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It probably won't come as a surprise that script writers, directors, producers and even actors take some creative liberties recreating real life scenarios

He ran secret agents and later served as the agency’s spokesman. Both roles prepared him well for his role as the International Spy Museum’s first director.

Pop culture is indispensable in educating the public on real-world spying. Viewing James Bond and Jason Bourne as the artifice of real spying is a departure point for more serious learning about the shadowy world of spying.

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Ink and more than 1200 wireless messages all of them false. >> they have great credibility with the germans and he convinced them in his messages by letter, later by radio. >> peter earnest is director of the international spy museum and is a former cia agent. >> he convinced him he had an entire network of people. >> the germans trusted garbo even though the network was imaginary and awarded him the iron cross. >> the cross agents all we know the in different directions after the war. some publ...

It is no secret that the u.s. and russia still spy on one another. here in washington, it is part of a lore of the city. this mailbox was once the place where an american double agent would leave a mark to signal his russian handlers. and remember anna chapman, part of a russian sleeper cell living a suburban life who was expelled in 2010. this case is a little mysterious. look closer at that evidence. the wigs, its raising questions. spy craft that seems more maxwell smart than james bond. pete...

Russian handlers. and remember anna chapman, part of a russian sleeper cell living a suburban life who was expelled in 2010. this case is a little mysterious. look closer at that evidence. the wigs, its raising questions. spy craft that seems more maxwell smart than james bond. peter earnest was a cia officer for 20 years. want to do is get picked up and >> the one thing a spy doesnt want to do is get picked up and have stuff on him, spy stuff. unless as the speculation goes, it is a total set u...

Messages into an image that anyone can see on a website and extracting it with software, and using computers with special capability. i spoke about that with peter earnest, former cia operations officer. >> they allegedly used prif wireless networks to communicate between those networks. what does that do for you as a pie? look, all of the trade craft in espionage technology is designed to enable the intelligence officer to communicate with his agent without being seen with him or her. >> report...

>> espionage is a fact of state craft unfortunately. its gone on since recorded history. certainly the russians have had a terrific record of espionage against this country. they have deeply penetrated our society before world war ii and we were allies during that war. so theres no reason to think that they let up in any way. the what you will see is espionage directed at gaining u.s. government secrets and gaining our technology secrets. >> all right. peter earnest from spy museum and deborah f...

>> deb, one of these alleged spies worked as a columnist for over 20 years. thats not exactly hiding. given the questions peter raised there, do we know much about these people and their connections? >> five people in court in manhattan today, they do appear to have known each other. the columnists assignment was to go in and blend in and stay for the long run. this was a long-term investigation here in the united states. according to the complaint it appears that last week undercover agents mad...