Her job? Travel the globe post 9/11 and disrupt al-Qaeda plots. Former sorority sister Tracy Walder wanted to teach history after USC but joined the CIA instead. In The KGB’s Poison Factory, former Russian military intelligence officer Boris Volodarsky traces the history of poison assassinations dating back to 1917 and Lenin’s Cheka secret police and covers 20 ghastly deaths.
Colonel certainly wasn’t the first or last victim to blame his murder on Moscow. Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko died weeks after drinking tea spiked with radioactive polonium-210 in 2006. The KGB’s Poison Factory From Lenin to Litvinenko by Boris Volodarsky By 35, any operative worth their salt has gone hard enough at their job to erode their cover.” Fox’s memoir is a fast-paced thriller that reads like fiction but the description of Fox’s training at the Farm alone is worth the ride. “We’re impossibly young to have the fate of the world in our hands,” Amaryllis Fox writes in Life Undercover, noting she started as a 21-year-old CIA analyst and became an undercover officer.
Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA by Amaryllis Fox All copies were thought to have been destroyed in 1975, but two intelligence agents managed to get their hands on the document and published it decades later.
The CIA paid Mulholland $3,000 to write its guide to trickery and deception - a "James Bond meets Harry Houdini" textbook, as master magician Lance Burton described it.
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The CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception by John MulhollandĪmong the many tricks the CIA had at its disposal during the Cold War was a top-secret manual of deception written by magician John Mulholland, a stage performer who honed his skills trading tricks in the back of New York City's Martinka magic shop.
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