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Title: The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA by Antonio J. Mendez, Malcolm McConnell ISBN: 0-688-16302-5 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: November, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.94 (32 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: CIA hero Tony Mendez reveals final secrets of the Cold War!
Comment: In his autobiography, decorated CIA veteran Tony Mendez has written a detailed and fascinating account of spy operations during the Cold War. Other books have told us what the CIA did, but this is the first and only to expose the secrets of how they did it! Tony's unique career, and mastery of disguises, deception, forgery, and exfiltration, show us that the gadgets utilized by "James Bond" weren't alwaus fictional! Spy agencies worldwide will make THE MASTER OF DISGUISE required reading for intelligence officers; the new KGB will probably charter a plane to rush the first 100 copies straight to Moscow! H Keith Melton; author of THE ULTIMATE SPY BOOK
Rating: 4
Summary: The Master Of The CIA Tells All
Comment: My Secret Life in the CIA by, Antonio Mendez, shows the truth of the CIA from a man who lived it. Put away all of your spy books such as James Bond, and read what the intelligence world is truly like. This top-level operative tells how he helped people escape deadly situations in East Asia, the Cold War, and Tehran.
I love spy stories and this one is the best I have ever read because I now know the truth. Mendez, at a younger age, thought of himself as an artist and a competent spy. When he got older he applied for a job in the Central Intelligence Agency, Technical Services Division. A few weeks later he recieved a letter telling him to report to CIA Headquarters. Everyone he met along the way didn't seem like the kind of person you would think to work in the CIA. A quote by Sun Tzu that is used in the book says, "Spies must recruit men who are intelligent but appear stupid; who seem dull but are strong in heart." These are the sort of things you learn from a man who lived the truth of the CIA.
Many spy books I have read seemed to be very intersting. When reading them I always wondered, is any of this true? After reading this book I don't have to ask that question any longer. The real James Bond of the intelligence world was granted permission to tell his story. He is one of the fifty all-time stars of the spy trade and that is what is fascinating.
For the first time the CIA has let a top-level operative tell all and it is a story everyone should read. This book shows fatal situations and how Mendez worked throught them. The story is true and that is what makes it intersting. If you want to know the truth about the CIA, I suggest you read about the master of disguise, Antonio J. Mendez
Rating: 5
Summary: Interesting & Personal
Comment: Mr. Mendez has put together an interesting collections of his personal experiences working in the CIA. There is nothing here to shock or get excited about but it is at once interesting, exciting and informative, and lets outsiders peek behind the curtain of real-life covert field operations. Whether by design or due to faulty memory, some of his tales are not told just they way they happened and times and places have been fudged, but none of that takes away from the stories nor the readers pleasure. Not great literature but a good read never the less. Chiu Hse Yu, Lecturer in Law, LLB (NUS), School of Business, Singapore Management University.
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Title: See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism by Robert Baer ISBN: 140004684X Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Inside the CIA by Ronald Kessler ISBN: 067173458X Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Spy Dust : Two Masters of Disguise Reveal the Tools and Operations that Helped Win the Cold War by Jonna Mendez, Bruce Henderson, Antonio J. Mendez ISBN: 0743428528 Publisher: Atria Books Pub. Date: 17 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Inside Cia's Private World: Declassified Articles from the Agency's Internal Journal, 1955-1992 by H. Bradford Westerfield ISBN: 0300072643 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Book of Honor : Covert Lives and Classified Deaths at the CIA by Ted Gup ISBN: 0385495412 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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