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Spies can find out highly explosive information, decide between victory and defeat in wars and thus change the world. Because so much happens in secret, a real myth has arisen around some agents, such as the legendary dancer and double spy Mata Hari. The Dutch woman first spied for the German Empire, and later also for the French secret service. The spy Richard Sorge, also known as Stalin's "master spy", uncovered the plans of the wartime enemies Japan and Germany on his spy mission in Tokyo during the Second World War. This video will look at these and three other espionage cases. How do spies work? What successes do they achieve? And how are they exposed? From Günter Guillaume, the GDR spy who worked his way into the inner circle of Chancellor Willy Brandt during the Cold War, to the Watergate scandal in the USA, which ultimately forced US President Richard Nixon to resign, to the mass espionage of the NSA, which was made public by Edward Snowden, in this video you will learn everything you need to know about five of the most spectacular espionage operations of modern times. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:43 Mata Hari 05:27 Richard Sorge 08:35 Günter Guillaume 11:41 The Watergate scandal 14:40 Edward Snowden and the NSA Literature: Chapman, John WM: Richard Sorge, the GRU and the Pacific War, Amsterdam 2020. Fuhrgang, Adam: Edward Snowden: Whistleblower in Exile, New York 2019. Hirschfeld, Gerhard: Mata Hari: the greatest spy of the 20th century, in: Secret services in world history: espionage and covert operations from antiquity to the present (pp. 151-169), Munich 2003. Ramge, Thomas: The major political scandals: a different history of the Federal Republic. Frankfurt/Main 2003. Snowden, Edward: Permanent Record: My Story, Frankfurt/Main 2019. https://www.bpb.de/kurz-knapp/hinterg... https://www.bundesarchiv.de/DE/Conten... https://www.bundesstiftung-aufarbeitu... https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/edward... https://www.spiegel.de/geschichte/mat... https://www.tagesschau.de/investigati... https://www.theguardian.com/world/201... https://www.zukunft-braucht-erinnerun... Be sure to check it out: Terra X History on Instagram: / terraxhistory Terra X in the media library: https://terra-x.zdf.de/?at_medium=cus... Terra X History on YouTube: / @terraxhistory A production of objektiv media GmbH for #TerraX and #ZDF: Moderation: Mirko Drotschmann Author: Andreas Sommer Producer: Andreas Sommer Production assistant: Daniela Ssymank, Fabio Kratzmaier Editor (OM): Franziska Pfeffer, Verena Glanos Motion Design: Christian Wischnewski Editing: Christian Wischnewski, Kyra Müller, Lias Becker Thumbnail: David Weber ZDF: Kai Jostmeier, Alexandra Reuter, Kim Krämer