Spies and Informants | 60 Minutes Marathon

From 2017, Scott Pelley’s interview with an FBI undercover agent who infiltrated Al Qaeda and helped thwart several terrorist attacks. From 2011, Anderson Cooper’s report on FBI agent Lin Vecchio, who helped put away several notorious Mafia leaders, but also faced murder charges due to his association with an informant. From 2017, Sharyn Alfonsi’s report on the use of jailhouse informants in Orange County, California. From 2015, Steve Kroft’s report on Jack Barsky, a KGB spy from the Soviet Union who lived for decades in the United States without being detected. From 2019, Pelley’s talk with a former American member of Al-Qaeda who provided valuable intelligence in order to avoid jail. From 2001, Lesley Stahl’s report on Robert Hanssen, an FBI agent who was convicted of spying for Russia. From 2024, Cecilia Vega’s report on the Americans spying for Cuba in the U.S. From 2015, Stahl’s investigation into the controversial use of young confidential informants by law enforcement in dangerous and sometimes deadly drug cases. From 2010, Pelley’s report on a Defense Department employee caught on tape selling secrets to a Chinese spy. From 2022, Jon Wertheim's story on the Ritchie Boys, the secret U.S. unit bolstered by German-born Jews who helped the Allies beat Hitler. From 2018, Cooper’s interview with Justice and FBI officials who reveal how they caught a former CIA officer spying for the Chinese. And from 2017, Kroft’s interview with British author John Le Carré who has written several best-selling spy thrillers under the pen name David Cornwell. #news #crime #documentary "60 Minutes" is the most successful television broadcast in history. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 and is still a hit, over 50 seasons later, regularly making Nielsen's Top 10. Subscribe to the "60 Minutes" YouTube channel:    / 60minutes   Watch full episodes: https://cbsn.ws/1Qkjo1F Get more "60 Minutes" from "60 Minutes: Overtime": https://cbsnews.com/60-minutes/overtime/ Follow "60 Minutes" on Instagram:   / 60minutes   Like "60 Minutes" on Facebook:  / 60minutes   Follow "60 Minutes" on Twitter:   / 60minutes   Subscribe to our newsletter: https://cbsnews.com/newsletters/ Download the CBS News app: https://cbsnews.com/mobile/ Try Paramount+ free: https://paramountplus.com/?ftag=PPM-0... For video licensing inquiries, contact: licensing@veritone.com 0:00 Intro 0:11 Inside Al Qaeda 13:13 The FBI and the Grim Reaper 21:50 Snitches 35:55 The Spy Among Us (Part 1) 50:17 The Spy Among Us (Part 2) 1:03:47 Double Crossed 1:16:43 The Secret Life of Robert Hanssen 1:30:39 Cuban Spycraft 1:43:43 Confidential Informants (Part 1) 1:57:31 Confidential Informants (Part 2) 2:10:31 Stealing America's Secrets 2:23:22 Ritchie Boys (Part 1) 2:37:20 Ritchie Boys (Part 2) 2:49:51 Ritchie Boys (Part 3) 3:04:01 To Catch a Spy 3:17:20 Le Carre (Part 1) 3:31:17 Le Carre (Part 2)