8 episodes
The Service RNZ Originals
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- History
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4.8 • 8 Ratings
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FINALIST, ASSN FOR INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING AWARDS 2020. The day John Daniell turned 10, his mum told him she had been a spy.
Now, he and Guyon Espiner are investigating a family story that could reveal New Zealand's biggest Cold War secret.
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06: New Revelations
Guyon and John break radio silence with new revelations about SIS operations, the reactions from Iran and India and news about surveillance of one of New Zealand's most renowned writers. And Guyon re-thinks his conclusions.
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Bonus: More Raids Confirmed
More raids. More embassies. More breaking of international law. Ongoing investigations have uncovered other break-ins by New Zealand's SIS to bug and steal from embassies in Wellington, teaming up with the CIA as well as MI6
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05: The Raid
In the final episode, we close in on the details around the joint MI6/SIS operation targeting the Czechoslovakian Embassy. Finally, someone who was on the raid breaks their silence. But there’s a twist…
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04: The Club
The Five Eyes is an intelligence alliance with roots that go all the way back to World War II. It’s a tight club – but just what does membership demand of us?
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03: A Full Court Press from the KGB
In the mid-1980s, New Zealand's anti-nuclear policy is attracting international attention. With the ANZUS alliance in crisis, the KGB see an opportunity.
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02: The Wilderness of Mirrors
New Zealand has Cold War spy stories we know about - and some we don't. Even now, it's hard to get people to talk. The big question is: who do you trust?
Customer Reviews
Good listen. Recommend.
I’ve been musing that Jim may have considered the job as a success because the crew went in and out of the Czechoslovakian embassy without incident, and photographed/copied what the crew thought was the correct material. The material, however, turned out NOT to be valuable or the codes retrieved were not the codes MI5 believed were secured in the Czech safe, and the upper team didn’t share this information with Jim and the covert crew. So in summary the secret service considered the job unsuccessful because they didn’t retrieve what they hoped.