Spycraft - Softcover

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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.

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Secret instructions written in invisible ink

Cigarettes that fire bullets

Insect-sized flying spy cameras

Listening devices hidden in the family cat

Is these sound like the stuff of James Bond's gadget-master Q, think again. They are all real-life devices used by the CIA's Office of Technical Services. Now, in the first book ever written about this ultra-secretive department, the former director of the OTS gives us an unprecedented look at the devices and operations in the CIA's history - 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, many of whom have 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 technical and human story of how the CIA carried out its most secret missions.