Nat Geo Commissions Doc on “Bin Laden’s Spy”

WASHINGTON, August 15: National Geographic Channels
International (NGCI) and National Geographic Channel have commissioned Towers
Productions—the team behind Inside 9/11—to produce Bin Laden’s Spy in America.

The two-hour special will premiere in the U.S. on August 28,
followed by an international rollout on September 10. The special will be a key
offering for NGCI at MIPCOM, according to Germaine Deagan Sweet, NGCI’s
director of program syndication. “It’s one of the best we’ve been able to put
out,” she says.

Bin Laden’s Spy in America tells the story of an ex-Egyptian Special Forces Major who joined the
U.S. Army and infiltrated the U.S. intelligence community while working for
terrorist organizations like Egyptian Islamic Jihad and al Qaeda. “It is
frightening in not only the level of detail, but the deception, and the
information he was able to access,” Deagan Sweet says.

The documentary is in part based on the upcoming
investigative book Triple Cross by Peter
Lance.

Sydney Suissa, the EVP of content at NGCI, said of the
special, “It’s far more riveting than any spy novel could ever be.”