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Spies and Informants | 60 Minutes Marathon

2025-03-09 News & Politics
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From 2017, Scott Pelley’s interview with an FBI undercover agent who infiltrated Al Qaeda and helped thwart several terrorist attacks. From 2011, Anderson Cooper’s report on FBI agent Lin Vecchio, who helped put away several notorious Mafia leaders, but also faced murder charges due to his association with an informant. From 2017, Sharyn Alfonsi’s report on the use of jailhouse informants in Orange County, California. From 2015, Steve Kroft’s report on Jack Barsky, a KGB spy from the Soviet Union who lived for decades in the United States without being detected. From 2019, Pelley’s talk with a former American member of Al-Qaeda who provided valuable intelligence in order to avoid jail. From 2001, Lesley Stahl’s report on Robert Hanssen, an FBI agent who was convicted of spying for Russia. From 2024, Cecilia Vega’s report on the Americans spying for Cuba in the U.S. From 2015, Stahl’s investigation into the controversial use of young confidential informants by law enforcement in dangerous and sometimes deadly drug cases. From 2010, Pelley’s report on a Defense Department employee caught on tape selling secrets to a Chinese spy. From 2022, Jon Wertheim's story on the Ritchie Boys, the secret U.S. unit bolstered by German-born Jews who helped the Allies beat Hitler. From 2018, Cooper’s interview with Justice and FBI officials who reveal how they caught a former CIA officer spying for the Chinese. And from 2017, Kroft’s interview with British author John Le Carré who has written several best-selling spy thrillers under the pen name David Cornwell. #news #crime #documentary "60 Minutes" is the most successful television broadcast in history. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 and is still a hit, over 50 seasons later, regularly making Nielsen's Top 10. Subscribe to the "60 Minutes" YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/60minutes Watch full episodes: https://cbsn.ws/1Qkjo1F Get more "60 Minutes" from "60 Minutes: Overtime": https://cbsnews.com/60-minutes/overtime/ Follow "60 Minutes" on Instagram: https://instagram.com/60minutes/ Like "60 Minutes" on Facebook:https://facebook.com/60minutes Follow "60 Minutes" on Twitter: https://twitter.com/60Minutes Subscribe to our newsletter: https://cbsnews.com/newsletters/ Download the CBS News app: https://cbsnews.com/mobile/ Try Paramount+ free: https://paramountplus.com/?ftag=PPM-05-10aeh8h For video licensing inquiries, contact: [email protected] 0:00 Intro 0:11 Inside Al Qaeda 13:13 The FBI and the Grim Reaper 21:50 Snitches 35:55 The Spy Among Us (Part 1) 50:17 The Spy Among Us (Part 2) 1:03:47 Double Crossed 1:16:43 The Secret Life of Robert Hanssen 1:30:39 Cuban Spycraft 1:43:43 Confidential Informants (Part 1) 1:57:31 Confidential Informants (Part 2) 2:10:31 Stealing America's Secrets 2:23:22 Ritchie Boys (Part 1) 2:37:20 Ritchie Boys (Part 2) 2:49:51 Ritchie Boys (Part 3) 3:04:01 To Catch a Spy 3:17:20 Le Carre (Part 1) 3:31:17 Le Carre (Part 2)

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@60minutes 2025-03-09

0:11 Inside Al Qaeda 13:13 The FBI and the Grim Reaper 21:50 Snitches 35:55 The Spy Among Us (Part 1) 50:17 The Spy Among Us (Part 2) 1:03:47 Double Crossed 1:16:43 The Secret Life of Robert Hanssen 1:30:39 Cuban Spycraft 1:43:43 Confidential Informants (Part 1) 1:57:31 Confidential Informants (Part 2) 2:10:31 Stealing America's Secrets 2:23:22 Ritchie Boys (Part 1) 2:37:20 Ritchie Boys (Part 2) 2:49:51 Ritchie Boys (Part 3) 3:04:01 To Catch a Spy 3:17:20 Le Carre (Part 1) 3:31:17 Le Carre (Part 2)

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@slyjokerg 2025-03-10

The prosecutor in segment 3 couldn't more obviously be lying about the informant program, planting rats next to high profile people, etc.

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@williamtell1477 2025-04-03

These folks are incredible, we owe them so much.

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@StreamcleanerBoop-j7b 2025-03-10

His prosthetics are flawless and well done 👍.

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@mashburn24 2025-03-15

Niiiiice. This video is the perfect length for my West Virginia > Kentucky drive 🙏🙏✊️✊️

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@PeaceLoveandMolotovs 2025-03-13

The Jack Barsky story was surprisingly wholesome

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@Shastaluuu 2025-05-10

Jack Barsky said he told his daughter “everything that was age appropriate”, and that is something all parents should take heed of.

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@chefscorner7063 2025-07-22

What a binge worthy compilation that ends with the perfect video. It's definitely worth a watch, IMHO.

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@Indytelevision 2025-03-12

He thinks about the sleeper when he wakes up.

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@Peace2humankind 2025-03-15

The best part about Joey Merlino is that he is exposing all of this. He flat out tells his audience how dirty the government and law enforcement is, and how they protect and enable murderers. This Delvecio character is admitting it with impunity. Prosecutors know all of this stuff, and go right along with it.

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