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Spymaster USA

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How it feels

A reality competition series where volunteers learn spy skills from former intelligence and law enforcement professionals. The participants are trained in secrecy, fitness, weapons, and persuasion as they complete real-world espionage challenges.

competitivehigh-stakeseducationalsuspensefulhands-onfast-pacedintriguing

What happens

Spymaster USA is an American television program originally made by Wall to Wall Television for The Learning Channel in 2003. The series was created by Jacqui Wilson for Europe and the United States. The American version was directed by Chris Holt and Dennis Lofgren. The series follows a group of real-life volunteers as they are trained by former spies, military, and law enforcement in espionage techniques, including maintaining a false identity, fitness, weapons handling, surveillance, persuasion and recruitment. The format uses by this series was based on the BBC program Spymaster (2002; UK) and has been expanded into a popular British series Spy. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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