Cold War Season 1 Episode 21 Spies

Even before the end of World War II, spies prepare for post-war world order. Beginning in 1944, KGB spies infiltrate Los Alamos, stealing information about the atomic bomb. Early CIA attempts to penetrate the Iron Curtain are thwarted, in part due to KGB spies within British intelligence. The United States compensates for its lack of human agents within the Soviet Union through technological intelligence: the U-2 plane, satellite reconnaissance and electronic eavesdropping. Human spies, however retain a central role--betrayed and captured, some pay with their lives. The Cold War intelligence story ends with Aldrich Ames. He spied for money and is jailed for life.