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Spycraft : the secret history of the CIA's spytechs from communism to Al-Qaeda / Robert Wallace and H. Keith Melton with Henry R. Schlesinger.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Plume, c2009.Description: xxv, 548 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780452295476 (pbk.)
  • 0452295475 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • JK468.I6 W187s 2009
Contents:
Official message from the CIA -- I. AT THE BEGINNING. My hair stood on end -- We must be ruthless -- II. PLAYING CATCH-UP. The Penkovsky era -- Beyond Penkovsky -- Bring in the engineers -- Building better gadgets -- III. IN THE PASSING LANE. Moving thru the gap -- The pen is mightier than the sword (and shield) -- Fire in the Arctic -- A dissident at heart -- An operation called CKTAW -- IV. LET THE WALLS HAVE EARS. Cold beer, cheap hotels, and a voltmeter -- Progress in a new era -- The age of Bond arrives -- Genius is where you find it -- V. PRISON, BULLET, PASSPORT, BOMB. Conspicuous fortitude, exemplary courage in a Cuban jail -- War by any other name -- Con men, fabricators, and forgers -- Tracking terrorist snakes -- VI. FUNDAMENTALS OF TRADECRAFT. Assessment -- Cover and disguise -- Concealments -- Clandestine surveillance -- Covert communications -- Spies and the age of information -- Epilogue: An uncommon service -- Appendices: U.C. clandestine services and OTS organizational genealogy -- Selected chronology of OTS -- Directors of OTS -- CIA trailblazers from OTS -- Pseudonyms of CIA officers used -- Instructions to decipher the official message from the CIA.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) JK468.I6 W187s 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 3 Available 00000068737

Includes bibliographical references (p. [525]-532) and index.

Official message from the CIA -- I. AT THE BEGINNING. My hair stood on end -- We must be ruthless -- II. PLAYING CATCH-UP. The Penkovsky era -- Beyond Penkovsky -- Bring in the engineers -- Building better gadgets -- III. IN THE PASSING LANE. Moving thru the gap -- The pen is mightier than the sword (and shield) -- Fire in the Arctic -- A dissident at heart -- An operation called CKTAW -- IV. LET THE WALLS HAVE EARS. Cold beer, cheap hotels, and a voltmeter -- Progress in a new era -- The age of Bond arrives -- Genius is where you find it -- V. PRISON, BULLET, PASSPORT, BOMB. Conspicuous fortitude, exemplary courage in a Cuban jail -- War by any other name -- Con men, fabricators, and forgers -- Tracking terrorist snakes -- VI. FUNDAMENTALS OF TRADECRAFT. Assessment -- Cover and disguise -- Concealments -- Clandestine surveillance -- Covert communications -- Spies and the age of information -- Epilogue: An uncommon service -- Appendices: U.C. clandestine services and OTS organizational genealogy -- Selected chronology of OTS -- Directors of OTS -- CIA trailblazers from OTS -- Pseudonyms of CIA officers used -- Instructions to decipher the official message from the CIA.

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