Former MI6 spy Harry Ferguson
has revealed the skills necessary to be a real-life James Bond.Resourcefulness: "It might surprise people, but unfortunately in real life out gadgets often don't work when we need them and so you have to adapt."
Observation: "You have to understand what you see, like if someone has you under surveillance or if you spot a face you saw in a briefing a few months earlier."
Empathy: "People must have trust in you, and you must protect them."
Weapon skills: "In the past agents did not really have to use arms, but with the work now in Iraq and Afghanistan that has changed."
Coolness: "The ability to stay unshaken involves keeping your level of eye contact normal and retaining a relaxed body posture."
Social skills: "You have to move in playboy circles, and go to Monte Carlo and drive a flash car and be able to carry it off like a natural.
Languages: "The more easily you can slip intro a foreign country without drawing attention, the better."
"If we're going to use gadgets, a lot of the stuff you can get in shops will do. If you plant a commercially made bug and it's found, it's not tied to a government organisation. The last resort would be a gadget made by the technical sections at MI6." (more)
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