I remember when I was a kid, I would watch 'Superman', and I was super into the feeling of knowing that Clark Kent is Superman and no one knows.
Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.
A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
I was in the underground until I left Germany.
It feels quite cool, in a mad way, to be someone who skulks about in the shadows.
'Miele' is a code name for a girl who has a double life.
Within the Filipino community, everybody knows somebody who's undocumented.
I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it.
