The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception Paperback – Illustrated, November 2, 2010

While dated and including spy tricks with cigarettes that today would be less useful.. this book has a lot of interesting stories of deception and trickery by espionage agents and their handlers.The chapter on magician tricks and how they work for hiding spy activities is particularly good. Even in the digital age, these techniques are still valid.An easy, fun read and great if you are a Cold War spy buff and fan of the books of John Le Carre.

Centers often on how magicians pull it off, and well worth seeing how it naturally occurs with how others do itThe book's foundation is while the words may change, the melody stays the sameThe techniques are worth remembering and watching the watchers, who more and more are doing this to usI got the book for $1.99 with one of Amazon's Kindle sales, and do not regret the purchase even at this low price

It's a fun little book, nothing Earth-shattering, but fun. If, like me, you like old Cold War spy stuff, then you will enjoy it.Some very general historical anecdotes are related throughout, enough to excite one's imagination of how intelligence might have evolved since the MKULTRA program, and where it might go in the future.This book reveals some of the formative years of the intelligence business, when they were just trying to figure it all out.The world we live in today is one in which this business has progressed leagues and leagues beyond what is revealed in this book.But that doesn't mean that this book is not a fun read. It is!

The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and DeceptionMany people don't realize that this manual was written by a magician. The techniques used by the CIA during the Cold War era used techniques including sleight of hand, otherwise known as black magic. You'll learn lots of interesting tidbits of CIA history, including placing notes in mouse carcasses, only to have cats eat them. The CIA's solution to the problem? Cover them in hot sauce. Then drive around at a 90-degree angle, toss the carcass out of a window to avoid detection (creates a visual blind spot), and have another agent intercept the note.As a woman and a Criminology and Psychology major, I found this book to be an enlightening read. I don't think I'll ever look at anything the same way again, literally.I'd highly recommend this manual for reading if you are a nerd or a geek.

All copies once thought to be destroyed at the order of CIA Director Richard Helm in order to destroy documentation of MK-ULTRA, this consists of the now declassified manual of deception. Amazing - considering how much controversy is still sparked whenever anyone states that Harry Houdini was a "spy". Mulholland holds Houdini in very high esteem (the two are said to have been good friends). Mulholland's life, in many ways, also seems very much to parallel that of Houdini's. Neither were spies in the James Bond image (which like so many other CIA/MI5-6 hero/anti-hero tales most likely are part fiction and part true. This paperbound edition is archaic in light of today's technology. It does make for good night reading if you cannot sleep. Perhaps if we had the entire document (this is as much as the CIA says exists and is probably "complete". Declassified, unredacted, "interesting" - but boring.

This is a good read. If you’d like lessons on how to get paid back this is the book. I enjoyed it thoroughly that’s why my title is paybacks a bitch .

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