H. Keith Melton

The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception

Buch

Magic or spycraft? In 1953, against the backdrop of the Cold War, the CIA initiated a top-secret program, code-named MKULTRA, to counter Soviet mind-control and interrogation techniques. Realizing that clandestine officers might need to covertly deploy newly developed pills, potions, and powders against the adversary, the CIA hired America's most famous magician, John Mulholland, to write two manuals on sleight of hand and covert communication techniques. In 1973, virtually all documents related to MKULTRA were destroyed. Mulholland's manuals were thought to be among them—until a single surviving copy of each, complete with illustrations, was… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Wallace, Robert

ISBN: 978-0-06-172590-6
EAN: 9780061725906
Produktnummer: 7279755
Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 272 S.
Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
Masse: H20.4 cm x B13.6 cm x D1.6 cm 207 g
Gewicht: 207

Über den Autor

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.