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When you hear the word "spy," you likely think of suavely dressed heroes driving fast cars, performing daring feats of adventure, and committing crimes the rest of us can't get away with-with maybe time for a stiff drink or two. Cool? Certainly. True to historical reality? Absolutely not.
The world of espionage is shrouded in mystery-even to those in it. But so much of what we think we know about spy craft is rooted in literature and film and drama. Think Ian Fleming's James Bond and John LeCarre's George Smiley. Fictional spies loom large over our conception of covert operations and how they get done. But even though the true nature of espionage is quite different, that doesn't mean history's real spies are any less heroic-or less fascinating.