The official CIA manual of trickery and deception
By: H. Keith Melton and Robert Wallace.
Contributors: Wallace, Robert.
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780061725890
Subjects: United States. -- Central Intelligence Agency -- History -- Miscellanea; Project MKULTRA -- History -- Miscellanea; Espionage, American -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Intelligence service -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Magic tricks -- Political aspects -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Deception -- Political aspects -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Psychotropic drugs -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Behavior modification -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc
Description: 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 written to counter Soviet mind-control and interrogation techniques.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 000; title: Foreword
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authors: John McLaughlin; title: Introduction: The Legacy of MKULTRA and the Missing Magic Manuals
pagenum: 000; title: Some Operational Applications of the Art of Deception
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title: Introduction and General Comments on The Art of Deception
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title: Handling of Tablets
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title: Handling of Powders
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title: Handling of Liquids
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title: Surreptitious Removal of Objects
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title: Special Aspects of Deception for Women
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title: Surreptitious Removal of Objects by Women
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title: Working as a Team
pagenum: 000; title: Recognition Signals
pagenum: 000; title: Notes
pagenum: 000; title: Selected Bibliography
pagenum: 000; title: About the Authors
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