Dobyns certainly had the physical part down with his beard and six-foot, one-inch frame he used as an all-conference football player for the University of Arizona. He has also found God, completing his journey from a hardline communist and atheist to a churchgoing, all-American patriot. When Garcia hung out with DePalma over the two-year period, he wore a body wire, and the FBI planted bugging devices at DePalmas hangouts. But given his skills, it didnt happen. On February 2, 1980, the world learned of our high-level investigation into public corruption and organized crime, infamously code-named ABSCAM. Pistones Mob activities centered in New York and Florida, taking him away from his wife and young daughters for extended times. With many plot points seemingly taken directly from Dr. No, Enter The Dragon could have been the start of a Bond-like martial arts spy franchise for Lee. Ostensibly a CIA analyst, Ryan inevitably ends up in the thick of the action, whether hes on the trail of a stolen soviet submarine, saving members of the British royal family from assassins or foiling terrorist plots. At the time, the Reagan administration was secretly training and supplying Central American guerilla fighters, known as the Contras, against the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua. A jury Capone could not fix found the boss guilty on 22 criminal counts. McCarthys great value as an unlikely secret agent, and her scenes with Jason Statham, who happens to play the sweariest secret agent in film history, are a real high-point. Malone used their largess to purchase some expensive clothing to look the part of a well-heeled hoodlum that Capone would envy. And when it did, it felt good.". Pistone endured the rigorous course alongside recruits in their 20s. ', "And that completely backfired. Elmer Irey, chief of the Intelligence Unit, had worked with undercover agent Malone on Prohibition cases. What's he waiting for? Malone, assigned to find him, followed Nittis wife to an apartment building in Berwyn, Illinois. Reilly, who went on to become Barsky's best friend and golfing partner, even visited the elderly parents of the real Jack Barsky, who agreed not to reveal that their son's identity had been stolen. But he is more well-known in death than in life. Like Pistone, Garcias undercover career is chronicled in a memoir, Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family. Individuals caught on tape in the FBI's ABSCAM . The advice from his handlers on blending in - gleaned from Soviet diplomats and resident agents in the US - "turned out to be, at minimum, weak but, at worst, totally false", he says. The most enjoyable parts of the three Men in Black films made so far have come from K and Js strained relationship the former terse and uptight, the latter humorous and easygoing. Mexican police arrested Gallardo in 1989, and he received 40 years. But inside he was panicking that he would be sent to jail and that his American family, which he had been trying to hold together, would be broken up. There, he engages in moonlit reconnaissance missions, uncovers a huge drug operation, and engages the cat-stroking Han (Shih Kien) in mortal combat. I am really lucky.". After Garcia witnessed a Gambino soldier beat another member with a crystal candlestick, the FBI shut down the undercover operation. Weve seen Angelina Jolie appear in action films before (see Tomb Raider and Mr. & Mrs. Smith), but shes superbly poker-faced as the enigmatic Evelyn Salt. Infiltrators. He profiled potential recruits and compiled reports on the mood of the country during events such as the 1983 downing of a Korean Airlines flight by a Soviet fighter, which ratcheted up tensions between the US and the Soviet Union. The most prominent of his performances was Jack Falcone, a supposed Sicilian thief and drug dealer. When Capones jury trial commenced, and the Treasury Department removed Malone from his undercover job, the agent gained a bit of respect from the embarrassed gang chief himself. He believes about "10 to 12" agents were trained up at the same time as him. Garcias efforts inside the Gambino crew paid off big time. Initially a drug-addled drop-out, Nikita (Anne Parilaud) is given a stark choice: either train to become an operative or die in prison. But therein lies Bonds almost universal appeal: 007s stock in trade may be death and destruction, but the glamorous circles in which he moves are a world away from the desk jobs, coffee machines, and daily grinds of we ordinary mortals. On one occasion, he flew to California to track down a defector (he later learned, to his immense relief, that the man, a psychology professor, had not been assassinated). Below youll find plenty of famous names from the world of espionage, but weve also picked out a few other great secret agents from cinema history who, we think, deserve their own brief moment in the spotlight. He had to make friends with mobsters and criminals and be separated from family and friends for long stretches of time, even on holidays. Keeping quiet, Malone replied in his Italian inflection. It requires an unusual kind of person, able to work under stress, stay focused, pull off the character he or she is playing and be prepared to tell many lies. Perhaps the supreme irony of Jack Barsky's story is that he was only able to complete the mission the KGB had set him - to obtain an American passport and citizenship - with the help of the FBI. For more than 50 years, Bond has embodied the romance of being a secret agent while the best films have brought out more than a hint of its dark side, too. BeforeKingsmancame out this year, few would have imagined that Colin Firth would be so effective as a combat-ready secret agent. It was The Ipcress File that saw Caine at the height of his powers, and with his turn cut to John Barrys prowling theme tune, its among the best British spy thrillers ever made. "I was trying to repair a marriage that was slowly falling apart. The ATF named the setup Operation Black Biscuit. As a convincer, Dobyns and his fellow agent feigned an execution of a Mongol member, tying up an agent, placing cows brains and bloody Mongol clothing on him and taking a photo. First Julius in July, then Ethel in August. After Malones death in 1960, Wilson described him to a news reporter as the best undercover agent we ever had.. Malone met Capone at Nittis party. Albert Dittrich is Jack Barsky in the eyes of the US government. 16. To date, Harrison Fords incarnation of Ryan is arguably the best; hes smart, tenacious and, despite his tendency to use his brain rather than his fists to win his battles, still capable of holding his own in a violent encounter. You took your chances, and I took mine. Who else would think of riding a horse to the top of a skyscraper? Zuno Arce gave the order. Based on the book, actor Johnny Depp portrayed Pistone in the 1997 feature film Donnie Brasco, with Al Pacino as Ruggerio. Although experiencing some unpleasant situations that Bond has skilfully managed to avoid in his own career (see Ian Flemings original Live and Let Die novel and 1989s unusually violent Licence to Kill), Leiter remains an affable counterpoint to 007s icy resolve. According to a veteran law enforcement official who worked with him, Garcia is "the best undercover agent the Bureau has ever had." While undercover, Garcia posed as a jewel thief mobster who also sold drugs. The man who exposed him was a KGB archivist, Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin, who defected to the West in 1992 - after the fall of communism - with a vast trove of Soviet secrets, including the true identity of Jack Barsky. A superbly drawn character, her inner-strength is offset by her capacity for drink. Then the police pinched Al himself following his 1931 indictment on tax charges. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. In the 1920s, he went to the Soviet Union and soon began working as an intelligence agent. Born in Cuba in the early 1950s, the imposing 6'4 Garcia successfully played dozens of underworld roles in over 100 different operations, with many of his stings being orchestrated simultaneously. Theyre from opposing sides of the Iron Curtain and forced to work together for the greater good. "They were very much focused on having people on the other side just in case of a war. In fact, Britains national security agency doesnt even call them agents theyre covert human intelligence sources, or simply officers.Whatever we choose to call them, secret agents lead necessarily furtive and obscure lives so obscure, in fact, that most of what we know about them is defined by what weve seen and read in books and movies. He found and reported what the agency wanted details of a coast-to-coast illegal abortion ring. The secret agents new acquaintances included big-shot hoods Nitti, Machine Gun Jack McGurn, Jake Greasy Thumb Guzik, Paul The Waiter Ricca, Murray The Camel Humphreys and Sam Golf Bag Hunt. Long before Top Secret! Over the next year, he parlayed Jack Barsky's birth certificate into a library card, then a driver's licence and, finally, a social security card. It was the evidence the FBI needed to pick him up. 1. Fonseca only intended to scare and release him, but Quintero wanted to kill the DEA man. It was not ideological. Sent to Brazil to infiltrate a group of Nazis, Alicias soon caught between the affections of Devlin (Cary Grant), an ice-cold U.S. agent, and Sebastian (Claude Rains), one of the Nazis shes ordered to seduce. There, the cops nabbed Nitti, later sentenced to 18 months in prison for tax evasion. Coburn gives Flint an easy charm, and hes highly effective in his combat scenes. Set in the midst of World War I, Secret Agent sees Gielguds army captain Edgar Brodie despatched to covertly track down a German agent en route to Arabia. His name is on the passport of the man sitting before me now - a youthful 67-year-old East German, born Albert Dittrich. Investigators cleared him. While undercover as Jack Falcone with the Gambinos familys chapter in Westchester County, New York, for two years, he flashed cash, Rolex watches, diamond rings, flat-screen TVs and other supposed stolen property (items seized in other FBI cases). Some have trained for the life of a spy, but many of them have the world of espionage and imminent death thrust upon them. He moved his family members out of state for their protection. Malone and another agent frisked and disarmed DAndrea, and had him arrested. The films lightweight stuff, but Chans gleeful take on the genre is infectious a scene where hes frantically trying to get his high-tech trousers on while simultaneously fighting an army of bad guys is a particular highlight. And at a time when the Bond franchise was becoming increasingly mired in implausible gadgets (see Die Another Days invisible car or rather, dont), Bournes tendency to fight with pens and books, or drive around in battered old cars, marked him out as a very different kind of hero. By providing stolen property for DePalma to sell for cash, Garcia convinced him that Jack Falcone was an experienced jewelry thief and fencer from Miami. The gangsters also brought in and beat up Zavala, Camarenas pilot. A federal court in Los Angeles charged 22 defendants in the murders of Camarena and Zavala. There are more Jews in New York than in Israel, I think.". While working undercover cases in the late 1980s for the ATF, hed been injured twice from a gunshot wound to the back from a suspect in Tucson and when gunrunners hit him with a car during an attempted getaway in Chicago. While Malone kept up the charade, he delivered information that proved incriminating not only for Capone, but for his top enforcer, Frank Nitti (aka Nitto). DeSantis won't say he's running. "I wrote this letter, in secret writing, that I wouldn't come back because I had contracted Aids, and the only way for me to get treatment would be in the United States. His various recording devices could have been exposed or gone haywire and given him away. The new film A Call to Spy, produced, written by and starring Sarah Megan Thomas as Hall and directed by Lydia Dean Pilcher, takes inspiration from the heroic stories of these two spies who made . "I knew the gig was up," he says. Getty Images/iStockphoto. While the James Bond series took an extended break from 1989 until the mid-1990s, Hollywood megastar Arnold Schwarzenegger stepped in to fill the breach. They trusted him so much they offered to make him a member of the Angels Skull Valley Chapter. Gielgud plays a wonderfully British, reserved sort of spya striking counterpoint to the increasingly tough agents wed see in the later thrillers of the 20th century. Barsky would later use his handlers' prejudices and ignorance of American society against them. For Jay Dobyns, fitting in with the infamous biker gang the Hells Angels for almost two years meant adhering to his undercover alter ego, Jay Bird Davis, to the point of obsession. Read about our approach to external linking. Spies. Agents in the FBI's New York office decided to try out a longer-term undercover operationone of the first of its kind. The gangster informant and Dobyns would run the gang, called the Solo Angeles, promote it as a pro-Hells Angels crew and request to join the Angels as a nomad chapter. "The expectations of us, of me - I didn't know anybody else - were far, far too high. I would just disappear and try to get healthy.". The underlying joke is that charismatic spies like Bond get their miraculous powers of combat and seduction not from years of training and the kind of lingering self-confidence you get from going to expensive schools, but from wearing special tuxedos. . And it ultimately led to more than 100 federal convictions. Some, he says, could still be out there, living undercover in the United States, though he finds it hard to believe that anyone exposed to life in the US would retain an unwavering communist faith for long. His mission was so secret that only a handful in the FBI knew about it. He took part in investigations of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. But, he adds, "what eventually softened my attitude" was the "normal, nice people" he met in his daily life. In New York City during the mid-1970s, the FBI investigated a rash of truck hijackings happening each day. A new judge accepted the recommendation. In Camarenas honor, in 1985 the National Family Partnership started the National Red Ribbon Campaign, a volunteer anti-drug use and education effort that urges youths to recite a pledge to refrain from drugs, and celebrates Red Ribbon Week on drug awareness each October. On February 7, 1985, Quintero and Gallardo directed their henchmen to kidnap Camarena off a street in Guadalajara. In 1985, he had married an illegal immigrant from Guyana he had met through a personal ad in the Village Voice newspaper - and they now had a daughter together. He was the first law enforcement officer to infiltrate the Angels. In 2014, the year he retired after 27 years with the ATF, he filed another suit, for $17.2 million, saying the ATF failed to safeguard his family amid death threats. In fact, luck was on his side. As the agent walked from the U.S. consulate to meet his wife for lunch, they forced him at gunpoint into a car and drove him to a residence used for cartel rendezvous. But he was keeping a far bigger secret from his KGB bosses than his wavering commitment to communism. He gained 80 pounds over the two years. In the coming days, over drinks, Malone told the guy he was on the lam for burglary in Philadelphia. The only thing that fooled me was your looks, Capone is said as to have remarked to Malone. The jury found DePalma guilty on 27 counts, and the judge gave the 74-year-old a 12-year prison term. The FBI Wall of Honor remembers Special Agent Charles Leo Reed, who died on March 22, 1996 from gunshot wounds received in connection with an undercover drug investigation. Lee also gets to indulge in all the activities youd expect from a seasoned spy; under the pretext of entering a martial arts tournament, he infiltrates the island lair of an evil villain named Han. In the 1990s, Salvatore Sammy the Bull Gravano, former underboss for the Gambino family who turned FBI informant, said the embarrassment from the Brasco case drove bosses in New Yorks crime families to suspend the Bonanno group from its board of directors. He wore a wire to record conversations, and committed to memory names and license plates since taking notes would obviously raise red flags. Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! The decision to put Pistone into this undercover role was made by the FBI's office in New York City, home of the five main Mafia familiesBonanno, Gambino, Colombo, Genovese, and Lucchese. He already knew about their anti-Semitism and their fear of Ronald Reagan, who they saw as an unpredictable religious zealot who might launch a nuclear strike to "accelerate" the Biblical "end times". Two Angels and one Mongol died and dozens of people were injured. Virginia Hall, perhaps the most famous of all the OSS female spies, was trained by the SOE because she originally worked for that organization, as an undercover agent in France before America entered the war. Operatives. An F.B.I. And all of thats what makes her so compelling to watch. Even well into his 60s, Sean Connery still convinced as a gun-toting action hero. Now, obviously, there is anti-Semitism in there, but secondly, the stupidity of that statement is that they sent me to New York. The original pre-Code era drama film is loosely based on the life of the real Mata Hari, an exotic dancer executed for espionage during World War I. He was a man with no past and no identification papers - except for a birth certificate obtained by an employee of the Soviet embassy in Washington, who had kept his eyes open during a walk in the Mount Lebanon cemetery. In the early 1980s, in what he called Operation Padrino, Camarena arranged for U.S. agents to seize international bank accounts held by wealthy cartel drug lords. After passing a lie-detector test he was told that he was free to go and, even more remarkably, that the FBI would help him fulfil his dream of becoming an American citizen. A decidedly modern kind of agent, Mallory works for a private contractor, who for reasons unknown appears to have turned against her. It began in the mid-70s, when Dittrich, destined at the time to become a chemistry professor at an East German university, was talent-spotted by the KGB and sent to Moscow for training in how to behave like an American. On the other hand, the KGB's original plan for him might actually have worked, he says. The feds moved quickly and a judge created a new list of jurors. One morning, on a subway platform a resident agent delivered a chilling message: "You have got to come home or else you're dead. And another child. "It required some interesting gymnastics to make me legal because one thing I didn't have was proof of entry into the country. With safety measures in place, Capone ordered the gunmen to leave town. A trained officer knows how to strategize, win the confidence of their targets and get them to reveal whats needed to build a case to take to trial. According to Michelle Carter, who wrote a biography named Anthony Blunt: His Lives, Blunt provided Soviet intelligence officers with 1,771 documents between 1941 and 1945. Richard Sorge was a German-born Soviet spy who is considered one of the greatest intelligence agents of all time. One of the things I was told explicitly was to stay away from the Jews. "I am glad it didn't work out because I could have done some damage. It should directly contain very few, if any, pages and should mainly contain subcategories. Meanwhile, another team of Prohibition Unit agents in Chicago, headed by Eliot Ness, would attack Capone on violations of federal liquor laws under the Volstead Act. Dobyns had hit on his best clandestine ruse yet while in Arizona in 2001, after 15 years of service as an undercover special agent with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. He won a $373,000 settlement in 2007. He ordered a special master to investigate government actions in the case, and possible misconduct by the feds in the arson investigation. This plan fell through because of his failure to get a passport, so the KGB reverted to Plan B. His adopted name was Donnie Brasco. He was so effective as a wiseguy that the FBI let him keep it up. Mike Lepito was there at the Lexington when Al Capone arrived back, triumphant about his release on $50,000 bail. The story of the undercover agent has long been a popular one. From the USSR we have Armie Hammers Ilya Kuryakin, a towering, angrier version of the character once filled by heartthrob David McCallum. Hoover conferred with Irey and urged him to compile a team of special agents to get Capone on tax charges. U.S. officials ordered all cars from Mexico at the border searched, effectively closing it. Email blog@themobmuseum.org. Where Ian Flemings spy novels were about the glamor and fantasy of the spy game, John Le Carrs books are closer to the mundane, downbeat reality. The story of how this came to be is, by Barsky's own admission, "implausible" and "ridiculous", even by the standards of Cold War espionage. So much of Palmers character goes against the grain of the typical 60s spy. Donnie Brasco was the alias of undercover FBI agent Joseph Pistone, who was born in 1939 in Erie, Pennsylvania. 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