{"id":1745,"date":"2009-12-01T11:29:56","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T10:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2020-08-18T14:27:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T13:27:01","slug":"the-official-cia-manual-of-trickery-and-deception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/1745","title":{"rendered":"The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception\" title=\"The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1109\/cia_manual1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 1953, the fledgling CIA hired professional magician John Mulholland to adapt his techniques of stealth and misdirection to the craft of espionage. Mulholland produced two illustrated manuals featuring a range of tricks from placing pills into drinks to stealing documents and avoiding detection.<\/p>\n<p>The classified manuals were believed to have been destroyed in 1973, but intelligence historian H. Keith Melton and retired CIA officer Robert Wallace discovered a copy in 2007 among recently declassified CIA archives.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception\" title=\"The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1109\/cia_manual2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Amazon: The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/0061725897?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=iainclaridg0b-21&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=19450&#038;creativeASIN=0061725897\">The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception<\/a> the manuals are reproduced along with enhanced illustrations and an extended introduction by Melton and Wallace.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@DanH_Distinct\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/DanH_Distinct\/status\/6230880699\">@DanH_Distinct<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1953, the fledgling CIA hired professional magician John Mulholland to adapt his techniques of stealth and misdirection to the craft of espionage. Mulholland produced two illustrated manuals featuring a range of tricks from placing pills into drinks to stealing documents and avoiding detection. The classified manuals were believed to have been destroyed in 1973, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51907,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions\/51907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}