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Issue Date: March 20, 2005
DVD Bonus
Spy savvy
We tap an ex-CIA agent for the insider line on Bourne Supremacy.
Where were the disguises? asks former spy Antonio Mendez.
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The plot: Matt Damon returns as government assassin Jason Bourne. Framed for murder, he resumes covert operations to prove his innocence.
Commentator's credentials: Antonio Mendez is a former chief of disguise for the CIA and is on the International Spy Museum's board of advisers.
Overview: "My wife, a CIA agent for 27 years, and I found it wildly entertaining and highly improbable. The trade craft, as we call it -- meaning the way you travel, use identities or change your appearance -- is non-existent in this movie. Damon starts out looking like a Marine and ends up looking like a Marine. Real assassins or spies are going to be the little gray man or little gray woman, the person you don't suspect."
Scene 4: No Choice -- Bourne's girlfriend is killed during an elaborate chase in Goa, India.
"Goa reminds me of a place nearby that was the scene of my first 'exfiltration' operation. The task for me and my team was to create a new persona for a defecting KGB officer, code-named Nestor, and convince him he could walk right through the teeth of his own security service and board a flight to the West. We stayed in a beach house and were [under] constant surveillance. I ended up bribing our way into a local resort hotel. We had to keep the bribes going for the run of the operation."
Scene 12: The Alexanderplatz -- Amid a protest in Berlin, Bourne meets CIA agent Nicky (Julia Stiles) to pump her for information.
"In these extreme situations, it's a standoff, and you make it up as you go along. This crowd makes good cover. But the idea of putting snipers on the roof --forget about it! This is supposed to be a clandestine operation."
-- Rebecca Louie
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