BBC Modern Spies

[Ravage]

From James Bond to Jason Bourne, the fictional world of spying is a world of danger and deception, glamour and lies. But how does the myth compare with the reality?

In the first of two programmes, Peter Taylor looks at the real world of modern spies. For the first time on television, serving British secret agents talk about their work - from an MI6 agent runner to an MI5 surveillance officer.

This time, Modern Spies investigates how today's spies are recruited and probes the secrets of spycraft, from the sleeper cell to the brush pass and the cut out to the cyber spy.

[Enduring Freedom]

Thanks. Nice find.

[happyslapper]

MI6 in particular was recruiting heavily while I was at university. They had job adverts in the student papers, next to Glaxo Smith Kline and Rolls Royce, and actively approached various individuals (several of my friends who studied languages were approached).

It's bizarre to think you can just 'apply' for a job with SIS, but of course they eliminate 99.99% of applicants.

[Eoin666]

MI6 in particular was recruiting heavily while I was at university. They had job adverts in the student papers, next to Glaxo Smith Kline and Rolls Royce, and actively approached various individuals (several of my friends who studied languages were approached).

It's bizarre to think you can just 'apply' for a job with SIS, but of course they eliminate 99.99% of applicants.

Easier to get into MI6 today than GSK!!

[Ravage]

I'd guess its the nature of our times. There are probably many of potencial candidates, that never imagined that they would have what it takes.
A friend of mine enlisted in the military, turned out he applied and got Selected to one of my nations SOF units.
A small, whitty, skinny little man. Guess it's not always the James Bond/He-Man type that had the right mindset.

[EKIVOLOS]

From James Bond to Jason Bourne, the fictional world of spying is a world of danger and deception, glamour and lies. But how does the myth compare with the reality?

In the first of two programmes, Peter Taylor looks at the real world of modern spies. For the first time on television, serving British secret agents talk about their work - from an MI6 agent runner to an MI5 surveillance officer.

This time, Modern Spies investigates how today's spies are recruited and probes the secrets of spycraft, from the sleeper cell to the brush pass and the cut out to the cyber spy.

Very good documentary in terms of presenting how modern spies work but i have many questions about the part that portrays the terrorists who planned to kill US servicemen in Fort Dix as being set up by the FBI. The documentary shows their family saying that they were good boys and they wanted only to have fun shooting weapons in the woods.