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100 _aWallace, Robert.
_936040
245 1 0 _aSpycraft /
_cRobert Wallace and H. Keith Melton with Henry R. Schlesinger.
260 _aLondon :
_bBantam,
_c2009.
300 _axxiii, 548 p., [32] p. of plates :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [525]-532) and index.
520 _aSecret instructions written in invisible ink. Cigarettes that fire bullets. Covert communications slipped inside dead rats. Subminature cameras hidden in ballpoint pens. If these sound like the stuff of James Bond's gadget-master Q's trade, think again. They are all real-life devices created by the CIA's Office of Technical Services. Now, in the first book ever written about this ultra secretive department, the former director of the OTS gives us an unprecedented look at the devices and operations from the history of the CIA - including many deemed 'inappropriate for public disclosure' by the CIA just two years ago. Spycraft tells amazing life and death stories about this little-known group, much of which has never before been revealed. Against the backdrop of some of the most critical international events of recent years - including the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the war on terror - the authors show the real technical and human story of how the CIA carried out its most secret missions.
610 0 _aUnited States.
_bCentral Intelligence Agency.
_bDirectorate of Science and Technology
_xHistory.
_936041
650 0 _aIntelligence service
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
_936042
700 _aMelton, H. Keith
_q(Harold Keith),
_d1944-
_936043
700 _aSchlesinger, Henry R.
_936044
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_cNONFIC
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