IS ANGELINA A REAL-LIFE SPY?!

FOR YEARS, ANGELINA JOLIE HAS SECRETLY WORKED AS A CIA AGENT, AN ESPIONAGE EXPER CLAIMS

Angelina Jolie was perfect for the job. After playing an array of assassins and adventurers in action movies like Mr. & Mrs. Smith, the actress signed on to her first proper spy movie, Salt, in 2009. “She sucked my brain dry,” said Melissa Mahle, a former CIA officer and consultant on the film. “She wanted to know how my mind worked. How I thought. She was very focused, very detail-oriented.” Angelina admitted she was fascinated by how Mahle and other female spies managed their double lives. “One after the other,” Angelina said, “they are just these lovely, sweet women that you can’t imagine being put in a dangerous situation, but they really are.”

The same could be said for an A-list Oscar winner and mom of six like her. At least that’s what espionage expert Tom Secker believes. “She has had this very long-standing relationship with the CIA,” says the author, who has spent years investigating the connection between the movie industry and the intelligence community. And based on his research about others in Hollywood who have secretly worked with the CIA, she would make the perfect spy. “Over the last 10 years, especially, she has somewhat inveigled her way into this world of geopolitics and international relations, in a way an intelligence asset would,” he adds. “Exactly the sort of person the CIA would want.”

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There’s a lot of evidence to back up his claim. For years, Angelina, 45, has traveled to hotspots around the world as part of her humanitarian work as special envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and since 2007, she’s been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations think tank, which reportedly has strong links to the U.S. intelligence community. She also met with former CIA director David Petraeus more than once and even interviewed Sir Alex Younger, former head of MI6, Britain’s secret intelligence service, last year. After she visited Syrian refugees in 2012, a Turkish parliamentarian accused her of being the “face of CIA’s war politics,” while a Venezuelan politician made a similar accusation in 2018.

One of her potential assignments was even revealed in 2017. According to leaked emails, International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo once asked Angelina to help “honey-trap Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony,” says Secker. “The idea was that she would invite him to dinner, lure him in with this possibility of sex, and they would arrest him. That’s not something that most Hollywood celebrities offer to do.” According to one 2012 message, her then-partner Brad Pitt “is being supportive,” Angie wrote. “Let’s discuss logistics.”

That mission never happened, but Secker is convinced others have. “She has a willingness to engage in covert operations. And we know the CIA has had relationships with very public figures in the past,” he says. “If we’re looking for someone in the present day who fits that profile, Angelina is the prime candidate.” ◼