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Reviewing the shelf: Spy Tech
Nov. 16th, 2010 12:26 pmA favorite area for many people about spies is the tech, Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to Al-Qaeda by Robert Wallace, H. Keith Melton and Henry R. Schlesinger seeks to fulfill that need by offering a fairly detailed history of CIA’s Office of Technical Service.
Another good treatment, one lacking the gee-whiz and being a lot more serious in its analysis is Jeffrey Richelson’s The Wizards of Langley: Inside The CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology.
I think both of these books very nicely work together and can serve to understand the role technology has played in espionage in the last 60 years. Some of the crazier ideas also make great game springboards.
Another good treatment, one lacking the gee-whiz and being a lot more serious in its analysis is Jeffrey Richelson’s The Wizards of Langley: Inside The CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology.
I think both of these books very nicely work together and can serve to understand the role technology has played in espionage in the last 60 years. Some of the crazier ideas also make great game springboards.
