Excusive: Passing along this confidential information: CNN and BBC Studios have reteamed on a new docuseries that details the inner workings of Cold War operatives in the 1980s. The news network will air Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game at 10 p.m. Sunday, June 2. Watch the trailer above.
Produced by BBC Studios, the four-part CNN Original Series tracks the spies operating behind the scenes in the Reagan Era as two superpowers move to the brink of nuclear war. It follows the shakiness of global geopolitics during the Cold War through the lens of two notorious double agents: Oleg Gordievsky and Aldrich Ames. As President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher maneuver on the world stage, their agents are pulling the strings.
Gordievsky, the top Kgb double agent for the British, proves invaluable by giving insight into the Soviet mindset. In the West, Aldrich is the head of the Soviet Desk...
Produced by BBC Studios, the four-part CNN Original Series tracks the spies operating behind the scenes in the Reagan Era as two superpowers move to the brink of nuclear war. It follows the shakiness of global geopolitics during the Cold War through the lens of two notorious double agents: Oleg Gordievsky and Aldrich Ames. As President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher maneuver on the world stage, their agents are pulling the strings.
Gordievsky, the top Kgb double agent for the British, proves invaluable by giving insight into the Soviet mindset. In the West, Aldrich is the head of the Soviet Desk...
- 5/7/2024
- by Dominic Patten and Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
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