<story><title>Former CIA Chief of Disguise Explains How Spies Use Disguises [video]</title><url>https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JASUsVY5YJ8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kaveren</author><text>I wonder how good the disguise &amp;quot;technology&amp;quot; is that they won&amp;#x27;t disclose in a public YouTube video.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know why you&amp;#x27;d want to disguise yourself as the opposite gender unless you could pull off the voice, your cover would be blown almost immediately.&lt;p&gt;I still don&amp;#x27;t place any stock in intelligence operatives working in embassies, I can only imagine it works because intelligence agencies aren&amp;#x27;t sophisticated enough yet. You have a (relatively) small group of staff, and you &lt;i&gt;know&lt;/i&gt; a portion of them are spies. Many &amp;quot;official covers&amp;quot; are extremely weak.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matty_makes</author><text>The hosting country, like Russia, knows they are spies and puts surveillance teams on them 24&amp;#x2F;7.  The spy&amp;#x27;s (aka CIA Officer) job is to make sure their agents (the host country people they are gathering intelligence from) will not be discovered because in worst case that may mean death for the agent.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve read a few memoirs from CIA officers and typically they are doing a very well planned surveillance detection route (SDR) to ferret out who is following them.  If they are headed to a clandestine meet, the plan could include disguises and specific parts of the route where they can lose the surveillance team.  Then they can meet freely with their agent.&lt;p&gt;The sophistication isn&amp;#x27;t about technology of disguise, it is more about using a combination of the techniques described in the video and well honed skills.</text></comment>
<story><title>Former CIA Chief of Disguise Explains How Spies Use Disguises [video]</title><url>https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JASUsVY5YJ8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kaveren</author><text>I wonder how good the disguise &amp;quot;technology&amp;quot; is that they won&amp;#x27;t disclose in a public YouTube video.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know why you&amp;#x27;d want to disguise yourself as the opposite gender unless you could pull off the voice, your cover would be blown almost immediately.&lt;p&gt;I still don&amp;#x27;t place any stock in intelligence operatives working in embassies, I can only imagine it works because intelligence agencies aren&amp;#x27;t sophisticated enough yet. You have a (relatively) small group of staff, and you &lt;i&gt;know&lt;/i&gt; a portion of them are spies. Many &amp;quot;official covers&amp;quot; are extremely weak.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bfuller</author><text>Silicone prosthetics are nearly perfect disguises.&lt;p&gt;And if you pull off a female illusion well, youd be surprised that most people wouldnt think twice about your voice.</text></comment>