Anthology of True Life Spy Stories | Vol 1

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  • Опубліковано 4 лип 2024
  • Listen to my spy stories on the Heroes & Traitors with Philip Thompson podcast!
    🎙️podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sh...
    It's a true life spy story omnibus!
    Video chapters:
    00:00 - Introduction
    01:43 - Adolf Tolkachev
    28:22 - Oleg Penkovsky
    1:06:45 - Aldrich Ames
    1:35:53 - Fritz Duquesne
    2:26:31 - George Blake
    3:03:36 - Robert Hanssen
    Links to the videos featured in this anthology:
    Adolf Tolkachev: • The Thrilling Story of...
    Oleg Penkovsky: • The Truth About The Sp...
    Aldrich Ames: • The CIA Mole Who Broug...
    Fritz Duquesne: • The South African Spy ...
    James Harper: • When a Cold War Spy Go...
    George Blake: • The Gentleman Spy - Mo...
    Robert Hanssen: • The Worst Intelligence...
    Ways to support my channel:
    Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ bmc.link/philipthompson
    Donate via PayPal: 💸 paypal.me/PhilipT284
    ...or buy a book! (affiliate links)
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    📗 A Spy in Plain Sight: The Inside Story of the FBI and Robert Hanssen-America's Most Damaging Russian Spy: amzn.to/3vhie8u
    📙 Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America: amzn.to/48eOoQu
    📘 Spies, Lies, and Exile: The Extraordinary Story of Russian Double Agent George Blake: amzn.to/3H0oEvf
    📗 Dead Drop: TheTrue Story of Oleg Penkovsky and the Cold War's Most Dangerous Operation: amzn.to/48zvdkd
    #philipthompson #truelifespystories
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  • @PhilipThompson
    @PhilipThompson  6 місяців тому +98

    Thank you everyone for a wonderful 2023! Wishing you all an excellent start to the new year 🕵️ - PT

    • @ridethecurve55
      @ridethecurve55 6 місяців тому +7

      And you also!

    • @cjlloyd5332
      @cjlloyd5332 6 місяців тому +6

      Stumbled upon your channel via UA-cam suggestions and for the first time I'm glad to have!
      Excellent work!

    • @0therun1t21
      @0therun1t21 6 місяців тому +2

      Thank you for your amazing documentaries, may you have an excellent 2024 too! ✨

    • @kdigitalproductionservices6581
      @kdigitalproductionservices6581 6 місяців тому

      Where's the other guy. The narrator?

    • @El_Nairda949
      @El_Nairda949 6 місяців тому +2

      I'm sure it's safe to say that we appreciate all your hard work!!!!!
      Feliz año nuevo🎉

  • @dv6808
    @dv6808 6 місяців тому +70

    4 hours? you madman!! i love it

    • @Look_What_You_Did
      @Look_What_You_Did 6 місяців тому +1

      Right.... when you double one story, and have several other duplication's as well.

    • @RichardBaran
      @RichardBaran 5 місяців тому

      Wow! Almost done watching this and I didn't even notice. Good work!

    • @JeffBourke
      @JeffBourke 4 місяці тому

      Omg.

    • @on4smile
      @on4smile 2 місяці тому

      Loved it!!!

    • @on4smile
      @on4smile 2 місяці тому

      Loved it!

  • @RichardBaran
    @RichardBaran 5 місяців тому +15

    One of the greatest things about youtube is everyone has the availability to share stories in their own way and damn you do an awesome job of it.

  • @Giogoalie
    @Giogoalie 5 місяців тому +23

    I don’t know how you don’t have way more subscribers this content is amazing honestly, keep it up 👏

    • @SteveYates-uo4dq
      @SteveYates-uo4dq 2 місяці тому +1

      ❤great videos and in answer to the question-I don’t know why there’s not more people watching it’s because they are thick they would rather be on tick tock or celebrity videos and stupid things like that!!

  • @Shanklymania
    @Shanklymania 6 місяців тому +32

    I think I finally found the last piece of my YT puzzle. These are the videos I never knew I was missing. Excellent job sir, excited to see what's cooking for year 2024!

    • @PhilipThompson
      @PhilipThompson  6 місяців тому +7

      That's great to hear! Thank you for joining, and I look forward to seeing you around these parts next year!

  • @jillbold2385
    @jillbold2385 5 місяців тому +30

    This was incredible! Thank you for feeding my spy documentary obsession! Well done. 👍🏼

  • @kensterknig177
    @kensterknig177 6 місяців тому +13

    YOU'VE DONE AN EXCELLENT JOB IN YOUR RESEARCH AND PRESENTATION! OUTSTANDING WORK !

  • @Trav81888
    @Trav81888 6 місяців тому +9

    The Portland spy ring was one of my favorite spy novels from this channel. Great work this year Mr Thompson. Looking forward to 2024.

  • @Tertia_Optio
    @Tertia_Optio 4 місяці тому +11

    I've been looking for a podcast type show with a chill voice to help me sleep.. SUBSCRIBED!

    • @julcaos
      @julcaos 12 днів тому

      unfortunately, the chill voice is AI

  • @Likwidfox
    @Likwidfox 5 місяців тому +12

    How does Ames not get the Death Penalty? People have done far less and put to death.

  • @CaesarInVa
    @CaesarInVa 6 місяців тому +8

    The fact that the CIA allowed a 10-year backlog on polygraphs and didn't make eliminating the backlog an administrative and financing priority, suggests to me that they didn't want to uncover any moles in the first place.

    • @minastirith997
      @minastirith997 5 місяців тому +1

      I assume most of them are moles themselves that’s why

    • @kingstonnine2393
      @kingstonnine2393 4 місяці тому +1

      What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!

    • @luminography
      @luminography 3 місяці тому

      Polygraph is rubbish. Not a scrap of evidence that it works.

  • @JudeNance
    @JudeNance 16 днів тому +1

    I appreciate your stories. I was friends with a CIA Agent and his wife many years ago. He had been in Vietnam and some of his friends had been at the same party.

  • @colinstewart1432
    @colinstewart1432 6 місяців тому +13

    Congratulations on a well thought out channel. Hoping your content keeps it's high quality in 2024. Great work so far. Long may it continue. 👌😻👍

    • @PhilipThompson
      @PhilipThompson  6 місяців тому +1

      Thanks Colin! Lots more in store for next year.

  • @ChillDfect
    @ChillDfect Місяць тому +1

    What an excellent, well-constructed and thoroughly satisfying video. I'm delighted to have found this while searching the web for real-life stories of Cold War espionage. I was subscribed by the time the video ended. I'm looking forward to checking out more! Thank you!

  • @beachboy0505
    @beachboy0505 Місяць тому +1

    22:20
    The Pentax ME Super with 1,8 lens1983
    Amazing
    He loved the camera 📷 more.
    I had one.

  • @lisaalane7694
    @lisaalane7694 6 місяців тому +6

    Just had your channel recommended to me. I found the first 2 stories I listened to fascinating. I recognized bits and pieces of those stories as in the 80's and 90's I was in my 20's to 30's. Thank you for such quality work, very easy to listen to and don't need to actually watch the video if you are busy doing your daily chores.

    • @PhilipThompson
      @PhilipThompson  6 місяців тому

      Welcome to the channel! Hope to see you again in 2024!

    • @dree35
      @dree35 6 місяців тому

      u old dabbb lmfaooo

  • @richardshiggins704
    @richardshiggins704 2 місяці тому +1

    Fascinating resumé of the world of spying and the characters who inhabit it . Blake comes across arguably as the most tolerable of these players .

  • @JFischer-fr3eh
    @JFischer-fr3eh 6 місяців тому +3

    Happy Holidays! Keep up the great research and presentation, thanks from everyone

  • @annshimak1172
    @annshimak1172 6 місяців тому +3

    Your work is terrific. Thankyou for sharing it!

  • @annshimak1172
    @annshimak1172 6 місяців тому +3

    I am enjoying your work. Thank you for sharing it!

  • @user-dg8du2ep4s
    @user-dg8du2ep4s Місяць тому +1

    This was Absolutely Fascinating I listened from start to finish 10/10

  • @stereotypicalitalian8437
    @stereotypicalitalian8437 6 місяців тому +3

    big adrenaline rush i would love a video on the grey wolf the u boat that sank 49 sum odd ships absolutely love the content

  • @ScottyPeabody
    @ScottyPeabody 5 місяців тому +1

    Great STUFF, love it! Thank you so very much!!!

  • @El_Nairda949
    @El_Nairda949 5 місяців тому +1

    Muchas gracias por todo señor Thompson.
    Feliz año nuevo.

  • @alexandramsh4740
    @alexandramsh4740 4 місяці тому +1

    Addicting! 😊 I’m rewatching.

  • @0therun1t21
    @0therun1t21 6 місяців тому +2

    This is great because I need to watch all of these more than once anyway, all of their stories are so complicated. These stories have everything, much better than tv. Thank you again!

  • @djquinn11
    @djquinn11 5 місяців тому

    What an informative and interesting video! Loved the content, I’ve read about all of these events in the past and your editing, narration and commentary are top notch Sir. I’m a new sub and just wanted to pass along my respect for a job well done.

    • @PhilipThompson
      @PhilipThompson  5 місяців тому

      Thank you very much! There are many more videos to come this year.

  • @breezyrides6829
    @breezyrides6829 3 місяці тому

    just earned yourself a sub with this gem of a video. amazing work.

  • @jujubean54ify
    @jujubean54ify 4 місяці тому +1

    Thank you for sharing this valuable knowledge!

  • @erpthompsonqueen9130
    @erpthompsonqueen9130 3 місяці тому +1

    Thank you, again. Watching from Alaska.

  • @erpthompsonqueen9130
    @erpthompsonqueen9130 3 місяці тому +1

    Thank you. Watching from Alaska.

  • @ICHIBANDIPPER
    @ICHIBANDIPPER 6 місяців тому +1

    Fantastic, thank you! 🍻🎄🚀

  • @TreborTrebeaux
    @TreborTrebeaux 6 місяців тому +3

    Best wishes to you as well...🤟
    But, really a big thank you for posting this.
    History, always and definitely more interesting than the other thing. 😉 31:25

  • @Occupied_South
    @Occupied_South 5 місяців тому

    Fantastic show. Thank you.

  • @reygordo
    @reygordo 5 місяців тому +4

    Great work on this channel I genuinely appreciate your effort

  • @brianmoncion6723
    @brianmoncion6723 2 місяці тому

    Fantastic work. Thx. Subbed

  • @rulerblaine
    @rulerblaine 10 днів тому

    Such a captivating upload.

  • @jeffclark7888
    @jeffclark7888 6 місяців тому

    Excellent content!

  • @ronobrien7187
    @ronobrien7187 6 місяців тому +2

    Kim Philby was in charge of MI6 during Penkovsky's time as a double agent. He also could have been the one to expose him to the KGB.

  • @dfsilversurfer
    @dfsilversurfer Місяць тому +1

    the billion dollar spy is ultimately a sad yet intriguing story

  • @hsmythi
    @hsmythi 6 місяців тому +1

    One note: 21:37 camera is Fujifilm X-M1 and was released 2013.

  • @lillianmcgrew217
    @lillianmcgrew217 5 місяців тому

    Interesting thank you for this information

  • @deberickson6168
    @deberickson6168 3 місяці тому

    Love the stories.

  • @ColbyHiggs
    @ColbyHiggs 4 місяці тому

    Thank you!

  • @theresachung703
    @theresachung703 6 місяців тому

    Thank you!!

  • @Trav81888
    @Trav81888 6 місяців тому +1

    Ernest Volkman wrote many books on the American mafia. Highly respected author.

  • @helpyourcattodrive
    @helpyourcattodrive 5 місяців тому

    So good.

  • @magicofkarpaty103
    @magicofkarpaty103 5 місяців тому +1

    Thank you

  • @Anil.Ramani
    @Anil.Ramani 3 місяці тому

    Great video

  • @johnwilliams9133
    @johnwilliams9133 6 місяців тому +1

    Thank you so much for the wonderful content !

  • @junheceta268
    @junheceta268 6 місяців тому

    HAPPY NEW YEAR!🎊🎉🍾🥂

  • @cloudsofsunset7323
    @cloudsofsunset7323 2 місяці тому

    Penkovsky: "If I go down. You go down with me"
    Mood

  • @zenscout
    @zenscout 5 місяців тому

    Hi5 on your due diligence & thanks for sharing it! Excellent delivery too🏆
    "What is conviction? How do we identify it? How can we know that we should be guided by it? Is it to be found in the heart, or in the intellect? And what if it is only to be found in the one and not the other?"
    le Carré - Absolute Friends

  • @ChillDfect
    @ChillDfect Місяць тому

    Ames so photogenic.😂

  • @gospodinsavrseni5342
    @gospodinsavrseni5342 5 місяців тому

    I have suggestion,make a video about Dusko Popov,the Serbian ww2 spy and man who inspirated James Bond character😁😁

  • @mindpalace02
    @mindpalace02 6 місяців тому

    ❤❤

  • @robertfolkner9253
    @robertfolkner9253 5 місяців тому +1

    ‘Ethics and morals” does not belong in the same phrase as the term CIA.

  • @JohnnyCarterMusicOfficial
    @JohnnyCarterMusicOfficial 11 днів тому

    This is incredible content wtf 😅

  • @richardshiggins704
    @richardshiggins704 2 місяці тому

    Ames was a particular odious example in the murky world of spy craft .

  • @Proud_Slav
    @Proud_Slav 5 місяців тому +1

    Excellent video! Everything about this was great. What truly grabbed my attention was the mans accent in the beginning. Did anyone else notice a lovely Australian accent with a hint of a Louisiana southern accent? Especially with words like "CIA" and "NINEteen eighty FIve"

    • @HallsteinI
      @HallsteinI 2 місяці тому +3

      He's South African

    • @Proud_Slav
      @Proud_Slav 2 місяці тому

      @@HallsteinI thank you! I wasn't able to distinguish exactly where it came from.

  • @jeffclark7888
    @jeffclark7888 6 місяців тому +1

    “Certainty”, not “absolute certainty”. The latter is a tautology.

  • @markmann4392
    @markmann4392 5 місяців тому +1

    That is a South African accent for sure. Hope I'm not exposing him to the KGB😂

  • @beachboy0505
    @beachboy0505 Місяць тому

    1:29:25
    ..you have the wrong man 🙅‍♀️!
    Says the man in the Jaguar car 🚗

  • @daviddunlap1968
    @daviddunlap1968 5 місяців тому

    Can you share name of storyboard artist??

  • @GurjeetSingh-dx5qm
    @GurjeetSingh-dx5qm 5 місяців тому

    Kgb is an excellent agency in mankind history ❤❤❤

  • @Star_Gazing_Coffee_Lover
    @Star_Gazing_Coffee_Lover 12 днів тому

    Hero.

  • @maureenball6733
    @maureenball6733 5 місяців тому

    I wouldn't worry about my reputation,, I'd worry about ensuring that future investigations were done better.

  • @torbenzenth9718
    @torbenzenth9718 5 місяців тому +1

    Why is there a Russian flag and map when talking about a Soviet spy?

  • @mikeballard8404
    @mikeballard8404 3 місяці тому

    I had a slightly used Jaguar, sold it and bought a used Town Car, the Lincoln was much nicer

  • @coogeetech3110
    @coogeetech3110 5 місяців тому

    George Blake significantly aided the Soviet Union, resulting in considerable harm and adversely affecting numerous lives. Despite his ostensibly English name, appearance, and attire, he professed a lack of belonging to England, even though he had embraced and adopted aspects of English culture. He said he did not betray England. Yes, he did.

  • @ronaldgamber1181
    @ronaldgamber1181 20 днів тому

    Is smirnoff involved

  • @user-te4of2fq5d
    @user-te4of2fq5d 5 місяців тому

    Having not watched yet, not knowing if they're included, I'm still pissed at those Cambridge bottom feeders.

  • @ibg3
    @ibg3 4 місяці тому

    ☀️✌️

  • @rayonism
    @rayonism 20 днів тому

    Are all the voices and art AI?

  • @kennedymcgovern5413
    @kennedymcgovern5413 6 місяців тому +2

    Dude, your videos are great. I have watched many of them and enjoyed every one. But I HAVE to figure out where that accent is from.
    To this American ear, it sounds almost British...except for the way your pronounce your short "i"s and "y"s. Those, you pronounce like an American from Alabama. It's neat...but it is pouncing all over my curiosity. If you read your comments, tell us where your accent originates.

    • @PhilipThompson
      @PhilipThompson  6 місяців тому +3

      I do read all the comments on my videos, and so many people have said the same thing as you - that I sound British mixed with a bit of southern US 😂 I am in fact originate from South Africa, but am now living in the UK.

    • @kennedymcgovern5413
      @kennedymcgovern5413 5 місяців тому

      @@PhilipThompson Awesome. Thanks for solving the mystery. Keep up the good work, brother. I love your product!

  • @jameshaxby5434
    @jameshaxby5434 Місяць тому

    Who is they guy on the cover photo with the beard, he looks maybe hispanic ?

  • @tmn8547
    @tmn8547 2 місяці тому

    I understand why Aimes did what he did. Sounds like management was constantly picking at him because he wasn’t in their cliques. Also that pic of the polygraph interviewer. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @spikenomoon
    @spikenomoon 9 днів тому

    I would not be a good spy. My blood pressure is high just listening

  • @vitaliiyarema
    @vitaliiyarema 6 місяців тому +1

    A traitor or a hero it depends on the goals, bad or good.

  • @lualcg5702
    @lualcg5702 5 місяців тому

    Nice documentary but too many ads which make the video boring

  • @joeyfotofr
    @joeyfotofr 4 місяці тому

    Fresno is not "The Bay Area."

  • @janacichra4969
    @janacichra4969 6 місяців тому

    ..❤! jc..

  • @Davidfooterman
    @Davidfooterman 6 місяців тому

    The psychiatrist would be no match for the likes of Robert Hanssen but, psychiatry being a teleological exercise, no damage done!

  • @AutonymousTube
    @AutonymousTube 2 місяці тому

    This beginning is rough

  • @UntiltedName
    @UntiltedName 6 місяців тому +2

    60 some pair of shoes.
    For 2 damn feet.
    wtf man

  • @gaylereid8264
    @gaylereid8264 6 місяців тому

    Talkin’ bout a “Dead End Job” !!! But women stayed w/them !!!

  • @danieldreher6780
    @danieldreher6780 3 місяці тому

    ❤❤It is a life of deceit and misery with no family ties.I would tell young people never join CIA or KGB (FSB) as only way out is death or promotion.Dezernsky imprisoned 23 years in exile to run re education camps 5.-6 years & his life was shortened by prison.Any other job is better!!

  • @AbdiPianoChannel
    @AbdiPianoChannel 4 місяці тому

    He was a back stabbed as usual

  • @dantebenedetti2889
    @dantebenedetti2889 6 місяців тому +1

    appalling, sustained cia & fbi incompetence.

  • @jaimeschmeling7800
    @jaimeschmeling7800 6 місяців тому +1

    Ames sold a few secrets got life ol joe seels entire us and gets away with it

    • @raymondmuench3266
      @raymondmuench3266 5 місяців тому +2

      And 45’s DIRECT contact w/ Russia should pass without comment?

    • @smellyfinger684
      @smellyfinger684 5 місяців тому

      Never happened. ​@@raymondmuench3266

  • @jamesdoyle9758
    @jamesdoyle9758 6 місяців тому

    Looked interesting but sadly there's some kind of banal music thing happening in the background. Gave up in less than a minute. Try recording in a quieter location,

  • @magicofkarpaty103
    @magicofkarpaty103 5 місяців тому

    🇨🇦🌐🇺🇦

  • @hanaluong2672
    @hanaluong2672 6 місяців тому

    Even though your videos are interesting, I find myself having a headache watching them. Spies usually end with a painful death or a long prison term. I do not like the energy the profession emits.

  • @jointco
    @jointco 5 місяців тому +1

    33 :) get lost

  • @auratheevinkian
    @auratheevinkian 3 місяці тому

    I don’t know who did it first, but it seems like you copied this word from Word from another channel or vice versa

    • @PhilipThompson
      @PhilipThompson  3 місяці тому +2

      These are all my videos, which I also posted individually to my channel over the course of last year.

    • @auratheevinkian
      @auratheevinkian 3 місяці тому

      that's why I said vise versa, then another person copied you exactly word for word. @@PhilipThompson

  • @chrismac2234
    @chrismac2234 5 місяців тому

    Oleg Gordievsky's is unique. He spied not for money l. But because he thought freedom was worth defending. And horror was worth averting. A great Russian and probably a better person than any of us.

  • @gareth6421
    @gareth6421 5 місяців тому

    Why so many ads? Literally every 2 mins there’s an ad. Listening on the UA-cam app so can’t use Adblock. I know you need to make money but can you remove a few?

  • @BeardChest
    @BeardChest 6 місяців тому

    The grand repackaging

  • @evelynenders3144
    @evelynenders3144 12 днів тому

    IF YOU PUT A COMMENT THAT IS NOT THE OPINION OF THE CREATOR IT IS IMMEDIATELY REMOVED!

  • @Look_What_You_Did
    @Look_What_You_Did 6 місяців тому

    Somebody needs to check their editing... Duplicate story, and several other duplications but much shorter in durtion. Basic math would tell you something was afoot.