“You’re our man in Havana. The best agent in the Western Hemisphere.”
— Beatrice Severn
What happens when a vacuum cleaner salesman manages to pass himself off as a successful spy? Jim Wormold, played by Alec Guinness, is desperate to support his daughter’s upscale tastes when he is approached by British agent 59200 to become an agent-for-hire. With little to offer, but a hunger for cash, Wormold takes a page from the book of real life spy Juan Pujol Garcia and creates his own fictitious spy ring. Filmed in Havana shortly before Castro took power, the 1959 film captures author Graham Greene’s wonderfully absurd depiction of the business of espionage. Join Richard Schroeder, an adjunct professor in Security Studies at Georgetown University, as he illuminates Wormold’s actions through his own experiences during his thirty-one year career as an officer of the CIA’s clandestine service. This tale of greed, lies, ineptitude, and creativity is a captivating, though cynical, approach to the world of spycraft.
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