BEHIND THE DISGUISE IN THE SPY TRADE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400090029-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 27, 1999
• Sequence Number: 29
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Releas 1999/09/17 : CIA-RDP75 OOQ01t"00040O09#G29-4'
defeats the purpose of the right kind of plane for ,,
torturers. atomic bomb."
It is endurable because an in. which he handled' his
.crease would bring uncon- but difficult reply can
prolonged pain, while others for alTi yoknew, you mlght'?`
are able to fortify themselves have been dropping , ah ?
courageous men in spite of him carefully to their prime
World War, but the main value of the book lies not so much;
in its narratives as In the explanation of the techniques an
tricks of the trade of a profession that is in full owing
every civilized country in the world during war, cold war,?
or peace.
It is interesting to know, for example, that torture is not.
necessarily an instrument of
sadism, but a recognized and had himself said that Poweral
accepted tool in an occupation was a spy, but Powers firmly;
which is governed by prece- maintained that he was only!
dent If not by law. An in- pulling levers and pushing:
ability to withstand prolonged buttons the functions of
torture is. in Mr. Seth's opin- which he did not know. The'
ion, not a sign of lack of Russians led him to CM-
bravery. Some completely phasize this point, drawing
?N arw .ra? manv aood anv stories in this excellent book
ANATOMY. OF SPYING. By Ronald Seth. (E. F. Dutton
admiration. A spy's rirati outy was under no patriotic obUlia
scan U-2 pilot, was It spy who
rigid with him the meads of
Francis Powers. the Amer-
Like all spies, Powers car
tion: his second is to come use it. Certainly at.the rim
back alile, Powers, who at his it was less publicised, if men
-trial vor-nly one factor in tioned at all, that he hid
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