What is secret today will someday be declassified. What is hidden from view will someday be known. What we think we know today will most likely be obsolete in the future, discarded, and then relearned. The CIA Manual of trickery and deception is a case in point.
Leaking false information was a major strategy in the cold war, but the art of deception can come in many forms, and its use for a selfish partisan political agenda is sometimes in the guise of national security.
In 1973 Vietnam was coming to an end. From an international perspective the conclusion was a messy one, and questions arose if the expenditure in lives and dollars had made any difference. In the middle of a very diversely motivated time, clandestine operations were considered to promote and manifest specific changes thought necessary in the world, and though none of this is new, novel directions were explored.
One of the more subtle approaches was to use various forms of sleigh-of-hand, miss-direction, concealment, and assorted forms of stagecraft.
A well known magician, John Mulholland, was commissioned to put together a manual that could be given to government agencies to instruct a variety of ways to distract, subdue, convince, and coerce clandestine operatives.
In the heat of ever changing government politics and policies, all books were called back and destroyed in 1973, but for one. This loan copy has now been republished.
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I don't believe the Government will tell its secrets. As some stated everything always change and get better. Heck we don't even use the Constitution anymore and it has been revised.I don't think I will waste the money. Someone will buy it and put the entire thing online sooner or later.
Isn't it trickery and deception to say there was a book about trickery and deception?
I mean, aren't the C.I.A. trickeption and decepery? I don't believe a word they didn't say.
Just remember to forget. Or, more usefully, forget to remember.
Wait, a magician revealed his secrets for $3,000? Isn't there an unwritten rule in magiciandom that you don't reveal your secrets?
I don't see any other country in the world so eager to expose all the inner workings of their intelligence agencies, which are there to protect their citizens. Why can't some of these people see that they are only opening our country to future attacks?
The page on how to substitute weather balloons for crashed saucers is particularly well thumbed.
What if it's not really the CIA book, but merely a magic book with a clever marketing plan.
If only there were words appropriate to describe such falsehoods...
I've seen this Obama deception before, several months ago. Sure looks like it was prophetic.
On thing I remember reading with this author. He once said that having Obama in office might be good for this county because it is waking America up. In the process of stopping his leftist ideas we now know just what is a stake!
Stacy,
I hope you have the time to read some of my essays on Soros, the true force of Obama and the far left...
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