Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs from Communism to Al-Qaeda
- ISBN-10
- 0525949801
- ISBN-13
- 9780525949800
- Series
- Spycraft
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 548
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Authors
- Robert Wallace, Harold Keith Melton
Description
An insider's tour of the past half-century's espionage technologies also recounts some of the CIA's most secretive operations and how they have been performed using state-of-the-art spy instruments.
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