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Season One Trailer · Deep Secrets

• 0:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: A year ago, I found out that my grandfather was in the CIA, which was surprising, because growing up, Grandpa Jim had only ever been grandpa, a former Marine engineer, a gold farmer, just a sweet, gentle grandpa.
• 0:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: My sister, Kelna, and I started pulling on that thread, and almost immediately, things started to get weird.
• 0:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: The CIA doesn't keep records like you think they do.
• 0:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: This was one of the most classified operations of the Cold War.
• 0:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: The National Smithsonian refers to this mission as a real life, oceans 11, that inspired the hunt for October and somehow.
• 0:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: My grandfather was there.
• 0:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: But the deeper we went into his past, the less anything made sense.
• 0:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: There were unexplained trips, missing years, connections
• 1:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: the focus group of doing.
• 1:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
• 1:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: Stories that my family had been telling for decades suddenly looked very different.
• 1:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: And while trying to figure out who the hell my grandpa really was, my kid started growing up.
• 1:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: And suddenly, this stop just being a story about the CIA, I started wondering, how much do we actually know about our parents?
• 1:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: What do fathers keep from their children?
• 1:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: What do we hide because we're ashamed?
• 1:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: And what do we hide from them because we think we're protecting them?
• 1:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I jumped on planes.
• 1:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: I traveled all over, I talked to everyone.
• 1:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: I talked to historians and intelligence experts, comedians, actors, neuroscientists, basically anyone that could help me understand what the hell happened and pretty much every answer just uncovered another secret.
• 2:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: This is a story about one of the most ambitious covert operations in American history.
• 2:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: But outside of missing Russian nuclear weapons, it's really just, uh, it's a story about fathers and their kids, and the things we leave behind for them to figure out.
• 2:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: My name is Hunter Hill, and this is Deep Secret.