Michele Rigby Assad is a former CIA operative and the author of "Breaking Cover: My Secret Life in the CIA and What It Taught Me About What's Worth Fighting For." Here, she reacts to eight undercover-espionage scenes and rates them on their accuracy.
Assad looks at undercover operators such as Leonardo Dicaprio in "Body of Lies" (2008), Claire Danes in "Homeland" (2011-2020), and Jennifer Garner in "Alias" (2001). She rates training scenes in "Spy" (2015) and "Spy Game" (2001). She also rates clandestine CIA operation scenes in "Mission: Impossible" (1996), "Skyfall" (2012), "Argo" (2012), and "Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan" (2018).
Assad served undercover for 10 years as a counterterrorism officer in the CIA. She is now a corporate consultant and keynote speaker. She holds a master’s degree in contemporary Arab studies from Georgetown University and a political science degree from Palm Beach Atlantic University. For more information, visit https://michelerigbyassad.com/