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From two men who know better than anyone how espionage really works, an unprecedented history—heavily illustrated with neverbefore- seen images—of the CIA’s most secretive operations and the gadgets that made them possible . It is a world where the intrigue of reality exceeds that of... read more
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- A. G. Tolkachev: Add a description of this character.
- Oleg Penkovsky
- Jameson
- George
- Kennedy
- Lovell
- Donovan
- Allen Dulles
- Polyakov
- Wally
- Andy
- Parr
- Orkin
- Dr. Sidney Gottlieb
- Bokassa
- Seymour Russell
- Stockdale
- Howard
- Mark
- Dave
- Martha Peterson
- Castro
- Sharon
- Walker
- Minox
- Moore
- Khrushchev
- Kuklinski
- Jacob
- Roosevelt
- Richard Helms
- Montes
- Smith
- James Bond
- Holmes
- Knight
- Mario
- Stalin
- Saxe
- Batista
- Dci
- Kurt
- Mary
Setting & Locations edit
- Moscow
- United States
- Soviet Union
- Latin America
- Washington
- Cuba
- North Vietnam
- Europe
- Africa
- New York City
- Afghanistan
- Langley
- London
- Laos
- White House
- Havana
- Kandahar
- Russia
- Asia
- Germany
- Sudan
- Middle East
- China
- Ussr
- Cia
- Libya
- Kremlin
- Colombia
- Switzerland
- Chad
- India
- Paris
- Malta
- South America
- Virginia
- Florida
- Pakistan
- Nicaragua
- Khartoum
- Leningrad
- Guinea
- Wall Street
- Berlin
- Great Britain
- France
First Sentence edit
On a quiet autumn evening in 1942, as World War II raged across Europe and Asia, two men sat in one of Washington's most stately homes discussing a type of warfare very different from that of high-altitude bombers and infantry assaults.
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Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 327.1273
Subjects edit
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Political Science › Levels of Government › Intelligence Agencies
- Books › Nonfiction › Politics › Freedom & Security › Intelligence
- Books › Nonfiction › True Accounts › Espionage
- Books › History › Military › Intelligence & Espionage
- Books › Science › Technology › History of Technology
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