Antonio J. Mendez. (2019). The Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War. PublicAffairs.

Antonio J. Mendez. 2019. The Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War. PublicAffairs.

Antonio J. Mendez, The Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War. PublicAffairs, 2019.

Antonio J. Mendez. The Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War. PublicAffairs, 2019.

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   • bioText: Antonio (Tony) Mendez served in the CIA for twenty-five years and is a highly decorated CIA officer, one of the top fifty officers in its first fifty years. He received the Intelligence Star for Valor for the ARGO operation, the story of which was told in the 2013 movie of the same name. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling Argo, The Master of Disguise, and Spy Dust.
     Jonna Mendez is a former Chief of Disguise with over twenty-five years of experience as a CIA officer working in Moscow and other sensitive areas. She participated in a number of training exercises, along with Tony, which ultimately led to the codification of the rules. She co-wrote Spy Dust with her husband about their shared experience in Moscow during the twilight of the Cold War. Often cited for their expertise in the field, Jonna and Tony are both much sought-after speakers and consultants.
     Matt Baglio is the bestselling author who previously worked with Tony on Argo, and is also the author of The Rite.
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From the spymaster and inspiration for the movie Argo, discover the "real-life spy thriller" of the brilliant but under-supported CIA operatives who developed breakthrough spy tactics that helped turn the tide of the Cold War (Malcolm Nance).
Antonio Mendez and his future wife Jonna were CIA operatives working to spy on Moscow in the late 1970s, at one of the most dangerous moments in the Cold War. Soviets kept files on all foreigners, studied their patterns, and tapped their phones. Intelligence work was effectively impossible. The Soviet threat loomed larger than ever.
The Moscow Rules tells the story of the intelligence breakthroughs that turned the odds in America's favor. As experts in disguise, Antonio and Jonna were instrumental in developing a series of tactics — Hollywood-inspired identity swaps, ingenious evasion techniques, and an armory of James Bond-style gadgets — that allowed CIA officers to outmaneuver the KGB.
As Russia again rises in opposition to America, this remarkable story is a tribute to those who risked everything for their country, and to the ingenuity that allowed them to succeed.

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     April 15, 2019
     Two former CIA agents stationed in Moscow reveal the ins and outs of spycraft. The golden days of the espionage aspect of the Cold War may have been the early 1960s, but the contest was still going strong in the late-'70s, when the Mendezes (Spy Dust, 2002, etc.) were CIA operatives in Moscow. It was a heady and dangerous time, they write, whose closing months, dating into the mid-'80s, were marred by revelations of double agents and the quick dismantling of the CIA's spy network. "The majority of Soviet citizens working for us," they write, "had been arrested and executed, most of them betrayed by Americans inside the intelligence community." But before that, there was a world of spycraft to explore, with elaborate disguises, consultations from magicians who helped construct secret compartments, and all kinds of nifty gadgetry, such as "a contraption that would allow an individual to rapidly rappel down an apartment building and return up the rope using an ascension device, which had fondly been nicknamed the Spiderman." Cool tools aside, the authors make it clear that espionage is a deadly business, and dealing with nations that are good at it requires a special kind of agent and a flexible protocol (the "Moscow rules" of the title). One evolutionary stage of those rules occurred in the 1960s, when the U.S. and U.K. collaborated to "run" a Soviet agent whose intelligence helped prevent the Cold War from turning hot during the Cuban missile crisis. Another was to bring in technical officers "who would never have feet on the ground in an actual CIA overseas operation," including scientists, graphic artists, and the like. Much of what the authors describe is the quotidian back and forth of spycraft, boredom punctuated by episodes of real excitement; the narrative has the same choppy feel at times, but reading about prosthetics, cameras hidden in fountain pens, and other such things makes for eye-opening entertainment. Fans of le Carré and other spinners of secret-agent tales will find this of considerable interest.

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     Mendez (Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History), the inspiration for Ben Affleck's character in the film Argo, and his wife, Jonna Mendez (Spy Dust: Two Masters of Disguise Reveal the Tools and Operations That Helped Win the Cold War), share their experiences as spies in Moscow during the height of the Cold War in the mid-1980s. Collaborating with best-selling author Matt Baglio, who previously worked with Antonio on Argo, the authors begin with the initial list of the Moscow Rules and continue to discuss briefly the current state of affairs in Russia under Vladimir Putin, and how they interfered with the 2016 U.S. election. The Moscow Rules started as a list of guidelines for CIA spies to follow when in the Soviet Union, particularly the capital of Moscow, and included technological advancements as well as preferred disguises. The authors share the history of spy activity between the United States and the USSR and move on to outline the Mendezs' unbelievable experiences. VERDICT Those interested in the history of espionage and the Cold War will learn from these firsthand accounts about the bravery of the men and women who spied in Moscow; a thrilling read.--Jason L. Steagall, formerly with Gateway Technical Coll. Lib., Elkhorn, WI

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     Two former CIA agents stationed in Moscow reveal the ins and outs of spycraft. The golden days of the espionage aspect of the Cold War may have been the early 1960s, but the contest was still going strong in the late-'70s, when the Mendezes (Spy Dust, 2002, etc.) were CIA operatives in Moscow. It was a heady and dangerous time, they write, whose closing months, dating into the mid-'80s, were marred by revelations of double agents and the quick dismantling of the CIA's spy network. "The majority of Soviet citizens working for us," they write, "had been arrested and executed, most of them betrayed by Americans inside the intelligence community." But before that, there was a world of spycraft to explore, with elaborate disguises, consultations from magicians who helped construct secret compartments, and all kinds of nifty gadgetry, such as "a contraption that would allow an individual to rapidly rappel down an apartment building and return up the rope using an ascension device, which had fondly been nicknamed the Spiderman." Cool tools aside, the authors make it clear that espionage is a deadly business, and dealing with nations that are good at it requires a special kind of agent and a flexible protocol (the "Moscow rules" of the title). One evolutionary stage of those rules occurred in the 1960s, when the U.S. and U.K. collaborated to "run" a Soviet agent whose intelligence helped prevent the Cold War from turning hot during the Cuban missile crisis. Another was to bring in technical officers "who would never have feet on the ground in an actual CIA overseas operation," including scientists, graphic artists, and the like. Much of what the authors describe is the quotidian back and forth of spycraft, boredom punctuated by episodes of real excitement; the narrative has the same choppy feel at times, but reading about prosthetics, cameras hidden in fountain pens, and other such things makes for eye-opening entertainment. Fans of le Carr� and other spinners of secret-agent tales will find this of considerable interest.

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Antonio Mendez and his future wife Jonna were CIA operatives working to spy on Moscow in the late 1970s, at one of the most dangerous moments in the Cold War. Soviets kept files on all foreigners, studied their patterns, and tapped their phones. Intelligence work was effectively impossible. The Soviet threat loomed larger than ever.
The Moscow Rules tells the story of the intelligence breakthroughs that turned the odds in America's favor. As experts in disguise, Antonio and Jonna were instrumental in developing a series of tactics — Hollywood-inspired identity swaps, ingenious evasion techniques, and an armory of James Bond-style gadgets — that allowed CIA officers to outmaneuver the KGB.
As Russia again rises in...

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