True Spies Classic: The Real Sopranos | FBI

True Spies Classic: The Real Sopranos | FBI

Author: SPYSCAPE December 30, 2025 Duration: 36:30
FBI agent Giovanni Rocco grew up playing in the back yards of New Jersey's criminal class. As an adult, he went undercover to take them down. In this classic episode of True Spies, Vanessa Kirby follows Giovanni's descent into the violent world that inspired HBO's hit series, The Sopranos. From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Joe Foley. Produced by Leo Hornak. Music by Nick Ryan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Imagine pulling back the curtain on the most secretive missions ever conducted. That’s the experience offered by True Spies, a podcast from SPYSCAPE that moves beyond the Hollywood gloss to sit down with the actual intelligence officers, detectives, and operatives who lived these events. Hosted by a compelling roster including Hayley Atwell, Vanessa Kirby, and Daisy Ridley, each episode is a direct conversation with the people who know the answers. You’ll hear firsthand about the split-second decisions, the specialized skills, and the profound moral dilemmas faced in the shadows. This isn’t speculative fiction; it’s a deep exploration of authentic espionage cases, political intrigues, unsolved murders, and complex investigations that have shaped real-world events. The narratives covered in this podcast consistently reveal how the most astonishing truths are often more gripping than any invented thriller. By focusing on documentary-style storytelling and historical context, the series provides a rare, unfiltered look into the high-stakes worlds of crime and national security. Each story invites you to consider not just what happened, but how it felt to be in the room, and what you might have done when everything was on the line.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 50

True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics
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The Family Affair | WW2 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:02:44
Christine Kuehn grew up believing that she was part of an ordinary, patriotic American family. But in 1994, a surprising letter revealed a darker side to her ancestry; a story that began in Nazi Germany. Christine and he…
True Spies Classic: The Mouse at Pearl Harbor | WW2 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 48:58
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Brief Histories: Spy Cities - London [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 26:47
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Cold SNAP | CIA [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 46:49
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True Spies Classic: Sister Spies | WW2 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 44:22
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True Spies Debrief: Robert Hannigan on Work at Bletchley Park [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 32:45
Robert Hannigan is the former director of the British Government Communications Headquarters or GCHQ, and the author of the recent book, Counterintelligence: What the Secret World Can Teach Us About Problem Solving and C…
The Importance of Being Ernest | Historical [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:06:02
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True Spies Classic: The Boiling Frog | CIA [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 39:07
At the peak of his career, Jack Devine was one of the world's top spymasters. But everybody starts somewhere. In this classic, follow Vanessa Kirby as she recounts the tale of Jack Devine's first overseas assignment, in…
True Spies Debrief: Gordon Corera on Vasili Mitrokhin [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 43:54
Gordon Corera, veteran security journalist and co-host of The Rest is Classified, joins Morgan Childs to discuss the central figure in his latest book - Vasili Mitrokhin. Mitrokhin was a KGB archivist who defected to the…