From: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 18:48:51 +0800
To: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Subject: Re: The Ultima Spy Book
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On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, John Young wrote:

>    The Ultimate Spy Book 
>    by H. Keith Melton 
>    (Dorling Kindersley, London) 
>    DK Publishing, New York 
>    First American edition, 1996. $29.95. 
>    ISBN 0-7894-0443-5 
>  
>    Over 600 illustrations of the tools and tricks of spycraft 
>    for killing, betraying, deceiving, surveilling, encrypting, 
>    decrypting, communicating, burgling, recruitment and 
>    training, fucking up and rotting in jail, and flacking spy 
>    fluff until tip-canoe-ed. 


Most of which is 25-30 years out of date.  The remainder is either 5-10
years out of date, or so simple to be useful despite being anything but a
secret anymore.

Still cool for the history buff.

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