Spycraft - Melton [0]
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Foreword
Preface
SECTION I - AT THE BEGINNING
CHAPTER 1 - My Hair Stood on End
CHAPTER 2 - We Must Be Ruthless
SECTION II - PLAYING CATCH-UP
CHAPTER 3 - The Penkovsky Era
CHAPTER 4 - Beyond Penkovsky
CHAPTER 5 - Bring in the Engineers
CHAPTER 6 - Building Better Gadgets
SECTION III - IN THE PASSING LANE
CHAPTER 7 - Moving Through the Gap
CHAPTER 8 - The Pen Is Mightier Than the Sword (and Shield)
CHAPTER 9 - Fire in the Arctic
CHAPTER 10 - A Dissident at Heart
CHAPTER 11 - An Operation Called CKTAW
SECTION IV - LET THE WALLS HAVE EARS
CHAPTER 12 - Cold Beer, Cheap Hotels, and a Voltmeter
CHAPTER 13 - Progress in a New Era
CHAPTER 14 - The Age of Bond Arrives
CHAPTER 15 - Genius Is Where You Find It
SECTION V - PRISON, BULLET, PASSPORT, BOMB
CHAPTER 16 - Conspicuous Fortitude, Exemplary Courage in a Cuban Jail
CHAPTER 17 - War by Any Other Name
CHAPTER 18 - Con Men, Fabricators, and Forgers
CHAPTER 19 - Tracking Terrorist Snakes
SECTION VI - FUNDAMENTALS OF TRADECRAFT
CHAPTER 20 - Assessment
CHAPTER 21 - Cover and Disguise
CHAPTER 22 - Concealments
CHAPTER 23 - Clandestine Surveillance
CHAPTER 24 - Covert Communications
CHAPTER 25 - Spies and the Age of Information
EPILOGUE
Appendix A - U.S. Clandestine Services and OTS Organizational Genealogy, 1941-2008
Appendix B - Selected Chronology of OTS
Appendix C - Directors of OTS
Appendix D - CIA Trailblazers from OTS
Appendix E - Pseudonyms of CIA Officers Used
Appendix F - Instructions to Decipher the Official Message from the CIA on page xxv
Glossary
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
About the Author
Praise for Spycraft
“Stuffed with stories about chemical taggants, forged documents, physical and psychological disguises, software beacons that reveal the location of a cell phone or a laptop, about long-range surveillance cameras and ivory letter-opening knives, this extraordinary, detailed, accurate book tells more about what spies really do, the risks they run, and their schemes to avoid them, than all the James Bond stories put together. Essential for any serious student of spycraft.”
—David Kahn, author of The Codebreakers
“Spycraft is the inside story of how ‘the wizards of Langley’ exploited science and technology to level and then dominate the battlefield in CIA’s spy wars with the KGB. As a CIA historian, I wrote the classified history of OTS at the request of Robert Wallace. Spycraft omits very few details of the classified history while adding many more fascinating accounts based on interviews with the men and woman who helped win the Cold War.”
—Benjamin B. Fischer, former CIA chief historian
“A comprehensive and historic work that is both captivating and enlightening. Impeccably researched and written with authority by these masters of intelligence, Spycraft offers the greatest of spy stories—true tales of espionage that are often more compelling than our favorite movie spy thrillers.”
—Danny Biederman, author of The Incredible World of SPY-Fi;
writer/director, Hollywood SpyTek; executive director, SPY-Fi Archives
“Reliable, readable, indeed often fascinating account of the CIA’s use of high-tech gadgets and machines to acquire secrets overseas. A must for the intelligence library, as well as for anyone interested in the security of the United States.”
—Loch K. Johnson, Regents Professor, University of Georgia, and senior
editor of the international journal Intelligence and National Security
“A classic and no one who pretends to know anything about intelligence operations can afford not to read it.”
—James F. Morris, Major U.S. Army (Ret.),
author of War Story and The Devil’s Secret Name
“Aptly describes the history of OTS and the many exciting, important, and at times dangerous work of OTS officers who work hand-in-hand with Agency operations officers in the clandestine world of espionage. This is an excellent book that often reads like a spy novel. All the better