CBS Announces New Episodes and Airdates of “FBI True” Airing Through March

Cases Spotlighted Include Sports’ Biggest Scandal with FIFA, the Seattle Sex Trafficker, the Birmingham Church Bombing, and More…

CBS today announced airdates of never-before-seen episodes of FBI TRUE, the docuseries that takes viewers into some of the most significant and astonishing cases in FBI history through the eyes of the agents who were there. The new FBI TRUE episodes, airing through Wednesday, March 6, will begin airing Wednesday, January 24 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and streaming on Paramount+ (live and on-demand for Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers, or on-demand for Paramount+ Essential subscribers the day after the episode airs)*. Stream a mountain of family entertainment now on Paramount+. Try it free!

FBI TRUE pulls no punches as the agents share emotional stories with each other. They relive the heart-stopping moments of their biggest cases, revealing new details of how they foiled major criminal and terrorist plots. Each week, FBI TRUE will introduce audiences to courageous agents who took great personal risks in the line of duty. Each episode will either focus on a single case or two cases where agents had to make hair-trigger decisions when lives hung in the balance.

FBI TRUE’s format features legendary FBI special agents, who sit down with their fellow agents to share their stories over coffee or beer. Loglines and airdates for the never-before-seen January through March episodes of FBI TRUE follow:

January

Wednesday, January 24 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) **Two Back-to-Back Cases Comprise the Full Hour

“The Heist: Undercover Among the Art Thieves” – When Special Agent Sean Sterle receives a tip about a Los Angeles drug kingpin who knows the whereabouts of hugely valuable paintings stolen from Sweden’s national museum, the FBI taps legendary undercover agent Bob Wittman, who helped recover over $300 million worth of art and artifacts from 20 countries and is called the “Indiana Jones of the FBI.” Sterle and Wittman speak with fellow agent Cindy Coppola about joining forces in a daring international mission to recover a $35 million Rembrandt self-portrait.

“FIFA: Sports’ Biggest Scandal” – In 2009, the FBI’s Eurasian organized crime unit learned that Russia might be bribing its way to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup. They discover a system of embezzlement in which hundreds of millions of dollars are making a global journey into the pockets of a privileged FIFA few. The FBI agents tap American soccer statesman Chuck Blazer to be their confidential informant to help them take down one of the most powerful and corrupt organizations in the world. FBI veterans Mike Gaeta and John Penza retell how they cracked one of the most sprawling corruption cases in sporting history to fellow agent Kristy Kottis.

Wednesday, January 31 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) **Two Back-to-Back Cases Comprise the Full Hour

“Hunting a Terrorist Mastermind” – When a massive bomb planted in a Ryder van explodes below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in 1993, the FBI sets out on a desperate international manhunt for the man who built the bomb. As agents arrive in world capitals just days after their quarry left, the Bureau discovers plans for new acts of terror meant to kill thousands. Will the FBI be able to catch this terror mastermind before more people die? Former Special Agent Frank Pellegrino, former Supervisory Special Agent Charlie Rasner and former U.S. attorney David Kelley speak with fellow agent Kristy Kottis about the hunt for a man who hoped to kill as many as possible.

“Stopping a Sniper” – After a family doctor well-known for performing abortions is gunned down in his suburban Buffalo home in 1998, all clues point to an anti-abortion extremist as the sniper. But he’s nowhere to be found. Soon, the FBI turns to a rookie agent and a confidential informant in hopes they can ply a convicted clinic bomber and his wife for the intel that will bring this top 10 fugitive to justice. Former Assistant Special Agents in Charge Harold Brantley and Michael Osborn along with former unit chief Cynthia Deitle sit down with fellow agent Kristy Kottis about their work launching this international manhunt.

February

Wednesday, February 7 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) **Two Back-to-Back Cases Comprise the Full Hour

“Seattle Sex Trafficker: ‘You’re Gonna Be Rich'” – In 2014, a suburban police detective learns of a Seattle filmmaker who convinces teenage girls to engage in prostitution with fraudulent promises that they’ll cash in when he makes a movie on the subject. After the suspect goes on the run, the detective and an FBI special agent team up to uncover a multi-state sex-trafficking operation. Special Agent Ingrid Arbuthnot-Stohl and Natalie D’Amico speak with agent Kristy Kottis about how they collaborated to take down a conman who victimized and exploited unsuspecting young women.

“Finding Aldrich Ames: The Hunt for a Mole” – When the CIA’s most valuable Russian assets start disappearing one by one, the Agency starts hunting for the mole who’s been betraying them since 1985. As the mole hunters zero in on a trusted colleague, the FBI takes over the investigation in hopes of catching the culprit before more damage is done. Former FBI Special Agent Barry Colvert, former CIA officer Sandy Grimes, and former FBI Supervisory Special Agent Dell Spry recount to fellow agent Cindy Coppola the agonizing search for the deadliest traitor in American history.

Wednesday, February 14 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT)

“The Birmingham Church Bombing: The Long Arc of Justice” – Described by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as “one of the most vicious and tragic crimes ever perpetrated against humanity,” the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., took the lives of four girls and forever changed the course of history. Within a few hours of the vicious attack, there were FBI bomb experts on the ground who started what would become a four-decade-long quest for justice. By the mid-’90s, the FBI had secretly re-opened their investigation into the bombing. Special Agents Bill Fleming and Ben Herren, and former U.S. attorney and Senator Doug Jones, speak with former agent Kristy Kottis about their work to uncover new evidence that could finally bring justice for the four young girls killed in this unthinkable act of racial hatred.

Wednesday, February 28 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT)

“Angel of Death” – The FBI is called in after eight veterans, who are patients at a Veteran Affairs hospital in Clarksburg, W.Va., mysteriously die, one after the other, in a short span of time. There’s neither surveillance video nor eyewitnesses, and almost no physical evidence left behind. After conducting hundreds of interviews, poring over thousands of pages of medical charts, timecards and electronic records, and exhuming victims’ bodies, investigators uncover a shocking truth: the killer comes from inside the hospital itself. Special Agent Ashley Archibald, Executive Special Agent in Charge Keith Vereb (Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General), and assistant U.S. Attorney of the northern district of West Virginia Jarod Douglas, share their inside accounts of the remarkable investigation they were a part of.

March

Wednesday, March 6 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT)

“The Base: America’s Most Dangerous Hate Group” – The Base, a violent white supremacist group, conducts several training missions in rural Georgia in preparation for a series of attacks and mass shootings they hope will bring about the collapse of American society. The FBI, though, has been attempting to track the movements of several Base members, including an ex-military Canadian who’s in the U.S. illegally. In this chilling multi-state, multi-subject case, which took place in 2020, the FBI must find a way to stop The Base before they set their deadly plans in motion. Special Agent Rachid Harrison and former Special Agent in Charge Tom Sobocinski dive deep with fellow agent Kristy Kottis about their work to stop the group.

About FBI TRUE

FBI TRUE is from executive producers Craig Turk’s Thinking Hat Productions, Anne Beagan’s Anne Beagan Productions, and Shawn Efran’s Efran Films Canada. Turk is co-creator of CBS’ hit drama FBI, Beagan is a veteran FBI Special Agent-turned-producer and Efran is an award-winning former 60 MINUTES producer. Twelve-time Emmy® winner Solly Granatstein is the showrunner and, along with Azadeh De Leon, an executive producer. The docuseries is being made in association with CBS and Paramount Global’s SEE IT NOW STUDIOS. Susan Zirinsky is president and Terence Wrong is senior executive producer.

	FBI TRUE
	Network: CBSGenre: DocumentarySeasons: 7Episodes: 70
	Overview A real-life look into FBI agents’ high-pressure world with never-before-seen surveillance video, interrogations with hostage takers and terrorists, and personal photos from the agents’ collections.