Wallace Robert, Melton H. Keith, Schlesinger Henry R. Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to al-Qaeda

Dutton Adult, 2008. — 576 p. — ISBN: 0525949801; ISBN13: 9780525949800.From two men who know better than anyone how espionage really works, an unprecedented history?heavily illustrated with never before-seen images? of the CIA's most secretive operations and the gadgets that made them possible. It is a world where the intrigue of reality exceeds that of fiction. What is an invisible photo used for? What does it take to build a quiet helicopter? How does one embed a listening device in a cat? If these sound like challenges for Q, James Bond?s fictional gadget-master, think again. They're all real-life devices created by the CIA's Office of Technical Service' an ultrasecretive department that combines the marvels of state-of-the-art technology with the time-proven traditions of classic espionage. And now, in the first book ever written about this office, the former director of OTS teams up with an internationally renowned intelligence historian to take readers into the laboratory of espionage.
Spycraft tells amazing life and death stories about this little-known group, much of it never before revealed. Against the backdrop of some of America's most critical periods in recent history including the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the war on terror?the authors show the real technical and human story of how the CIA carries out its missions.At The Beginning
My Hair Stood on End
We Must Be Ruthless
Playing Catch-Up
The Penkovsky Era
Beyond Penkovsky
Bring in the Engineers
Building Better Gadgets
In The Passing Lane
Moving Through the Gap
The Pen Is Mightier Than the Sword (and Shield)
Fire in the Arctic
A Dissident at Heart
An Operation Called CKTAW
Let The Walls Have Ears
Cold Beer, Cheap Hotels, and a Voltmeter
Progress in a New Era
The Age of Bond Arrives
Genius Is Where You Find It
Prison, Bullet, Passport, Bomb
Conspicuous Fortitude, Exemplary Courage in a Cuban Jail
War by Any Other Name
Con Men, Fabricators, and Forgers
Tracking Terrorist Snakes
Fundamentals of Tradecraft
Assessment
Cover and Disguise
Concealments
Clandestine Surveillance
Covert Communications
Spies and the Age of Information
EpilogueAppendix:
U.S. Clandestine Services and OTS Organizational Genealogy, 1941-2008
Selected Chronology of OTS
Directors of OTS
CIA Trailblazers from OTS
Pseudonyms of CIA Officers Used
Instructions to Decipher the Official Message from the CIANotes
Selected Bibliography
AcknowledgementsAbout the Author