Dan Snow

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15,236 appearances 105 recordings 11 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 2d ago

Dan Snow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Dan Snow's History Hit · The KGB Double Agent Who Stopped Armageddon with Ben McIntyre · 14 Sep 2026 podcast

Than the last. voice-verified

And he's always right. voice-verified

Because folks, this is the craziest I've ever heard. voice-verified

What you're about to hear is a story that's never been told before. voice-verified

The story of a double agent who prevented Armageddon at the height of the Cold War. voice-verified

A Soviet double agent working for the KGB after the Iranian Revolution. voice-verified

He was in Tehran. voice-verified

And he knew that the Soviets were working with the Iranian Communist Party, the Two-Day Party, to overthrow the fledgling Ayatollah's regime. voice-verified

In nineteen eighty one. voice-verified

In a plot that, if successful, would have almost certainly resulted in Soviet forces moving into Iran to support this new communist government as they had in Afghanistan, which in turn was a nightmare scenario for the Americans. voice-verified

And a contingency for which voice-verified

They were planning to deploy nuclear weapons. voice-verified

This is the story of how this spy cracked open the KGB. voice-verified

For British intelligence, risking everything. voice-verified

And in doing so, change the course of history. voice-verified

Now what makes this even more? voice-verified

Extraordinary. voice-verified

Is his reason for doing so. voice-verified

A deeply personal reason that had consequences far beyond himself. voice-verified

This is the story of one man's courage. voice-verified

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