 | Breach (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $0.50 Super on the mind of a traitor and the personality of those around him.
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 | Shooter (Full Screen Edition)
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $1.70 Hot. Too close to the truth to be treated as fiction.
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 | Smiley's People
Buy new: $44.99 / Used from: $34.98 THE classic. Alec Guiness as George Smiley captures the craft of intelligence perfectly.
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 | The Falcon and the Snowman
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $1.49 Superb depiction of how easy it is to be a traitor, and how lax our counterintelligence has been (and remains).
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 | The Contractor
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $1.42 Absolutely super. See my detailed review.
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 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Buy new: $44.99 / Used from: $32.90 Another classic. This is what it is really like. Betrayal by one's own senior ranks just above occasional betrayal OF one's own agencies.
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 | Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.81 Just pure fun with a great marriage thrown in. A spy's version of a romantic comedy with a happy ending.
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 | True Lies
Buy used from: $1.84 As with the Smiths.
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 | The Bourne Identity (Widescreen Extended Edition)
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $1.66 Pure fun. Enough of internal betrayal to make it semi serious.
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 | The Bourne Supremacy (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $1.36 As good as the first, unusual for a sequel, does not disappoint.
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 | The Third Man - Criterion Collection (2-Disc Edition)
Buy new: $32.49 / Used from: $19.43 Classic.
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 | Casablanca
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $3.98 I like this one, apart from the romance, because it shows the non-official side of spying and danger--honorable people doing the right thing while their governments wage wars for profit.
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 | From Russia With Love
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $4.50 One of the many Bond classics. Fewer than 10% of the clandestine service overseas carry weapons on a daily basis.
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 | The Hunt for Red October (Special Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.44 Super technical thriller. Excellent portrayal of bureaucratic and action interactions.
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 | Three Days of the Condor
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.98 Classic that highlights importance of open sources of information that CIA persists in ignoring (they call them "Open Sores."
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 | Syriana (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.01 Bauer, the case officer whose books See No Evil and Sleeping with the Devil, are SUPERB condemnations of our unethical and ignorant leadership across multiple administrations, NAILS IT with this movie. Corrupt politicians and greedy energy czars work with despots and dictators to screw the 90% that do the real work, at home and abroad.
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 | USS Liberty Dead in the water
Buy new: $24.95 For this crime, Israel should have been cut off from all US assistance, and President Johnson should have been impeached. The movie is not out yet, but see the book Scorpion Down for how US and Russia destroyed one another's submarines (US first, then Russia) and covered it up to avoid World War III.
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