Former CIA chief discusses how they use disguises for their spies

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Americans give themselves away overseas with the way they stand, smoke, and eat.

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No shite Sherlock. Just like a european man gives himself away with a sweater wrapped around his neck/shoulders. Or some dirty arab and his b.o.

Thanks again captain obvi

Thanks for the heads up.

Well that was actually pretty interesting.

I’m clearly American as frick, white as bread and rocking my A&M Columbia fishing shirt, but I had Arabs in Lebanon coming up to me multiple times asking me for directions in Arabic.

Weird as frick to experience.

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Later in the video she discusses how Americans give themselves away overseas with the way they stand, smoke, and eat.

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Good. Nobody wants to be confused with some European queer.

In the video it says she is on the Advisory Board at the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC. That Museum is really cool if you have a chance to visit, toms of actual spy gadgets and other information.

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I can’t imagine the foreign agent not laying eyes on the target for 37 seconds or longer.

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Yeah 37 seconds seemed overly long to me. That example she showed could have ducked into a corner of a retail store and changed that outfit in 10 seconds.

But what little I’ve read about surveillance is that to truly not be caught you have to stay back much further than the movies show and use larger teams that swap off constantly. So in the grand scheme of things 37 seconds really isn’t that long at all. A city bus stopped at a city light in traffic could easily be 37 seconds. Waiting for a subway same thing .