The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception Paperback - 2010
by H. Keith Melton; Robert Wallace
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.
From the rear cover
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 recently discovered in the agency's archives.
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.
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- Title The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception
- Author H. Keith Melton; Robert Wallace
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher William Morrow & Company, New York
- Date 2010-11-02
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780061725906 / 0061725900
- Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 4.8 x 0.6 in (21.34 x 12.19 x 1.52 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Behavior modification - United States, United States - History
- Dewey Decimal Code 327.127
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