Spycraft: the secret history of the CIA's spytechs from communism to Al-Qaeda
"From two men who know how espionage really works, an unprecedented history--heavily illustrated with never-before-seen images--of the CIA's most secretive operations and the gadgets that made them possible. What is an invisible photo used for? What does it take to build a quiet helicopter...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "From two men who know how espionage really works, an unprecedented history--heavily illustrated with never-before-seen images--of the CIA's most secretive operations and the gadgets that made them possible. What is an invisible photo used for? What does it take to build a quiet helicopter? How does one embed a listening device in a cat? These may sound like challenges for James Bond's fictional gadget-master Q, but they're all real-life devices created by the CIA's Office of Technical Service. Now, in the first book ever written about this office, the former director of OTS teams up with an internationally renowned intelligence historian to take readers into the laboratory of espionage"--From publisher description. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xxxii, 558, [32] Seiten ungezählte Bildtafeln Illustrationen 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780525949800 9780452295476 |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
FOREWORD
XIII
PREFACE
XVII
INTRODUCTION
XXVII
OFFICIAL
MESSAGE
FROM
THE
CIA
XXXIII
SECTION
I
AT THE
BEGINNING
1
MY HAIR
STOOD
ON
END
3
2
WE MUST
BE RUTHLESS
16
SECTION
II
PLAYING
CATCH-UP
3.
THE
PENKOVSKY
ERA
25
4
BEYOND
PENKOVKSY
36
5
BRING
IN
THE
ENGINEERS
53
6
BUILDING
BETTER
GADGETS
62
SECTION
III
IN THE
PASSING
LANE
7
MOVING
THROUGH
THE
GAP
81
8
THE PEN
IS MIGHTIER
THAN
THE
SWORD
(AND SHIELD)
87
9
FIRE
IN
THE
ARCTIC
103
$
BIIOTHEK
DEUTSCHES
MUSEUM
HLUENCHE A
X
CONTENTS
10
A DISSIDENT
AT
HEART
II
AN OPERATION CALLED CKTAW
SECTION
IV
LET
THE WALLS HAVE
EARS
110
138
12
COLD
BEER, CHEAP
HOTELS,
AND A
VOLTMETER
159
13
PROGRESS IN
A
NEW ERA 179
14
THE AGE
OF
BOND ARRIVES 195
15
GENIUS
IS
WHERE
YOU FIND IT
232
SECTION
V
PRISON, BULLET,
PASSPORT, BOMB
16
CONSPICUOUS
FORTITUDE, EXEMPLARY
COURAGE
IN
A
CUBAN JAIL 249
17
WAR
BY ANY
OTHER NAME
277
18
CON MEN, FABRICATORS,
AND
FORGERS
307
19
TRACKING TERRORIST SNAKES 325
SECTION
VI
FUNDAMENTALS OF
TRADECRAFT
20
ASSESSMENT 363
21
COVER
AND
DISGUISE
381
22
CONCEALMENTS
388
23
CLANDESTINE
SURVEILLANCE
401
24
COVERT
COMMUNICATIONS
420
25
SPIES
AND
THE
AGE
OF
INFORMATION
443
EPILOGUE:
AN
UNCOMMON SERVICE 461
ESPIONAGE
AND
THE
INTERNET 465
CONTENTS
XI
APPENDIX
A:
U. S.
CLANDESTINE
SERVICES
AND
OTS
ORGANIZATIONAL
GENEALOGY
475
APPENDIX
B:
SELECTED
CHRONOLOGY
OF
OTS
476
APPENDIX
C: DIRECTORS
OF
OTS
478
APPENDIX
D:
CIA TRAILBLAZERS
FROM OTS
479
APPENDIX
E:
PSEUDONYMS
OF
CIA
OFFICERS
USED
481
APPENDIX
F:
INSTRUCTIONS
TO
DECIPHER
THE
OFFICIAL
MESSAGE
FROM
THE
CIA
ON
PAGE
XXV
482
GLOSSARY
483
NOTES
491
SELECTED
BIBLIOGRAPHY
535
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
543
INDEX
547
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