A CLASSIFIED alert, Chief, from your loyal Analyst Second Class: the Internet may indeed be crawling with would-be spies.

Did you know that he has had one of his would-be spies traipsing around, trying to keep an eye on you and your bodyguards?

No. 1 for would-be spies - stay away from the embassy" by Michael Ross, National Post, January 24, 2012.

The art of surveillance is a core skill for any would-be spy.

The would-be spies are tested as the trainers watch and judge them on their triumphs and failures.

They offered much less to would-be spies now.

Using a wrist-pad keyboard, the would-be spy composes a message that appears on the display, where it can be read through the glasses.

Particularly intriguing are the many reproductions of the various codes and ciphers, so puzzle lovers and would-be spies can spend hours encoding and decoding.

"Anything your would-be spy might require," said the store's manager, Stuart Fields.

He starred with an elephant in "Larger Than Life," and played a would-be spy in "The Man Who Knew Too Little."