If Hollywood were to create a movie about CIA human intelligence gathering, it would need to be more Mission Impossible than James Bond, more about teamwork and technical expertise than individual exploits, says Dawn Meyer-riecks, who leads the agency's Directorate of Science and Technology. "With James Bond, they issued him a whole bunch of gear and he went out and did his thing. If you're familiar with Ethan Hunt, he's got a technical team around him that he uses for his base of operations," Meyer-riecks explains, adding that the James Bond approach is no longer the way it works, especially in the world of human intelligence (HUMINT) gathering. "It's much more the team of people with deep expertise around an actor or set of actors that enables in-the-moment sleight of hand to let mission happen, particularly from a human intelligence perspective."
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