{"id":8396,"date":"2012-01-23T13:52:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T21:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=8396"},"modified":"2012-01-23T13:52:48","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T21:52:48","slug":"the-life-of-an-agent-hungarian-secret-police-training-films-from-1958-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2012\/01\/23\/the-life-of-an-agent-hungarian-secret-police-training-films-from-1958-1988\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life of an Agent: Hungarian Secret Police Training Films From 1958 – 1988"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThis is a 2004 film compilation by G\u00e1bor Zsigmond Papp<\/a> that presents a ‘best of’ series of clips from thirty years of Hungarian secret police training films geared toward protecting the socialist regime. Subjects covered include: how to place a bug, how to film people from handbag cameras, how to follow someone, how to secretly search a home, how to recruit agents, and how to effectively network for information gathering. These are all marvelous skills for finding a job in today’s high-tech world of modern American surveillance. But I view the film from an artistic perspective and find it fascinating in its easy ability to create mood and tension with the bare minimum of cinematic effort.<\/p>\n

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This is a 2004 film compilation by G\u00e1bor Zsigmond Papp that presents a ‘best of’ series of clips from thirty years of Hungarian secret police training films geared toward protecting the socialist regime. Subjects covered include: how to place a bug, how to film people from handbag cameras, how to follow someone, how to secretly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[301,1158,1236,1314,63,114],"tags":[2274,2530,1772,2272,2271,766,2273,964,867],"class_list":["post-8396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1950s","category-1960s","category-1970s","category-documentary-film","category-education","category-film","tag-eavesdropping","tag-government","tag-hungary","tag-secret-agent","tag-secret-police","tag-security","tag-spy","tag-surveillance","tag-totalitarian"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t