Happy National Superhero Day! SPYSCAPE HQ in New York City helps you uncover your own superpowers, our True Spies program highlights superheroes in espionage, while our True Superheroes program highlights superheroes in all walks of life. This week’s Six Secrets brings it all together!
Not All Superheroes Wear Capes!
Like spies and superheroes, we all have superpowers: from empathy, perception and risk-tolerance to agility, problem-solving and strategy. Our mission at SPYSCAPE is to inspire you to uncover your own superpowers. We worked with a former Head of Training at British Intelligence (MI6) and top psychologists at Imperial College to develop the methodology and algorithm behind our SPYCHOLOGY program, because we believe that inspirational self-knowledge can unlock potential.
Superheroes are all around us - like Millie Bobby Brown, Unicef’s youngest-ever Goodwill Ambassador, who is leading the fight to battle bullying, having been a victim herself of online threats, anger, and hate. Our True Superheroes program celebrates extraordinary individuals who meet three key criteria: (i) they’ve overcome significant adversity, (ii) made amazing contributions to society, and (iii) inspired others to do the same. Between now and our Awards Gala on April 28, 2023 we’ll highlight more than 180 people from all walks of life. You can nominate your True Superhero and discover more about the program below. You might even win tickets to our Gala in NYC!
One person’s superhero can be another person’s traitor. Spies and whistleblowers face this dilemma every day. Is Edward Snowden a people’s champion or an enemy of the state? There’s a fine line between bravery and betrayal. Sometimes breaking the law is the only way to reveal crucial intelligence, but does that make it right?
Senior FBI agent Robert Hanssen was the most notorious spy in America. He sold valuable US secrets to Soviet intelligence for more than 20 years. His duplicity cost the lives of loyal American agents. A young FBI case officer named Eric O’Neill was given the dangerous task of working alongside him to take Hanssen down. What would you do?
Albrecht Dittrich, aka Jack Barsky, was a loyal operative sent by the Soviet Union to spy on America as a highly-trained sleeper agent dropped behind enemy lines in the 1970s. When the KGB urgently recalled him to Europe he had a difficult choice to make: should he leave his wife and 18-month-old baby behind or betray his country? What would you do?
Batman is one of the most relatable fictional superheroes. Robert Pattinson’s Batman follows a no-kill code, a moral choice that guides the superhero when he squares off with supervillains - but it wasn’t always so. To celebrate our forthcoming BATMAN x SPYSCAPE experience we explore the caped crusader’s dark past - stretching back more than 80 years and revealing many secrets of Gotham and its crime-fighting superhero - including one secret that even threatened the DC universe.
