

Once, a hostile secret service had to send a skilled and experienced operative to commit assassination, sabotage or terrorism thousands of miles away, or activate networks of sleeper agents, or find and train ideologically committed recruits ready to betray their country. Such schemes took years to prepare.
Nope. This is not how spy work works. Want you want is a bunch of turned deniable assets. The skill operative is an invention of the American movies





I don’t say that « super spies » don’t exist, what I’m saying is that they aren’t the norm
There’s more George Smiley that they have James Bond
I have edited my first post