CIA Special Weapons & Equipment: Spy Devices of the Cold War - Softcover

Melton, H. Keith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0806987332 ISBN 13: 9780806987330

Publisher: Sterling Publishing, 1899

Synopsis

Describes a variety of espionage devices and includes information on the purpose of each device and instructions for its use

About this title

From Booklist:

This slim volume offers a reasonable selective overview, made up of good pictures and terse text, of much of the CIA's exotic hardware in use from 1945 through 1970. Although more of historical than contemporary interest (state-of-the-art counterparts of this gear are, quite understandably, still classified information), Melton's effort will be absorbing for anyone with even a mild interest in the history of covert operations or espionage. It will also be a useful reference to writers of cold war spy thrillers; it proves that the late Ian Fleming's imagination was not necessarily working overtime when he equipped James Bond. Roland Green

About this edition

• Publisher: Sterling Publishing
• Publication date: 1899
• ISBN 10: 0806987332
• ISBN 13: 9780806987330
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128