Special Forces Kinshasa | Green Berets

True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

Deep in the African rainforests, how do you hold together a decolonising nation in the wake of mass regional instability?

James Stejskal, ex-CIA and former Green Beret, tells the story of his time in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. As the nation wrestles with its post-colonial identity, regional instability, and the AIDS crisis, James' job is to keep an exposed US Embassy safe and operating - giving Zaire its best chance to survive in the post-Cold War new world order...

From SPYSCAPE, the HQ of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Produced by Morgan Childs. Series producer Joe Foley. Music by Nick Ryan.

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