Decades ago the CIA hired noted magician John Mulholland, to write a book on trickery, deception and concealment. Basically, it was a compilation of magician tricks that could be used in public to counter the Soviets own trickery in the Cold War.
The last copy was thought lost in 1973, but has been rediscovered and published [...]

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This op-ed piece in the New York Times by an FBI special agent sheds a lot of light on torture. Ali Soufan stated that most of the valuable intelligence gathered from terrorists came before “enhanced interrogation techniques” were used.
Soufan claims to have personally questioned Abu Zubaydah before waterboarding was used. Soufan writes that Zubaydah gave [...]

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The International Herald Tribune has an opinion piece in it highly critical of the CIA. It makes one wonder if the guys in that agency have a mindset that much different from the automakers in Detroit. All have plenty of money to throw at a problem, but they seem to fail wherever they turn.
First, let’s [...]

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