CIA Declassified

2011 Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown in a bloody civil war. What few people know is that the CIA have been planning to orchestrate a Libyan revolt for 30 years and that the man now leading the rebel forces is a long-time CIA ally.

The CIA's hunt for Osama bin Laden is a story we think we know. Yet the movies don't tell us everything. With testimony from those directly involved from the start, we reveal the de-classified truth behind the 15-year manhunt.

The true story of how CIA Director William Casey allegedly sanctioned an off-the-books assassination attempt on Sheikh Mohammed Fadlallah in Beirut in 1985. Casey was convinced Fadlallah was the head of Hezbollah and behind a series of terrorist attacks.

It's the year 1998 - the bombers of the US Embassy in Nairobi start a trail of destruction that the CIA must stop. It's Al Qaeda's first attack. The trail leads to Somalia and Mogadishu. The CIA bribes warlords and use drones to track and kill an untried man.

1979. America is at its knees as the infamous US Embassy Hostage crisis begins, but then the CIA discovers that six diplomats have secretly escaped. When they recruit in their ace 'rescue' agent Tony Mendez to get them out, he devises a 'Hollywood' based plan so extraordinary it fools the entire world.

2000 - the bombers of the USS Cole in the Yemen port of Aden are found but the leadership remains elusive. After 9/11, Al Qaeda escalate their attacks and the godfather of terror is revealed. His use of a satphone locates him and he's killed by a drone.