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Mask rip-shocks

Tom Cruise’s first Mission Impossible marks its 25th anniversary this month, with each of the six-film franchise installments becoming more daring than the last. With Cruise’s seventh Ethan Hunt adventure due out in 2022 - starring SPYSCAPE’s own Vanessa Kirby - we celebrate MI’s shocking mask rip-reveals.

 

RIP OFF

 

Cloak and dagger

From veiled Ninja spies to Anonymous hackers and Batman blockbusters, masks convey meaning beyond words, inviting us into a smoke-and-mirrors world where nothing is what it seems. SPYSCAPE reveals the secrets behind some of Hollywood’s most iconic masks.  

 

COVER UP

 

The art of disguise

Jonna Mendez was fascinated by disguises when she became the CIA’s expert in identity transformation. It was It was like working on The Americans or Alias without being in showbiz - a job that brought her to far-flung countries working undercover with CIA chiefs, spycatchers, and one particularly chilling terrorist. 

 

TRUE SPIES

 

Anonymous?

Who or what is Anonymous? The nebulous global hacking collective states it is everyone and it is no one, making it difficult to accurately define Anonymous - although many have tried. Here are a few things you probably don’t know about the masked cyberactivists.

 

CYBER WARRIORS

 

Morse masks

Forget Covid-19 masks. Los Angeles artist and designer Behnaz Farahi has created 'conscious masks’ using AI to send silent, secret messages. The creative technology masks communicate with each other using the staple of many spies: Morse code.

 

AI UNMASKED

 

 

Silverview

The late John le Carré examined the soul of the modern intelligence service in Silverview, his final full-length novel set for release in late 2021. Fraught and fierce, le Carré’s espionage thriller exposes the tension between personal and professional loyalty, a dance of deception understood well by an ex-spy who wore many masks.

 

LE CARRÉ SECRETS

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