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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:Waves hand... by martin-boundary · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Oooh! Wooks! Meesa can also weade wooks too! Can meesa twy? Pweeze?

  2. Re:Waves hand... by camperslo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This is not the book you are looking for.....move along.....

    The FOX employee training manual??

  3. Direct Links Already by angryphase · · Score: 0, Redundant

    An article on Slashdot linking to The Huffington Post, talking about a Wired story talking about an item for sale on Amazon. No need for the book, misdirection is alive and well.

  4. No. by spun · · Score: 1, Redundant

    The Prince is not a manual for how to run a government. It is meant as satire, a warning perhaps, to the people, about how sociopaths run a government. If you want something closer to a manual, read Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy , a book about how to run a Republic rather than a Tyranny.

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    - None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton