingenious minds have managed to crack impenetrable codes.

The Code Breakers

Special operations require skillful people, but some of the most famous missions in modern history relied on elite technology.

Special Ops and the Saboteur

Intelligence officers acquire the information collected by sources, from old-school "dead drops" to high-tech digital transfers.

Covert Communications

Methods for capturing sensitive data have grown more advanced as devices have become exponentially smaller.

Clandestine Collection

As long as there has been espionage, sex and the promise of it have been powerful tools of persuasion and blackmail.

Sexspionage

For some covert missions, assassination is the goal, and lethal toxins are deployed by spy agencies to kill perceived foes.

Deadly Poisons

In the spy game, listening, learning and gaining the ability to eavesdrop requires ingenuity.

High-Tech Surveillance and an Eye in the Sky

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E8 | Recruiting the Perfect Spy

E7 | The Code Breakers

E6 | Special Ops and the Saboteur

E5 | Covert Communications

E4 | Clandestine Collection

E3 | Sexspionage

E2 | Deadly Poisons

E1 | High-Tech Surveillance and an Eye in the Sky