NGC reveals the intricate plots, daring manoeuvres and dangerous risks of strategic operations and confidential missions – some of which have dominated international headlines.

Mondays at 22:00 on DStv (channel 260) CLASSIFIED captures all the drama, as NGC cameras – for the first time – are allowed to follow the Secret Service through the planning, surveillance work and informant meetings, all culminating in a treacherous raid on a pair of master counterfeiters. Capturing the raw energy of some of the CIA’s most pressing quests, the series also examines invisible warriors – drones – used in countries like Iraq and Afghanistan, and a new insidious, viral enemy network of terrorist cells. And, CLASSIFIED goes behind the scenes with FBI counter terror agents to get the inside story on interrogating Saddam and two landmark U.S. terror cases.

Episodes include:

CLASSIFIED: Secret Service Files: Battlefront Colombia
Travel south of the border as an elite team of American agents and Colombian investigators join forces to raid a major counterfeit plant in Bogotá. In the most notorious region for counterfeit production in the world, over $25-million in fake U.S. currency is printed each year. Travel to the Secret Service training centre in Maryland as Colombian recruits are trained to work alongside American agents. Then return to Colombia as the teams prepares for a massive international manhunt. For the first time, NGC cameras are allowed to follow them throughout the planning, surveillance work and informant meetings, all culminating in a dangerous raid on a pair of master counterfeiters.

CLASSIFIED: Secret Service Files: Frontline New York City
In the digital age, financial fraud is not limited to counterfeit currency. Secret Service Files rides with NYC agents as the Electronic Crimes Task Force pursues a culprit using fake credit cards to cash out ATMs throughout the city. But the goal is not to apprehend the suspect; instead, units mobilise to follow the trail of stolen money, hoping it leads to the cyber theft mastermind. Then, step inside the equipment vault, an arsenal of state-of-the-art surveillance gadgets. And as the team prepares for an event in Madison Square Garden, everyday activities in Manhattan become part of the complicated security scenario.

CLASSIFIED: Secret Service Files: Undercover Miami
Secret Service Files heads to the Field Office in Miami, a hotbed for counterfeit currency and credit card fraud. Hit the streets as an undercover agent coordinates a sting at an electronics superstore after surveillance reveals a fraud ring buying expensive goods with fake money and then returning them for the real thing. And with an anti-counterfeit operation only hours away, agents construct a hidden camera inside a laptop case. Then, listen in as an undercover agent tries to strike a deal with a notoriously dangerous counterfeiter — but will his flashy car and wads of cash fool this wary criminal?

CLASSIFIED: Secret Service Files: United Nations Lockdown
The Secret Service prepares for the annual meeting of the U.N. General Assembly and a high-stakes world of armoured limos and urban lockdown. As nearly the entire world’s leadership gathers in NYC, the Secret Service is responsible for the safety of not just the president, but 131 visiting heads of state. From an undisclosed location high above this massive city — no cameras have ever gained access to this secret fortress until now — the agency employs every resource in preparation for thousands of potentially disastrous situations. Step inside an armoured limo designed to outperform almost any vehicle, and follow agents as they sweep every inch of a bustling downtown hotel. See how they prepare for paralysing gridlock, angry mobs and a terrorist bomb uncovered only hours before the dignitaries arrive as NGC captures the Secret Service’s efforts to ensure the safety of each leader.

CLASSIFIED: CIA Confidential: Pakistan Undercover
The CIA's mission has changed. In the post-9/11 world, the Central Intelligence Agency has a new mandate: stop terror. After years fighting the Soviets for Cold War dominance, America's spymasters now face a new insidious, viral enemy - not simply Al Qaeda, but a proliferating network of terrorist cells. CIA Confidential: Pakistan Undercover goes inside one of the most perilous battlegrounds of the new war: Pakistan. Join a 14-point strike to capture alleged Al Qaeda logistician Abu Zubaydah and follow the CIA's multi-national effort to capture alleged Al Qaeda terror-broker Rashid Rauf before he can unleash a massive attack on US airliners.

CLASSIFIED: CIA Confidential: Hunt for Bin Laden
Just days after the horrific attacks of 9/11, a team of seven CIA agents snuck into northern Afghanistan and began to lay the groundwork for war. Dubbed operation 'Jawbreaker', their goal was to take out Al Qaeda, find Osama Bin Laden and kill him. Now, NGC tells the story of this dangerous covert mission from the point of view of the CIA officers and top-secret Delta Force operators involved. Veteran intelligence officers discuss the risky methods used to gather intelligence, the high-tech devices needed to track the Taliban and the errors made in one of the biggest manhunts in CIA history.

CLASSIFIED: CIA Confidential: Inside the Drone War
They were the invisible warriors in Iraq, Afghanistan and most recently Libya. But drones, the CIA's elusive, unmanned counter-terrorism war planes, add a new level of danger for CIA operatives in the field. After a string of drone attacks on key Al Qaeda and Taliban leadership, an undercover Taliban sympathiser penetrates deep into the heart of drone war headquarters and detonates a suicide vest, killing seven of the CIA's most effective officers. The CIA is left reeling but mounts a series of counter-attacks, further escalating the cycle of violence in an effort to wipe out remaining terrorist targets.

CLASSIFIED: CIA Confidential: 9/11 Mastermind
Next to Bin Laden, the most wanted terrorist associated with 9/11 was Khalid Sheik Mohammed, or KSM. He managed to elude the CIA for a decade, and even on the run, he carried out attacks on U.S. and Western interests in Bali, Yemen and Africa. Follow the dramatic story of the CIA's quest to find and capture this once-shadowy figure, piecing together fragments of intelligence from around the world. We'll see the chain of intelligence that eventually led to his capture and imprisonment at Guantanamo Bay.

CLASSIFIED: Terror/Counter Terror: Interrogating Saddam
Capturing Saddam Hussein is just the beginning of a battle of wills. While Hussein is held prisoner, it is the mission of junior FBI agent George Piro to get the notorious dictator to reveal the truth about his weapons of mass destruction and alleged ties to terrorism. In an in-depth interview, Piro details how he patiently formed a powerful bond with Hussein to build the criminal case for his prosecution. In the psychological chess match that lasted 166 days, George Piro is about to checkmate.

CLASSIFIED: Terror/Counter Terror: Suburban Jihad
Combating home-grown terrorism is one of the toughest challenges for the FBI. Now our cameras follow an elite team of counter terror agents investigating two landmark U.S. terror cases. We learn more about the two home-grown terrorists/young Islamic scholars — Washington, D.C.-born Ali Al-Timimi, a respected scientist convicted of inciting jihadists on American soil; and Houston-born Ahmed Abu Ali, convicted of plotting to kill President Bush.

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