{"product_id":"the-official-cia-manual-of-trickery-and-deception-9780061725906","title":"The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOnce a top-secret training manual for CIA field agents in the early Cold War Era of the 1950s, \u003cem\u003eThe Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception\u003c\/em\u003e--a key component of the infamous MK-ULTRA campaign--is now available to the general public. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn 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 MK-ULTRA, the CIA's secret mind-control and chemical interrogation research program, this legendary\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003edocument, 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, \u003cem\u003eThe Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception\u003c\/em\u003e is now available to everyone, spy and civilian alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWallace, Robert:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eRobert Wallace retired from the CIA in 2003 with thirty-two years of service as an operations officer and senior executive, including an assignment as director of the Office of Technical Services. Wallace is coauthor, with H. Keith Melton, of \u003cem\u003eSpycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs from Communism to Al-Qaeda\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMelton, H. Keith:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eH. Keith Melton, a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, is an intelligence historian and a specialist in clandestine technology and espionage tradecraft. He is the author of several books, including \u003cem\u003eCIA Special Weapons and Equipment, Clandestine Warfare\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Ultimate Spy Book\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50620397453586,"sku":"9780061725906","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d58d66bb-3ce5-4d2f-b5aa-3ada8122c4b2.jpg?v=1732565295","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-official-cia-manual-of-trickery-and-deception-9780061725906","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}