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Tradecraft, Part 7

True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

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The Power of Ideas and Trade Craft Skills

This chapter explores a successful undercover operation with drug dealers and the recruitment of Howard Kaplan to smuggle literature into and out of Russia. It discusses the tight control on books by the Soviet Union, the training with Mossad, and the use of trade craft skills such as stealing classified documents from moving taxis and using milk as invisible ink.

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