Churchill's Secret Agents: The New Recruits  Churchill's Secret Agents: The New Recruits (originally released in the UK as "Secret Agent Selection: WW2") is an American/British reality competition television program released by Netflix on June 29, 2018. In 1940, during the height of World War II conflict in Europe, British Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton founded the Special Operations Executive. The SOE was a secret organization responsible for espionage and reconnaissance during wartime efforts. The organization would take everyday citizens from all backgrounds and walks of life and put them through rigorous training to extract the traits necessary for a secret agent. Now, a group of 14 modern day recruits will be put through the same rigorous testing as those agents in 1940 to determine if they would have had what it took to be an agent of SOE. Filming occurred in Scotland on the Alvie and Dalraddy Estates in the Cairngorms area, and Forglen House and estate in Aberdeenshire. The Trainers:  The Recruits:  In the first episode of the series, the original 14 recruits were put through an initial 4-day selection process, to see who would make it to training.