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Dalīl Sī. Āy. Iyh. Al Rasmī Lil Khidaʻ Wa Al Ḥiyal =The Official Cia Manual Of Trickery And Deception (2009)

by H. Keith Melton(Favorite Author)

3.04 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

9953879206 (ISBN13: 9789953879208)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

al-Dār al-ʻArabiyah lil-ʻUlūm Nāshirūn

review 1: Due back at the library today and I'm a little more than halfway done, but that's okay. This is a really fascinating book, and I recommend it to anyone who enjoys learning about spies or covert operations. The first half gives examples of how the US government used magicians' tricks, especially during the Cold War. The second half is the manual itself, which is kind of hard to read (dude needed to be schooled on commas)and a little confusing if you're not actually practicing the tricks while reading. But seriously, they planned to kill Castro how many times and they still didn't manage it? Really? Maybe they need a book on follow-through.
review 2: This book did a few things for me. It relieved me of minor wallet congestion by installing a leak where $20 used t... moreo be. It also gave me pause to think that if any of this crap was used in the era when we risked obliteration by the Soviets, it damn well might have come from their intense boredom of what we classified. This book wraps a piece of accidentally un-destroyed info in hard cover, adds a few chapters of what-we-once-did crap from the files of Wikipedia, and masterfully uses internet buzz to get the attention of those who had hoped for more and were silly enough to enter a credit card number. Poof! $20 gone! (Color me impressed.) The 'discovered' part of the book reads like a cheap Boy Scout merit badge book on espionage, complete with signaling information, a modest amount of 'top secret' stage magician stuff, and abundant instruction of how to drop Roofies in your date's gin and tonic. If you need to do that, this is your book. I'd throw it away, but I am afraid some poor sod would find it and blame me. Save your money. Read 'The Puzzle Palace', read about E-Systems or Blackwater. Read the phonebook. Ick. less

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