Secrets on Display
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Intelligence history comes alive in this delightful collection of stories and photographs.
Secrets on Display takes readers on a tour of the thrilling, real-life history of intelligence and espionage from around the world. With tales of spies, codebreakers, moles, terrorist-hunters, spy chiefs, propagandists, and secret agents, these new histories uncover a world that many of us only see in the movies. Bringing together stories and artifacts from the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, this book makes the world's largest museum devoted to intelligence history accessible to everyone.
Secrets on Display brings this hidden history to life with over 200 photographs, including nearly 100 color images of artifacts?among them, James Bond's Aston Martin DB5, the axe used to assassinate Leon Trotsky, a portion of the secret MI6 and CIA tunnel beneath East Berlin, and a precursor to the Predator drone, as well as concealment devices, secret cameras, disguise kits, cipher machines, and a host of other rare objects seldom seen by the public.
These stories, told by historians, intelligence officers, and museum professionals, will fascinate scholars, intrigue practitioners, and entice those interested in a world of secrecy that most of us can scarcely imagine.
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Foreword: Colonel Chris P. Costa, Executive Director, International Spy Museum
Foreword: H. Keith Melton
Introduction: Designing an Open Box of Secrets, Sarah-Jane Corke and Mark Stout
1. Making the Covert Overt: Building a Modern Spy Museum, Alexis Albion and Anna Slafer
2. The Bonding of Allen Dulles and James Jesus Angleton, Jonathan Nashel
3. Spying for Teenagers: Espionage Through the Eyes of Ronald Seth's Young Adult Spy Thrillers, Jonathan Best
4. Ripe for Recruitnment: Mata Hari as a Plausible Intelligence Asset, Amanda A. Ohlke
5. The Triumph and Downfall of Dmitri Bystrolyotov, Stalin's Romeo Spy, Emil Draitser
6. The Rose of Balloons in Union Military Intelligence in the Civil War, James L. Green
7. The Genome of Geospatial Intelligence, Jack O'Connor
8. Concealing Colossus: Britain's Wartime Computing History and Cold War SIGINT, David Schaefer
9. Ann Caracristi: The Making of a Codebreaker, David Sherman
10. Shaping a New Threat: How the CIA Defined ?International Terrorism? in the 1970s, Silke Zoller
11. Mysteries, Secrets, and Puzzles: Designing Intelligence Analysis at the International Spy Museum, Cynthia Storer, Mark Stout, and Sarah-Jane Corke
12. Counter-disinformation and the Tools of the Intelligence Trade: An Historical Perspective, Gill Bennett
13. Gray Reflections in the Mirror: The Hanssen Case and American Counterintelligence, John F. Fox Jr.
14 ?Walk It Out the Door on a Flash Drive?: Counterintelligence and the Delisle Spy Case, Wesley Wark
15. Northern Ireland, 1971: Torture, Accountability, and Sir Dick White, Tony Craig
Conclusion: The Importance of Intelligence History, Mark Stout and Sarah-Jane Corke
About the Editors and Contributors
Photo Credits
Index
