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Location Call # Volume Status
 Sherman Library  JK468.I6 M458 2009    AVAILABLE  
Author Melton, H. Keith (Harold Keith), 1944-
Title The official CIA manual of trickery and deception / H. Keith Melton and Robert Wallace.
Edition First edition.
OCLC 310399303
ISBN 9780061725890
0061725897
Publisher New York : William Morrow, [2009]
©2009
Description xiv, 248 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
LC Subject heading/s United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- History -- Miscellanea.
Project MKULTRA -- History -- Miscellanea.
Espionage, American -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Intelligence service -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Magic tricks -- Political aspects -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Deception -- Political aspects -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Psychotropic drugs -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Behavior modification -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-248).
Contents Introduction: The legacy of MKULTRA and the missing magic manuals -- Some operational applications of the art of deception -- Introduction and general comments on the art of deception -- Handling of tablets -- Handling of powder -- Handling of liquids -- Surreptitious removal of objects -- Special aspects of deception for women -- Surreptitious removal of objects by women -- Working as a team -- Recognition signals.
Summary The manuals reprinted in this work represent the only known complete copy of Mulholland's instructions for CIA officers on the magician's art of deception and secret communications written to counter Soviet mind-control and interrogation techniques.
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