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The exact training program varies greatly, but most include a wide variety of espionage, commando and generally unconventional dirty trick training. Some are MildlyMilitary, and many programs emphasis martial arts and weapons training to equip their agents to be an ActionHero. However, most give foremost importance to the ability to think outside the box, interact with people, and be a well-rounded GuileHero. The school might have classes oriented toward being a MasterOfDisguise and a CunningLinguist.

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The exact training program varies greatly, but most include a wide variety of espionage, commando and generally unconventional dirty trick training. Some are MildlyMilitary, and many programs emphasis emphasise martial arts and weapons training to equip their agents to be an ActionHero. However, most give foremost importance to the ability to think outside the box, interact with people, and be a well-rounded GuileHero. The school might have classes oriented toward being a MasterOfDisguise and a CunningLinguist.
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* ''Literature/SpyClassroom'' Despite the title, this actually averts this trope as the spies are a group of girls who were at the bottom of their respective spy academies and were sent to a special location for hands on training by an accomplished spy.
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If you're looking for the middle grade book series, click here: ''Literature/SpySchool''
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* ''Film/TheAmateur'' is a 1981 film about a codebreaker who blackmails the CIA into letting him go into Czechoslovakia and kill the terrorists who murdered his fiancée. To buy time while they find the CIA decrypted files he's stolen, they send him to The Farm for training in assassination techniques. At the end of a TrainingMontage that cuts between the CIA searching everywhere he might have hidden the files and the protagonist training, he tells the CIA to stop screwing around and send him in as he's never going to pass the course anyway.
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* Marcie Ross from the early ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "[[Recap/StargateSG1S10E6200 Out of Mind, Out of Sight]]" gets sent to one of these by TheMenInBlack after she [[{{Invisibility}} turns invisible]] and goes AxeCrazy. This doesn't seem to bother her much.

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* Marcie Ross from the early ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "[[Recap/StargateSG1S10E6200 "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E11OutOfMindOutOfSight Out of Mind, Out of Sight]]" gets sent to one of these by TheMenInBlack after she [[{{Invisibility}} turns invisible]] and goes AxeCrazy. This doesn't seem to bother her much.
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* Marcie Ross from the early ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "Out of Mind, Out of Sight" gets sent to one of these by TheMenInBlack after she [[{{Invisibility}} turns invisible]] and goes AxeCrazy. This doesn't seem to bother her much.

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* Marcie Ross from the early ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "Out "[[Recap/StargateSG1S10E6200 Out of Mind, Out of Sight" Sight]]" gets sent to one of these by TheMenInBlack after she [[{{Invisibility}} turns invisible]] and goes AxeCrazy. This doesn't seem to bother her much.



* ''Series/{{Covert Affairs}}'' starts with the female protagonist being transferred from the training center known only as the Farm to the CIA earlier than her peers thanks to her linguistic skills. In another episode, she meets an experienced foreign operative who quickly figures out that she's too young and inexperienced to have completed full training and also deduces her skill in languages.

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* ''Series/{{Covert Affairs}}'' ''Series/CovertAffairs'' starts with the female protagonist being transferred from the training center known only as the Farm to the CIA earlier than her peers thanks to her linguistic skills. In another episode, she meets an experienced foreign operative who quickly figures out that she's too young and inexperienced to have completed full training and also deduces her skill in languages.



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* In ''Fanfic/AllGuardsmenParty'', Inquisitor Oak's fleet gathers personnel from throughout the Imperium and trains them to act as low-level Inquisition agents. He then assigns them to Interrogators in need of field experience before their promotion and sends them on missions. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, the Interrogators are a collection of dysfunctional idiots and psychopaths who other Inquisitors dumped on Oak to try and salvage]].
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* In Nelson [=DeMille's=] ''The Charm School'', the titular school is an immersive training center run by the KGB for [[DeepCoverAgent deep cover agents]] who will be sent to the United States. In a twist, the school is staffed largely by American [=POWs=] from the Vietnam War, in the thought that the best way to learn how to act like an American would be from actual Americans.


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* The Creator/DaleBrown novel ''Day of the Cheetah'' opens in a KGB school for [[DeepCoverAgent deep cover agents]]. Unusually, the students are not only being trained to blend in to American society in general, but also to perform a DeadPersonImpersonation of specific American citizens following a KillAndReplace scheme.

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