Episode
Spycraft: Recruiting the Perfect Spy
Overview
What leads someone to spy against their own nation? Motivations vary but tend to fall into one of four categories, as notorious cases demonstrate.
Details
- Series
- Spycraft
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 8
- Air date
- 2021-01-20
- Runtime
- 38 min
Episode context
Recruiting the Perfect Spy is Episode 8 in Season 1 of Spycraft. It aired on 2021-01-20. The runtime is 38 min.
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