The story of the undercover agent has long been a popular one. Elmer Irey, chief of the Intelligence Unit, had worked with undercover agent Malone on Prohibition cases. Thanks to amalgam of both great writing, acting and direction, Joe Turner emerges as one of the most watchable agents of film history. The result is an action twist on Pigmalion, as the wayward Nikita gradually transforms herself into a deadly fighting machine. Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! After Malones death in 1960, Wilson described him to a news reporter as the best undercover agent we ever had.. Malone, whose parents came over from Ireland, grew up in New Jersey and meshed well with its European immigrants, eventually learning to speak Gaelic, Italian, Yiddish and Greek. But his operation was interrupted in 2002 with the now-famous riot and shootout among members of the Angels and a competing biker gang, the Mongols, at the Harrahs casino in nearby Laughlin, Nevada, during the annual River Run motorcycle rally. Barsky is now married for a third time and has a young daughter. The opening sequence tells you everything you need to know about Caranos unspeakably tough operative, Mallory Kane: despite receiving a full cup of steaming hot coffee to the face, she manages to batter Channing Tatum into a quivering huddle. The Departed (2006) R | 151 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller 8.5 Rate 85 Metascore He rented a room in a Manhattan hotel and set about the laborious task of building a fake identity. "I knew the gig was up," he says. He cannot resist a smile at the thought of telling his KGB handlers that he has not been such a failure after all. 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. But he was keeping a far bigger secret from his KGB bosses than his wavering commitment to communism. 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. The authors 2008 book of the same name found the perfect counterpart in director Anton Corbijn, whose stark photography is perfect for the concrete grayness of this low-key thriller. He had long wanted to share his story with the world, but his bosses at the New York electricity company where he worked as a software developer were less than impressed to find they had a former KGB agent on the payroll, and promptly fired him. Under a new identity, Brodies partnered with an assassin (the great Peter Lorre), but finds himself ill-equipped to deal with the murderous aspects of his new vocation. I wanted to really hate the people and the country and I couldn't bring myself to hate them. Some have trained for the life of a spy, but many of them have the world of espionage and imminent death thrust upon them. 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. This includes executive director, spymasters and counter- intelligence officers; intelligence analysis and cryptographers; Agent of influences, dangles, moles, field agents . Then the police pinched Al himself following his 1931 indictment on tax charges. In law enforcement, working as an undercover officer carries the high risk of discovery by criminal suspects, leading to violence, torture and death. Who else would think of riding a horse to the top of a skyscraper? It has a crazed criminal organisation, mad scientists with a dangerous device (in this instance, a weather-altering machine) and, of course, a suave secret agent James Coburns Derek Flint. He may not have superpowers, but Agent Coulson has rapidly become one of the most popular supporting characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. With Kingsman: The Golden Circle in theaters right now, here's our pick of the sneakiest secret agents on film. Another adaptation of a John Le Carr spy novel, this one with an all-star cast which includes Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt, and Benedict Cumberbatch. Meanwhile, a group of wealthy business executives in Chicago, called the Secret Six, donated large sums of money for expenses to assist the feds in getting Capone. Garcias efforts inside the Gambino crew paid off big time. What follows here is a list of five remarkable individuals whose undercover operations, despite real dangers, resulted in the convictions of leaders and associates of organized crime, over almost a century. The teams persistence paid off within two years, with the capture (and conviction) of suspect Bruno Hauptman, who still had some of the marked currency the agents convinced Lindbergh to use as ransom money. Video, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. 8 with Cuba's Varadero Beach trailing closely at No. As Donnie Brasco, Pistone helped Ruggerio transfer stolen goods and sell guns. The metamorphosis is complete.". Individuals caught on tape in the FBI's ABSCAM . Met Life almost felt like home, he says, "because it was a very paternalistic, 'we take care of you' kind of a culture". Based on the picture, the Angels took the bait and let them hang out and ride with them. Dobyns has authored two books, one on his undercover experiences, another on his travails with the ATF. 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. To begin with Barsky lived in constant fear for his life, remembering that threat on the subway platform. Keeping quiet, Malone replied in his Italian inflection. During the fall of 1984, Quintero held meetings with top cartel traffickers Gallardo, Ernesto Don Neto Fonseco Carrillo and Ruben Zuno Arce. They trusted him so much they offered to make him a member of the Angels Skull Valley Chapter. Pistones journey while undercover, impersonating a mobbed-up jewel thief, would last an incredible five years, from 1976 to 1981, during which he penetrated the upper levels of the Bonnano organization. "There was nothing like we were taught. Blackford Oakes is a Central Intelligence Agency officer, spy and the protagonist of a series of novels written by William F. Buckley Carl Hamilton, Swedish secret agent from the Books of Jan Guillou Daniel Marchant, MI6 agent in Dead Spy Running and Games Traitors Play by Jon Stock David Shirazi in Joel C. Rosenberg's The Twelfth Imam It was the evidence the FBI needed to pick him up. Caro Quintero believed his operation had the protection of the Mexican army, and the CIA, since he owned a farm used to train the U.S.-backed Contras. 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. A three-year long Internal Affairs investigation proved this to be only the tip of the iceberg. A jury Capone could not fix found the boss guilty on 22 criminal counts. "I started thinking 'I think I got away with this.' Not even dislike them.". The cartel had the two mens bodies buried, then dug up and relocated to a farm in another state, where Mexican police found them in early March. And I am finally getting to live the life that I should have lived a long time ago. This was for Barsky was to study for a degree and gradually work his way up the social order to the point where he could gather useful intelligence - a mission he describes as "nearly impossible". They thought he was doing top secret but very well-paid work at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. One mobster in particular who liked his money and goods, and would become his almost daily companion, was Gambino capo Gregory DePalma. 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. His experience would eventually prompt the mobsters in New York to put out a $500,000 contract for his murder, but it never happened. In the Chicago courthouse, Malone happened to enter an elevator where Capone stood with his defense lawyers. Barsky says he has no regrets. The term was introduced to the public by British spy novelist John le Carr in his 1974 novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy [3] [4] and has since entered . But Pistone couldnt stay retired. There, he engages in moonlit reconnaissance missions, uncovers a huge drug operation, and engages the cat-stroking Han (Shih Kien) in mortal combat. ), Schwarzenegger plays the particularly brawny Harry Tasker a covert operative who pretends to his wife and daughter that hes a computer salesman. In 1961, she published "Mastering the Art. Caught stealing sensitive documents from the FBI, Mason is incarcerated for 33 years and eventually dug out for a new mission, older but still cool under fire and always ready with a witty retort. 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 . Malone, assigned to find him, followed Nittis wife to an apartment building in Berwyn, Illinois. 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. The most prominent of his performances was Jack Falcone, a supposed Sicilian thief and drug dealer. Camarena, born in Mexicali, Mexico, in 1947, moved with his impoverished family to Calexico, California. He graduated top of his class in computer systems at Baruch College, which enabled him to get a job as a programmer at Met Life insurance in New York. U.S. officials ordered all cars from Mexico at the border searched, effectively closing it. 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. On July 26, 1981, he and his fellow wise guys learned that Donnie Brascowho they knew as a small-time jewelry thief and burglar, who they thought was their partner and even their friend, who they were about to officially induct into the Bonnano crime familywas actually FBI Agent Joe Pistone. Under pressure, Mexican authorities acted, arresting 13 men. Malone used their largess to purchase some expensive clothing to look the part of a well-heeled hoodlum that Capone would envy. Sometimes, he had to run several undercover roles at once. A year later, Malone infiltrated Louisiana Governor Huey Kingfish Longs crooked crew. You took your chances, and I took mine. The FBI created the alias of Brasco to stem the rising truck hijacking numbers,. A decidedly modern kind of agent, Mallory works for a private contractor, who for reasons unknown appears to have turned against her. 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. Shaken but not stirred, often imitated but never bettered. Malone remained disguised within Capones bootlegging band even for a time after the feds filed tax charges against Capone, Nitti and Capones brother, Ralph, in 1931. With his retro glasses, expensive tailoring and precise hair, Firths Harry Hart is a spy in the 60s mold, but just wait until hes backed into a corner. A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. Dobyns teamed with another ATF agent, two other undercover officers and a pair of paid informants. Just look at the scene Smiley shares with Benedict Cumberbatchs Peter Guillam. The bust cost cartel figure Rafael Caro Quintero about $50 million. For millennia, China was a major target, with its silk, tea, and porcelain manufacturing secrets. Four days afterward, Malone finally gave up the act. 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. Prosecutors considered him crucial to convicting 21 defendants in the Pizza Connection case of pizzerias used to traffic in heroin and launder money for the Sicilian Mafia. '", Deep Undercover - My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America, by Jack Barsky and Cindy Coloma, is published next month. The Soviet Union began using "illegal" agents, living in Europe under false identities, as early as 1919, Unlike "resident agents", who are in the country legally as diplomats, they are not immune from prosecution if caught, The first illegal was sent to the US in 1921, according to the Mitrokhin archive, Famous illegals include Rudolf Abel, unmasked as a Soviet spy in the US in 1957, and Richard Sorge, who posed as a Nazi journalist in Japan during the war, In 2010, 10 Russian "sleeper agents" on a long-term mission to spy on US policy makers were exposed - including Anna Chapman (pictured). 1. But after a few months, he began to breathe more easily. 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). Also, correctly pronouncing Italian food matters as Tony Soprano might say, those long pasta shells are not manicotti, but manicote. Another valuable lesson he learned is that his Mob brethren loved compliments his favorite one: Where did you get those nice threads? Long before Top Secret! But as a "rookie" agent he was eager to please and threw himself into the undercover life. 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. A judge awarded him $173,000. Infiltrators. He dithered and stalled for a week. 16. Human error to blame for train crash - Greek PM, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. He gradually let his guard down and settled into the life of a typical middle-class American in a comfortable new home in upstate New York. His adopted name was Donnie Brasco. He was so effective as a wiseguy that the FBI let him keep it up. Altogether, he served in more than 500 undercover operations disguised as a hitman and Mob debt collector. He kidded around with Joe Reilly and the other agents who interrogated him, and tried to give them as much information about the KGB's operations as he could. 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. Like Pistone, Garcias undercover career is chronicled in a memoir, Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family. Using the name Donnie Brasco, he infiltrated the New York Mafia and helped produce 200 indictments. In the end, the evidence and trial testimony he provided in the 1980s produced 200 indictments of Mob associates and more than 100 convictions. It was time to start making cases, and for him to testify in open court as himself. further reading: Ranking the 24 James Bond Villains From Best to Worst. Investigators cleared him. Secret agents go by many names. The FBI had Garcia pose as a wiseguy seeking to invest in a topless bar in the Bronx. But he is more well-known in death than in life. He participated in the highest number of undercover cases in FBI history. My resignation, you can also call it a 'soft defection' - that was triggered by having this child here. I would just disappear and try to get healthy.". 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. Its a common approach in spy thrillers to throw an ordinary person into an extraordinary situation for some classic examples, see Alfred Hitchcocks North by Northwest or Sidney Pollacks Three Days of the Condor. It's no secret that the Russians have long tried to plant "sleeper agents" in the US - men and women indistinguishable from normal Americans, who live - on the surface - completely normal lives. After stepping out of his car, he was approached by a man in civilian clothes, who held up a badge and said in a calm voice: "Special agent Reilly, FBI. He was, after all, a university professor in his former life. The agenda was to kidnap Camarena and get him to reveal his informants and other information. He had then worked on a remote farm for years before deciding "to give life another chance and move back to New York city". He had to make friends with mobsters and criminals and be separated from family and friends for long stretches of time, even on holidays. His mission was so secret that only a handful in the FBI knew about it. Meanwhile, a DEA force organized by Camarena seized a large cache of cocaine shipped by cartel boss Miguel Felix Gallardos operation to New Mexico and Texas. Hes working class, not upper crust; he wears glasses and relatively casual clothes, enjoys cooking, and his dry humor clearly irks his more refined superiors. He would update Moscow Centre on his progress in weekly radio transmissions, or letters in secret writing, and deposit microfilm at dead drop sites in various New York parks, where he would also periodically pick up canisters stuffed with cash or the fake passports he needed for his trips back to Moscow for debriefing. A federal court in Chicago convicted Guzik, who got a five-year sentence. Zuno Arce gave the order. "I am glad it didn't work out because I could have done some damage. Tragically, the star died on July 20, 1973 just six days before Enter The Dragon appeared in theaters. Dobyns battle with his own employer, the ATF, soon began. I came here on documentation that was fraudulently obtained, so it took 10-plus years to finally become a citizen. 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. 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. Ably assisted by his ever-changing team of agents (most regularly Simon Peggs Benji Dunn and Ving Rhames Luther Stickell) Hunt is perhaps the least conflicted of screen spies. Based on the book, actor Johnny Depp portrayed Pistone in the 1997 feature film Donnie Brasco, with Al Pacino as Ruggerio. Despite the danger, Malone kept an iron will. A court in Los Angeles found Zuno Arce guilty in the murders in 1990, sentenced him to two life terms in prison, where he died in 2012. Unlike the movies adapted from the novels by John Le Carr or Len Deighton, Bond deals with the seductive fantasy of spy craft rather than the mundane, soul-sapping reality. Hoover conferred with Irey and urged him to compile a team of special agents to get Capone on tax charges. The judge gave him 11 years in the federal pen and a $50,000 fine, plus court costs. After Garcia witnessed a Gambino soldier beat another member with a crystal candlestick, the FBI shut down the undercover operation. He engaged in loansharking, extortion and illegal gambling. It wasnt easy, to be sure. His fascinating story began after his service in World War I. Mike Lepito was there at the Lexington when Al Capone arrived back, triumphant about his release on $50,000 bail. 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. In the coming days, over drinks, Malone told the guy he was on the lam for burglary in Philadelphia. Donnie Brasco was the alias of undercover FBI agent Joseph Pistone, who was born in 1939 in Erie, Pennsylvania. Pistone went so deep that even other federal agents and the NYPD believed him to . Garcia said he witnessed DePalma commit a crime almost every day. In 2006, the feds dropped racketeering enterprise charges the most serious against all but four of 42 Angels charged in the Laughlin riot. 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. An old school hood who in 2003 finished serving 70 months for racketeering, DePalma right away threatened violence and extorted owners of Westchester-area construction firms, strip joints, restaurants and other businesses. 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. The . 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 had to know the rules of the Mafia game. Blowing his cover would have proved fatal. Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Gary Busey, Lori Petty Votes: 187,582 | Gross: $43.22M 10. His name is on the passport of the man sitting before me now - a youthful 67-year-old East German, born Albert Dittrich. On February 7, 1985, Quintero and Gallardo directed their henchmen to kidnap Camarena off a street in Guadalajara. Joe Pistone is one of the FBI's most celebrated undercover agents. The idea was to create a fake biker gang with the aid of one of the informants who once served in a motorcycle gang based in Tijuana, Mexico. No one knew how far the investigation would lead, or what it would mean for Pistone, who started as an agent in 1969. Join the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter. Pistone even had to vacation with his demanding cohorts. Wearing a fancy suit, purple shirt and white hat, Malone sat in the lobby, reading newspapers for days on end. Special Agent Pistone (left) sits with Sonny Black (Dominick Napolitano) of the Bonanno family and unidentified woman in the 1970s during an undercover investigation. He found and reported what the agency wanted details of a coast-to-coast illegal abortion ring. On one early trip to the passport office in New York an official asked him to fill out a questionnaire which asked, among other things, the name of the high school he had attended. His work decimated the Bonannos, one of New Yorks five major crime families. Malone and another agent frisked and disarmed DAndrea, and had him arrested. 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. So in the kitchen I told her, 'By the way, this is what I did. In 1948, Paul Child took a job with the U.S. Information Agency in France, and Julia fell in love with the nation's cuisine and studied at Le Cordon Bleu. When we talk about things like Americans playing soccer against Germans, I say 'us'. Pistone had fooled them all with a masterful acting job that had begun in 1976 and lasted six long years. After finessing his way into Capones inner circle in 1929, Malone proved invaluable to his superiors in the Treasury Department pursuing a tax evasion case against the Chicago crime boss. The next year, Dobynss wife and two kids barely escaped after someone firebombed the family home in Tucson. Getty Images/iStockphoto. 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