BGuthrie Photos: Natl Archives -- Robert Wallace ("Spycraft")

Natl Archives -- Robert Wallace ("Spycraft"):

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Description of Pictures: Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA’s Spytechs from Communism to Al-Qaeda: From James Bond to Maxwell Smart to Mission: Impossible, spies and their gadgetry have been captivating public interest for decades. Until now, however, much of the information about the tools used by real-life spies has been deemed "inappropriate for public disclosure." Join us as Robert Wallace, 32-year veteran of the CIA and former director of the Agency’s Office of Technical Service, discusses his book, Spycraft, and brings to life the history of the OTS and its operations both in the engineering laboratory and in the field.
The speaker was introduced by Douglas Swanson, Public Programs Coordinator, National Archives.

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1. NASPY_081203_002.JPG: Norma Rathbun
2. NASPY_081203_019.JPG: Doug Swanson
3. NASPY_081203_060.JPG: Robert Wallace
4. NASPY_081203_179.JPG: Robert Wallace said that dead rats with transmitters Velcroed inside were used for spying. They found that almost no one would pick up a dead rat... Except for cats, so they coated the rat with Tabasco sauce.
5. NASPY_081203_219.JPG: Robert Wallace presenting a model of US Great Seal in the American embassy in Moscow, into which the Soviets had carefully inserted a listening device.
6. NASPY_081203_251.JPG: "We must learn to fight dirty" (1954) "If the US is to survive, long-standing American concepts of 'fair play' must be reconsidered... We must learn to subvert, sabotage, and destroy our enemies by more clever, more sophisticated, and more effective methods than those used against us. It may become necessary for the American people to become acquainted with and understand, and support this fundamentally repugnant philosophy." -- World War II Gen. James Doolittle explaining in a secret 1954 report to President Eisenhower why CIA covert operations were needed and what they entailed
7. NASPY_081203_265.JPG: They tried to wire cats for use as spy instruments
8. NASPY_081203_275.JPG: Robert Wallace demonstrating how the size of surveillance equipment has shrunk over time.
9. NASPY_081203_285.JPG: Robert Wallace demonstrating an old-style spy camera
10. NASPY_081203_290.JPG: Robert Wallace showing the size of modern-day spy cameras
11. NASPY_081203_354.JPG: The slide is explaining at almost everything that used to require lots of high-tech separate pieces of equipment can be done by a standard BlackBerry now.
12. NASPY_081203_424.JPG: Robert Wallace and Doug Swanson
13. NASPY_081203_460.JPG: Fran Jernigan
14. NASPY_081203_467.JPG: Rat spy
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