I’m an experienced engineer in the wastewater treatment field. There are no movies for me to comment on. Except “Finding Nemo”. Nemo would have been shredded going through the treatment plant.
She's trained to lie So even if they had the tech to do any of this stuff She would not tell us anything She's basically said a ton of things without actually giving us anything to go on Everything she spoke on was generalized public info She's very good I'll give her a 8 out of 10
Even down to her personality and mannerisms, the smirk most notably. As she mentions with that movie _Spy,_ it's the person you wouldn't expect, someone who seems normal and everyday. She certainly has learned to fit that bill.
Rubbish!! I know a Ex MI6 agent he says it’s nowhere near like the movies. He is a family member of mine. He doesn’t watch James Bond because it was nothing like his job.
I have an uncle who is "ex" cia, one thing that he said was, "there is no such thing as an ex cia agent"...... You may be inactive, but your communications and actions and associations are monitored for the rest of your life. They will always know what you are doing or saying!
@@slamexo0 Prolly not as good as we were made to think but they would still clap anyone of us lmfao. The CIA special activities division has spec ops teams that operate and conduct paramilitary operations and those guys are hand picked out of seal team 6 and delta force. The Intel officers at the CIA don't do much if any killing, its the paramilitary guys out who are the elite of the elite special operators who will turn you into a memory.
Jonna Mendez did a couple of those too: she ran the CIA Disguise for decades and married Tony Mendez who lead the Argo mission in Iran. She was personally involved too. Her evaluation of the film realism was the same: 9/10. Why not 10? Her main objection was: “Tony is a lot better looking than Ben Affleck.” Hollywood is doing what they can, Ma’am.
woulda been 10/10 if he'd been in Iran more than a day and a half as a junior partner on this Canadian operation. Even President Carter called the movie a joke.
I have a friend that when he joined the Millitary in late Viet nam era thought that " Indirect Fireman " meant that he would help put out fires , but not ride hanging onto the back of the firetruck . ( Indirect Fireman is/ was a term for 81mm Mortar specialist , he soon found out .)
About bourne: I’m a cook. As the head chef of many restaurants I’ve learned to see all the picture both in the kitchen and at the tables. I really developed some high skills watching every scene and I’m able to tell you details like “the 3 is waiting for you too see her”, “4, blue blazer is going to pay and he’s on a hurry”, “missing a dessert spoon in…” without needing to see again. “Don’t forget the ciboulette”, “you’re about to running out of rice” after just walking by the pantry. As it surely happens to many people in their jobs, I can memorize a ridiculous amount of orders or the dish some client eat weeks ago. I can manage the time and work of 12 people at the same time and I know how much time they gonna need or what resources we’re going to use… BUT those are my only skills! I can’t understand PlayStation controls yet! 🤣
theres one guy who talks about the bourne scene saying that field agents are trained to notice things like that, to develop situational awareness; knowing where the exits are, knowing were weapons are, paying attention to details. I could not find the clip.
@@ignisincendia9430 well today I’ve learned something new and blow-minder: the character played by Jodie Foster in “The silence of the lambs” failed one academy test and her teacher told her that she’s dead for not being able to see the whole picture (she forgot one spot to the left up side). Then, talking to Hannibal, she made the same mistake… the same spot… for that she didn’t see what Lecter was hiding. I can’t find the vid now… I think I saw it in @sensacine TH-cam channel.
The other thing she's not taking into account is that this movie Bourne is a product of some pretty severe psychological conditioning and training. The idea of whether THAT Is realistic or not would be the better question. Bourne was never a "run of the mill" CIA agent.
I worked as a waiter myself back in my early teens...it's surprising how much you can tell about a person's from body language or the way they carry themselves,dress ect just from watching people day in and day out there were times where I could tell what people were going to order before I even seated them a lot of it is just about picking up on a person's vibe
@@batalorian7997 Every once in a while yes. She reminds me of Carol Baskin talking about her missing husband. Which made everyone question her too, regardless of the facts
I feel like I'll forget her after this video and thats a bit scary. I def won't recognize her on the street. She has quite a friendly demeanor that if she asked you for info on the street, you'd never know that she actual took some intel
Interestingly, comments picking holes in her demeanor are deleted from this comment's section, even if they are not offensive. Time to dust off the tin foil hat...
intersting enough, if you are an IO,TO, CS or anything.. those are teh kind of people that stand out to you bc they dont fit in with the rest and you definitely would remember them.
Really? She'd be the weird one in the room at most my events. She has a very 'I'm choosing each of my words' way of taking that lawyers and HR people about to fire you do. She makes me irritated.
Love how she talked about the lie detector test and how you wouldn’t get there or else you’re done. Then the interview/movie critique by the guy from the KGB was like yeah, you can beat those, just be a good liar 😂
I noticed the same thing. Just watched the other video lol. I think she said that due to the CIA still using the machine and they wouldn't want anyone to feel overly confident about them.
I'm pretty sure what she's saying is that if they've gotten the go ahead to do a lie detector test on you they have 100% figured out that you are a spy. Doesn't matter if you pass it, your cover is fucked for you to be there in the first place.
Her point was that if you are suspicious enough that they'll even perform a lie detector test then you're basically already screwed. It's not so much about the test itself but the reasons you are given the test.
Lie detector tests aren't really all that hard to beat. A good card shark can beat them. Any pathological liar can beat them easily as well. Both these things have been demonstrated. They are also prone to false positives. After all, they detect stress and being interviewed while hooked upto a lie detector test is stressful. And of course you can also get "inconclusive" as a common result.
This is informative and a lot of fun, and I love how calm, soft-spoken and likable she is -- especially given her incredibly demanding resume! I hope she'll analyze more in the future.
the funny thing about the first clip is that duplicating keycards just by standing closeby to someone is actually possible for a lot of keycards but it's represented unrealistically I guess.
Has a practical attack ever been demonstrated for anything other than low frequency RFID? Also, the kinds of readers that have been used for LF RFID to get less than a meter of practical range to my knowledge took up most of a messenger bag by itself, so it might not be a very realistic attack to pull off in a dress at a party. Still, as you say, possible for a lot of older key cards and -fobs.
@@IaCthulhuFthagn I don't know what the specific technologies are but Deviant Ollam has duplicated keycards on unsuspecting building security. But as you said, you need a large bag to conceal the device that reads them, then you need to back out and actually create the card rather than it automatically generating.
I think during the time setting of Alias, they were still mostly magnetic cards? And I don't think you can copy the magnetic strip from a distance? I'll admit I've never seen the show, so I might be wrong about the type of card...
I find it interesting that when the former KGB officer called out movies on BS everyone goes along with it and here we get comments like why did we get a secretary instead of a spy, when she's an actual spy.
I always love it when the FBI Special Somethingsomething Task Force on tv is running a surveillance operation on a high priority target, and the whole operation boils down to two named characters sitting in the front of a car right outside the targets office, drinking coffee and talking crap for a few days. And then running inside with weapons drawn when they get a funny feeling.
There is a big difference between an intelligence officer and somebody involved with the Special Activities Center under the DO. Intel officers are ubiquitous throughout the CIA and other intelligence agencies. SAC members are the type of people you’d find doing some of these “off the charts” type of things.
Yep. SAC is where the action is. SAC recruits mostly former military special operators (SEALs, SF, Delta force). While SEALs and Delta go on highly classified missions, if they join the CIA they get to do "even more" stuff.
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What disappoints me most about Hollywood spy movies is, that this real spy confirms many of my layman objections to their depictions of the spy business... and I'm pretty sure most of the time its not ignorance that writes the scripts, its the believe the audience wouldnt care for or be entertained enough by a realistic depiction. In my case, its the opposite. Realism of detail in a fictional story goes a long way to enhance the movie.
It works for people who actually really like film. People who understand it and how it is made. The people who can explain what makes a film good or bad. Unfortunately, the majory of people are not like that. They just want entertainment. While there are a lot of film buffs, they're a tiny group compared to the average movie goer.
Yeah, it’s totally commercialized. They view it less as true filmmakers and more as writers of a compelling narrative (i.e. the #1 priority is how gripping the story is, realism isn’t completely discard but ultimately due diligence is on the backburner). It’s a shame, but to play devil’s advocate, a lot of the time the realism that takes hours of research per minute detail (and $$ for expert advisors) is lost on the vast majority of the population (hence videos like this), partly because they can’t discern it and partly because they don’t come at it from a ‘documentary’ sort of lens
she should review Tinker Tailor soldier Spy or Very wanted man or The Good Shepherd, or those 2 flicks about Robert Hansen ( one with chris cooper, other one with William Hurt) or Zero Dark Thirty or Syriana - such movies show the reality of clandestine work- lenghty process of obtaining information, evaluating its sincerity, checking, veryfing, chasing false leads, meetings and on top of it all- endless bureaucracy and approvals within the chain of command...
I cannot agree. There is a time and place for realism in a Story. Realism can absolutely ruin pacing. Sometimes too much detail is too much. As long as the story works, sometimes you need to suspend disbelief. In fact, balance is key for the best immersion.
@@LordofSyn yet, I think my examples above contradict thesis regarding boredom. You don't have to go 100% realistic, but still, they could have shown her less of those "superspy" movies
Also, Bourne was trained beyond any conventional training. That's the idea behind why he broke out from his programming. They wound him so tight, he snapped. So he would have been trained to remember car plates etc.
12:33 _because now we've got all kinds of thumbprints and eye scanners and all kinds of equipment that's used to establish your identity_ CIA: Oh f**k it. Let's send our agents on TH-cam.
We have an old family friend who was in the CIA- she looked like a kindergarten teacher. The woman looked like butter would not melt in her mouth you would never guess she hunted bin Laden for a living.
I think people have the wrong idea about CIA people. They’re thinking it’s like Jason Bourne or Mitch Rapp types. They’re really for gathering information, maybe spreading information or misinformation and all in secret. A lot of times they’re in place as a state department liaison type thing. They’re not commandos. They might feed information to commandos.
I did some unique work in the 90's and I will say this; the CIA has intelligence officers like this lady, then they have (Assets), then their own special Forces operation units which are undeclared. Bourne was not an officer of profile data, he would be classed as and asset, which the classification would be beyond her reach hence she really cannot comment on something she know nothing about.
Her explaining how she got away from a carjacking due to her expert training while also being thankful that she didn't hurt the person trying to carjack her is the most adorable thing I've seen in a while.
People who are hurt go to hospitals and typically have to describe what happened to them (and by whom). Not what you want if you're trying to keep a low profile, so her decision to not hurt the individual may have been motivated by operational considerations rather than concern for that individual. She does legitimately seem like a kind person though.
I would really like them to do it with "the burea". if you're a fan of espionnage tv shows and you're not subtitles averse " cause the shows is french". it's literally the best Real espionnage tv show you'll ever see. and i would really like if they made some scene from that series in this video, the show is so realistic.
OK, here's the thing they don't like to advertise about the polygraphs: There are some questions (control questions) that are thrown in, which you are expected to lie about. When you do so, they have a proper contrast to your truthful responses. If you answer all the control questions honestly, then they won't have a proper baseline reading from you to be able to reliably discern truth from fiction. This can be hard, however, since they may ask you things that you desperately want to lie about, such as "Have you ever stolen from a friend? Have you ever had lustful feelings towards your sister/ brother? Have you ever cheated on a partner? Have you ever committed a crime/ cheated on your taxes? etc..." Since most people have done at least one of those things and would rather not admit it, they become great control questions to be able to get a baseline reading for untruthful responses. However, if you answer them honestly, they won't be able to get such a baseline. At best, they'll "know" that _this_ question, or _that_ question makes you nervous, but they'll have no idea whether or not you're lying.
@Mario Mario It's unreliable- at least in part- because of flaws like the one I described above. However, it's no big secret that polygraphs are inadmissible as evidence. The whole "They need/ expect you to lie to certain questions" part, that ISN'T widely advertised.
I actually knew a person that served a rotation as polygrapher for a US Intelligence agency . ( I know which one, but he asked his students who did figure it out, to not name it as a courtesy to him . ( Not the CIA ) . Polygraph is 100% accurate .... In measuring respiration , pulse , skin conductivity , etc It's the Interpretation thereof that's the rub . The Poly is just an Investigative Tool among many Investigative Tools . He conducted enough examinations , And had knowledge of the total investigations to have a meaningful opinion of the relative usefulness of Poly . ( And the given , that for a stone cold Sociopath , they're useless .) The greatest usefulness is regarding a single specific incident reducible to a single yes or no question . Ie , on October 12th , did you steal or have knowledge of the theft of $1,000 from the safe . For wide ranging Security Reinvestigations much less pinpoint . More of if there were say half dozen general catagories of inquiry , and 5 of them were non- deceptive , and one had a few questionable readings , that one would get more follow up shoe leather .
For a study I was involved with I was polygraphed a lot in a period of a couple years and this is super true. Also if you have any form of anxiety, especially severe, it’s completely unreliable. This includes neurodivergencies like autism, adhd, ocd, and more. Many of what is considered “lying body language” is just a natural quirk of how we live our lives. (E.g. not making eye contact, fidgeting, stuttering)
@@gerilyn polygraphs don't work in the former Soviet Union. polygraphs there would be administered by the KGB. polygraphs do not detect lies, they detect stress. if you are being polygraphed by the KGB in Lubyanka prison you are experiencing 100% stress. if you are not experiencing 100% stress, you are not innocent; you are an idiot. there would be no change for the device to detect.
Isn't the whole point of Jason Bourne the fact he's exceptional, even by intelligence standards? That's the whole deal. He's also not an intelligence offer. He's an assassin.
Yeah I feel like it was a bit of a missed opportunity there. Maybe she was being vague to not expose operational details, but I feel like she could've provided some interesting insight to that scene. I would've liked to hear about it. Certainly there are some things she would've looked at in that situation. Like "I wouldn't know the six license plates, but I would've have noticed that one car was perfectly clean while all the others had mud." Or "The waitress was wearing heels, no career waitress is wearing heels working in a roadside diner." Or "There are only Geo Metros in the parking lot, there's no way that big dude at the counter came in one of those, how did he get here?"
Also, as he was the first to be trained in that unit, he was given the full works, more than other members of the unit. Which is why he cracked and broke free. They wound him too tight and he snapped and went out of their control.
There are a lot of people in the comments here saying what they did/do for a living and joking about doing similar reviews for movies which show their profession. They're joking, but I would love it if they really did. I would totally watch the wastewater treatment guy, the truck driver guy, and all the others do their reviews. Personally, I spent 38 years in the investment world, and I would love to review The Big Short, Wall Street, Margin Call, Trading Places, The Wolf of Wall Street, Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room, etc. But given what an inflammatory subject it is, the comments section would probably be too brutal.
My love for the movie aside, I don't think she took Jason Bourne's biological and psychological training into account in her assessment of the Bourne Identity. Jason Bourne wasn't just a CIA 'officer' (no offence), he was a black ops asset. Basically, an medically enhanced assassin. I imagine the realities would be a bit different, if such existed in real life.
I feel like I'm watching the same scenes of the same movies for every type of expert on every channel doing these movie reviews. But I can't remember as harsh ratings before. She's solid ruthless which I prefer over 10/10.
I just watched a video of someone who worked the CIA disguise department in great details.Maybe you just never saw the disguise aspects in the area or departments you worked in but I imagine it is quite vast in high profile cases but thankyou for your information on helping us see what it's really like in the cia
Presuming that was Joanna Mendez , most of those accounts were in Moscow during the Soviet Era . Back then , it was routine for the Russian Security Services to closely survail every American stepping foot outside the Embassy . In that environment , disguises and elaborate deceptions were a necessity . In the relatively recent Middle East was probably more a matter of discreetly blending into the background , either as a generic local , or generic westerner .
You realize CIA operatives are also humans right? It’d annoy anyone when they watch movies about their profession. Cops hate cop movies, FBI hate FBI movies, soldiers hate soldier movies often because they get so much wrong. Spies are no different. They aren’t telling you what operation they did and who they spied on, they are telling you pet peeves that spy movies get wrong. It’s more truthful than the non classified new media tells you that people often believe
Y not, she’s sharing her truth. Not what u learned was true from tv. Remember your first time going to a major sports event, ur perception of what’s reality and not is so conflicted. It doesn’t look the same being there and viewing it on the telly is it? Bcuz while ur there ur n reality not what the tv wants u to see as a supposed reality. She proved it by stating a true fact in what we all perceived as being gospel in regards to combat. They aren’t even trained martial artists like they portray them to be in the movies,so even with that it shows how everything we see isn’t necessarily done in the field. So just listen and learn bcuz u won’t learn real truths from hollyweird
@@JC839 Ehh . For virtually any profession , it's a default given that Hollywood treats it unrealistically , and distorted for dramatic purposes . Sometimes the real people will simply ignore the fictional portrails of their vocations , sometimes they get a laugh out of the humor , intended or not .
@@asanitheafrofuturist yes, you also sign stuff when you get a jog at McDonald’s, what’s ur point? This isn’t unclassified controlled information…though she likely got permission
I would really like to hear her opinion on some of the more grounded scenes in The Bourne Supremacy, like the one where Jason successfully obtained the hotel room number of Pamela Landy. But considering that she herself is an ex-CIA agent, even if they're trained to act so intelligently, she probably wouldn't say this is the case.
16:20 The Agency uses the polygraph? Are you kidding me? What, they use Tarot cards, too? How about crystal balls? You guys like bone scrying, too, huh? LMAO
@@Justanotherconsumer CoINTEL garbage. Voodoo dolls don't work anymore unless you're shaking down some little brown people who wear loincloths and pray for the cargo to return. Otherwise; this is the 21st Century: And PsyOps only work on the ignorant. Unless the ignorant somehow manage to become a real threat any time soon.... I'll keep my eyes opened for the odd college prof who decides to abuse their academic knowledge as a way to damage and destroy strangers.
@php They still get used because often people believe they are effective in any way for any purpose whatsoever. They are not. There is absolutely NO good purpose for using them any more than there WOULD be for crystal balls and bones. Period. The entire thing is so laughable, in fact, that the Agencies’ continued use of it does nothing but work to undermine its’ standing in the world...not only in the intelligence community.
@php I gotcha. I understand that it was once considered a valid tactic to do...essentially anything at all short of harming or killing anyone. But those days are gone. Bill started something great...TWICE!...but now it's time to change. How was it written? Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur tempora.
The "other team" scene was a team that was trying to out someone or spy on the original team, not saying it's realistic, I assume everything from Hollywood is crap, however, I don't know if she watched the movie.
I understood that she commented on what an agent (Ethan Hunt, in this case) would do if he spotted a second team around his operation. If I got what she was saying right, the agent wouldn't wait until after the operation to wonder about that. He'd abort the mission long before that.
I think the lady you are talking about is considerably older and might be more familiar with cold war espionage where stuff like wigs and disguises might actually have been utilised while the women in this video seems to have served more recently. However I do agree that some of the "experts" keep contradicting each other
The other lady also rated a different scene under different scenarios, so the level of realism would be different. Additionally, the other lady was speaking from her experience about disguised, whereas Assad stated that she has not experienced extensive disguise work in her career.
It might also have to do with the level of involvement and the job they had in the CIA. I find it quite likely that someone working for the CIA doesn't know even half of what's actually going on. You probably know what you have to know and that's about it. That would also explain why so many former spies and intelligence officers react so differently to the same clips.
I'm surprised here that Claire Danes' "Carrie Mathison's" mental health issues didn't come up. Ms Assad mentions an extremely intensive background check and vetting process, including psych. evaluations, for CIA agents/operatives: Wouldn't mental illness/bipolar disorder get you "weeded out"--and pretty quickly?
The smartest people are usually crazy. Not saying crazy in a pejorative way. Artists, CEOs, politicians - mental illness is very common. It can be managed these days. It’s not a death sentence.
@1:22 actually, keycard copying from a distance IS a thing. there are even some that are comercially available to copy cards yourself to other RFID things. meanwhile, if you need range, some security researchers have made some that can read every card in a 1m radius that you can hide those in a small laptop case, and can be as small (but not as thin) as .. a 10" tablet.
1:28 “The idea of reading a key card and be able to then create a new one based off of that, I’ve never heard of that before.” I trust her that she’s never heard of it, but it is absolutely a real technology, and occasionally used by physical penetration testers in the US.
Bro she looks and sounds like such as sweet and harmless person, but there is just something ab her eyes which makes me think she's trained to do and has done much more deadly stuff than she lets on. Like I know people who has done very bad things to other people and people who have seen horrible things and those people always have this look in their eye and she has a very similar look that just radiates danger. I cant say for sure as I don't know her but I would be willing to bet money she has done and been involved in things far more deadly than she lets on.
I had something similar, but not with her eyes per se. It's more about her whole facial expressions. And I am by NO means an expert, but they just appear too... purposeful, as if she's showing us exactly what she wants to and not a bit more. Her eyes always go to our left when she's thinking about something like clockwork, for example. But I might just overthink this because she's a former spy... xD
@@AlbertJanVaartjes Yes, some of her reactions seem kinda forced and she did a great job at telling us stuff without really telling us anything at all. Something ab her seems very calculated, almost like you can see the gears turning in her head when she is about to speak; its fairly impressive honestly.
@@nickfarbman9610 deffo, she's absolutely assassinated people and so on, CIA aren't as clear cut as she's saying they are. i mean cmon these are the people who drone strike schools lmfao
@@nickfarbman9610 Of course ! Any current or former employee of any Intelligence organization will be very careful to only publicly disclose general background commentary , and Not refer to specific operations , or operational techniques .
I would enjoy seeing some scenes from Covert Affairs broken down. Especially the training scene where the main character is offered her choice of weapons to escape a training area and uses a gun only to break the glass on the fire escape map and then uses it to allow her to avoid being detected.
I just discovered Covert Affairs on Peacock a week ago. I Love the show and I agree, the fact Annie passed because she didn't discharge her weapon I found to be a realistic scenario.
Oo, this lady is full of smiles, so nice & immediately reminds me of my highschool teachers. Yet behind that kindness.... She rated so low 😂 but she's so fair, she differentiates between realism & enjoyment!
She says using disguises is unrealistic, meanwhile there was a video a couple of years ago that featured the former CIA Chief of Disguise who says differently...
Oh yeah, that's true. But maybe because it was about time much earlier - so disguises meant more back in the days and nowadays it's not really a priority that much.
You can easily scan and print a RFID card. You'll need to be about a meter away (~3 feet) with a RFID scanner and then send that information to a 'printer' which just encodes the blank card with the scanned code. RFID is super simple and not suuuper secure. It's usually paired with another form of identification either biometric, or pincode. The agent from "Alias" could actually have everything she would need to 'lift' the 4 digit code from her target all contained in her clutch.
I can only add to this that the secret services worldwide are getting a lot of help from universities and cutting-edge research that's done also by students. Some of it ends up in the civil engineering and industry, others go for the military and some for the secret service. Nowadays, a lot of it is related to cybersecurity and information extraction techniques and methodologies. What we see in movies as "super agents" in the style of James Bond, is done by assets who are employed with usually previous military experience and this is not a popular way anymore. Then again, the biggest idea of an intelligence service is not to send around James Bonds, but to develop a way of gathering intelligence with minimal imprint and traces, whether it is by the utilization of people and their family life, crafting fake identities of agents, or today very popular: hacking and hiring third party players a.k.a. hacking groups to do the job for a pay.
Spy Game as in Bourne series, the officers were military with apparently stellar record and skill. There are records of this happening fairly regularly with stories I've heard. This gives the recruiter enough time to vet them before ever approaching them, hence their training can start much sooner than most other recruits. However, I don't think these soldiers are recruited for the 'same jobs' as most CIA applicants.
I’m an experienced engineer in the wastewater treatment field. There are no movies for me to comment on. Except “Finding Nemo”. Nemo would have been shredded going through the treatment plant.
Hahahaha, David. That really cracked me up. Have a great day, man.
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🤣 epic comment
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Now, on the other hand, you save the effin' biosphere and that's something.
Next up: Ex-Hitman reviews contract killing scenes
There's actually a former hitman playing hitman video on buzzfeed.
I think they already have one. Lol
@@yellla2787 thats actually sick.
@@yellla2787 Sadly, the gameplay he gets to watch is... not the best
ask him to react to hitman movies and game series maybe he will find hilarious xD
Ex-Husband reacts to Marriage Story.
Oooof SAVAGE. I wanna see that
can confirm. quite realistic.
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LMAO
She's trained to lie
So even if they had the tech to do any of this stuff
She would not tell us anything
She's basically said a ton of things without actually giving us anything to go on
Everything she spoke on was generalized public info
She's very good
I'll give her a 8 out of 10
Not a member of Congress fits your above statements...
Even down to her personality and mannerisms, the smirk most notably. As she mentions with that movie _Spy,_ it's the person you wouldn't expect, someone who seems normal and everyday. She certainly has learned to fit that bill.
I said the same thing lol. She’s good. She makes you feel good. She could make you believe anything.
sober up, nutcase
Rubbish!! I know a Ex MI6 agent he says it’s nowhere near like the movies. He is a family member of mine. He doesn’t watch James Bond because it was nothing like his job.
I have an uncle who is "ex" cia, one thing that he said was, "there is no such thing as an ex cia agent"...... You may be inactive, but your communications and actions and associations are monitored for the rest of your life. They will always know what you are doing or saying!
"There is no such thing as a former kgb officer"
- Vladimir Putin (2004)
@@103.shannonrodrigues5 i shall hope so.
I think that is anyone with a top secret security clearance
@@ameliasandoval8663 no, not necessarily, having TS and actually an Intel officer are two diff things
@@gothicherie6691 correct, however, I wasn't making the statement that they were the same. 🙃
I’m a truck driver. I can free sometime to do truck driving scenes.
😂😂😂...yo I wish life was that easy
I am a big dreamer. Spent most of time in bad for sleeping,, can i do inception dreaming scene 😂
I would settle for a driving/flying/sailing/passenger scene.
Would you?
Sound interesting
Convoy, Smokey and the Bandit, Black Dog, White Line Fever
Would love to see you react
I always think it’s weird that ex counter intelligence agents are just allowed to discuss this openly
Trust...she told us things without telling us anything. Exactly what she was trained to do
She isn’t giving away any tradecraft that isn’t public knowledge.
Well the video honestly makes me think that they’re not so great at hand to hand combat....so sorta wimps I guess
@@slamexo0 Prolly not as good as we were made to think but they would still clap anyone of us lmfao. The CIA special activities division has spec ops teams that operate and conduct paramilitary operations and those guys are hand picked out of seal team 6 and delta force. The Intel officers at the CIA don't do much if any killing, its the paramilitary guys out who are the elite of the elite special operators who will turn you into a memory.
Also, some are given permission to discuss this, I have zero doubt in my mind she got permission.
Wired, GQ and Insider really fighting it out...
U deserve more likes XD
Yeah I've been on all three watching these identical videos
Jonna Mendez did a couple of those too: she ran the CIA Disguise for decades and married Tony Mendez who lead the Argo mission in Iran. She was personally involved too. Her evaluation of the film realism was the same: 9/10. Why not 10? Her main objection was: “Tony is a lot better looking than Ben Affleck.”
Hollywood is doing what they can, Ma’am.
She also said that what she liked best about Jennifer Garner's wigs and costume changes were that her entire demeanor, speech and walk changed.
I agree she was awesome. Much better than this woman.
Wished the cia trained her to have more charisma.
woulda been 10/10 if he'd been in Iran more than a day and a half as a junior partner on this Canadian operation. Even President Carter called the movie a joke.
If an espionage operation turns into an action movie, something has gone very wrong.
Totally Spies was not included in this list. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
Same
Totally Spies? Lmao. They might as well let the agent rate 'Spies in Disguise' while they add it.
Wow that brought me back a long time hahaha Jesus we are old
That's not a spy film, that's a fanservice series.
@@brandonneilsta.teresa3494 And we all *love* it
"Totally unrealistic! We wouldn't send our own agents, we'd train local criminals as our death squads."
@Ignacio Muñoz Diaz don't know that one. Like School of the Americas.
Like some sort of Suicide Squad
@Bilal Khalid Actual CIA: *Funds Mujahideen (literally look it up)
@@infinite1483 dude everyone who is a bit educated knows that CIA created modern terrorists
@@nemanjap8768 Im talking to most americans
Next: Priest or Exorcist rates Demon movies.
Thats soooo funny
Totally unrealistic, real demons place much less emphasis on jumpscares.
@@CausalityLoop How about the fact that demons are not real and are in your head lmao
Edit: Not all movies with demons have jumpscares..
@@forpspeakingclass4444 But how can they be in my head if they're not real?
PROFESSIONAL EXORCISTS Rates Demon movies could be cool to see
Funny how when I was a kid I thought that counterintelligence was somebody who knew how to pick out counter tops..
haha that's a cute one that I haven't heard before
That means my wife might be in the CIA 😳
I have a friend that when he joined the Millitary in late Viet nam era thought that " Indirect Fireman " meant that he would help put out fires , but not ride hanging onto the back of the firetruck .
( Indirect Fireman is/ was a term for 81mm Mortar specialist , he soon found out .)
Wait...it's not!?
@@lonewolf5238 ha I forgot I said this. And no apparently it's not...
About bourne: I’m a cook. As the head chef of many restaurants I’ve learned to see all the picture both in the kitchen and at the tables. I really developed some high skills watching every scene and I’m able to tell you details like “the 3 is waiting for you too see her”, “4, blue blazer is going to pay and he’s on a hurry”, “missing a dessert spoon in…” without needing to see again. “Don’t forget the ciboulette”, “you’re about to running out of rice” after just walking by the pantry. As it surely happens to many people in their jobs, I can memorize a ridiculous amount of orders or the dish some client eat weeks ago. I can manage the time and work of 12 people at the same time and I know how much time they gonna need or what resources we’re going to use… BUT those are my only skills! I can’t understand PlayStation controls yet! 🤣
You're for sure an undercover using chef as a front/facade.
theres one guy who talks about the bourne scene saying that field agents are trained to notice things like that, to develop situational awareness; knowing where the exits are, knowing were weapons are, paying attention to details. I could not find the clip.
@@ignisincendia9430 well today I’ve learned something new and blow-minder: the character played by Jodie Foster in “The silence of the lambs” failed one academy test and her teacher told her that she’s dead for not being able to see the whole picture (she forgot one spot to the left up side). Then, talking to Hannibal, she made the same mistake… the same spot… for that she didn’t see what Lecter was hiding. I can’t find the vid now… I think I saw it in @sensacine TH-cam channel.
The other thing she's not taking into account is that this movie Bourne is a product of some pretty severe psychological conditioning and training. The idea of whether THAT Is realistic or not would be the better question. Bourne was never a "run of the mill" CIA agent.
I worked as a waiter myself back in my early teens...it's surprising how much you can tell about a person's from body language or the way they carry themselves,dress ect just from watching people day in and day out there were times where I could tell what people were going to order before I even seated them a lot of it is just about picking up on a person's vibe
She's so polite while saying, "That's total BS"
Plot twist: She's actually a cyborg and she's programmed to incessantly smile.
Haha 😂😂😂😂
The fact she's always smiling, and the smiles looks identical even in those photos at the middle east scares me...
Is there a certain she's supposed to smile?
@@batalorian7997 you are suspect
@@omnia9348 is she supposed to have a different smile every time she smiles?
@@batalorian7997 Every once in a while yes. She reminds me of Carol Baskin talking about her missing husband. Which made everyone question her too, regardless of the facts
Ni Li bruh this woman dont have a missing husband or anything,plus shes on camera..
I feel like I'll forget her after this video and thats a bit scary. I def won't recognize her on the street. She has quite a friendly demeanor that if she asked you for info on the street, you'd never know that she actual took some intel
Interestingly, comments picking holes in her demeanor are deleted from this comment's section, even if they are not offensive.
Time to dust off the tin foil hat...
She’s prob only a Scorpio
intersting enough, if you are an IO,TO, CS or anything.. those are teh kind of people that stand out to you bc they dont fit in with the rest and you definitely would remember them.
Really? She'd be the weird one in the room at most my events. She has a very 'I'm choosing each of my words' way of taking that lawyers and HR people about to fire you do. She makes me irritated.
@@lh3540 Well she's giving a critique on these clips so of course she's not trying to talk like she would in a natural conversation.
Love how she talked about the lie detector test and how you wouldn’t get there or else you’re done. Then the interview/movie critique by the guy from the KGB was like yeah, you can beat those, just be a good liar 😂
I noticed the same thing. Just watched the other video lol.
I think she said that due to the CIA still using the machine and they wouldn't want anyone to feel overly confident about them.
@@hagglundguy that’s a good point!
I'm pretty sure what she's saying is that if they've gotten the go ahead to do a lie detector test on you they have 100% figured out that you are a spy. Doesn't matter if you pass it, your cover is fucked for you to be there in the first place.
Her point was that if you are suspicious enough that they'll even perform a lie detector test then you're basically already screwed.
It's not so much about the test itself but the reasons you are given the test.
@@visassess8607 some were trained to beat the lie detector tests, he was an FBI agent who was working for the KGB.
I actually really want to see "Former child soldier rates Beasts of no Nation"
Ooo Ishmael Beah would be perfect for that
Next:- Fish rates aquatic movie scenes.......
Not gonna work
@@assembled1855 no shit sherlock
there are no good fish directors. none of the scenes would hold water.
Fish experts rates Fish movie scenes makes more sense.
aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh ha ha ha ha! nice
anyone noticed she never denied having those equipments like the explosive gums
If I remember correctly ex-CIA director confirmed the gum and disguise mask did really exit herself in another reaction.
Plastique isn't new
I mean they tried to assassinate Castro with a cigar with C-4 in it. I'd say those types of gadgets are probably not common, but definitely used.
@@bakacdaz what do you mean by she exit herself?
@@michaelklassen777 *Ex-CIA director herself confirmed it really exit.
I love how she referred to bystanders as "Casuals"
Parry this!
Gotta take care not to make casuals into casualties
@@apolloniakageaki1711 Same thing
"We're not trained to pass the lie detector"...
and that's how you pass the lie detector test
Lie detector tests aren't really all that hard to beat. A good card shark can beat them. Any pathological liar can beat them easily as well. Both these things have been demonstrated.
They are also prone to false positives. After all, they detect stress and being interviewed while hooked upto a lie detector test is stressful. And of course you can also get "inconclusive" as a common result.
This is informative and a lot of fun, and I love how calm, soft-spoken and likable she is -- especially given her incredibly demanding resume! I hope she'll analyze more in the future.
She’s trained to be soft-spoken and likable. That’s what makes women good spies.
"The CIA is mostly burocracy"
I could see she crying inside a little...
I mean it's a government agency of course it's a bureaucracy
Which means euroTrash parties in England.
the funny thing about the first clip is that duplicating keycards just by standing closeby to someone is actually possible for a lot of keycards but it's represented unrealistically I guess.
Has a practical attack ever been demonstrated for anything other than low frequency RFID? Also, the kinds of readers that have been used for LF RFID to get less than a meter of practical range to my knowledge took up most of a messenger bag by itself, so it might not be a very realistic attack to pull off in a dress at a party. Still, as you say, possible for a lot of older key cards and -fobs.
@@IaCthulhuFthagn I don't know what the specific technologies are but Deviant Ollam has duplicated keycards on unsuspecting building security. But as you said, you need a large bag to conceal the device that reads them, then you need to back out and actually create the card rather than it automatically generating.
@@IaCthulhuFthagn They have developed a poc of a device that can sniff contactless cards
I think during the time setting of Alias, they were still mostly magnetic cards? And I don't think you can copy the magnetic strip from a distance? I'll admit I've never seen the show, so I might be wrong about the type of card...
@@AlbertJanVaartjes that scene was aired in 02/03 for a time frame reference.
I find it interesting that when the former KGB officer called out movies on BS everyone goes along with it and here we get comments like why did we get a secretary instead of a spy, when she's an actual spy.
Sexism. Point blank. Sadly not shocked at the state of the comments.
yet, they showed her clips taken out of context, like from body of lies, where dicaprio is the operator of the asset, not the bald guy...
@@OutcastFalcon89
Yes, but I would have expected the xenophobia to match the sexism.
The internet is full of children and those who think like children.
Where are these comments I cant find them? Ok I found one there is literally just one comment this is bit of an overreaction.
I always love it when the FBI Special Somethingsomething Task Force on tv is running a surveillance operation on a high priority target, and the whole operation boils down to two named characters sitting in the front of a car right outside the targets office, drinking coffee and talking crap for a few days. And then running inside with weapons drawn when they get a funny feeling.
“Hit someone with car a couple of times”
“Thankfully i also dint hurt that person😆”
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
And when I did that, I was arrested!! So not fair!!
“We have never ever never ever ever used that”nods head up on and down on a subliminal level
Depends on if they tend to do that when answering questions truthfully, too. What's her baseline look like?
@@NicholasWiewiora exactly
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You had my dying.
She makes a face when she says, "They can walk away at any time." At 15:00 her expression looks like regret to me.
There is a big difference between an intelligence officer and somebody involved with the Special Activities Center under the DO. Intel officers are ubiquitous throughout the CIA and other intelligence agencies. SAC members are the type of people you’d find doing some of these “off the charts” type of things.
Yep. SAC is where the action is. SAC recruits mostly former military special operators (SEALs, SF, Delta force). While SEALs and Delta go on highly classified missions, if they join the CIA they get to do "even more" stuff.
Very guns and military centric viewpoint there.
How to be a great CIA agent.
SAY YOU'RE AN EX-CIA AGENT!
Pretty much. The CIA will neither confirm nor deny your existence.
How to keep secrets.
Spread disinformation on TH-cam.
She didn't deny the explosive gum btw also this was great
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She could easily talk me into being a source for her. One of the sweetest personalities I've seen. Not what you would expect.
the fact that I'm not too impressed by her probably proves how good a spy she is lol she really doesn't feel like she'd deceive you
It's funny how she's a top secret service agent and at the same time sweet and adorable. Very nice break down.
What disappoints me most about Hollywood spy movies is, that this real spy confirms many of my layman objections to their depictions of the spy business... and I'm pretty sure most of the time its not ignorance that writes the scripts, its the believe the audience wouldnt care for or be entertained enough by a realistic depiction. In my case, its the opposite. Realism of detail in a fictional story goes a long way to enhance the movie.
It works for people who actually really like film. People who understand it and how it is made. The people who can explain what makes a film good or bad. Unfortunately, the majory of people are not like that. They just want entertainment. While there are a lot of film buffs, they're a tiny group compared to the average movie goer.
Yeah, it’s totally commercialized. They view it less as true filmmakers and more as writers of a compelling narrative (i.e. the #1 priority is how gripping the story is, realism isn’t completely discard but ultimately due diligence is on the backburner). It’s a shame, but to play devil’s advocate, a lot of the time the realism that takes hours of research per minute detail (and $$ for expert advisors) is lost on the vast majority of the population (hence videos like this), partly because they can’t discern it and partly because they don’t come at it from a ‘documentary’ sort of lens
she should review Tinker Tailor soldier Spy or Very wanted man or The Good Shepherd, or those 2 flicks about Robert Hansen ( one with chris cooper, other one with William Hurt) or Zero Dark Thirty or Syriana - such movies show the reality of clandestine work- lenghty process of obtaining information, evaluating its sincerity, checking, veryfing, chasing false leads, meetings and on top of it all- endless bureaucracy and approvals within the chain of command...
I cannot agree. There is a time and place for realism in a Story.
Realism can absolutely ruin pacing. Sometimes too much detail is too much. As long as the story works, sometimes you need to suspend disbelief. In fact, balance is key for the best immersion.
@@LordofSyn yet, I think my examples above contradict thesis regarding boredom. You don't have to go 100% realistic, but still, they could have shown her less of those "superspy" movies
3:51 after saying "what's next", an advert came on for KFC. Now I'm hungry.
Could her ratings be some kind of a code that CIA trying to give to an on- field Agent??
Lol you are a cracked
she could tell you but she'd have to use her license to kill on you. :)
I love the way she smiles.
Damn she's well trained.
1:34 In this scene Sydney is actually recognizing an enemy who is recognizing her. They aren't former classmates who'd avoid acknowledging each other.
Also, Bourne was trained beyond any conventional training.
That's the idea behind why he broke out from his programming.
They wound him so tight, he snapped.
So he would have been trained to remember car plates etc.
Next: Drug Dealers rating Drug Mafia scenes
12:33 _because now we've got all kinds of thumbprints and eye scanners and all kinds of equipment that's used to establish your identity_
CIA: Oh f**k it. Let's send our agents on TH-cam.
All that stuff she listed is the things that are available in the civilian market. And have been for quite some time.
Should’ve shown some torture scenes, easy 10/10
Ahem, you mean enhanced interrogation, right? The U.S. doesn't torture people... lol
@@chucklebutt4470 u could easily search it on google, and u will see how many CIA officers are involved.
She really just look like a sweet everyday woman. I would never guess she's a spy. Man she's good!
She’s quite nice looking but yeah I think the other secret agent lady mentioned that they want people who don’t necessarily stand out in any big way
@@shannonceleste5557 So no tall model!? We've been lied to by Hollywood all those years! Lol
That smile is very sinister.
@@lazer2365 ye she's probably a psychopath honestly. but hey, that's ideal for this role right
We have an old family friend who was in the CIA- she looked like a kindergarten teacher. The woman looked like butter would not melt in her mouth you would never guess she hunted bin Laden for a living.
The fact that she doesn't look the part being a CIA, scares the hell out of me.
She's a former intelligence officer and her office was probably at best a cubicle. Nothing to be afraid of. They're human with a specific job. Lol
I think people have the wrong idea about CIA people. They’re thinking it’s like Jason Bourne or Mitch Rapp types. They’re really for gathering information, maybe spreading information or misinformation and all in secret. A lot of times they’re in place as a state department liaison type thing. They’re not commandos. They might feed information to commandos.
They look like Snowden.
Why? Their skill is intelligence. They're white collar
I did some unique work in the 90's and I will say this; the CIA has intelligence officers like this lady, then they have (Assets), then their own special Forces operation units which are undeclared. Bourne was not an officer of profile data, he would be classed as and asset, which the classification would be beyond her reach hence she really cannot comment on something she know nothing about.
Her explaining how she got away from a carjacking due to her expert training while also being thankful that she didn't hurt the person trying to carjack her is the most adorable thing I've seen in a while.
Yeah but she actually hit him proper, look at her body language when she says thank god i didn't hurt him
sorry she should have messed him up, now they can carjack your wife's car and maybe really hurt someone.....
People who are hurt go to hospitals and typically have to describe what happened to them (and by whom). Not what you want if you're trying to keep a low profile, so her decision to not hurt the individual may have been motivated by operational considerations rather than concern for that individual. She does legitimately seem like a kind person though.
@@ericschnipke874 "She does legitimately seem like a kind person though." She's an intelligence officer, of course she is going to seem like that.
She reminds me of the CIA Lady from the S.E.A.L.'s tv show on CBS
She looks like Mandy, she do the same as Mandy, she is Mandy😂
@@milesf.6487 that's so true
This was great. I feel like you need to do the same thing with some scenes from The Americans, and Zero Dark Thirty.
I would really like them to do it with "the burea". if you're a fan of espionnage tv shows and you're not subtitles averse " cause the shows is french". it's literally the best Real espionnage tv show you'll ever see. and i would really like if they made some scene from that series in this video, the show is so realistic.
OK, here's the thing they don't like to advertise about the polygraphs:
There are some questions (control questions) that are thrown in, which you are expected to lie about. When you do so, they have a proper contrast to your truthful responses.
If you answer all the control questions honestly, then they won't have a proper baseline reading from you to be able to reliably discern truth from fiction. This can be hard, however, since they may ask you things that you desperately want to lie about, such as "Have you ever stolen from a friend? Have you ever had lustful feelings towards your sister/ brother? Have you ever cheated on a partner? Have you ever committed a crime/ cheated on your taxes? etc..." Since most people have done at least one of those things and would rather not admit it, they become great control questions to be able to get a baseline reading for untruthful responses. However, if you answer them honestly, they won't be able to get such a baseline. At best, they'll "know" that _this_ question, or _that_ question makes you nervous, but they'll have no idea whether or not you're lying.
@Mario Mario
It's unreliable- at least in part- because of flaws like the one I described above. However, it's no big secret that polygraphs are inadmissible as evidence. The whole "They need/ expect you to lie to certain questions" part, that ISN'T widely advertised.
I actually knew a person that served a rotation as polygrapher for a US Intelligence agency . ( I know which one, but he asked his students who did figure it out, to not name it as a courtesy to him . ( Not the CIA ) .
Polygraph is 100% accurate .... In measuring respiration , pulse , skin conductivity , etc It's the Interpretation thereof that's the rub . The Poly is just an Investigative Tool among many Investigative Tools . He conducted enough examinations , And had knowledge of the total investigations to have a meaningful opinion of the relative usefulness of Poly . ( And the given , that for a stone cold Sociopath , they're useless .)
The greatest usefulness is regarding a single specific incident reducible to a single yes or no question . Ie , on October 12th , did you steal or have knowledge of the theft of $1,000 from the safe . For wide ranging Security Reinvestigations much less pinpoint . More of if there were say half dozen general catagories of inquiry , and 5 of them were non- deceptive , and one had a few questionable readings , that one would get more follow up shoe leather .
For a study I was involved with I was polygraphed a lot in a period of a couple years and this is super true. Also if you have any form of anxiety, especially severe, it’s completely unreliable. This includes neurodivergencies like autism, adhd, ocd, and more. Many of what is considered “lying body language” is just a natural quirk of how we live our lives. (E.g. not making eye contact, fidgeting, stuttering)
@@gerilyn polygraphs don't work in the former Soviet Union. polygraphs there would be administered by the KGB. polygraphs do not detect lies, they detect stress. if you are being polygraphed by the KGB in Lubyanka prison you are experiencing 100% stress. if you are not experiencing 100% stress, you are not innocent; you are an idiot. there would be no change for the device to detect.
The CIA has "Officers," not "Agents" or "Operatives." "Operative" is a term applied to people in Intel not directly employed by the relevant agency.
"My Handler thought me everything I know."
"Who was your Handler?"
"I don't remember."
- Ronin
Isn't the whole point of Jason Bourne the fact he's exceptional, even by intelligence standards? That's the whole deal.
He's also not an intelligence offer. He's an assassin.
He's pretty much a super soldier. I think the Jeremy Renner movie hints that Treadstone uses a virus or something to enhance people.
Exactly...even in the real world, there's a big difference between case officers and paramilitary operatives.
Yeah I feel like it was a bit of a missed opportunity there. Maybe she was being vague to not expose operational details, but I feel like she could've provided some interesting insight to that scene. I would've liked to hear about it. Certainly there are some things she would've looked at in that situation. Like "I wouldn't know the six license plates, but I would've have noticed that one car was perfectly clean while all the others had mud." Or "The waitress was wearing heels, no career waitress is wearing heels working in a roadside diner." Or "There are only Geo Metros in the parking lot, there's no way that big dude at the counter came in one of those, how did he get here?"
Also, as he was the first to be trained in that unit, he was given the full works, more than other members of the unit.
Which is why he cracked and broke free.
They wound him too tight and he snapped and went out of their control.
She definitely didn't watch these movies. Her take on Mission Impossible also is odd.
There are a lot of people in the comments here saying what they did/do for a living and joking about doing similar reviews for movies which show their profession. They're joking, but I would love it if they really did. I would totally watch the wastewater treatment guy, the truck driver guy, and all the others do their reviews.
Personally, I spent 38 years in the investment world, and I would love to review The Big Short, Wall Street, Margin Call, Trading Places, The Wolf of Wall Street, Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room, etc. But given what an inflammatory subject it is, the comments section would probably be too brutal.
My love for the movie aside, I don't think she took Jason Bourne's biological and psychological training into account in her assessment of the Bourne Identity.
Jason Bourne wasn't just a CIA 'officer' (no offence), he was a black ops asset. Basically, an medically enhanced assassin. I imagine the realities would be a bit different, if such existed in real life.
I feel like I'm watching the same scenes of the same movies for every type of expert on every channel doing these movie reviews.
But I can't remember as harsh ratings before. She's solid ruthless which I prefer over 10/10.
If you ever need someone for "An Alcoholic Rates Day Drinking Scenes In Movies and TV" I'm your guy.
All of her pictures just her in mid east smiling, wonder if I'd be that happy trying to infiltrate a dangerous source...
And why would you know, and/or assume she was "infiltrating a dangerous source"? Love the guys who cook their own shit and eat it up.
Alright guys we are about to go in, everyone say cheese
@@nemezote Yes cause the CIA just goes to the middle east for vacation and finding themselves
@@nemezote Well i put 2 and 2 together, she's a covert intelligence officer working in possible enemy territory. Allied or not, still dangerous.
She likes her job a lot. Can definitely feel it.
I would have loved to see something from Burn Notice in this.
The whole airport scene in Argo was seriously the most tense non violent scene I ever watched.
She talk so obediently and carefully that will makes my heart almost inlove.hehe.
The sound of her voice is soo relaxing.🙂
Homeland has some fun scenes she could look at, like the comedic gold "She's turning it around!" scene. xD
I just watched a video of someone who worked the CIA disguise department in great details.Maybe you just never saw the disguise aspects in the area or departments you worked in but I imagine it is quite vast in high profile cases but thankyou for your information on helping us see what it's really like in the cia
Presuming that was Joanna Mendez , most of those accounts were in Moscow during the Soviet Era .
Back then , it was routine for the Russian Security Services to closely survail every American stepping foot outside the Embassy . In that environment , disguises and elaborate deceptions were a necessity . In the relatively recent Middle East was probably more a matter of discreetly blending into the background , either as a generic local , or generic westerner .
She wants us to think " oh we dont do THAT kinda stuff * wink wink*."
I’m a corrections officer and I can a with a million % certainty tell you no Hollywood depiction of prison is even close.
Since she's a former CIA agent, I don't think I want to trust anything she said.
But good video though.
When you leave the CIA aren't there certain things you can't disclose to the public? Like don't they make you sign a contract or is that the FBI?
You realize CIA operatives are also humans right? It’d annoy anyone when they watch movies about their profession. Cops hate cop movies, FBI hate FBI movies, soldiers hate soldier movies often because they get so much wrong. Spies are no different. They aren’t telling you what operation they did and who they spied on, they are telling you pet peeves that spy movies get wrong. It’s more truthful than the non classified new media tells you that people often believe
Y not, she’s sharing her truth. Not what u learned was true from tv. Remember your first time going to a major sports event, ur perception of what’s reality and not is so conflicted. It doesn’t look the same being there and viewing it on the telly is it? Bcuz while ur there ur n reality not what the tv wants u to see as a supposed reality. She proved it by stating a true fact in what we all perceived as being gospel in regards to combat. They aren’t even trained martial artists like they portray them to be in the movies,so even with that it shows how everything we see isn’t necessarily done in the field. So just listen and learn bcuz u won’t learn real truths from hollyweird
@@JC839 Ehh . For virtually any profession , it's a default given that Hollywood treats it unrealistically , and distorted for dramatic purposes .
Sometimes the real people will simply ignore the fictional portrails of their vocations , sometimes they get a laugh out of the humor , intended or not .
@@asanitheafrofuturist yes, you also sign stuff when you get a jog at McDonald’s, what’s ur point? This isn’t unclassified controlled information…though she likely got permission
I would really like to hear her opinion on some of the more grounded scenes in The Bourne Supremacy, like the one where Jason successfully obtained the hotel room number of Pamela Landy. But considering that she herself is an ex-CIA agent, even if they're trained to act so intelligently, she probably wouldn't say this is the case.
Also Bourne was not a spy, but an engineered killing machine.
Love how she's got the "coolest chick in the office" vibes and can totally kill you if needed.
Can vs would
plot twist: everything she said is the opposite of the truth and they definitely have explosive gum.
well played CIA, well played.
16:20 The Agency uses the polygraph? Are you kidding me?
What, they use Tarot cards, too?
How about crystal balls?
You guys like bone scrying, too, huh? LMAO
It’s a tool. It has limitations and benefits if you know what they are.
It’s a fascinating concept as an intimidation tool as well.
@@Justanotherconsumer CoINTEL garbage.
Voodoo dolls don't work anymore unless you're shaking down some little brown people who wear loincloths and pray for the cargo to return.
Otherwise; this is the 21st Century: And PsyOps only work on the ignorant.
Unless the ignorant somehow manage to become a real threat any time soon....
I'll keep my eyes opened for the odd college prof who decides to abuse their academic knowledge as a way to damage and destroy strangers.
@php They still get used because often people believe they are effective in any way for any purpose whatsoever.
They are not. There is absolutely NO good purpose for using them any more than there WOULD be for crystal balls and bones.
Period.
The entire thing is so laughable, in fact, that the Agencies’ continued use of it does nothing but work to undermine its’ standing in the world...not only in the intelligence community.
@php I gotcha. I understand that it was once considered a valid tactic to do...essentially anything at all short of harming or killing anyone.
But those days are gone.
Bill started something great...TWICE!...but now it's time to change.
How was it written?
Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur tempora.
The "other team" scene was a team that was trying to out someone or spy on the original team, not saying it's realistic, I assume everything from Hollywood is crap, however, I don't know if she watched the movie.
I understood that she commented on what an agent (Ethan Hunt, in this case) would do if he spotted a second team around his operation. If I got what she was saying right, the agent wouldn't wait until after the operation to wonder about that. He'd abort the mission long before that.
They give them the clips to review, not the whole movie
@@Behindthejab ok. I'm not necessarily blaming her. However it happened it happened.
She's talking without understanding the context first.
It's funny that she rates Alias so poorly, when another former CIA spy rated it really really well...
I was just going to say that. The lady who was the head of disguise said it was super legit, but that may have been a difference in the time period.
I think the lady you are talking about is considerably older and might be more familiar with cold war espionage where stuff like wigs and disguises might actually have been utilised while the women in this video seems to have served more recently. However I do agree that some of the "experts" keep contradicting each other
The other lady also rated a different scene under different scenarios, so the level of realism would be different. Additionally, the other lady was speaking from her experience about disguised, whereas Assad stated that she has not experienced extensive disguise work in her career.
It might also have to do with the level of involvement and the job they had in the CIA. I find it quite likely that someone working for the CIA doesn't know even half of what's actually going on. You probably know what you have to know and that's about it.
That would also explain why so many former spies and intelligence officers react so differently to the same clips.
Cold War and War on Terror are vastly different eras.
Can you get her to review some burn notice episodes?
I have said it before on one these videos, I would love to see Burn Notice reviewed.
OMG YES! I was hoping someone else was on board with that!
Do it
I’m chuck finley
'CIA - honesty" HAHAHAHAHA oh dear Lord that had me in stitches
I'm surprised here that Claire Danes' "Carrie Mathison's" mental health issues didn't come up. Ms Assad mentions an extremely intensive background check and vetting process, including psych. evaluations, for CIA agents/operatives: Wouldn't mental illness/bipolar disorder get you "weeded out"--and pretty quickly?
The smartest people are usually crazy. Not saying crazy in a pejorative way. Artists, CEOs, politicians - mental illness is very common. It can be managed these days. It’s not a death sentence.
Who said they were looking for normal people?
Yes, I’ve been hope you guys would do a video with a real CIA officer, thank you
please do Quantico season 3 I'm really interested to see what Michele thinks about the CIA training in this series
Was that show canceled on a cliffhanger?
Great, now I'm going to assume the person I least expect is actually a CIA agent...
That's exactly who they want you to focus on ;)
Yep.
If you suspect them, they’re screwing up.
Thanks! Great content.
@1:22 actually, keycard copying from a distance IS a thing.
there are even some that are comercially available to copy cards yourself to other RFID things.
meanwhile, if you need range, some security researchers have made some that can read every card in a 1m radius that you can hide those in a small laptop case, and can be as small (but not as thin) as .. a 10" tablet.
1:28 “The idea of reading a key card and be able to then create a new one based off of that, I’ve never heard of that before.” I trust her that she’s never heard of it, but it is absolutely a real technology, and occasionally used by physical penetration testers in the US.
Isn't pretty much a more elaborateverion of credit card skimming?
@@thaitran4527 yeah, basically!
I really wish they would put a clip from CHUCK in one of these videos. I’m just really curious what they would think
Behind that almost intrusive friendliness and excessive smiling lies an emptiness that is pretty disconcerting
The stuff she's probably seen or done...she may be totally hollow inside
It's part of her cover.
i kind of peeped once u mentioned it but den again..mayb not
1:25 ... is that a freaking old (then new probably) insulin pump that they used for the tech? it looks like one of my old pumps, hahahaha
>Homeland comes up
"Yo why is there suddenly Jazz music playing in my house?"
Bro she looks and sounds like such as sweet and harmless person, but there is just something ab her eyes which makes me think she's trained to do and has done much more deadly stuff than she lets on. Like I know people who has done very bad things to other people and people who have seen horrible things and those people always have this look in their eye and she has a very similar look that just radiates danger. I cant say for sure as I don't know her but I would be willing to bet money she has done and been involved in things far more deadly than she lets on.
I had something similar, but not with her eyes per se. It's more about her whole facial expressions. And I am by NO means an expert, but they just appear too... purposeful, as if she's showing us exactly what she wants to and not a bit more. Her eyes always go to our left when she's thinking about something like clockwork, for example. But I might just overthink this because she's a former spy... xD
@@AlbertJanVaartjes Yes, some of her reactions seem kinda forced and she did a great job at telling us stuff without really telling us anything at all. Something ab her seems very calculated, almost like you can see the gears turning in her head when she is about to speak; its fairly impressive honestly.
@@nickfarbman9610 deffo, she's absolutely assassinated people and so on, CIA aren't as clear cut as she's saying they are. i mean cmon these are the people who drone strike schools lmfao
@@nickfarbman9610 Of course ! Any current or former employee of any Intelligence organization will be very careful to only publicly disclose general background commentary , and Not refer to specific operations , or operational techniques .
I would enjoy seeing some scenes from Covert Affairs broken down. Especially the training scene where the main character is offered her choice of weapons to escape a training area and uses a gun only to break the glass on the fire escape map and then uses it to allow her to avoid being detected.
I just discovered Covert Affairs on Peacock a week ago. I Love the show and I agree, the fact Annie passed because she didn't discharge her weapon I found to be a realistic scenario.
How many commercials do I need to see to finish this video
Oo, this lady is full of smiles, so nice & immediately reminds me of my highschool teachers.
Yet behind that kindness.... She rated so low 😂 but she's so fair, she differentiates between realism & enjoyment!
That nice, smiling lady could totally kill you in a plethora of ways you hadn't ever dreamt about though
She says using disguises is unrealistic, meanwhile there was a video a couple of years ago that featured the former CIA Chief of Disguise who says differently...
Oh yeah, that's true. But maybe because it was about time much earlier - so disguises meant more back in the days and nowadays it's not really a priority that much.
Officer of the Galactic Empire rates space battles in movies.
She was pretty rough on the rating on some of the earlier movies.
I hope we get more of her in the future.
That's what i love about her.
She doesn't sugarcoat.
She tells the truth as it is
You can easily scan and print a RFID card. You'll need to be about a meter away (~3 feet) with a RFID scanner and then send that information to a 'printer' which just encodes the blank card with the scanned code. RFID is super simple and not suuuper secure. It's usually paired with another form of identification either biometric, or pincode.
The agent from "Alias" could actually have everything she would need to 'lift' the 4 digit code from her target all contained in her clutch.
Oh, another Caucasian crackhead white-collar criminal is here I see
I can only add to this that the secret services worldwide are getting a lot of help from universities and cutting-edge research that's done also by students. Some of it ends up in the civil engineering and industry, others go for the military and some for the secret service. Nowadays, a lot of it is related to cybersecurity and information extraction techniques and methodologies. What we see in movies as "super agents" in the style of James Bond, is done by assets who are employed with usually previous military experience and this is not a popular way anymore. Then again, the biggest idea of an intelligence service is not to send around James Bonds, but to develop a way of gathering intelligence with minimal imprint and traces, whether it is by the utilization of people and their family life, crafting fake identities of agents, or today very popular: hacking and hiring third party players a.k.a. hacking groups to do the job for a pay.
Spy Game as in Bourne series, the officers were military with apparently stellar record and skill. There are records of this happening fairly regularly with stories I've heard. This gives the recruiter enough time to vet them before ever approaching them, hence their training can start much sooner than most other recruits. However, I don't think these soldiers are recruited for the 'same jobs' as most CIA applicants.