According to the NSA profile referred to three quarters of the way through the film, Brill's real name is Edward Lyle. The following information is also revealed, partially through dialogue and partially through a close-up shot of Brill's NSA profile: graduated from Drexel University (Military Science), enlisted in the Army in 1953, excelled at intelligence and communications/monitoring, as well as cartography/subversion tech, familiar with explosives, familiar with eastern-persian dialects and Israeli customs, joined NSA in 1965, disappeared in 1980, last assignment for NSA was in Iran in 1978. In a subsequent scene, we learn that looked after Rachel Banks as a promise to his former partner. Elsewhere in the film, we learn that he is Hypoglycemic. Show less «