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Spy Wars

Season 1 Episode 3: Spies Next Door

Oct 07, 2019TV-PG45m7.7

This is the story of the biggest spy swap between Russia and the United States since the Cold War involving Sergei Skripal, the victim of the infamous 2018 Salisbury Novichok attack. From the United States ten Russian ‘illegals’, who have, for a decade or more in some cases, masqueraded as Americans and had operated undetected by their neighbours, but not by the FBI, who have had them under surveillance for years. In the other direction are four spies who have been released from Russian jails...

Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 2 Bombs In The Sky

2. Bombs In The Sky

Aired: Oct 28, 2019

This is the story of the biggest surveillance operation in British history, a...

Episode 3 Spies Next Door

3. Spies Next Door

Aired: Oct 7, 2019

This is the story of the biggest spy swap between Russia and the United State...

Episode 4 A Perfect Traitor

4. A Perfect Traitor

Aired: Oct 14, 2019

This is the story of Robert Hanssen - a former FBI agent who systematically d...

Episode 5 Escape from Tehran

5. Escape from Tehran

Aired: Nov 4, 2019

This is the story of eight filmmakers sent to Tehran to scout locations for a...

Episode 6 Trojan Horse

6. Trojan Horse

Aired: Oct 21, 2019

This episode tells the amazing story of Vladimir Vetrov, a high-ranking KGB o...

Episode 7 Merchant of Death

7. Merchant of Death

Aired: Nov 18, 2019

This is the story of Viktor Bout, and he would become one of the most famous ...

Episode 8 Exodus

8. Exodus

Aired: Nov 25, 2019

In 1968, Dani Limor was recruited by Mossad. To this day, virtually all of Li...

Info about Spy Wars

Current Status: Returning Series

Network: Sky History

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres:Documentary