Sentences with phrase «intelligence officer turned»
The novels of John le Carre, the former British intelligence officer turned bestselling writer, are a response to the kiss kiss bang bang glamour of super spies, sexy women, high - tech gadgets, and thrilling missions created by the James Bond books and movies.
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The son of a high court judge and nephew of a Tory MP - turned - life peer, he learned to speak Arabic in Yemen before serving as an intelligence officer in Iraq.
Pollard, 60, is a former US navy intelligence officer convicted of turning over classified information to Israel.
The movie centers on a retired intelligence officer Robert McCall played by Denzel Washington, who turns into a ruthless vigilante for the helpless.
The X-Men star will also serve as an executive producer on the series about a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer - turned - professor and writer, who becomes involved in a manhunt when New York Police Department officials recruit him to help them find a serial killer.
The satire of gullible intelligence officers and corrupt politicians (an oily, somewhat sinister Ernie Kovacs as the soft - spoken terror Capt. Segura) take a darker turn when the fantasies spun by Wormold take root in the spy community, leaving real victims in its wake.
The film shifts back and forth through Goodbody's confused service with the sweetly stupid and misguidedly cocky upper - class twit of a college boy, promoted to officer by virtue of class rather than any talent, intelligence or aptitude for leadership, periodically turning to the audience to spin a narrative that has little to do with the incompetence and tomfoolery onscreen.
Turning history into farce probably wasn't what Antonio J. Mendez, a Central Intelligence Agency officer, was after when he was tapped to help free six State Department employees stranded in Tehran.