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The Service: The state, secrets and spies
The day John Daniell turned 10, his mum told him she had been a spy. Before long he had a new step-dad, who was an active SIS officer. Forty years on, John and journalist Guyon Espiner search for the truth behind a secret John's step-dad told him.
The Service headlines with summaries.
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NZ's independence from Five Eyes has slipped - Helen Clark
New Zealand has been "drawn in a lot closer" to the US-led spy network, the former prime minister says.
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SIS spied on Labour MP Richard Northey
9 Jun 2020The Service - The senior Labour politician was spied on while he was as an MP, even when he had an oversight role of the intelligence agency.
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Geoffrey Palmer reveals KGB tried to infiltrate Labour Party
9 Jun 2020The KGB tried to penetrate government systems and infiltrate the ruling Labour Party, the former prime minister says.
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Little refuses to deny signing off on embassy break-ins
9 Jun 2020The SIS minister will not say if he has been asked to sign off on warrants allowing the SIS to break in to foreign embassies in New Zealand.
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'I grew up around spies'
9 Jun 2020The Service - The writer on growing up among SIS officers and why he decided now was the time to get to the bottom of an intelligence secret and make the findings public in a podcast.
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Spy secret revealed: SIS and MI6 raided Czech embassy in Wellington
9 Jun 2020The Service - The security intelligence agencies broke into the Czechoslovakian Embassy in Wellington during the Cold War to steal secret codes.
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Why we are revealing SIS secrets
9 Jun 2020The Service - As a new podcast reveals SIS secrets from the Cold War, the executive producers explain why they decided classified information should be divulged.
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The Service podcast trailer
8 Jun 2020A new five-part podcast series reveals Cold War stories about the state, secrets and spies. Video
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What was the Cold War?
8 Jun 2020As new RNZ podcast series The Service delves into SIS secrets from the Cold War, *Naomi Arnold* details the decades of tension between capitalist western democracies and communist countries.
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What was the 'Sutch Affair'?
8 Jun 2020As new RNZ podcast series The Service reveals SIS secrets from the Cold War, *Naomi Arnold* delves into New Zealand's most famous spy scandal - the arrest of Bill Sutch.
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