An insider's tour of the past half-century's espionage technologies also recounts some of the CIA's most secretive operations and how they have been performed using state-of-the-art spy instruments.

This book contains all the tips and tricks that readers need to become top secret agents: from cracking codes to tailing suspects, via the art of cunning disguise.

In The Secret History of the CIA, celebrated investigative reporter and intelligence expert Joseph J. Trento uncovers the whole story of America's most secret organization, from its formation after World War II to steer Cold War intelligence operations, through its sordid, illegal attempts to assassinate foreign leaders, arm vicious dictators, and topple democratically elected governments, to the awful failure of 9/11. And despite its obsession with security, it was riddled with double agents, traitors, and moles.--Jacket.

Covers all aspects of espionage, including such topics as secret operations, disguises, funding, surveillance, codes and ciphers, cameras, moles, double agents, interrogation, forgery, and black propaganda, presented in a training manual format.

This is one in a series of KnowHow activity books aimed at children between the ages of seven and twelve. Other books in the series offer ideas on experiments, paper fun, detection, jokes & tricks, and action toys.

From imposters and hidden compartments to secret handshakes and coded letter, here is a thoroughly entertaining account of the role of spycraft during the American Revolution.

Tradecraft: as intriguing as it is forbidden ... Tradecraft is the term applied to 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 acclaimed author Nigel West explains and give examples of the lingo in action. He draws on the first-hand experience of defectors to and from the Soviet Union; surveillance operators who kept terrorist suspects under observation in Northern Ireland; case officers who have put their lives at risk by pitching a target in a denied territory; the NOCs who lived under alias to spy abroad; and much more. Turn these pages and be immersed in the real world of James Bond: assets, black operations, double agents, triple agents ... it's all here.