{"id":8448,"date":"2020-02-15T18:29:38","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T23:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=8448"},"modified":"2020-02-15T18:29:38","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T23:29:38","slug":"smithsonian-channeltm-enters-the-world-of-global-espionage-to-retrace-the-movements-of-the-worlds-most-notorious-spies-in-spy-wars-with-damian-lewis-launches-sunday-march-22-at-8pm-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/15\/smithsonian-channeltm-enters-the-world-of-global-espionage-to-retrace-the-movements-of-the-worlds-most-notorious-spies-in-spy-wars-with-damian-lewis-launches-sunday-march-22-at-8pm-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Smithsonian Channel(TM) Enters the World of Global Espionage to Retrace the Movements of the World&#8217;s Most Notorious Spies in &#8220;Spy Wars with Damian Lewis&#8221; Launches Sunday, March 22 at 8PM [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8449\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/damian-lewis-spy-wars.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/damian-lewis-spy-wars.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/damian-lewis-spy-wars-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/damian-lewis-spy-wars-560x315.jpg 560w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/damian-lewis-spy-wars-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/damian-lewis-spy-wars-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Smithsonian Channel is set to investigate some of the most shocking and explosive cases of espionage over the last 50 years. SPY WARS WITH DAMIAN LEWIS features the incredible true stories of spy wars fought in the shadows, from the turbulent years of the Cold War to the Iran Hostage Crisis and the discovery of a complex web of sleeper agents living in the U.S. &#8211; a major inspiration for the plot of The Americans. Each episode of this new eight-part series sees host Damian Lewis revealing these remarkable tales of the secretive world of government intelligence, surveillance and international conspiracy plots with interviews from the experts and eyewitnesses that lived through them. 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In June 2006, Abdullah Ahmed Ali flew home to London from Pakistan, unknowingly being watched by the British security service, MI5. 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