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The official CIA manual of trickery and deception / H. Keith Melton and Robert Wallace.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : William Morrow, c2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: xiv, 248 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0061725897
  • 9780061725890
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Contents:
Introduction: The legacy of MKULTRA and the missing magic manuals -- Some operational applications of the art of deception -- Introduction and general comments on the art of deception -- Handling of tablets -- Handling of powder -- Handling of liquids -- Surreptitious removal of objects -- Special aspects of deception for women -- Surreptitious removal of objects by women -- Working as a team -- Recognition signals.
Summary: The manuals reprinted in this work represent the only known complete copy of Mulholland's instructions for CIA officers on the magician's art of deception and secret communications written to counter Soviet mind-control and interrogation techniques.
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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 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 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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-248).

Introduction: The legacy of MKULTRA and the missing magic manuals -- Some operational applications of the art of deception -- Introduction and general comments on the art of deception -- Handling of tablets -- Handling of powder -- Handling of liquids -- Surreptitious removal of objects -- Special aspects of deception for women -- Surreptitious removal of objects by women -- Working as a team -- Recognition signals.

The manuals reprinted in this work represent the only known complete copy of Mulholland's instructions for CIA officers on the magician's art of deception and secret communications written to counter Soviet mind-control and interrogation techniques.

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