Spycraft - Melton [1]
—Mike Howard, general manager, Microsoft Global Security,
twenty-three-year CIA veteran
“Will long stand as the definitive reference on CIA spycraft. Names, dates, and details of advanced technical gadgetry, collection operations, covert action, and even organizational infighting—it’s all here. Forget James Bond’s famous ‘Q’ and Hollywood; this is the most remarkable and revealing book ever published about the history and technology of spying in the Cold War through today’s War on Terrorism.”
—Peter Earnest, executive director, International Spy Museum
“A fascinating study of CIA espionage operations.”
—Jeffrey T. Richelson, author of The Wizards of Langley:
Inside the CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology
“A significant and heretofore neglected slice of the CIA’s sixty-year ‘story.’”
—David M. Barrett, author of The CIA and Congress:
The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy
ALSO BY (OR CO-AUTHORED WITH) H. KEITH MELTON
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Clandestine Warfare: Weapons and Equipment of the SOE and OSS
ALSO BY ROBERT WALLACE
Nine from the Ninth
DUTTON
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First printing, June 2008
Copyright © 2008 by Robert Wallace, H. Keith Melton, and Henry R. Schlesinger
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Photos on page 449; first insert, page 2 (bottom): courtesy of the CIA Museum. First insert, page 10 (top): courtesy of the Central Intelligence Agency, Studies in Intelligence. All other images provided by the Melton Archive.
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Wallace, Robert.
Spycraft: the secret history of the CIA’s spytechs from communism to Al-Qaeda / Robert
Wallace and H. Keith Melton with Henry R. Schlesinger.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Directorate of Science and Technology—History. 2. Intelligence service—United
States. I. Melton, H. Keith (Harold Keith), 1944- II. Schlesinger, Henry R. III. Title.
JK468.I6W35 2008
327.1273—dc22 2007046734
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