Former U.S. officials describe details of the CIA’s proposals to abduct Assange

Re:Former U.S. officials describe details of the CIA’s propo... by hutzlibu on Sunday September 26, 2021 @02:19PM (#28663205)

There has been some shift in cultural perception, true (even though "Day of the condor" is even from 1975)

- but the official picture and the ones painted by a common movie, is still a very different one, from reality. I mean take James Bond for instance. Glorification of the noble spycraft par excellence. (but I have not watched the latest ones, maybe there was change, too?)

And I have no first hand experience with US school education, but here in germany we kind of were educated about our intelligence agencies(and about the ones of the US) in a very friendly way. One that does not match reality.

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Re:Former U.S. officials describe details of the CIA’s propo... by reissbaker on Sunday September 26, 2021 @03:50PM (#28664029)

James Bond is a fictional British spy who works for MI6, not the CIA. American cultural perception of the CIA is not great.

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Re:Former U.S. officials describe details of the CIA’s propo... by hutzlibu on Sunday September 26, 2021 @04:02PM (#28664135)

Yeah, I know that. I think we were talking in general about spycraft and the perception of it in the west and not just about the CIA.

"I think people just underestimate what spy agencies actually do and how dirty it’s always been. "

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Re:Former U.S. officials describe details of the CIA’s propo... by thatcat on Sunday September 26, 2021 @07:24PM (#28665549)

Funny you use 007 as an example bc the early films were funded by mi6 as pro spy propaghanda, its a good example of how they would like to be percieved

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