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This is why I despise movies like James Bond and Mission Impossible and love the movie The Lives of Others. James Bond would be the worst spy ever and is unlike any spy I know. Why should we glamourize those who spy on us?

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I'm pretty sure intelligence agencies employ some number of adventurers, agent-provocateurs and assassins along with their more staid infiltrators and station chiefs. The most standard way to do things is having the official agents be the "handlers" of the dirtier, hand-on types but there are plenty of stories things being otherwise.

I'd agree we shouldn't glamorize spies, certainly. And actual sociopaths in the cause of order are some of the nastiest people.

Which spies do you know?

They are generally pretty normal seeming or boring which makes them great spies. They don't stand out. I am not giving names out.

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