The Ultimate Spycraft and Espionage Reading List
One of the questions I get asked most frequently is if I can recommend any good books on espionage. And the answer is yes, I definitely can. …
One of the questions I get asked most frequently is if I can recommend any good books on espionage. And the answer is yes, I definitely can. …
Unbreakable: 949 Days in a Cuban Prison The Mission In 1960, three technicians from the CIA’s Technical Services Division were dispatched to Havana, Cuba, to install surveillance equipment in…
Spies in Uniform: The US Military Liaison Mission in East Germany Beginning in 1947, a fascinating and little-known chapter of the Cold War opened in West Berlin with the establishment…
Disguised objects for use as dead drop containers required an incredible amount of research, experimentation, and testing before they could be used for high-risk operations in the field. The slightest imperfection could…
These jungle boots with footprint soles were designed to disguise the presence of MACV SOG warriors on the Ho Chi Minh trail. Military Assistance Command Vietnam - Studies and Observation Group was…
Lance Corporal Sara-Jane Warke was assigned to the Military Reaction Force, a special mission unit which operated in Northern Ireland during the Troubles in the 1970s. The MRF is a…
Beginning in 1962, the legendary research & development powerhouse at Lockheed known as the Skunk Works started to develop a supersonic drone that could do the work of a CIA-flown A-12 or…
In 1958, a Soviet diplomat and KGB agent named Everly Lutsky approached Kay Marshall, who worked as a passport officer for the British High Commission in New Zealand and asked her to…
The East German Stasi were infamous for their creation of a near-total surveillance state during the Cold War. Besides their enormous and allencompassing human intelligence network, which involved a significant fraction of the…
The SAC-46 Flying Dragon Officially designated the SAC-46 Gun, Dart, Carbon Dioxide Propelled, the Flying Dragon was designed and prototyped beginning in 1943 but was not a high-priority project for…