One former KGB agent, director of foreign intelligence Oleg Kalugin, has said that the Soviet intelligence agency didn't ask Russian women to stand up for their country but "asked them to lay down".Īnother account comes from KGB Lt Gen Leonid Vladimirovich Shebarshin, who recalls living in a “dilapidated” dormitory through the week, learning “Photography in all its special variations the preparation of microdots secret writing methods of communication ways to covertly remove information the fundamentals of acquiring sources and work with them methods of conducting surveillance and techniques for detecting it – all of that was new and extremely fascinating”.Īmong the other 'arts' in the world of espionage is the art of seduction. 'Paranoid' Vladimir Putin hires even more food and drink tasters over fears he could become poisoning targetĪccording to the Telegraph what little is known of the real spy schools has come from reports of ex agents.
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The elite training consisted of instruction in "how to elicit conversation, how to open a bottle of champagne, little things like that, at a time when the average woman in the Soviet Union wasn't groomed in such worldly things," said Matthews, who retired from the CIA in 2010. "I think that's long since closed," he admits. "If the conditions are right, in Moscow, someone with access to secrets is having one too many drinks in a Moscow bar, and a young lady for sure will sidle up to them and see how far it goes."Īccording to Matthews, who has more than three decades of national security experience, the movie's narrative is in fact art imitating real life.Īt the height of the Iron Curtain years of the 1960s and 70s, Matthews said Russian sources spoke of "a 'Sparrow' school, a state school where women trained in these arts.
"The Russians have for many, many years, used women to try and sexually entrap for blackmail purposes, to try and tell their secrets," he told CNBC. Jennifer Lawrence plays Dominika Egorova, a Russian ballerina who has to retire from the stage.MURRAY CLOSE Though only Lawrences upper body is what is shown in the Red Sparrow sequence, she learned all the choreography, which, Froman said, was not created with a beginner in mind. The events of Red Sparrow are an amalgam of former CIA officer turned author Jason Matthews' own anecdotes from his years as a clandestine officer. Sir Winston Churchill's secret four-year affair with Cara Delevigne's great aunt Lady Doris Castlerosse exposed
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