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Published earlier this year, the book dives into the work of Sidney Gottlieb, an infamous chemist and spymaster at the CIA known as The Black Sorcerer.
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Brian Welk, IndieWire, 22 Oct. 2025
Past high-profile campaigns have included targeting three nuclear research laboratories in the U.S. in the summer of 2022, and the publishing of the private emails of former British spymaster Richard Dearlove, alongside pro-Brexit individuals, in an operation revealed in May 2022.
—Deborah Sophia, USA Today, 9 May 2025
In the fall of 2022, U.S. and Russian spymasters met in Turkey amid Washington's concerns that Moscow could resort to nuclear weapons amid battlefield setbacks.
—Matthew Lee, Justin Spike, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Feb. 2025
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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Brian Welk, IndieWire, 22 Oct. 2025
Past high-profile campaigns have included targeting three nuclear research laboratories in the U.S. in the summer of 2022, and the publishing of the private emails of former British spymaster Richard Dearlove, alongside pro-Brexit individuals, in an operation revealed in May 2022.
—Deborah Sophia, USA Today, 9 May 2025
In the fall of 2022, U.S. and Russian spymasters met in Turkey amid Washington's concerns that Moscow could resort to nuclear weapons amid battlefield setbacks.
—Matthew Lee, Justin Spike, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Feb. 2025
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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And so every regime invests in having student informers.—
Anne Applebaum,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2026
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Security services also rely on informers to tell them who might be using Starlink, and search internet and social media traffic for signs it has been used.—
David Rising,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Jan. 2026
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Last Saturday, an Islamic State infiltrator ambushed a meeting between American soldiers and their local counterparts in a Syrian desert town.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
18 Dec. 2025
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Attacker had raised suspicions Al-Baba said the internal security forces’ leadership had recently become suspicious that there was an infiltrator leaking information to IS and began evaluating all members in the Badiya area.—
Abby Sewell,
Fortune,
14 Dec. 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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For the first time, Pixar hired an outside director, Brad Bird, who drew inspiration from spy films and comic books from the 1960s.—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Jan. 2026
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Fans might recognize her from the streamer's spooky period drama 1899 (2022) or its hit spy thriller Black Doves (2024–present).—
Allison DeGrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Spymaster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spymaster. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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