It's episode nine, and the squirrels are digging into two Cold War cases. First, a quick case update: new court filings on the David Rush gold bars case, including an extended indictment deadline and a judge's ruling on flight risk.
Then we head underground with Operation Monopoly — the FBI's decades-long, multimillion-dollar tunnel dug beneath the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C., a project so secret it was betrayed before it even started by FBI turncoat Robert Hanssen. We go beyond the espionage to look at the family Hanssen left behind: his wife Bonnie, their six children, and the decades of fallout from a betrayal that went far beyond national security.
From there, we cross into the Ural Mountains for the Dyatlov Pass Incident: nine experienced hikers, a tent slashed open from the inside, and a death certificate that blames it all on an \"unknown compelling force.\" Avalanches, infrasound, failed missile tests, and a decades-old nuclear cover-up all make their case — but sixty-plus years later, no single theory explains everything investigators found.
Stay curious and stay cautious, because in a world of secrets, the truth always leaves a trail.
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