Book description
Secret instructons written in invisible ink.
Cigarettes that fire bullets.
Covert communications slipped inside dead rats.
Subminature cameras hidden in ballpoint pens.
If these sound like the stuff of James Bond's gadget-master Q's
trade, think again. They are all real-life devices created by the
CIA's Office of Technical Services. Now, in the first book ever
written about this ultrasecretive department, the former director of
the OTS gives us an unprecedented look at the devices and operations
from the history of the CIA - including many deemed 'inappropriate for
public disclosure' by the CIA just two years ago.
Spycraft tells amazing life and death stories about this
little-known group, much of which has never before been revealed.
Against the backdrop of some of the most critical international events
of recent years - including the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis,
and the war on terror - the authors show the real techinical and human
story of how the CIA carried out its most secret missions.
Robert Wallace
is the former director of the CIA's Office of Technical Services.
H
Keith Melton
is an internationally recognized authority of spy technology, and the
author of seven books including
Ultimate Spy
.
Henry Schlesinger
is a contributing editor at
Popular Science
magazine.
