NODE 7d1f2206The Ultima Spy Book
jya@pipeline.com (John Young)Tue, 18 Jun 1996 07:30:20 +0800
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.
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Eye pix of cipher devices:
Kryha, Bolton, Hebern, M-94:
http://pwp.usa.pipeline.com/~jya/cd1.jpg
Hagelin's M-209 and CD-57:
http://pwp.usa.pipeline.com/~jya/cd2.jpg
Enigma:
http://pwp.usa.pipeline.com/~jya/enigma1.jpg
Enigma innards and Geheimschreiber:
http://pwp.usa.pipeline.com/~jya/enigma2.jpg
Purple:
http://pwp.usa.pipeline.com/~jya/purple.jpg
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CYA: http://www.anonymizer.com
NODE 0aca539fRe: The Ultima Spy Book
Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>Tue, 18 Jun 1996 18:48:51 +0800
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Most of which is 25-30 years out of date.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years out of date, or so simple to be useful despite being anything but a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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