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Stuff You Should Know
What we know about MI6

Right. And then another gambit is called the dangle. It's not dirty. It's just this way of getting somebody to spy for you.

Stuff You Should Know
What we know about MI6

Or actually, it's a way of creating a double agent like you were talking about.

Stuff You Should Know
What we know about MI6

Or actually, it's a way of creating a double agent like you were talking about.

Stuff You Should Know
What we know about MI6

Or actually, it's a way of creating a double agent like you were talking about.

Stuff You Should Know
What we know about MI6

So a dangle is where you say like you have somebody in Moscow that you've turned into an agent for you. You try to make them attractive to, say, the KGB to recruit them as a spy. So now you have a double agent working inside.

Stuff You Should Know
What we know about MI6

So a dangle is where you say like you have somebody in Moscow that you've turned into an agent for you. You try to make them attractive to, say, the KGB to recruit them as a spy. So now you have a double agent working inside.

Stuff You Should Know
What we know about MI6

So a dangle is where you say like you have somebody in Moscow that you've turned into an agent for you. You try to make them attractive to, say, the KGB to recruit them as a spy. So now you have a double agent working inside.

Stuff You Should Know
What we know about MI6

I don't know if he came to them. No, he came to them. He became disillusioned with the Soviet Union. And he's like, I think I'm going to start helping the UK.

Stuff You Should Know
What we know about MI6

I don't know if he came to them. No, he came to them. He became disillusioned with the Soviet Union. And he's like, I think I'm going to start helping the UK.

Stuff You Should Know
What we know about MI6

I don't know if he came to them. No, he came to them. He became disillusioned with the Soviet Union. And he's like, I think I'm going to start helping the UK.

Stuff You Should Know
What we know about MI6

Yeah, which is pretty useful, as a matter of fact. Yeah, he was hugely helpful just over like 18 months and then he was caught and executed. But I think at that time he gave up 5000 photos of Soviet documents to MI6.

Stuff You Should Know
What we know about MI6

Yeah, which is pretty useful, as a matter of fact. Yeah, he was hugely helpful just over like 18 months and then he was caught and executed. But I think at that time he gave up 5000 photos of Soviet documents to MI6.

Stuff You Should Know
What we know about MI6

Yeah, which is pretty useful, as a matter of fact. Yeah, he was hugely helpful just over like 18 months and then he was caught and executed. But I think at that time he gave up 5000 photos of Soviet documents to MI6.

Stuff You Should Know
What we know about MI6

Wait, can you say I can't do a very good British accent?

Stuff You Should Know
What we know about MI6

Wait, can you say I can't do a very good British accent?

Stuff You Should Know
What we know about MI6

Wait, can you say I can't do a very good British accent?

Stuff You Should Know
What we know about MI6

Almost always is. So I say we take a break and we come back and talk about one of the most thrilling moments in MI6 history.