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York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), p. 212.

53. “John Mulholland, Magician and Author, 71, Dies.”

54. Joseph Treaser, “C.I.A. Hired Magician in Behavior Project,” New York Times, August 3, 1977.

55. Edwards, “The Sphinx & the Spy: The Clandestine World of John Mulholland.”

56. Ibid.

57. Robinson, MagiCIAn, p. 136. Robinson commented that though only 46 percent of the original manual was made public, his possession of Mulholland’s original handwritten notes and rough draft of the manual from the Milbourne Christopher Collection allowed him to “piece together what information the government has withheld from public inspection.”

58. John Mulholland, “Some Operational Applications of the Art of Deception,” 1953.

59. Jim Steinmeyer, Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear (New York: Carroll & Graf, 2003), p. 80.

60. Dariel Fitzkee, Magic by Misdirection (Pomeroy, OH: Lee Jacobs Publication, 1975), p. 69.

61. A “dead drop” is a secure form of impersonal communication that allows the agent and handler to exchange materials (money, documents, film, etc.) without a direct encounter. Dead drops were “timed operations” in which the dropped package remained in a location for only a short time until retrieved by the agent or the handler.

62. Henrietta Goodden, Camouflage and Art: Design and Deception in World War 2 (London: Unicorn Press, 2007), p. 34.

63. Boyer Bell and Barton Whaley, Cheating and Deception (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1991), pp. 78–80.

64. New Grey Marine 671 diesel engines increased the speed of the boats from three to fifteen knots for infiltration operations. See Wallace and Melton, Spycraft, p. 281.

Photographs of the modified junks are shown in Spycraft’s second photo supplement