Name: Curious Minds: Espionage
Uploaded: 2015
Description: What makes a spy successful? What mindset drives a covert operative?

What makes a spy successful? What mindset drives a covert operative?

Explore what makes a spy effective by examining the mindset behind covert operations. Drawing on firsthand reflections about service, intelligence gathering, and working in demanding environments, this series reveals the intellectual, psychological, and moral pressures that shape espionage. Sign up to see how curiosity and judgment become tools of survival and strategy.

Inside the psychology, risk, and moral tension of covert work.

Henry Crumpton, a former CIA covert operative, describes a story from his post in Africa that changed his way of thinking.

Henry Crumpton, a former top CIA covert operative, talks about what inspired him to go into the clandestine service.