So, let’s summarise the most important lesson about becoming a spy: there will be no guns, no fighting, no fast cars and no sexy foreign agents. One movie that was quite realistic was Complicit. It might be worth watching that. ![]() The work of the agent in the Intelligence Department is on the whole extremely monotonous. A lot of it is uncommonly useless. Here’s what Somerset Maugham, who was a spy for MI6, said about being a real spy in his novel Ashenden: ![]() ![]() Most people realise that James Bond and Jason Bourne are not realistic, but even supposedly realistic spies, like the ones John le Carré writes about, are not much like real spying.
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