00:00Did you know the CIA hunted one man for decades and never once got a photograph of his face?
00:05His name was Markus Wolf. He ran East Germany's Foreign Intelligence Service for over 30 years,
00:10and he built a weapon unlike anything the Cold War had ever seen. He called them Romeo agents.
00:16Handsome, patient, carefully trained men, their mission was not to steal documents.
00:21Their mission was to fall in love. They targeted lonely secretaries in West Germany,
00:25women with NATO clearances, with access to classified files, with no one at home waiting
00:30for them. The agents moved in slowly. They were kind. They remembered birthdays. They stayed for
00:35years. The women had no idea. They thought they had finally found someone real. Then the Berlin
00:40Wall fell. The files opened, and hundreds of women learned that the man they loved had been assigned
00:46to them. Wolf died in 2006, free, never convicted in a court that stuck. The women had to keep living
00:51with what they found out. That is the part that never made the history books.
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