The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception
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A once top-secret manual for training CIA field agents in deception and sleight-of-hand techniques had been thought lost forever--until a single copy was discovered in the agency's archives and published.
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Once a top-secret training manual for CIA field agents in the early Cold War Era of the 1950s, The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception is now available to the general public. An amazing historical artifact, this eye-opening handbook offered step-by-step instructions to covert intelligence operatives in all manner of spycraft, sleight of hand, and trickery designed to thwart the Communist enemy. Part of the Company's infamous MK-ULTRA--a secret mind-control and chemical interrogation research program--this legendary, now declassified document, the brainchild of John Mulholland, then America's most famous magician, was believed lost forever. But thanks to former CIA gadgeteer Bob Wallace and renowned spycraft historian H. Keith Melton, The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception is now available to everyone, spy and civilian alike.
This landmark document reveals the secret tradecraft of clandestine operations:
- Cold War Espionage: Uncover the methods developed to thwart the Communist enemy during one of the most dangerous periods in U.S. history.
- Surreptitious Delivery: Learn step-by-step sleight of hand instructions for covertly handling tablets, powders, and liquids, designed by America's most famous magician, John Mulholland.
- Deception Techniques: Master the arts of misdirection, secret communication, and surreptitious removal of objects from the perspective of a master illusionist.
- MK-ULTRA Secrets: Gain insight into the CIA's infamous mind-control research program and the legendary, long-lost manual that was part of it.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780061725906
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 02 November 2010
Country: United States
Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 122.0mm
Height: 213.0mm
Weight: 204g
Pages: 272
About the Author
H. Keith Melton, a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, is an intelligence historian and a specialist in clandestine technology and espionage "tradecraft." He is the author of several books, including CIA Special Weapons and Equipment, Clandestine Warfare, and The Ultimate Spy Book. Robert Wallace retired from the CIA in 2003 with thirty-two years of service as an operations officer and senior executive, including an assignment as director of the Office of Technical Services. Wallace is coauthor, with H. Keith Melton, of Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs from Communism to Al-Qaeda.
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