The official CIA manual of trickery and deception
by H. Keith Melton and Robert Wallace
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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.
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Intelligence service, Nonfiction, Deception, Miscellanea, Political aspects of Deception, American Espionage, Handbooks, manuals, United States, Psychotropic drugs, United States. Central Intelligence Agency, Magic tricks, Project MKULTRA, Behavior modification, Political aspects of Magic tricks, History, United states, central intelligence agency, Espionage, Intelligence service, united states, Criminology and law enforcement, Political aspectsPlaces
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Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception
2010, Hardie Grant Books
in English
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The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception
November 2, 2010, Harper Paperbacks
Paperback
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The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception
2009, HarperCollins
Electronic resource
in English
0061943339 9780061943331
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The official CIA manual of trickery and deception
2009, William Morrow
in English
0061725897 9780061725890
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Magic or spycraft? In 1953, against the backdrop of the Cold War, the CIA initiated a top-secret program, code-named MKULTRA, to counter Soviet mind-control and interrogation techniques. Realizing that clandestine officers might need to covertly deploy newly developed pills, potions, and powders against the adversary, the CIA hired America's most famous magician, John Mulholland, to write two manuals on sleight of hand and undercover communication techniques.In 1973, virtually all documents related to MKULTRA were destroyed. Mulholland's manuals were thought to be among them-until a single surviving copy of each, complete with illustrations, was recently discovered in the agency's archives.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.
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