Secrets on Display
Stories and Spycraft from the International Spy Museum
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Secrets on Display
Stories and Spycraft from the International Spy Museum
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword: Colonel Christopher P. Costa
- Foreword: H. Keith Melton
- Introduction: Designing an Open Box of Secrets
- 1. Making the Covert Overt: Building a Modern Spy Museum
- 2. The Bonding of Allen Dulles and James Jesus Angleton
- 3. Spying for Teenagers: Espionage Through the Eyes of Ronald Sethās Young Adult Spy Thrillers
- 4. Ripe for Recruitment: Mata Hari as a Plausible Intelligence Asset
- 5. The Triumph and Downfall of Dmitri Bystrolyotov, Stalinās Romeo Spy
- 6. The Role of Balloons in Union Military Intelligence in the Civil War
- 7. The Genome of Geospatial Intelligence
- 8. Concealing Colossus: Britainās Wartime Computing History and Cold War SIGINT
- 9. Ann Caracristi: The Making of a Codebreaker
- 10. Shaping a New Threat: How the CIA Defined āInternational Terrorismā in the 1970s
- 11. Mysteries, Secrets, and Puzzles: Designing Intelligence Analysis at the International Spy Museum
- 12. Counter-disinformation and the Tools of the Intelligence Trade: An Historical Perspective
- 13. Gray Reflections in the Mirror: The Hanssen Case and American Counterintelligence
- 14. āWalk It Out the Door on a Flash Driveā: Counterintelligence and the Delisle Spy Case
- 15. Northern Ireland, 1971: Torture, Accountability, and Sir Dick White
- Conclusion: The Importance of Intelligence History
- About the Editors and Contributors
- Photo Credits
- Index
- Back Cover