About All That Danger
By now everyone knows that Hollywood movies love their guns. It’s the weapon of choice, and everyone from Tom Cruise to Mellisa McCarthy gets to carry one. Which is incredible, since not even CIA agents carry them around.
“Most CIA officers don’t carry weapons, unless they’re in a hostile area,” said former agent Emily Brandwin. “In The Spy Who Dumped Me, they’re in Paris, a very cosmopolitan area, and they would never carry a gun there.”
“The Spy Who Dumped Me” / Lionsgate
Dr. Vince Houghton also says that high-speed car chases almost never happen, because they’re probably not going to get away, anyway. “You can’t outrun the radio, you can’t outrun weapons, you can’t outrun drones. So driving fast doesn’t necessarily get you out of trouble. If you’re by yourself, you get arrested. There is no reason to get shot up. In a lot of these cases, they will just kick you out of the country.”
As for all the danger and close calls and torture and whatnot, Houghton and most every other former agent who’s ever been interviewed say that while operatives receive training for all kinds of rough situations, the life of a spy is just not that perilous.
“In our Bond exhibit we have something called ‘My Bond Moment,’ and it’s a theater where we have real-world former spies — C.I.A. and F.B.I. personnel — talking about that one time in their career, and these are long careers, where they had a moment that was Bond-movie worthy. A former director of counterintelligence in the F.B.I. spent decades hunting spies, and his one Bond-worthy moment was a time he was in Moscow — and he was in Moscow a lot — but one time the K.G.B. harassed him a little bit. This is someone who briefed Reagan weekly about counterintelligence. He was as deep in espionage as you can get.”
He did not mention anyone ever getting their junk whacked.
“Casino Royale” / Sony Pictures
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