{"id":39891,"date":"2013-12-05T07:06:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T14:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/05\/the-spy-who-contracted-to-me.html"},"modified":"2013-12-11T11:06:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T18:06:02","slug":"the-spy-who-contracted-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/05\/the-spy-who-contracted-to-me.html","title":{"rendered":"The Spy Who Contracted To Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Interesting Cracked article on how the spy game has changed since the Cold War ended (a couple of decades ago). \u00a0Not that the spy game was ever just like James Bond (Ian Fleming&#39;s background notwithstanding), but it&#39;s an even more different game now.\ufeff<\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/F3H4h8bh50lKaGwgnbsfXqX9L4Jww86QpqXLat8UCxVjYbD0hdtpNHo1rVJKVjuTWBJart8SIfENt3jvPHO0eBZ2fC-XatTtFv1Q_IBI=w120-h120' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_20785_5-ways-modern-espionage-has-left-james-bond-behind.html'>5 Ways Modern Espionage Has Left James Bond Behind<\/a><br \/>\n                                                Real spycraft has changed massively since the Cold War. To find out just how much, Cracked got in touch with a civilian spy who worked with the Defense Department in Afghanistan.\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/RGQVfeWStiM' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting Cracked article on how the spy game has changed since the Cold War ended (a couple of decades ago). \u00a0Not that the spy game was ever just like James Bond (Ian Fleming&#39;s background notwithstanding), but it&#39;s an even more different game now.\ufeff 5 Ways Modern Espionage Has Left James Bond Behind Real spycraft has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/05\/the-spy-who-contracted-to-me.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Spy Who Contracted To Me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-homeland-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6534,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/20\/before_i_kill_y.html","url_meta":{"origin":39891,"position":0},"title":"Before I kill you, Mr. Bond","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 20-Aug-04 8:02am","format":false,"excerpt":"James Ernest once crafted a fun little Cheapass Game called \"Before I Kill You, Mr. Bond,\" which was all about Evil Master Spies building up their Evil Master Spy Lair...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Gaming&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Gaming","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/gaming"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":32492,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/10\/film-review-the-spy-who-loved-me-1977.html","url_meta":{"origin":39891,"position":1},"title":"Film Review: &quot;The Spy Who Loved Me&quot; (1977)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 10-Feb-13 10:16pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Oh, my. 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