CIA Files: The CIA Manual of Deception and Trickery

<p>The 1950s might be regarded by some as the salad days of the CIA. No ideas were too wacky, and the money was flowing into research and development like a cool, clean mountain spring. So when CIA mad scientist Dr. Sidney Gottlieb decided to hire an up-close magician to write some instruction manuals on how to perform their own sort of magic -- &nbsp;the kind that might involve slipping a drug into someone's champagne or pick someone's pocket, no one batted an eye.</p> <p>Famed illusionist John Mulholland produced two top-secret manuals for the CIA, which were thought to be lost forever after Director Richard Helms ordered all material on MK Ultra destroyed. But a lucky CIA researcher named H. Keith Melton stumbled across old, forgotten Xerox copies of the manuals in 2007, and now we can get a glimpse at some of the inner workings of some of the CIA's operating procedures from the time.</p> <p>You can purchase a physical copy of the book <a href="https://amzn.to/3o92ygW">here on Amazon,</a> or you can download a free digital copy at&nbsp;</p> <a href="https://archive.org/details/cia-manual-trickery-deception-2009_201804/page/n23/mode/2up">Archive.org.</a>