History Channel - Deep Undercover (2006) Part 1 Traitors Within

Explore the true stories behind some of the most incredible undercover military operations. The world's security and safety depend on the top-secret agents who carry out undercover operations. Those operations are one of the most dangerous and challenging types of investigations which require much tactical preparedness and close continuing assessment during the operation. From disclosing the truth behind covert operations, to exposing some of the world's most infamous spies, this action-packed collection features the most fascinating espionage stories ever told. Deep Undercover is looking some of the most daring undercover operations ever carried out. It will take you behind enemy lines with an elite special forces unit engaging in covert warfare, classified operations, and explosive conflicts across the globe. Featuring dramatic reconstructions intercut with expert interviews, archive footage and CGI, this powerful collection takes you deep undercover to relive some of the most daring covert operations of all time, revealing the back stories to missions from The FBI to the CIA's Secret airline to Traitors Within and much more.

Part 1 Traitors Within

1985 was a devastating year for American Intelligence. In this one year alone, four high profile cases rattled four different agencies; Robert Miller was exposed within the FBI, John Walker formed a spy ring while in the Navy, Edward Howard Lee, a spy with the CIA defected to the Soviet Union, and Ronald Pelton, who had been an employee with the ultra secretive National Security Agency was uncovered. However, the accomplishments of these traitors paled into insignificance beside those of Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen. Aldrich was an expert at the CIA who inadvertently spied for the Soviet Union for nine years before finally being caught in 1994. During this period Ames gave up thousands of top-secret documents and also the lives of twelve Russians who had volunteered to spy for the United States! The second spy profiles at length is Robert Hanssen, a Soviet analyst with the FBI and perhaps the most damaging, enigmatic and brilliant spy in all of American history. Captured in February 2001 and now serving a life sentence without parole, Hanssen is described by intelligence insiders to have come about as close as you can get to being “the perfect spy”. Filled with interviews with top experts, former agents and highly placed analysts, “Traitors Within” details all six aforementioned cases, showing how security was breached, how the perpetrators were able to get away with what they did and how they were ultimately caught.

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