Spyology: The Art of Spy Craft

Contents include:

SPD 1: An Introduction to Spy Craft

SPD 3: The Perfect Spy

SPD 4: The Secret Service

SPD 5: Going Gray

SPD 6: Surveillance

SPD 7: Gathering Information

SPD 8: Secret Codes

SPD 9: Spy Gadgets

SPD 10: Running Agents

SPD 11: Counterespionage

SPD 12: Escape

SPD 13: The Forger’s Workshop

SPD 14: The History of Spy Craft

SPD 15: Classified Information

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Spyology: The Art of Spy Craft was allegedly written by a British spy known
as Spencer Blake — or “Agent K”— while on a top-secret mission that he
undertook sometime in 1958. At the request of the then Commander of the
British Secret Intelligence Service, who went under the code name “D,”
Blake used his experiences on that mission to produce a complete guide to
everything anyone might want to know about spies and the world of spying.

Spencer Blake was also a handy spy — he included several “novelties” to

amuse and educate new recruits, including a spy lingo booklet, a small mirror in
the corner of one page (to observe those behind you), a surveillance technique
booklet, as well as a variety of flaps and booklets on disguises, information
gathering, and other spy craft. In addition, the book itself is a useful spy tool,
since embedded in the inside back cover is a working code-breaking mechanism
called the Cryptotron, which can be used to both send and decipher coded
messages. The front of the book features a tinted red magnifying glass, useful
in reading both hidden red/green type and micro-printing.

Besides a spy manual, however, the book also details an actual mission
undertaken by Blake in 1958. His mission was to investigate the secret
criminal organization CODEX, which, the reader discovers, had plans to
release deadly anthrax in all of the world’s capital cities in an attempt
to destabilize the globe and so gain control.

In an unusual scenario for the time, Blake had to work with both
an American and a Soviet agent in order to bring down CODEX.
From Scotland to London to Berlin to Las Vegas to Havana, Cuba,
Blake and his fellow spies travel the globe, going undercover,
bugging and decoding along the way.

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for the keen reader to discover!