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CIA Manual Thought Lost In 1973 Available On Amazon

Posted by samzenpus on from the there-is-no-manual-nor-has-there-ever-been-a-manual dept.

An anonymous reader writes "At the height of the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency paid renowned magician John Mulholland $3,000 to write a manual on misdirection, concealment, and stagecraft. All known copies of the document were believed to be destroyed in 1973. Turns out one survived — and is now available on Amazon."

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  1. Re:Oh come on, everybody has that on his hard disk by zwei2stein · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Most of those files were work of BBS users and can range anywhere from complete bullshit all the way to actually working stuff.

    I guess you know this, but rest of slashdot could take a peek at those manuals here: http://textfiles.com/

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