Spycraft ─ The Secret History of the Cia's Spytechs, from Ommunism to Al-qaeda

In this the first book ever written about the CIAA's Office of Technical Service, former director Robert Wallace (a real-life Q, straight out of the James Bond films) and internationally renowned intelligence historian H. Keith Melton offer an unprecedented look at the CIAA's most secretive operations and the devices that made them possible. Against a backdrop of geopolitical tensionsA- including the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the current War on TerrorA-the authors show how the CIA carries out its missions employing amazingly inventive tools. Illustrated with images never before seen by the publicA-and featuring everything from micro cameras to wired kitties to exploding pancakesA-Spycraft is both a fantastic encyclopedia of gadgetry and a revealing primer on the fundamentals of high-tech espionage.

Robert Wallace is the former director of the CIA's Office of Technical Service.

H. Keith Melton is the technical tradecraft historian at the Interagency Training Center in Washington, D.C.

Henry Robert Schlesinger writes for Popular Science covering intelligence technologies and counterterrorism.