Top Secret

194 Pages·2011·32.62 MB·English

by  Laura Buller

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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
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ISBN: 978-0-7566-8607-9
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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