Looks at leaders murdered at the peaks of their careers, before their full impact had even been realized, including Huey Long, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.

Examines attempts to change great power structures by murder and focuses on the assassinations or attempts on Hitler, Trotsky, Lenin, and the Archduke Ferdinand.

The word "assassin" comes from the European name for the member of a secret order of the Ismaili sect of Islam. The order was founded by Hasan ibn al-Sabbah when he gained control (c.1090) of the mountain fortress of Alamut near the Caspian Sea.

Examines the loner as assassin focusing on Lee Harvey Oswald, John Wilkes Booth, and John Hinckley, who shot Reagan to win actress Jodie Foster's attention.

Vienna 1953: Vying with Russia for control of postwar Europe, the U.S. is in dire need of intelligence--until Lt. Col. Pyotr Popov offers his services by dropping a letter into a diplomat's car. In 1959, the KGB caught Popov, forcing him to send false information. Before his 1960 execution, he bravely signaled the CIA alerting them to the situation. Then, meet CIA officer Chip Beck who refused to evacuate from Cambodia in 1975--until he rescued over 200 people from genocide at the Killing Fields.

Oleg Penkovsky, a disillusioned colonel with Soviet military intelligence (GRU), volunteered his services to the CIA and photographed secret documents--information so crucial that it became the trump card in a deadly game of nuclear politics when President Kennedy revealed the existence of Soviet missiles in Cuba in 1962. Then, CIA officer Robert Rayle is instructed to sneak Stalin's only daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, out of Soviet-friendly India, where she had sought asylum at the U.S. Embassy.

When the CIA learned that Soviet foreign diplomat Alexsandr Dmitrievich Ogorodnik's Colombian mistress was pregnant, they offered him a secure future with her if he would spy for the U.S. Code-named Trigon. Alexsandr teamed up with a female CIA officer in Moscow and became the agency's most valuable spy. Then, after the bloody military coup in Communist-controlled Grenada, the CIA sent in case officer Linda Flohr to be the Oval Office's "eyes and ears" and report on U.S. medical students trapped there.

Based on new research and unparalleled access to CIA files, we present intriguing stories about little-known missions of the nation's most secretive organization. First, we see how the CIA caught a spy within its Counterintelligence Division, as one by one, Soviet agents spying for the U.S. were disappearing in 1985. How do you uncover a mole in your own ranks when anyone could be suspect? Then, we examine "Operation Gold," a bold plan to tunnel under the Berlin Wall where phone lines could be tapped.