Hollywood spy techniques aren't entirely ... to dramatically peel off realistic facial disguises has real-world parallels. "The idea of a mask that you could quickly put on, quickly take off ...

The CIA has — or at least had — a chief of disguise. A former holder of that office now works for the International Spy Museum and has some very interesting stories about the real masks CIA ...

That doesn't mean, however, that the disguises are as effective, or as lifelike, as the ones you see in movies. "We couldn't guarantee that that mask would animate," Mendez says, pointing out that ...

When she held up the disguise that duped everyone ... she roams the halls of the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., where her Bush-era mask and that lifesaving can of foot powder ...