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Rogg casts him as the nation’s first great spymaster, and he is joined in this assessment by Mark M. Lowenthal, the author of Vigilance Is Not Enough.
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James Santel, The Atlantic, 8 May 2025
There is the ruthless spymaster Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård) and his mysterious assistant Kleya (Elizabeth Dulau).
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
The former spymaster, once an aspirant for the position of army chief, has been accused of colluding with Mr. Khan to destabilize the tenure of Gen. Asim Munir, the current head of the Pakistan Army, and of helping to orchestrate the riots of May 9, 2023.
—Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2024
As Russia’s economy tanked in the late 1990s, the CIA was able to reel in some valuable Russian recruits who betrayed—for cash—their spymasters and blunted Moscow’s intelligence operations against the West.
—Calder Walton, Foreign Affairs, 19 July 2023
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James Santel, The Atlantic, 8 May 2025
There is the ruthless spymaster Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård) and his mysterious assistant Kleya (Elizabeth Dulau).
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
The former spymaster, once an aspirant for the position of army chief, has been accused of colluding with Mr. Khan to destabilize the tenure of Gen. Asim Munir, the current head of the Pakistan Army, and of helping to orchestrate the riots of May 9, 2023.
—Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2024
As Russia’s economy tanked in the late 1990s, the CIA was able to reel in some valuable Russian recruits who betrayed—for cash—their spymasters and blunted Moscow’s intelligence operations against the West.
—Calder Walton, Foreign Affairs, 19 July 2023
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Doug Liman’s espionage flick reinvigorated the modern action movie — and ostensibly introduced a new archetype of superspy: slick but unglamorous, virtuosically violent but psychologically wounded, almost a blue-collar antidote to Bond.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
13 Sep. 2025
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One of the biggest moments in the action adventure is a dizzying sequence involving Cruise's superspy Ethan Hunt and a harrowing biplane chase, and USA TODAY is exclusively premiering a nifty aerial scene deleted from the film.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
15 Aug. 2025
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Frizer and Skeres were fraudsters, and the sinister Poley was an informer, crucial to the exposure of the Babington Plot.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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Option 2: If one prisoner informs while the other stays silent, the informer will go free while the silent one receives the harshest sentence.—
Michael Ashley,
Forbes.com,
29 July 2025
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He is brought into the fold by Helen (Elizabeth McGovern), leader of the Talamasca’s New York Motherhouse, to help snuff out an infiltrator in the organization.—
Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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Shadow Alliance Former National Security Agency counterspy John Schindler wrote on his Top Secret Umbra blog in January 2024 that Epstein appeared to have been part of a shadowy Israeli influence operation characterized as MEGA.—
Nick Mordowanec,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 July 2025
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During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Sep. 2019
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Netanyahu said the country would continue trying to bring home the bodies of Israelis still being held across enemy lines, such as Eli Cohen, an Israeli spy hung in Damascus in 1965.—
NPR,
NPR,
9 Nov. 2025
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And lately, Prime’s recommendations algorithm seems to have taken a shine to it — perhaps mistaking it for a sharp spy game as its human predecessors did, or perhaps not.—
Claire McNear,
Rolling Stone,
8 Nov. 2025
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“Spymaster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spymaster. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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