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The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception

Name: The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception
ISBN: 9780061725906

H. Keith Melton, Robert Wallace

HarperCollins · Print & ebook · November 2, 2010

Reading lane: Intelligence & Espionage

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Spycraft, By Hand

A once-secret CIA manual brings Cold War intrigue down to the level of sleight of hand.

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Step-by-step tricks devised for covert operatives
A curious meeting of magic and intelligence history

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A historical artifact tied to the CIA’s MK-ULTRA program
Practical instruction alongside a distinctly Cold War context

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Authors: H. Keith Melton, Robert Wallace
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: November 2, 2010
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: Intelligence & Espionage · Cold War History
Reading lane: Intelligence & Espionage

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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 —a key component of the infamous MK-ULTRA campaign—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 sleight of hand and trickery designed to thwart the Communist enemy. Part of MK-ULTRA, the CIA's secret mind-control and chemical interrogation research program, this legendary 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.