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{{quote|'''Homer''': Marge, I think that guy's a spy!
'''Marge''': Of course he's a spy! We just saw him go through spy school!
|[[The Simpsons]], "Colonel Homer"}}
Pretty much any training program for spies, assassins and related [[Cloak and Dagger]] types. The primary purpose is to train new spies, but some spy schools might also include further training for experienced agents. Sometimes an experienced agent might retire from the career and become a trainer, or might be invited to be a guest lecturer from time to time.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The unnamed school seen in Case 22 of ''[[Princess Principal]]'', which appears to be based on the Real Life Special Operations Executive "[[w:Camp X|Camp X]]".
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* In Red Witch's ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers|Galaxy Rangers]]'' Fanfic ''Sins of the Father,'' Miss Abercrombie's Charm and Finishing School looks like a snobbish prep school, but is really a covert training academy for espionage agents from Earth's wealthiest and most well-placed families. The other three Rangers are surprised to find their team's [[Badass Normal]] had initially been assigned as [[The Mole]], but screwed over his bosses to side with them.
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* One of the B-plots from Tom Clancy's ''Executive Orders'' has veteran field agent (and resident paramilitary [[Badass]] spook extraordinare) John Clark training a new batch of agents at The Farm.
* The Alien Investigation and Removal Agency school in Gena Showalter's ''[[Red Handed]]''.
* A large part of the ''[[Star Trek Expanded Universe]]'' novel ''A Stitch in Time'' is about Garak remembering his days in an elite school for future government officials, military officers, and [[State Sec|Obsidian Order]] operatives. Guess which one he becomes, considering his father is the head of the Order. Much of the curriculum involves infiltration and hiding.
* Played with in the ''[[Belisarius Series]]''. There is no spy school as such. However the [[Badass Princess]] was trained by her body-guard and tutor in Indian, Ninja-like martial arts.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]'': In the backstory, Sydney went to a training school run by the SD-6.
& ''[[Churchill's Secret Agents: The New Recruits]]'' is a reality miniseries based on putting contestants through a condensed version of the [[SOE]] training course. While some of the stuff involved looks boy scoutish (on the other hand the Scouts were invented by a spy anyway), others look intimidating and the interrogation drill looks brutal though probably less than it would have had to have been. One difference is that they cannot take chances with the possibility of lethal accidents because it is fun not war. Thus "the ladder" (three non-connected ladders on a [[Cliffs of Insanity|cliff of insanity]] forcing them to change ladders twice, is done with safety harnesses which would not have been done in real life.▼
* ''[[I Spy]]'': The Department has a training school on a military base in the San Francisco Bay Area, featured in the episodes "Anyplace I Hang Myself Is Home" and "Tag, You're It".
* Marcie Ross from the early ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "Out of Mind, Out of Sight" gets sent to one of these by [[The Men in Black]] after she [[Invisibility|turns invisible]] and goes [[Axe Crazy]].
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* ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'': Joel once claimed that all spies attend a special spy school, where they learn (among other things) [[Bond One-Liner|post-kill puns]].
* ''[[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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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Assassin's Creed II
** It is stated that Desmond himself grew up in such a place and it was the training/lifestyle that caused him to leave in the first place (leading to the Templars finding him in the first game).
** ''Assassins Creed: Revelations'' has Desmond relive some of his childhood memories at the Farm.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The Institute's School in ''[[Age of Aquarius]]'' combines Spy School and [[Wizarding School]]. Justified, because this particular school trains [[The Men in Black]].
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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