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blamazon
I was really hoping to see someone put on the mask but the one featured in the video was made with one person’s facial topography in mind and so I assume they can’t just throw it on anyone.
WaxProlix
Yeah, this feels like a very modern day exposé- lots of talking about a thing, some buried lede action, and eventually no payoff. Was this video created by a procedural SEO algorithm with a novel neural net approach? There's basically none of the promised content here.
SV_BubbleTime
> Was this video created by a procedural SEO algorithm with a novel neural net approach?

I’m leaning towards CIA PR campaign.

chunkyfunky
Was very disappointed too, I fully expected her to pull off a mask at the end and it would be Tom Cruise underneath :(
me_me_me
Especially since she called it 5 sec mask. It feels like exaggeration but who knows for sure.

I don't think I ever seen it is a movie, but you could theoretically put it on turning a corner do 180 and evade someone.

danielyaa5
It’s be funny if everyone totally knew it was a mask, but it was the equivalent of Halloween in Russia so nobody said anything
textech
Reminded me of the line from one of the MI movies. "CIA is like Halloween, a bunch of grown men in rubber masks playing trick or treat".
TMWNN
Which of course is ridiculous, given how IMF agents are constantly donning and removing their own rubber masks!
mhh__
Alternatively, the phrase (as said by the NRO) "Doing God's work with other people's money" is quite apt.
kneel
A Former CIA Chief of Disguise TALKS About a Five-Second Mask
practicalpants
Not sure disclosing all this helps their image, if people now understand they're capable of faking any sort of public appearance of anyone they need to.
ranguna
I can't reject cookies on this page?
Clampower
This might be the most annoying cookie notice I’ve ever seen. I can’t reject cookies on the page, have to click through to another page, where I cannot even find the option to do so.

Shame on you Atlas Obscura, this should not even be legal. Does anybody know if this is in line with GDPR?