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In association with PP TT TT EE RR CC EE SS FF OO SS EE LL AA GG TT YY II NN DD YY AA PP HH SS SS DD NN AA SS EE II PP SS P T T E R C E S LONDON, NEW YORK, MELBOURNE, MUNICH, AND DELHI Senior editor Niki Foreman Senior art editor Philip Letsu Project editors Matilda Gollon, Fran Jones, Ashwin Khurana Designer Hoa Luc Additional editors Steven Carton, Jenny Finch, Jessamy Wood U.S. editor John Searcy Additional design Mik Gates, Katie Knutton, Spencer Holbrook, Ralph Pitchford, Stefan Podhorodecki, Jane Thomas Managing editor Linda Esposito Managing art editor Jim Green Category publisher Laura Buller Jacket design Yumiko Tahata Jacket editor Matilda Gollon Design development manager Sophia M. Tampakopoulos Turner Creative retouching Steve Willis Picture research Harriet Mills DK picture librarian Lucy Claxton, Emma Shepherd Production editor Marc Staples Senior production controller Angela Graef First published in the United States in 2011 by DK Publishing, 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014 Copyright © 2011 Dorling Kindersley Limited 11 12 13 14 15 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 001 – 180643 – Oct/11 All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner. Published in Great Britain by Dorling Kindersley Limited. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress ISBN: 978-0-7566-8607-9 Color reproduction by MDP, United Kingdom Printed and bound by LEO, China Discover more at www.dk.com P T T E R C E S In association with Written by: Laura Buller, Joe Fullman, Ben Gilliland, and Jim Pipe Chapter 1: Chapter 2: THE SPY FILES SPY SECTS 12 Why spy? 32 The spy factory The different reasons The intelligence cycle for spying 34 A world of spies 14 Who spies? Spy agencies around What kind of person spies, the world and why 36 Central command 16 Spot the spy Spy headquarters The different kinds of spies 38 And the verdict is… 18 GARBO/Eddie Chapman Spying and the law Two comic strips about 40 Meet the ancestors two double agents in Spymasters World War II 42 Trumped! 20 Dumpster diving Spy rings Industrial espionage 44 The Culper Gang 22 Be a good sport Comic strip about Spying in sports the Culper spy ring 24 Are you being watched? during the American Spying on the public Revolution 26 True or false? 46 Covert connections Counterintelligence Cooperation between spy agenices 28 The dark side Sabotage and assassination 48 Morning news Propaganda 50 Behind the barbed wire Secret spy laboratories Contents Chapter 3: Chapter 4: HOW TO SPY CRACKING CODES 54 Super spy 80 Cryptic codes The skills you need to be a spy Codes and ciphers 56 Meet the team 82 Secret-message machines All the different roles Cipher devices on a spy job 84 Code breaking 58 Art of concealment Code breakers Concealing spy gear 86 Enigma machine 60 Brain gym Cracking the Enigma code Memory tricks and techniques 88 The perfect cipher 62 Avoiding surveillance Comic strip about cracking How to avoid surveillance a 200-year-old presidential code 64 Drop-dead devious 90 Hidden messages Dead drops Steganography 66 Seeing stars 92 Going digital! Celebrity spies Digital steganography 68 Charmed, I’m sure 94 Secret writing Using charm to spy Invisible writing methods 70 Who are you? Covers and legends 72 Spy wear What to wear in disguise 74 The ultimate cover Comic strip about Chevalier d’Eon who disguised himself as a woman to spy for the French King Louis XV 76 Surviving capture What to do if you get caught Chapter 5: Chapter 6: SPYWARE SHADY HISTORY 98 What’s watching you? 120 Sun Tzu and Chanakya Devices for visual spying Ancient wisdom of the East 100 All ears Listening devices 122 Mission: assassin The original assassins 102 Gadgets and gizmos Unusual spying devices 124 Target still standing Failed assassinations 104 Global eavesdropping Signals intelligence 126 Invisible spies Ninja spy tactics 106 Satellite surveillance Spy satellites 128 The teenage ninja/ The pillow snatcher 108 Hack job Two comic strips about Hacking methods the first ninja 110 Hunting Hunter the hacker 130 The poisoner’s handbook Comic strip about IT expert Poisonings Clifford Stoll who hunts down a hacker selling U.S. military 132 Death in the shadows secrets to the Soviets Spies and politics 112 Spies in the sky 134 Caught! Manned spy aircraft Captured spies 114 Spying without spies 136 Escape artists Unmanned aerial Captured spies who spy vehicles escaped 116 Secret weapons 138 A spy’s best friend Sneaky weaponry Animal spies 140 Behind the mask Spy characters 142 Mission: improbable Strange spy stories 144 Conspiracy theories Secret plots and schemes Contents Chapter 7: Chapter 8: SPY WARS SPYING TODAY 148 Secrets of the ancients 170 Changing threats Spying in ancient times What spies spy on today 150 Never trust a traveler 172 Cyber spies Traveling spies Cyber espionage 152 Beyond the barricades 174 Spy world Spying for freedom Systems espionage 154 Femmes fatales 176 Fighting terror Female spies in wartime Counterterrorism 156 Ready, set, spy! 178 Mission: biology World War I spying Biometrics 158 Red orchestra 180 The game of surveillance Soviet spy networks Everyday surveillance 160 The saboteur’s tool kit 182 The man who tried to disappear Spying in World War II Comic strip about David Bond, who put himself under 162 The one that got away surveillance and attempted Comic strip about Soviet to disappear spy Engelbert Broda— the man who started 184 What does the future hold? the Cold War The future of spying 164 Battle of the moles Cold War spies 166 The wall comes down The end of the Cold War FOREWORD Time: Late Friday. Location: Undisclosed the leak, cover our tracks, and get out Mediterranean country. Operation: unobserved. Shirts off, we bailed water Bug the home office of a Soviet furiously throughout the night, and military intelligence officer away on thanks to a tech officer trained vacation. Easy, right? Well, my two as a plumber, we did it… but it CIA colleagues and I thought so. was a close call. We slipped in through a window and planted a microphone and transmitter. At the height of the Cold War, Now, we just had to conceal the wiring the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the basement. After a little digging, recruited and trained me to run foreign the sound of gurgling water caused us espionage operations. These were the to freeze: Our clandestine activity had most exciting and challenging years of cracked a pipe! Water was rushing over my life: to live and work under different the floor. We had just 36 hours to fix covers and aliases, to don disguises for
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