Spycraft secrets
Subtitle: an espionage A-Z
By: Nigel West
Contributors: Petraeus, David Howell
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Stroud, Gloucestershire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780750966085; 9780750983754
Subjects: Intelligence service; Encyclopedias; Intelligence officers; History; Dictionaries; Espionage; Spies
Other titles: Spy craft secrets :; Espionage A-Z; A to Z of spycraft
Description: "Tradecraft is the term applied to the techniques used by intelligence personnel to assist them in conducting their operations and, like many other professions, the espionage business has developed its own rich lexicon. In the real, sub-rosa world of intelligence-gathering, each bit of jargon acts as a veil of secrecy over particular types of activity, and in this book ... West explains and give[s] examples of the lingo in action"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Various printings.

"Foreword by General (Ret.) David Petraeus, former director of the CIA"--Cover.